Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1915-02-14
Friends Of Measure May
Rig Up Jury-mast Of Con
cessions, Thus Winning
Over Some More Favor
ing Breezes
BILL Is WITHOUT
RECOMMENDATION
Senate Thrilled by Resolu-
ton to Investigate Mem
bers of Official Family
Speculation is Aroused
Over 1t

The senate mine tax bill without
recommendation in its favor was
sent to the house enrolling and en-
crossing committee yesterday after
q tumultuous passage of the CON-
mittee of the whole, momentarily
threatened with destruction from the
beginning. BY narrow margin it
escaped for the day. was reported
to the house without recommends
ton and was then sent to the COM
mittee on enrolled and engrosseG
bills.
Whether on final passage there
will be bare majority in its favor
is uncertain. But it is certain, or
seems so at this writing, that the
two thirds vote necessary to carry
the emergency clause will be lack
mig and without that the friends of
the bill will have no interest in its
enactment
There was a belief in some quar-
ters that concessions would be of
fered which would bring over some
unwilling members, perhaps enough,
but the ranks of the opposition re-
manned reasonably solid when they
We're reduced to sixteen members,
the number said to be pledged
against the bill. Two overtures were
Offered and rejected. almost con-
temptuousy. One was to increase
the factor of four times the time
the net production to four and
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clause binding the mines for the
next two years to pay at least
thirty-six per cent of all the state
taxes.
When the Trouble Began.
In the morning session of the
house. after the disposition of the
regular order the house went into
the committee of the whole after
failure to take q recess, to COM
plete the business of the committee
left over from the day before Sew
eral minor but time consuming bills
were disposed of and shortly before
noon, House Bill II. the Graham bill
was reached, and Chairman Graham
of the ways and means committee
moved its indefinite postponemeni
Speaker Brooks objected that the
motion was out of order and Mr.
Graham withdrew it, The committee
rose and the session was resume,
at two o'clock.
The Real Contest.
The first motion was offered by
Mr.. Proctor one of the opponents of
the mine tax bill. 1t was renewal
of the Graham motion for the in
definite postponement of House Bill
offered by Chairman Graham. 1t
was now opposed by the chairman
and the friends of the bill had
changed their minds and desired to
retain the house bill on the calenar
though they proposed to consider
Senate Bill Is, the Bacon Bill which
had been the duplicate of the Gra-
ham bill though it had been amended
in the senate
After the informal discussion, the
consideration of the senate bill was
begun. Chairman Graham explained
briefly its provisions and the senate
amendments, and moved that it be
read in full. Again Mr. Proctor sug-
eested the indefinite postponement Of
the house bill. Why the friends of
the mine tax bill desired to retain
it was not quite clear though pos
sibly. because the committee on ways
and means had stricken off the
emergency clause, a deprivation that
might leave them in better shape
against a time when it might be
restored.
Speaker Brooks opposed indefinite
postponement saying that it was noy
a bill that was under consideration
but the whole mine taxing question
Mr. Proctor insisted and offered q
formal motion which after a spirited
colloquy was put and carried by a
vote of II to Is.
The reading of the senate bill was
then begun in spite of a motion by
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