Arizona republican., 1917-01-27
COPPER STAR ON
 PROP USED LAG bOTHERS SOLONS

Arizona will probably have a state flag in spite of the disapproVal of the committee on education of the house, to which the bill for the adoption of state banner was referred. The com mittee in it's report stated that it was not opposed to a state flag, but it would not stand for such a flag as the bill prescribed, a banner of field of blue from the top of which alternate stripes of red and white, with copper star imposed radiated an infringement on the flag of Japan.
 But that was not the end of the mat ter for the committee of the whole took il up and after prolonged debate rec commended the passage of the bill. The opposition to it was led by MT Cureton of Coconino who objected to it mainly because it contained nothing distinctive of Arizona His researches had dis closed that other states that had adopted flags had coats of arms of the states displayed. The copper star sig nified nothing more than trade mark MT. Goodwin who had urged the adOp ton of the flag in the last legislature, spoke for the bill and that recalls a letter the Republican lately received from Hon. Frank Pinkley. a member of the last legislature from Pinal county protesting against MT. Goodwins de- scription of the flag in his bill. The same description, by the way appears in the present bill a copper star against a setting sum-
 That was. sufficient strain of as- tronOmy, Mir. Pinkley believed and it ought to have been atoned for by happier description. for instance, "a star of hope against c rising sun. glorious dawn
 The committee on education must have had a grouch on. for it reported adversely also against the bill provid- ing for the use of school houses as so- cial centers But the same committee favored the bill providing for the trans portation of school children residing more than mile from school house.
 A telegram was received from Mary B. Ryan occupying some position in the inaugural arrangements asking the legislature to finance float for Ari- zona to appear in the inaugural parade That was referred.
 The following new bills were intro- duced:
 By Mr. Mallory of Pima, for the in troduction of the Torrens system of land legislation
 By MT. Richardson of Pima, appro- priating 5000 for each of the next two years for the Southern Arizona fair.
 
 present law with reference to the levy of state and county taxes
 By MT. Faires Of Gila. increasing the salaries of judges; justices of the su preme court to receive SS.000 a year; judges of the superior court of Mari cOpa. Pima. Cochise Yavapai and Gila counties to receive s6,000; the judge of Greenlee to receive S5500 and the judges of the other counties to receive 1, .o1 lot afrse sf S2 coo a year for all superior judges. Bills amendatory of existing laws with reference to boards of supervisors and other officers, were introduced by MT MahOnev.
 Mr. Vaughns bill regulating the number of ballots that shall be printed for general elections was passed. It provides that there shall be ten ballots for each eight voters and ten additional ballots in precincts having not more than thirty registered voters.
 The stage of debate had passed. but Mr Baxter offered an interesting eX- planation of the reason why he was gO ing to vote in the negative. He called attention to another paragraph which allows each voter three ballots or per mits each voter to spoil two ballots. He said that in a precinct it might be sup posed that there were twenty seven re- RuDlcdHS ana lNlTLN seven QeInOcTdLS. Under the Vaughn bill this precinct could have only eighty ballots. Suppose the twenty seven republicans by con- cert or otherwise should appear at the polls first and each spoil two ballots as they might do under the law and then use the third, they would exhaust the whole number of ballots allowed to that precinct and the democratic majority would be disfranchised. Tn suite of this showing the vote for the bill was 34 to l.
 There was a prolonged debate in the committee of the whole on Speaker Johns bill te allow counties of the fourth class (Yavapai) counties to ap- propriate s2500 additional for advertis- ing the resources of the county but fin- ally the bill was recommended.
 The committee when it rose had not finished consideration of the high school bill which had been amended in the committee providing for the auth OriZation by the state board of educa- tion for high school district in a dis
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