Weekly journal-miner., 1919-03-26
] MEASURES
 ARE AXED

Fourth State Legislature Nor need
 the proponents and opponents of tht
 highway grab discuss further that question. In fact all discussion now
 will be more or less acasdemic. Gov
 ernor Campbell has disapproved measures touching the above sub
 jects.
 q am herewith returning with my
 disapproval, Senate Bill l85," writes
 the governor to Secretary of State
 Nit Simms. This is the highway bill
 Continuing, his excellency says: s.
 With the exception of the einer7 gency clause, and the preamble, which has doubtless. served the pur- pose of its author or authors. as a
 publicity document, this proposed measure. Senate Bill No 185 Is identf- cal in its language and provisions with Senate Bill No. F, which rc
 turned with my disapproval to the State Senate of the Fourth Legisla- ture of Arizona. on March 6. 1919,
 Senate Bill No. 1855, like Senate
 Bill No. Y, makes the same bold and unjustifiable attempt to take from the chief executive the direction and control of tine State Highway De pertinent without shadow of reason or justification for such course, and in express violation of the clear and unmistakable mandate of the people of Arizona.
 Tt is not necessary for me to in dulge in lengthy explanation or set forth the reasons for my action as they are extensively, and I hope com- prehensively, set forth in the docu ment to which l have before made reference. Suffice to say that des- bite machinations and the attempt to turn the Highway Department over to those who fain would gain its control for the purpose of politi- cal aggrandizement, the good roads movement will not be seriously af fected and within. the next two years. Arizona will be given highways iir number and quality, concerning which the people will have no cause for dis satisfaction"
 The dentistry bill is vetoed because "the laws of the state are intended to protect the people" and the govern or believes that this bill, letting down the standards of dental exam nations, would loose on the unsus- pcctinC and swollen-jawed people, d lot Of incompetent tooth-smiths.
 Senate Bill 36 moving up salaries of county officials is vetoed because .he governor believes that two cases lct yet decided in the supreme court, arc enough to arise out of attempted salary increases that conflict with the provision that no cleo i've officer shall have a raise while r office.
 The Movie Bugaboo.
 The Boogey man was shooed way from the movie industry. This individual appeared ill the bill to ,lace moving picture business under | he corporation commission Los Angeles threatened to boycott Ari ona on films if it became a law, but . hat cheap bluff was not why the governor cut the bill. He admitted e could sec no reason for this bill, o demand that movies be regulat- d more than they are now regul- ted. Moreover, the motion picture elcase business is all interstate traf- c. which is amply regulated, by the sderal government, in places where
 needs regulation.
 More Salary Bill.
 In vetoing Senate Bill i41, fixing ertain county salaries, the governor ,ys he will allow Senate Bill 45 to = = ecome a law without his signature. [ nd this measure duplicates the pro- et iSions of Al. it The orphanage bill, Senate Bill 97, u as eliminated because it was faultily .p' -awn, provided no safeguards and L as in other ways objectionable. un- ID er it, there was no way to assNre Ie state of an expert administra m IT., on of the proposed Arizona Child 1T, ms Home. th The bill aimed to permit the read. NJ g of the Bible in public schools tr as vetoed because it failed to pro- ST de proper amendment to the ex- of ting laws, but chiefly because no In ate has yet found it necessary to " fer to Bible reading in the public '" hools, while the constitution of the .- nited States prohibits congress in, pm passing any law to establish a pi ligion.' In other, words while this SC a Christian nation, it does not aim an inflict Holy Writ on any youth pl;
 minds at time when that sub Rt t can be properly and more cN- nc A1