Weekly journal-miner., 1915-02-24
Amendment Forgotten.

Amendment Forgotten.
 In the house there was another lively mine tax tilt when Mahoney (Mohave) tried to have the journal of Saturday revamped by inserting an amendment which he declared should have been part of the proceedings. The amendment provides that all costs for breaking strikes should ap- pear on the company's books as a separate account and shall not be de- ducted from the gross in determining the net
 Mahoney claims that this amend ment was adopted Saturday afternoon in committee of the whole, but when the committee rose, on Speaker Brooks motion that it report the bill without recommendation, t h e amendment was not included in the journal report.
 Some of the representatives could not remember the amendment ever having been adopted. Proctor (Nav- ajo) said there never was any such amendment, and denounced what he termed "such tactics for the purpose of holding the bill in conference" !" By a vote of IS to Is the house re- fused to change the journal by in serting the amendment, and by vote of Y to l6 it was approved as read" A little later Graham (Cochise) wanted to know if the bills were com, ing out of the enrolling and engross' ing committee in the same order that they went in or if there was any "jockeying" This made Sweeney (YavapaD) mad, and Speaker Brooks told the Coc1ise man he was off the beaten track of parliamentary pro cedure.
 One House Legislature.
 The most important of the new bills introduced in the house today is No. 96, by Representative Powers (Maricopa), providing for a one house legislature and raising the per centage required for initiative and referendum petitions.
 Under the terms of the proposed act 20 per cent of the qualified elect ors shall have the right to propose any law and 25 per cent any amend ment to the constitution.
 It is further provided that the house of representatives shall consist of twenty-five members, as follows:
 Apache 1, Cochise 3, Coconino 1 Gila ?, Graham 1, Greenlee 1, Mari copa 3, Mohave 1, Navajo 1, Pima ? Pinal 1, Santa Cruz 1, Yavapai l Yuma 1. Four members to be elect cd at large.
 This house Of representatives shal meet annually, and the members shal serve for six years, except that at th' initial election one-third shall bt elected for two years, one-third fo four years and onc-third for si2 years, thus making one-third of th' house to be chosen every two years
 Richardson (Pima) introduced g game protection bill which also abol ishes the office of state game warden
 Reed (Pima) introduced a bil which forbids the invasion of Arizon by an armed force except upon Tc quest of the governor or legislature The United States army had bette look a little out if Reeds bill zoe through or it may land in jail
 Berry (Apache) introduced bi providing for the pensioning c teachers who have taught in the stat for twenty years
 Powers (Maricopa) introduced bill providing for the formation c electrical districts for the manufact ure and distribution of electrical CT crgy.
 Claypool (Gila) introduced tn Winsor land commission bill.
 Acuff (Maricopa) introduced game preservation bill.
 In the senate Bacon (Gila) intro duced bill establishing state boar of health; superintendent of pubh