Arizona republican., 1917-02-25

with the proceedings of the election shall not affect the validity of the bonds. Inasmueh as the bill had not been carefully studied by the commit lee which presented il, instead of talk ing the usual course. 1t was referred back to the committee.
 The Sale of the Experimental Farm
 Another matter somewhat out of the ordinary was the report of a select committee consisting of Messrs. Campbell. Roberts and Buchanan into the circumstances of the sale of the old experimental farm northwest of Phoenix to Ira E. Beck. The com mittee found that there were 609 acres of land and that the farm had been sold by the university at the appraised price of $50 an acre; that the improve ments had been sold for s422s. though they had been appraised at $6sS3.20: that in explanation of this violation of the law that property of the state may not be sold at less than the appra ised price, it had been stated that the uni versity took back date trees on the ranch of the value Of the difference. something more than s2,000, between the appraisal and the price at which the improvements were sold. But the committee found that all the trees in the appraisal had been listed at only s7cO.
 The report stated that the transac- ton was deserving of severe criticism and doubt was expressed as to the power of the university so to dispose of the property without legislative ac tion. The report was ordered filed In the House Session Aside from the disposition of the general appropriation bill. there was little business in the house. In the morning the Houser bill prohibiting discrimination in the sale of merchan- disc was passed Under the bill a merchant doing business at two or more places in the state may not sell at one place a commoditv at a price different from what he sells it at an other.
 The following new bills were intro duced
 By Foster of Cochise bill relating to police courts in towns of more than 5000
 By Mallory pf Pima, creating the office of county public defender. It provides that in counties of the first five classes. under the old classified tion. the governor may appoint pup If defender in each. to hold office un til the next general election. The sal ary shall be s200 a month. In the counties of the other classes public de- lenders may be appointed by the gov ernor on recommendation by the board of supervisors, the salary to be $100 a month.
 By Mir Lines an amendment to the constitution so rearranging proceed ings in the legislature as to facilitate the passage of the general appropri ation bill and to remove the tempta- ton of members to provoke extra ses- sions for purpose of continuing the per diem. If such an amendment had been in force at the beginning of this session. it is believed that the incident of yesterday would not have occurred
 By MT. Mallory of Pima for the re- lief of T4cson, to reimburse the Old Pueblo for money spent in the erec- tion of an armory. The bill appro- priates $7,000.
 By MT. Buehman of Pima amending the law with reference to the board of regents of the university. extend ing the term of office to eight years. Several other measures were intro duced. all of them duplicates of bills now pending in the senate.
 In the Senate Session
 Two bills were passed in the seu l. 1 ate. One of them amends the law concerning public libraries so that a tax of one mill on each one hundred dollars of valuation may be levied for public libraries in cities having a pop- ulation of 2500. Another bill was passed amending the road law by re- pealing that paragraph of the law which provides that a state road shall be maintained out of the 75 Der cent fund as that has been found to be no longer practicable. A bill was intro