Arizona republican., 1915-06-24
ALL THE CARDS
 ON THE TABLE
It is Only a Matter of Play ing the Hands. Say Those Who Expect the Sessior tc End With the Close of This Week

{ Following the final passage of the land bill on Tuesday. both branches of the legislature gave themselves over to relaxation. The house put in
 a full day without the complete ac- complIshment of anything. IL went into the committee of the whole for the purpase of considering a half uozen nea sures on the calendar but only one of them was/ considered. the senate bill for the amendment of the semi annual tax payment law passed in the regular session. The proposed amendment consists only of a change in the time of the year when tEe semi annual taxes fall due. Under the law as it now stands the first pay ment is not due until some time after the taxes are needed for the schools and il was therefore. proposed to change the dates to the first Mon day of November and the first Mon
 day of May.
 The judiciary committee. to which the bill had been referred, reported it out with a house bill of the same tenor and along with it were sev- cral amendments by the committee Others were offered in the course of the day and detated. though the de- bate lowered about the principle of the seIn-annual system, though it is already established and the abolition of 1t is not proposed in either of the bills
 Mir Edwards. however, proposed an amendment that would have repealed the law and esta blished the old law, but no enthusiasm was aroused. though Mr Johns. the principal ad vote of the senate bill, pronounced it q job.
 I.ate in the afternoon the senate and the house bills were both re- ferred to the committee on judiciary with instructions to present them this morning at ten o'clock.
 The next bill on the calendar was laid over without losing its place. Similar action was taken on the next one and the one after that until ali of them were thus disposed of "ls this being done asked the uneasy member. that they may all be killed together" There was no reply, bu' on tho face of things it looked as if the house was planning Roman holiday. a carnival of slaughter an orgy of blood q wholesale legalzed murder.
 The house. after all this sanguinary planning. took an adjournment until ten o'clock this morning.
 When the house met in the morn ing. Speaker Brooks. leaving the chair. offered q motion for a recon sideration of the vote by which th' bill creating the department of labor had been passed. He had voted for it, he said. without a full appreher sion. He had come to the conclu- sion that such department was not needed. The laborers engaged in min ing and that was the chief industrial pursuit in the state. were well pro- tected by the mine inspection law. There was no other industry of such importance as to warrant the ex- penditure of so large a sum as would be necessary to maintain a depart ment of labor.
 This view was taken also by MT. who believed that such q would be worse than use less. The labor commissioner, he said would be apt to be an agitator at any rate. he would have to make a showing of activity and in conse- quence he would encourage disputes which might be averted by em- pIoyers and employees without outside 
 MT. Pinkley asked the speaker if it would suit him if his motion to were killed. The speaker replied that that would serve his purpose: he desired only to put him self on record as opposing the bill.
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