The copper era and Morenci leader. [volume] (Clifton, Ariz.) 1911-1929, 1915-02-26
HUNT OPPOSED TO
SPECIAL SESSION
Arizona Governor Urges Lawmakers
to Get Busy and Complete Work
Within Constitutional Limit.
Juggling With Prohibition and Near
Prohibition Bills in Senate, Results
in Dead Heat Between Wet and
Dry Forces.

| Phoenix, Ariz, Feb 25-Gov Hunt
informed the leaders of both branches
Iof the legislature today that be look
ed with extreme disfavor upon any
proposition for an extraordinary ses-
sion, urging upon the men he talked
with the .desirability of prompt &C
ton on important measures pending
and the early enactment of the gen
eral appropriation bill.
Anti-AIien Act Killed and Revived
| While few people were in the gal
leries and without those few being
aware of what was transpiring, the
senate this morning by viva voce vote,
indefinitely postponed further consid-
Grafton of the Claypoo1-Kinney bill,
requiring the employment of none but
English speaking workmen in certain
hazardous occupations, including min
ing. After the noon recess, however,
the senators repented of their earlier
action, reconsidered the postponement
vote and restored the bill to it's place
on the calendar.
The action of the morning following
the report of the senate committee on
labor, which returned the bill without
Senator Drachman
at once made a motion that consider
alton of the measure be indefinitely
postponed and, without discussion or
roll call, the Pima county senator's
motion was adopted.
Following the noon recess and after
it had become known that the senate
action on the anti-alien bill had lost
the support in the house, of Mahoney
and Read on the mine tax bill, Sena-
tor Goldwater made a motion that the
vote by which the Claypool-McKinney
bill had been postponed, be reconsid-
cred. Senator Martin at once NOV
ed the Goldwater motion be laid on
the table, but was overruled 10 to g.
The detection of Mahoney and Reed
from the mine tax bill supporters |
was undoubtedly responsible for the
senate reversing itself
The house ways and means COM
mittee has prepared a favorable re-
port on the Cook and Mahoney mine |
tax bills, but when they will be re-
turned to the house has not been de- I
cided.
Dead Heat on Prohibition.
The senate spent the major portion
of the morning in an effort to agree
Upon an acceptable prohibition bill,
out without any tangible result.
Several proposals were adopted but, /
ere adjournment for the day, action
vas nullffied by the adoption of a
notion to refer all pending LIQUOR i
0
with instructions to present
| bill.
Included in the reference were two
lew bills, brought before the senate |
or the first time today. One, intro
luced by Drachman, retains part of
he drastic features of the original
'owers7Drachman, bill, eliminating
thers il
The second is a new wet" bill, and
vas offered by Senator Harms as Z,
ubstitute for the Lovin bill. 1t legal
yes the Importation of liquor for
'ersonal use and permits the sale of
averages containing 8 IL per cent
f alcohol.
AS Senator Lovin characteristicaIIy
ut it, 'today's session, so far as the {
ace between the ''wets'i and 'drys' t
concerned resulted in a dead heat" {
Bureau of Mines Bill Indorsed l
The senate committee on appropria-
ons recommended for passage the I
ouse bill providing for the creation I
a state bureau of mines, in con- t