Weekly journal-miner., 1917-02-07
MORE ID RUN THE STATE
 INSTITUTIONS
SOLONS DISCOVER THAT HIGH PRICES AND NO
 COMPETITION ARE FIX
 PENSIVE PROPOSITIONS.

| hiS Ol iuC AIlLOnd OenI1dl DlStTlCl
 Federation of Women's Clubs report
 was made by the legislative commit
 tee upon number of measures that
 will be pushed before the legislature. The State Federation already has en-
 dorsed a minimum wage bill for
 women. Petition will be made for
 more drastic laws covering the white
 slave traffic and immoral conditions generally and the age of marriage it IS proposed to raise from l4 to 16.
 The Federation also IS interested in an extension of library benefits to small communities and will ask for the creation of State library com mission and for authorization for the taxation of towns of less than 5000 population for the maintenance of libraries.
 Costs Are Third More.
 Legislative appropriations for in- stitutional improvements hereafter will have to be made on a sliding and expanding scale, due to the operation of an initiated act that forbids any public construction by contract. The last legislature made an appropria- ton of Sl9, 400 for construction of an electric line from Sacaton, 3l miles, to the penitentiary near Florence, | that light and power might be car | ried from the reclamation service sys- tenn for the benefit of Florence, as well as for the prison. Very soon lfter the appropriation was made, the | price of wire and of electrical equip nent jumped, and so the line still is l lnbuilt. This IS one Of the lcgacics | of the past administration to Gov ernor Campbell and Secretary Mcr- | Till of the board of control, which now is building bithulithic pavement Ill around the capitol grounds at a cost of about $l5,0O0. It is being lone by day work, all material being purchased and directly paid for by the State, which now Is taking out its first accident indemnity policy for the protection of the workmen. The addition to the Pioneers Home at Prescott was built by contract, as it was paid for from a private bcnefac- ion. Late additions to the State asylum for the insane at Phoenix were erected largely by the work of the inmates. The next large work will be the school of mines at the university, costing about Sl50,0O0, and to be built by day labor. Retiring Secretary Osburn of the board of control estimates that the new order l of things costs the State at least a : third more for the same work than it 1 done under competition and contract |
 Whipple In Earnest.
 Whipplc is in deadly earnest over his senate bill denying corporations { the right 10 subtract mercantile ac- counts from the wages of employees or to issue orders for anything cx- cept cash, duo on wages. For years | back from territorial days, there has been law prohibiting payment Of l wages in merchandise orders, or by i "boletas,' store orders in definite | sums, formerly used in Mexican min ing camps in lieu of money, to be traded or gambled for. Lattcrly it is told that in Mir. Whipplc's homo town of Clifton and other camps the com panics have lodged the law by issu- ancc of coupon merchandise books. Senator Whipplc's principal objection to tho present order of things is that t gives a company store too large an advantage over other mercantile cs- tablishmcnts in the same camp. All miners are given all the credit they want, up to the wage credit to date, and the store account Is taken out when the pay check Is received. Cn- der the new system a company store would need about the same credit system as any similar establishment
 Representative Coffee is seeking to !; make of Arizona a great game re- serve, in which inoffcnsivc wild ami mals and folws, such as deer and tur- key, shall be unmolcstcd for three !, years.
 Want Car Painted Green.
 Representatives Sullivan and Me Cormick and Jim Mahoncy announce they arc preparing to wait upon the new governor, to ask that the white car be painted green, to hide its idcu- tity and as compliment to the Irish residents of the State.
 De Facto" Is Dropped. |,
 Governor Hunt was absent at the turn over of the office he had filled, but Private Secretary Ladd present. cd the respects of the retiring to the incoming executive. In the receipt Campbell signed, he was entitled de facto governor There was some discussion over whether the auditor would not ask for similar dcsigua- tiou on all linancial documents sign cd, but 1t Is understood that inc sug- i gcStion was dropped, the attorney !; general, when asked, failing 10 attach ; any importance to the matter. z
 Claim Jones Not Loyal.
 It Is told that the attorney general