Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1915-06-16
HUNT VETOES MANY
SECTIONS OF GENERAL
APPROPRIATION BILL

PHOENlA, June fU.-Puttlng ms
veto on the appropriation for the
state school fund, the tax commits
sion and, in fact, on every provision
repeating statutory appropriations,
/ Governor Hunt yesterday transmit
ted the general appropriation bill to
the secretary OF state. Thirteen sub
divisions or sections OF the bill were
disapproved in their entirety, and
twenty other portions, of the
measure were disapproved as to Ger
tain provisions.
In his letter to the secretary Of
state the governor, in disappearing
of portions OF the bill. calls attention
to the numerous special provisions
by means of which the authors OF
the measure have seemingly trans
cended the proper limits OF gen
eral appropriation bill as prescribed
by Section 20, Article ", OF the
constitution OF Arizona and by the
call for the special session to pass
the appropriation bill He also men
tons that provision of the constitu-
ton which provides that no act or
section thereof shall be revised or
amended by mere reference to the
title OF such act The governors let
ter covers sixteen typewriter pages,
and goes into the reasons for disap-
proving of certain sections at length,
especially section A. which reduced
The statutory appropriation for The
common school from $5OO,OOO per
year to 100000
Among the provisions vetoed by
the governor were those providing
for the maintenance OF the state mill
tia. for an appropriation for the in
cooperating department of the cor
poration commission. and the appro-
priation for stenographers in the Of
fee OF the secretary of state, the
provision having been reduced
through legislative order. The
stipulation that the adjutant general
shall not be allowed travelling expens-
cs outside of the state was also veto
ed, for the reason that the only way
IN which the company at Morenci
may be reached by rail is by way Of
New Mexico. The governor also
withheld his approval from the pro-
visions for the game protection fund,
which was by the terms of the bill
limited to the revenue from the sales
OF licenses. permits. fines, etc.
In Withholding his approval from
section a, the school fund section,
the governor says, in part.
The seriousness of the situation
threatened by this attempted act OF
the majority of the legislature where
by the common school fund is sum
marily reduced from $5OO,OOO to $780,
eco can scarcely be overdrawn Even
the most uncompromising advocate
Of stringent economy in public al
fairs would be loath to uphold leg
islative act which contemplates the
sudden and complete disarrangemcnt
of the states educational system upon
which the welfare OF growing genera
tons and the advancement OF pos
terity is so directly dependent OF
all branches OF the state government,
aside from those departments essen
tial to the simple maintenance of an
organized government, no part of the
whole is less reasonably susceptible
20 retrenchmcnt than is the teaching
and proper upbringing OF children
upon whose preparations for the
struggle Of life our hope for better
citizenship and continued individual
and national accomplishment must
inevitable rest. While such a move
ment. carried through to its logical
conclusion. would, in all probability,
lay an upjust burden upon every
family in the state by curtailing cdu-
cational facilities which are almost
universally priced and safeguarded,
the stress would fall most severely
upon that great majority OF parents
who, while being in such material
circumstances as permit the cduca-
ton OF their children in the common
chools, could not in any exigency,
md the means of paying for private
,utelagc within or outside OF the
state.
Il am not at all inscnsible to the
great responsibility which I, as gov
crnor assume when | veto a provis-
ION which relates to the expenditure
Of some hundreds OF thousands OF
dollars for a purpose so intimately
bound up with the welfare of the
state as Is the maintenance OF the
common school. 1t may even be
argued by some timid souls that my
action is impoltic. and that the re-
sponsibility OF any public calamity
that might onsue from a drastic
abridgemcnt Of the states school fund
could more safely be allowed to rest
, upon these legislators who are the