Weekly journal-miner., 1917-03-07
LABOR APPROVES THE MINIMUM
 WAGE LAW
COMMUNICATION RECEIV-
 ED FROM STATE FEDER- ALTON AND READ IN SEN
 ATE COMMANDING THE BILL; TRYING TO VAIL DATE CONTEST BALLOTS

PHOENIX, March 3.-A communi- cation was read in the senate from the State Federation of Labor cndoTs- ing the minimum wage bill which was received from the house and sent to the committee on labor of which Sen ator NIahoney is the chairman.
 The fund for the payment of sal aries to legislative attaches being de- pleted a joint resolution was passed transferring S2,5O0 from one division of the cash register to the other. Nine hundred dollars were also set aside to complete the records of the lcgisla- ture after the legislature has ad- journed.
 Senate bill No. 100 which regulates the conduct and aspirations Of motor vehicles for hire operating between different towns was passed third read ing. This bill places control of such "busscs" in charge Of the corpora ton commission.
 Senate bill No. l03 which provides for the inclusion of the bond expense within the 10 per cent limit was pass ed third reading.
 Senate bill No. l13 authorizing the sale of the old Benson industrial school property to the Benson high school district was passed third read ing and sent to the house.
 The senate then did its daily slcight of hand stunt and resolved itself into a committee Of the whole for the considerations of bills on the calcn- dar"
 A Peculiar Situation.
 An odd lineup of the followers oi Ex-Governor Hunt, sclf-styled friends of labor, fighting shoulder to shoul- der against the bill creating labor employers commission to settle the matter of workmen'S compensation and employers liability, was wit messed in both houses of the lcgisla- ture yesterday The bill had been in troduccd by the committee on labor, and with the strong recommendation of Chairman Mahoncy of the house committee, after series oi confer ences between representatives Of or panized labor and a number of the large employers. It purposcd to ere ate commission, 10 be appointed by the governor.
 Carving the emergency clause, which would make it effective at once, the bill was introduced simultaneous 1y, and simultaneously, it met opPo- sition in both houses. Some of the most fanatic supporters Of Hunt and his labor lcaningS lcapcd into inc fray as opponents of the measure. They cried out in alarm. One of them. Senator !. (. Devine Of Final county, had the courage to state on the floor, his reasons for opposing the bill. He stated that if passed with the emergency clause. Governor Camp bell would be empowered to name the commission, which was very bad thing. He didn't object so much be- cause Governor Campbell is q Rcpub- Ican. but because he believed the de facto governor would name com mission inimical to labor Dcvine IS head of a copper company, but not Q producing one, so he ls not big cm- plovcr-mcrcly fricnd-of labor.
 The statement of an official ot the State Labor Federation that the fact Campbell would have the appointing of the commission need not fuss the so1onS, failed to ooze any ot them over into the favorable column, and six senators voted against Hitting the rules and placing it in line for third reading. The vote carried, but when it came to placing the bill on thrd reading, Fred Colter switched over, and the bill failed of the required two-thirds majority.
 Anti-Alien Land Bill.
 \ bill designed to meet conditions in the south of the State and dcsig- hating aliens eligible to citizenship as the only ones eligible to hold prop crty, was reported in the senate. I ms bill would deprive the Mongolian and Hindu aliens of the right to own property. and is in the class oi similar bills in other Western State lcelsla- lures recently. that have aroused the opposition of the Japanese govern mcnt.
 Osborn Fails to Appear.
 The court room in which the gov crnorship contest is progressing slowly was not gladdcncd by the presence of Secretary of State Sidney P. Osborn, as attorneys for EN-Gov- crnor Hunt promised. when the con ,cstant began introducing testimony to validate ballots on which the Hunt claim of lo3 votes was based. Assist ant Secretary R. r. McGillcn did tho tcstifving for the office. and managed 10 get himself tied up in a hard knoi on croSS-cxamInatIon.
 NcGillcn stated that the name ot R. r.. Dunlap was printed ou the bal lois of four counties through error that inc name never should have beer SO printed. c. r. Buliard, cross-cN- aminine. produced a letter written by McGillcn to the clerk of the board oi supervisors of AIaricopa county, stat ing that Dunlap was the ordained candidate for governor on the Prom bition ticket, and that his name should be placed on the ballots.
 The complaint has been made by Republicans that the appearance o' the names of the Prohibition candi' dates on 'hc four county ballots wa' not an accident, but a result of design II chanccd that the columns for tho