Arizona republican., 1915-06-23

Proctor, Reed, Richardson, Sweeney
 Vaughn, the speaker-3O
 NaY--Graham-1.
 . Three absent and one excused.
 Thus came to an end a struggle
 which was begun in the first regu-
 lar session of the second legislature The land bill next to the general
 appropriation bill. in immediate i'm
 Portance and of more real import .
 ance was one of the few measures
 which it was thought really essential
 and should be enacted. Members last
 January thought it ought to be done
 in thirty days and that there should still he left time enough to frame a general appropriation bill But con
 templating a land code and framing
 one are two very different things. It took longer to get the perspective SO
 that the different interests could get the right angle on the rights of other interests and it takes still longer to
 compromise and nothing could be
 done without compromise. land bill might have been passed in the
 first session but for an entangling
 alliance with the mine tax bill and for the state of mind into which the house and the senate had been 1 thrown-the anmosities that grew out. of the mine tax bill fight
 The Morning in the House
 The house in the morning session i managed to wade through a mass of business and loaded the senate up with food for thought. if it will only
 partake of II. After the transaction
 of accumulated matter the house en-
 gagged in the third reading and pass age of bills. Among this accumu- lated business was a protest from the
 Snowfall Miners Union of Mohave county protesting against the land bin because it had made no proVi- sion for the retention of the fifty thousand acres of land granted To the state for a miners hospital The protest was made too soon. The bill as it passed the house contained no such provision but the defect was cured in the senate by an amend
 ment offered by Mrs. Munds
 The first bill passed in the morn ing was one providing for the crea- ton of another division of the su- i perior court in counties having a population of 3000O and major fraction thereof. The bin construed the population of Maricopa to be so great and without that construction | the county tOulQ not dkdll llStl Ol the proposed law for though it no doubt has a population of more than twice 30.OO0. such a population is not shown by any official census.
 There was some opposition by out side members to the bill but the op- ponents did not include MT Johns of Yavapai who heaped shovelful of red hot coals on the heads of the fAr rfg Ta 4ad them that only lately they had re- fused to vote for a bill of his in tended only for his own county but he would let bygones be bygoncs. Rather jocularly he said that he did not believe that Maricopa really needed another judge. You claim" said he. that your docket is run ming behind. If you would keep your judge at home and at work that would not be the case The other day when he ought to have been re- ducing the docket in this county he was up in our county raising a. dis turbance and sending a lot of our most eminent citizens to jail Let him stay at home and attend to his business" MT. Johns had reference to the disposition of the Prescott bootlegging cases by Judge Stan ford ',
 The consideration of this bill was enlivened by q warm exchange be tween MT. Goodwin and Mir. Graham. The latter replying to the advocacy Of the bill by the former said that another division of the court was not needed here and he did not believe it was wanted. Under the terms of the bill he said. an additional court ( could be forced upon Cochise county. Mir Graham especially resented the provision of the bill for the appoint ment of judge by the governor. un- til one could be elected. i'
 MT. Goodwin replied that he had expected this outbreak from Mir. Gra- ham; he knew 1t was coming. for MT Graham was q born obstructionist who had voted against every useful