Arizona republican., 1915-05-26
BREAKING POINT
 ALMOST REACHED
House Had Just Enough Votes to Insure Adop- ton of Report-Fight Centered about Attack on Governors Power.

By the narrowest of margins, the
 conference report on the general ap-
 propriation bill passed the house late
 yesterday afternoon and was trans mitted to the senate No action was taken on it by that body for the req son that on account of the absence of so many of the members there were not enough in the chamber or in the city
 10 adopt the report if all of the votes
 had been affirmative. By reason of the emergency clause two-thirds of the votes of the total membership of the senate must be recorded in it's faV- or. Thirteen make two-thirds. There were only eleven present. Dr. Bacon and Mir. GOldWater and other absen- tees will reach the city today. Prompt and favorable action on the report and
 final adjournment are expected today.
 It was expected that the report of the second conference committee would be ready yesterday morning but after brief sessions by both houses word came from the committee room that the re- port could not be prepared before two o'clock and there being no other busi- ness to be transacted a recess was taken until that hour.
 u WdS HOl long dlteT lIdl IIldl lHe report was brought into the house. A statement was made by Chairman Pow CTS of the appropriations committee and one of the house managers regard
 ing the deliberations especially with
 reference to the items to which the house mad objected in the first report: the sections relating to the land com
 mission, the tax commission and the
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 the office of the auditor and the attor- ney general. MT. Powers said that the report had been signed by five of the six conferees. Senator Martin had signed only that part of it which he
 had assisted in making up. It was not
 meant that he disapproved of any other
 part of it.
 Concessions by the House
 As to the tax commission appropria- ton the house had acceded to the de- mand of the senate As to the land
 commission, the senate had yielded to
 an increase of to S5235 to pay the sal ary and expenses of the employees of
 the commission to the end of the fiscal year with the understanding that no part of the amount was to be used for
 the salaries of the members of the com mission. The senate had insisted on
 the repeal in the bill of the following statutes: that providing for the state school that providing for the salaries of the land commission and that pro- vidinc for certain expenses of the cor pOration commission.
 The only important concession made hy the senate was an agreement to strike out the Goldwater veto amend l ment providing that a veto by the gov ernor of any item of the bill should not have the effect of reviving any statu- tory appropriation concerning it. But in place of this amendment the senate cOnferees had insisted on placing four repeating clauses referring to statutory appropriations.
 It was this insistence that came near l Wreclling the report in the house. MT. Pinkley objected to the location of the
 clauses in the bill. He said that he would not object if they were put into the section or subdivisions to which they referred but situated as they were. they constituted an interference with the constitutional power of the gover- nor whereupon MT. Christy remarked, Now. you have come out with it. I have been expecting it."
 Though there were some other points of dispute. especially the agreement with reference to the tax commission appropriation, for "other help, the ob- jection to the insistenee of the senate was not strenuous. But all afternoon
 the fight ragged about these repeating
 clauses. It was charged by their op- ponents that they were really worse than the Goldwater amendment. The senate. they said, had succeeded in put ting something over.
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