Arizona republican., 1917-01-25
NEW BILLS ARE PUT IN HOPPER
 IF LEGISLATURE

Following the spurt of the day be- fore, each house yesterday relapsed into half hour sessions and the greater part of that time was given t0 throw ing fresh bills into the hopper from which none have yet emerged in the form of polished laws. In both houses there are now about a hundred in various stages between first reading and final passage.
 Both houses adjourned to ten o'clock this morning though an effort was made by Representative Goodwin to hold an afternoon session. But when he learned from Chairman Mccormick of the appropriations committee that the committee desired to visit the Tempe normal school in the afternoon, MT. Goodwin hastily withdrew his motion to adjourn until 1:30 in the afternoon. He added that he would be willing to adjourn for a week if it was likely to increase appropriations for the normal school
 The first meeting of the whole com mittee of the house was held yesterday with two bills under consideration. The first was the measure of MT. Vaughn providing that the number of printed ballots shall be ten for every eight voters and ten additional for every precinct where the number of voters does not exceed thirty. The passage of the bill was recommended
 The other bill was Mrs. McKay's minimum wage bill, fixing a minimum wage of SIP week for women in prac- tically every line of employment in the state. Mrs. Mckay spoke briefly in behalf of the bill and MT. Walton spoke in favor of it at some length. A Mir Peterson of Graham. It was op- posed, but not by principle, by his col league, Mir. Lines who believed that the figure fixed would defeat the pur- pose of the bill and throw many wom- en out of employment. A similar view was expressed by MT Buehman, of Pima, who said that all women were not worth SIP a week and that many Were employed in capacities that could not afford such a wage. MT. Baxter of Maricopa said that while SIP week might be a reasonable wage in some towns of the state it would be an ex- orbitant wage in others. Like all who spoke against the bill, MT. Baxter de- clared himself to be in sympathy with the purpose of it but he believed it would have to be remodeled The consideration of the bill had not been
  The Judiciary committee, which had been charged with an investigation of the status of the prohibition amend [ ments concerning which some doubt had been raised because of a supposed irregularity in the manner of their presentation to the people, submitted a report in which the view was ex- pressed that the amendments were valid. The report included an opinion by Attorney General Jones who be- lieved that the constitutional and stat utOry requirements had been met in placing the amendments by number and title only on the ballot. There was ample warrant for so presenting them in spite of paragraph 2929 which di- rects that submitted measures shall be printed at the bottom of the ballot" The attorney general believed that there could be no harm in enacting the substance of the amendment in a statue, as provided in Mrs. O'Neill's bill. A communication on the same subject was received from Secretary of State Osborn in defense of his official act which had been attacked by impli cation.
 If the members are not economical in the use of legislative stationery they
 
 on plain stationery before the end of the term for the committee on printing notified them that all had been ordered that would be ordered this session.
 The following new bills were brought in. in the house:
 By MT. O'Neill, of Cochise, for the destruction of records in juvenile court cases.
 By MT. Buehman of Pima providing for the distribution of the bulletins of the state bureau of mines. The bulle- tins are sent free throughout the state but the bill will leave it to the discre- tiOn of the bureau to make a charge for bulletins sent outside the state Another bill by Mir. Buehman pro- vides for the teaching of mining in the high schools. By MT, Baxter, a bill relating to civil
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