Arizona republican., 1915-02-18
"Doublc F. Committee Shunts Bill Out into Open and It is Slaughtered Be- fore Another Reference Can Be Made
NEW MINE TAX
 BILL IN DIETING
Senate Has Good HlumOred Session, While House is Jumping Up and Down on Senate Bill Number Fifteen

The slate was suddenly wiped clean of all mine tax legislation yesterday morning by the defeat by tie vote on Senate Bill 15. the Bacon bill. The duplicate, the Graham bill. had ben indefinitely postponed last sat urday in the process of clearing the decks for the fight on the senate bill What is to be done next is no, clear, but it is rumOred that another bill containing the principal of ih" bills which have fallen will be in- troduced shortly
 The friends of the mine tax bill were perhaps unplcasantly surprised yesterday morning when the un- friendly enrolling and expressing committee reported the bill out. MT. Graham at once moved it's reference to the judiciary committee. The ob- ioct was to gain time. Ii was very doubtful whether the bill at thft time would command q mere maiortty and hampered as il was with the emer- gency clause. to remove which inef- fectual efforts had been made. it drew too much water. It could float in nothing less than a tWo-thirds majority and that was certainly not present.
 After a moments hesitation Speak CT Brooks declared that the motion was out of order. Mir. Graham manifested no surprise. Meanwhile the enemies of the bill sat silent and confident For the first time since the struggle began they were sure of their ground.
 The report on the bill which cam out in precisely the same shape in which it went into the committee, without the dotting of an "f' or the crossing of ''t' placed it on the order for third reading and when q little later in the morning that order was reached the end came.
 As the reading proceeded MT Ora ham watched closely at first for some variation in the bill on whicl to hang a hope of delay. until he was assured that the reading was that of the original bill. just as ii came from the senate. When the reading was finished. NIr. Francis sent protest to the speakers desl, setting forth the reasons why he in tended to vote against the bin.
 The roll was then called wlth this result:
 Aye-iaker, Buchanan. Christy, Doyle. Flanagan, Graham. Johns, Lanford. Leeper, Merrill Mahoney' New bury. Orthel. Reed Richardson, the speaker-1l
 Nays-AcIff. Austin. Ciaypool, Cook, Edwards. Terrell, Francis, Lee Lines, Marian. McClain Pinkley Powers Proctor. Sweeney and Naughn-1..
 This is precisely the same line I'D by which the Johns resolution to instruct the committee on enrolled ard engrossed bills to strike out the emergency clause the day before had been defeated and with the exception of three votes it is the same lineuf on every question that comes before the house whenever there is a seri- ous division of opinion on any suD- feet. however remote from the mine tax or the prohibition question. Six teen votes of the lineup against tho mine tax bill are said to belong tt caucus before which every meas uic of importance goes.
 Minor Business of the House
 X report by the committee on pub lie restrictions on the report by tho secretary of state recommended more stringent legislation for the regula ton of automobile driving. It rec commended, among other things thai that before issuing licenses to chauf- feurs they should be made to dis play some other qualification thar the possession of & bill. The same committee also made recommenda
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