Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-01-24
Senate Gets Down to Business
in Anticipation of de Facto
Governor for GoVernorIeSS
State,
KINNEY LABOR BILL IS
SUBJECT OF CONTROVERSY
Revision of County Salaries Is
on Program for Legislation
and Measures to Correct In
eQuaIitieS Are introduced.

tsS MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL lzAsGn wisS
Phoenix, Ari2., Jan. 23.-The bali
ance of interest in the legislature to-
day was transferred to the senate,
Which held an all-day session, passed
several bills and generally seemed to
he getting ready for the welcome OF
de facto governor. for it was in the
air all day that the supreme court
tomorrow Will hand down an opinion
in the Campbell-Hunt mandamus
proceeding. q4
1t appeared this morning that
there would be lineup on the first
of the labor bills introduced the
Kinney BILL requiring that all per-
sons engaged in hazardous employ
ment shall be able to understand and
speak the English language. The
labor committee Of the senate today
returned the bill with favorable rs-
port and it was taken up in the COM
mittee Of thew hole. The need Of a
mittee of the whole. The need of a
might easily have been made in the
committee was seized upon by the
opponents of the bill to re-refer II
to the committee.
WIN Have Public Hearing.
The friends of the bill made q
strenuous effort to bring it to vote.
but We're overruled. Not only will
the correction be made, but Chair
man Mahoney of the committee on
labor announced that public hear.
ing would be given next Monday at
2 o'clock at which employers, as well
as labor advocates. will be heard. It
is the belief that the senate at pres
ent stands 10 to 8 against the bii;.
1t was decided by the senate today
to undertake a revision of the county
salary lists in the interest of uni-
formity. 1t frequently happens that
higher salaries than county with
much greater assessed valuation.
Several salary bills, applicable only
to counties of certain class, have
been brought in, affecting the salary
Of, ii may be, only one or two Off
GERS. But this morning Mr.. Maddox
of Navajo presented bill increasing
an VI IHt III lidl titNChtiA
class county. All county salary bills
we're therefore referred to the COM
mittee on counties and county az
fairs, for the purpose OF bringing in
a graded salary bill.
Provides for State Loans.
The bill Of Winsor of Yuma amend.
ing the law providing for the loan
,,,ey % tattn l., H.. yxrtth
the state, other than improved lands,
as the present law only permits, was
passed. The loan may not exceed
one-half the appraised value of the
land, and no loan can be made upon
land appraised at less than $40 an
acre. A board consisting of the
governor, secretary of state and state
treasurer shall constitute board to
pass upon the character of the se-,
curity.
A bill by Rutherford of Yavapai
for the protection OF public morals
was passed, as was a bill by Presi-
cent Claridge creating the Mount
Graham state game preserve. includ-
ing a tract twenty miles long and
,welve miles broad. embracing all
that part of the Graham mountains
lying within the Crook national for
est.
To Exclude Lobbyists.
The senate amended a rigid set or
,3lns. among which was one eKclud-
reg from the floor all except the
r3cm pers Of both houses. the attaches
cf the senate and accredited repre-
sentatives of the press. The rule was
aimed at state officers who in earlier
sessions were frequent visitors on the
floor and were charged with influ-
eEeing legislation.
Among the new bills introduced in
the senate was one by President Clar-
idge prohibiting the advertisement of
Intoxicating liquors within the state.
Wilkinson of Maricopa introduced
three bills, one for the conservation
Of the eyesight of infants, another
for the conservation of the eyesight
of school children, and the other for
the conservation of the eyesight Of
adults. The last named prohibits the
use of wood alcohol in any medicinal
preparation within the state Tor
either external or internal use.
Whipple of Greenlee introduced a
hill providing for the renewal of
judgments for ten years and another
bill limiting the time within which
a civil action may be begun to five
years. The senate adjourned to 10
o'clock tomorrow morning.
Bills i'm ~Iouse.
In the house session Of half an
hour this morning Speaker Johns in
troduced bill fixing the salary Of