The Arizona copper camp., 1916-04-07
ARIZONA WANTS THE
SHACK[EFORD BILL
PASSED UNCHANGED

PHOENIX, Arizona, April Elm re-
sponse to a hurried and unexpected
CALL State Engineer Lamar Cobb is on
his way to Washington to attend
meeting of the executive committee of
Highway officials. The meeting is to be
held this week and may be fraught with
important results for Arizona.
Engineer Cobb was not informed
what is to be considered at the commit
tee meeting, but he suspects that an
effort will be made there to pass
resolution favoring an amendment to
the Shackleford bill, now pending IN
the senate and almost sure to pass He
will fight any such resolution to the
limit, as it is greatly. to Arizona's ad-
vantage to have the bill pass as it
stands.
The Shackleford rill was originally
drawn by executive committee of the
Association of State Highway Officials
and was approved at the last annual
convention of that organization.
provided no appropriation, but contem-
plated that an appropriation of $25, ,O0O,-
| 900 would be made annually in the sum
dry civil bill, but the Shaclxleford
measure directed how the sum should
be apportioned among the states and
| how expended, for the betterment of
roads,. The appropriation was to be
divided into three equal parts and each
part apportioned separately in accord
ance with area, population and post
road mileage It passed the house
January 26 by vote of 2S1 to 81, sub
stantially in it's original form, except
that the area provision was eliminated.
Had the senate passed the bill exactly
as it then stood, Arizona would have
received $117,5OO year.
The elimination of the area provision
was important to this state, as Arizona
has 3S3 per cent. of the area of the
country, 0.224 per cent of the popula
ton, and O.251' per cent. of the postroad
mileage.
When the Shackleford bill reached
the senate, it was referred to the COM
mittee on postoffices and post roads,
which has sixteen members. March 8
this committee made a unanimously
favorable report on the measure, with
some changes. The most important
change was the inclusion of an appro-
priation of $5,000,000, to be increased by
! $5,OOO,OOO each year till the $25, 5,O0O,00O
mark was reached. Each state shall
receive $4,000 of each $5,00O,000; the
remainder shall be divided into two
equal parts and divided in accordance
with population and post road mileage.
Under this system Arizona would re-
ceive $4,000 the first year. twice as
much the second and $35S,OOO the fifth
year.
AS the bill has not come up in the
senate and must go to conference
i VI S0ildIOTS duO representatives D0IOT0
it finally goes to the president for his
signature, any recommendation made
by the executive committee of the as
sociation of State Highway Officials
might have much weight at this time.
The members are Henry G. Shirley of
Maryland, Joseph Hyde Prass, North
Carolina; George P. Coleman, Virginia;
William D. Sohier, Massachusetts,;
Thomas H. Macdonald, Iowa; E. A.
Stevens, New Jersey, and Lamar Cobb,
Arizona. All these states, with the ex-
ception of Arizona, are small states, and
all except Arizona would gain by hav-
i ing the fund apportioned in accordance
with the house bill and not as contem-'
! plated by the senate committee. 1t is
for this reason that Engineer Cobb will
oppose any attempt to change the SEN
ate-plan of appOrtionmenti