Weekly journal-miner., 1915-02-17

printing and when they are ready for discussion will consume a world of | time. Each of them is likely to take l half day to read without discussion | or amendments. Also a new mine tax bill Is in process of incubation in | the house, as well as other legislation of time-consuming importance. With no further interruption the concluding four weeks of the session will be busy ones for although the al lotted span is half gone not over twenty-five per cent or the work has been accomplished.
 PHOENIX. Feb. 1.-The senate and house came back chemically pure to the capitol this morning, after an enforced vacation on account of the smallpox scare, and immediately took up the legislative program where it was abandoned on Tuesday.
 Aside from the passage by the house this afternoon of the Claypool- Kinney bill, better known as the anti alien law. by vote of 21 to 12, the greatest stir of the interrupted ses- sion was created by the introduction of a minimum wage scale bill for women, by Leeper of Yavapai.
 The bill (No. 73) makes unlawful the employment of any adult woman worker in any store, restaurant, din ing room. laundry, manufacturing es- tablishment or household at a weekly wage of less than SIP. ''any lesser amount" the bill recites, being here by declared inadequate to supply the necessary cost of living to such wo men workers and to maintain them in health"
 Under the Leeper bill every cook, chambermaid, nurse girl, clerk or enl- ployc of whatever kind must be paid the sum stipulated, and in the opinion of some who have seen the bill would either have the effect of driving wo- men out of many lines of employ ment, or, in the case of household work, compel the employers to make a counter charge for board and lodg- ing sufficient to offset the added en- olument.
 Mrs. Rachel Berry, representative from Apache, originally intended to introduce the measure, but the job was taken over by the Yavapai man.
 Other House Bills.
 Other bills introduced in the house this afternoon were:
 No. A. by Representative Vaughn (Maricopa), amends the law pertain ing to the filing of petitions in pri- mary elections. and challenges at such elections, bringing all its parts into conformity.
 No. 75, by Representative Francis (Cochisel makes it misdemeanor to Garry on the business of barbering on the first day of the week and pro vidcs for fine and imprisonment; $5 for the first offense, $10 to $25 for second conviction with jail sentence at the discretion of the court of from ten to twenty-five days.
 No. 76. by Representative Merrill (Cochisc), is the fraudulent adver Using bill which has the backing of the Phoenix Ad club and which makes it an offense to make false statements in advertising matter.
 New Senate Bills.
 Senate bill No. 79, introduced by Senator Munds (YavapaD, provides for the amendment of Sec. 9, Art. 9, of the state constitution.
 Senate bill No. 80, introduced by Senator Campbell (Coconino). pro vides for the amendment of Sec. ?, Art. 10, of the state constitution.
 Senate bill No. S1, introduced by Senator Karns Santa Cruz), provides for the app-aisement of school or uni versity lands as heretofore granted or reserved to the territory of Arizona and confirmed by the enabling act; for the appraisement of the improve mcnts thereon or connected there with and for the sale thereof. This bill contains upwards of 15,OO0 words.
 No. 76, by Senator Claridge (Gra- ham), provides for the removal of actions before trial to another juris diction in the discretion of the court or upon petition of Is per cent of the total vote cast for governor at the last preceding election; the removal to be to the county scat nearest by a railroad.
 No. v. by Senator Garvin (Yuma), extends the authority to the state veterinarian to order the slaughter of stock exposed to contagion when such order is viscd by the livestock board and conditions complied with.
 No. 7S, by Senator Martin (Pima), seeks to make it unlawful for any person to write, print. post o. dis tribute anonymous circulars intended to defeat or injurc any candidate for nomination or election to any public office" and provides that when such statements are made the name of the person responsible shap be attached together with the street address and the name of the printing office from which the document cmanatcs. In | the case of an organization the names of at least two of the officers must appear. One hundred dollars fine or year in jail or both is the penalty prescribed.
 ] PHOENIX. Feb. l2. - Fourteen new bills were introduced in the leg islaturc today Some of them arc good, some bad, and some indifferent, but only small percentage of them can { be chased as necessary for the public welfare of the state or the private welfare ol its citizens. Bill introduc- 1 inp seems to have crown into q habit.