Arizona republican., 1919-03-12

Arizona section of the Arrowhead trail | for which there is a special bill which ! has now passed both houses and thus ! becomes q part of any highway system 1 that may be adopted. As amended, 1 the bill was recommended for passage. |
 The house yesterday failed to pass over the governors veto the Parr bill proposing gift of S10,000 to the owner of the first oil well brought in this state with a flow of 90 barrels daily for a period of 90 days. The governor in his message stated that he was not opposed to the encouragement the bill afforded for the development of the oil resources of the state But he rec ognized that the proposed gift was plainly unconstitutional and, beside, there was no provision for carrying it out
 The objection of the governor to the constitutionality of the bill rested on the following section of Article TX or the state constitution. Neither the state nor any county, city town, num- cipality or other subdivision of the state shall ever give or loan it's credit in the aid of. or make any donation or grant by subsidy or otherwise, to any individual. association or corpora ton, or become a subscriber to or a
 
 ration or become joint owner with any person. company or corporation except as to such ownerships as may accrue to the state by operation or provision of law"
 Fails to Pass Over Veto
 This objection was amphfied by Messrs. Barrows and Galbraith. There was no contention on the other slde that the proposition was not unconsu tutional, but it was implied that Tn such an important matter as oil de- velopment the constitution should not be allowed to stand in the way. The motion 10 pass the bill over the veto tailed by a vote of IS to Is. It was later stated that a motion would De made to reconsider. In the meantime the bill had been returned to the sem ate where it had been passed over the veto and it was announced that 1t | would be held in a state of suspension | until the house had decided what It in- | tended to do about it.
 ! The brevitv of the time between yes | tersv morning and tomorrow night was 1 brought home to the house when haiI | the members bgean clamoring TOT the | advance of faVorite bills. It was eVl- | dent that many of them were going to be hung up and that great oeai i of time was going to be wasted Tn disnosing of motions for suspensions off the rules to take bills out of theIr reg7llar order. Accordingly, it was pro nosed 10 name a joint sitting committee of five members from each house 10 sort out the pending bills and select the more important ones for earnest action.
 The members Of this committee are
 for the house: Messrs. Lines, Eddy Phillips, Delbridge and Kimball.
 For the senate. Messrs. O'Netl, De vine. Hicks, Whiting and Young
 The committee met last night for the nurpose of preparing a menu of meas ures for consideration during the neA'
 OnIv two new bills were introduced in both houses yesterday. One orougn' into both houses provides TOT the euu' cation of children of compulsory schoo age living in such inaccessible pIace' that compulsory attendance IS lmprac ticable. The school superintendent i' authorized to make use of such sun as may be required in such way as h' deems advisable to bring education Ia
 cilities to such children.
 For Tax Commission Election
 A bill was brought into the house b! Mir. Eddy providing for the nomination and election of two members Of the tal commission in 1920 and fixing then terms of office. IL was intended at m beginning that a member of the tal commission should hold office for si' wears and that one should be elected a
 each biennial election. By a suprem
 court decision there was no election Il
 1912. and that threw the schedule of
 A court decision last summer prevente'
 the election of a commissioner ther
 Under this bill there will therefore b
 two commissioners elected at the mex
 election. the one receiving the large
 number of votes to serve for six years
 and the other for term of four years
 This bill was passed under a suspen
 sion of the rules and was sent to tn
 senate
 The most important bill passed b
 either house was the senate bill creat
 ing the board Of directors of state ln stitutions, supplanting the commissio of state institutions A few imma terial amendments had been made i the house Only three votes were cas against it. The house also passed with out division the Wilkinson state budge bin with a minor amendment whic later was concurred in by the senat on the motion of Mr. Wilkinson. There appeared a strong probabilit yesterday of the passage by the hous of the county division bill which ha been amended in several particular and in one which removed a consid era6ie part of the objection that ha been urged against it. Originally tn bill provided only that when the resi- dents of any part of a county or part Of one or more counties wanted to for1 a new county and a majority of theI voted for it. that was all there would to it. Such a plan would make count division too easy. It was feared ths county division would become il states most constant industry. Sheriff's Term Bill Fails The amendment which was accepte | by the friends of the bill partakes some thing Of the present county divisio law, in that 1t takes some account | the sentiment of the county or countit from which it is proposed to carve new county The amendment at fir proposed that the proposition shou receive the support of at least 15 p,
 cent of the voters in the remaining pa