Arizona republican., 1915-01-29

favor of the bill but if he understood from the remarks of MT. Riggs that it Was going to produce less than the mines had been paying he would vote against it.
 Chairman Bacon in charge of the bill. took q hand and said that the senator from Coconino had evidently misunder- stood MT Riggs who was speaking only of the payment of the mines of Cochise county and not those of the whole state; moreover, the senator from Co., chise had been expressing only a per | sonal opinion. pr. Bacon said that the mines under the bill would not pay less | than the proportion of the taxes they had paid; that while their payments | might be about six per cent less than they had paid last year, the payment on farm lands and city lots would be ten per cent less and on that basis the | total proportion of the mines tax would be about thirty eight or forty per cent against little more than thirty five per cent last year
 Senator Webb of Maricopa. who had led the fight against the mine tax bill | the day before, said that he was not l opposing the bill because of any ad- 1 verse effect that it would have upon his constituents; he believed that they would be very slightly affected bv it: ! that the mining counties themselves ! who were advocating it would feel it the most. His objection to it was that 1t smaoked of special legislation. But he | was not insstent and offered no ob- jectiOn when the motion of President Sims to send the bill along its regu- far course was offered, though the reg ular course meant the passage of the | bill
 Another matter before the committee of the whole was a bill proposing an appropriation for an artesian well in the Wallapai valley and that was fav- orably reported with an amendment placing the responsibility for it in the hands of the supervisors of Mohave county.
 Another bill for the regulation of state expenditures was held in the hands of the committee for the reason that it placed the matter in the hands of the board Of public welfare which has not vet been created The com mittee will retain the bill until the board of public welfare bill has been disposed of
 The committee then rose and the senate took the usual recess until after noon.
 In the senate in the afternoon d bill was introduced by Mrs. Munds fixing the minimum legal age of marriage and after brief session an adjournment was taken until the usual hour this | morning.
 The House
 The most important action of the house was the passage Of the county seat removal bill which was then sent to the senate where it's passage in sub stantially the same form is assured The house also passed joint resolu = tion favoring a bridge across the Gila river on the San Carlos Indian reser- vatlon. Several new bills were ntro- duced as follows, three of them by MT Orthel of Yavapai
 Providing for the garnishment and collection of moneys owing a judgment debtor from any c ounty. state, or oth- CT municipal or public corporation | Providing that suit in personal ac- tions must be commenced and prose cuted within five years after the cause of action shall have accrued.
 Providing that judgment may be re- newed by action in any court of com petent jurisdiction at any time within ten years after date of such judgment MT Reed of Pima introduced bill authorizing the department of mines O the university to make assays of ore. produced from mines within she stat, and. providing the charges to be mad, therefor.
 After the adjournment of the senat, there was a joint meeting of the hous
 and senate committees on appropria
 tions at which President von Klein Smid of the University appeared t.
 present the need of that institution
 He described eloquently and at length
 the work of the university and it's re qurements if the progress which it ha
 been making was to be maintained. |
 the opinion of the president an approp
 riation of something in excess of s7O,
 900 would be needed.
 A joint meeting of the public land committees of the two houses was t | be held but it was allowed to go owe
 in order that members of it who ar q also members of the appropriation y committees might hear the president ( Y the university. Chairman Riggs of tf is land committee of the senate. said | n had a tentative land policy to preseI
 to the senate committee.