Bisbee daily review., 1918-06-21
Legislative Gossip


 of the Arizona Legislature has ad- journed in daylight It happened about 4 90 D. m. in each house and was all most devoid of ceremony. In the sen ate, the president simply put the mo- tion-and that was all In the house there was a bit more. Member Cook reported that the governor advised the notification committee that if the legislature had failed to pass 6 sol diers' voting bill, the executive would have appeared before the house with a message. As it came out. he was pleased with the session and wishes the members Don voyage-Or words to that effect. Mir. Cook had overcome lis natural difitdence and had de- livered an oration on the subject ol ~Omeu in the legislature and Mrs. O'Neill responded with felicitous words on behalf of herself, Mrs. Marsh and Mrs. Mckay. Speaker Johns thanked the members. attaches and even the press, and the chaplain asked benediction. There had been rassed a resolution of appreciation of the work of Chief Clerk Callahan and his corps, which had, in the language Of the resolution, helped "in waeina successful war against the maddened attacks of a degenerated race"
 The last day was a quiet one, save in the room where was meeting the conference committee on the soldiers voting bill It was one of good ma tuTed expression, save when Winsor told the senate how the house had refused to listen to reason and would have adjourned rather than amend by iot or little any feature of it's own vot- ing bill. The dairy bill, dragged from a house grave, went through both houses in quick time, which was even surpassed by the speed of Claypool's senate bill 20. which had to do with false testimony in draft registration cases. It had been forgotten and was dug out of a drawer in the presidents desk. Then the president got forget ful and when he named the candidates for governor on a committee to notify the house, he sent Winsor, Sutter and Roberts and forgot Colter-who then su1ked and refused to be a fourth mem Der.
 The dairy bill was resurrected by the house without much trouble, but had narrow escape for it's life on final passage, as the vote O. the speaker was needed to make the exact two thirds for passage as on emergency measure. Oddly, most of the opposi. tion came from Maricopa county, where dairying is the main industry and from which have come most of the complaints of trouble with cream cries alleged to be profiteering at the expense of the milk producers The bill is a very lengthy one and several members stated they voted against it because it was not understandable. It creates a new office, that of dairy commissioner, at 5000 year. he to appoint necessary deputies. Suggest ed for this post is Lin B. Orme, a pioneer democrat, who mainly was in- strumental in getting the governor to include dairy legislation in his :ail and who lobbied the bill back to the calendar after it had been killed in the house Most of the work will be in Maricopa county, which has about 10000 milch COWS, probably four times as many as the rest of the state com bined Tempe and Glendale each has an immense milk evaporating plan, Phoenix has three creameries and a condensing plant and creameries ex- 'st in Yuma, Tucson and in the upper Gila valley. This last locality now IS sending most of its milk to Camp Cody. So great is the demand from he mining camps that the Salt River valley now produces only about half the butter consumed in the state.
 The S25,OlO appropriation for eX- Dense at the beginning of the special session is expected to be enough. al- though exact figures cannot be had. Many unpaid accounts are in the hands of the commission of public in structions, which did the legislative contracting in advance. On the last day there had to be shifting O. funds to the employees account. which had been drawn upon to the limit
 The conference committee on the question of soldiers voting got to- gether during the afternoon by the simple process Of adopting the house bill. No. 8. introduced by Vaughan. as a substitute for the much amended Colter measure, No. 1, on the senate calendar The house claims its bill is more simple, cutting out the cleo ton commission and giving the ma fnlntEN CT Iut dCL uHttilg lillO tAt hands of the supervisors of the coun- ties, eliminating registration and d number of other cumbersome features. As passed, it affects only persons in the military or naval service, or in in stitutions recognized by the federal authorities as associated with the ac tuaI prosecution of the war. suoa as the '. NJ. C. A.. Knights of Columbus, the Corps of Nurses, etc, with, pos sibly. also the Red Cross, outside oi nurses. There had been an attempt, led by walton, in the house, to include also shipbuilders and other workmen called 10 war work elsewhere. This movement, though repeated several times. got nowhere. as the house ma l ority considered such workmen merely ! men who had shifted their place Of residence and, therefore, their place Of voting It was a plan supported | especially by the labor group.
 The grist of the 3O-days' session n- cludes 20 bills, introduced in the sen ! ate and 32 in the house. Of soldiers | suffrage measures there were three; ] council of defense bills. numbered six; ! soldiers welfare and civil rights. etc, | seven: Americanizaticn, six; matters |