Arizona republican., 1915-06-18
AR|zOhES LAND CODE
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prepared to say. It was understood that a majority of the members of the senate would oppose any organ ization of the board that would not assure the effacement of Chairman Winsor of the land commission. While no doubt, there were enough members of the senate in opposition
 to MT Winsor to prevent the pass age of any bill that did not assure
 his exclusion, some of those most strenuously against him said that they would not attempt the defeat of
 the Dill just for the purpose of de- feating him; they would make the strongest fight they could against his retention and let the warfare end there: a land code was a much more important matter than the personall- tv of any commissioner. On the other hand, MT Winsor had some strong friends in the senate who, 1t was felt. certainly would oppose his elimination. but they evidently did not believe that the department as | it was proposed to create 1t under l the Martin amendment necessarily meant his elimination.
 The reading of the bill was re- sumed yesterday morning with sec l tion S6 authorizing the commission | CT to conduct water investigations 1 to which no objection was raised. But MT. Campbell moved in vain to strike out the next section authoriz- | ing the commissioner to file water locations and appropriations. reser-
 voir sites and dam sites, on the ground that the exercise of that authority would prevent the bring | ing in of private capital to develop 1 the resources of the state, All other Amendments adopted or proposed in lthe course of the first reading in the
 committee related to matters of yer bage.
 1 Reverting in the afternoon to the Isection relating to the manner of
 payment for improvements on land | sold. MT Stapley offered an amend
 ment providing that the purchaser should pay forty per cent of the
 purchase price of the improvements
 within thirty days. fifteen per cent more than was provided in the Dill las it came from the house. MT. Stap- Hey explained that the object Of the amendment was to prevent the pur- chase of the lands by real estate men for purposes of speculation; they could he said, tie up vast acreages
 and then if their projects failed to
 mature they could let the land and improvements revert to the state and | in that time the value of the i'm provements would greatly deterior-
 ate. MT. Goldwater offered an amend ment to the amendment retaining
 the percentages of the house bill but dividing them differently
 1 This section was further amended
 by the judiciary committee, provid- ing that payment for improvements should be made out of any fund
 available instead of out of the gen
 eral fund, which might be empty of
 money for that purpose.
 When there were no more amend lments to be offered. MT. Webb moved that the committee recommend that the bill pass as amended. There was no dissenting vote and the com
 mttee rose at half past two o'clock. 1.-TWO hourse later the engrossed bill was being read and was passed with seventeen votes, two members ab- sent or excused.
 The bill was then sent back to the house with message which was Tread and a motion was offered to
 non concur and ask for a conference, but objection was made by MT. Ma lhoney, whose miners hospital bill
 was under consideration. as it had been all day. He wanted that put out of the way first But the read ling of it was not finished in the