Arizona republican., 1919-02-04
FIVE BILLS PASS
 BOTH HOUSE AND
 SENATE MONDAY
Speaker Peterson Resumes
 Gavel After Absence of Week Because of Illness
 in Thatcher Family Home

But one bill was introduced into the house yesterday, and that by MT. Francis. It amends the law relating to the state treasurer.
 Speaker Peterson, after an absence of week, occasioned by illness in his family at Thatcher was at his desk yesterday morning.
 During the day the Kimball bill, to make more rigid the law and more rigorous the punishment for the issuing of fraudulent and worthless checks, was passed. Another bill of AIr. Kim balls providing for the appointment of deputy county reporters, was passed and one by AIr. Phillips providing that in estates not exceeding S2000 they should be set off to the widow or minor children subject to membranes and funeral charges and charges for medi- cal attendance.
 bill by Mir. Sealey, relating to the duties and powers of school trust tees, was passed, adding to their powers that of calling elections for bonds for the purpose of erecting teachers resi- dences. And without division the house passed the bill of MT. ONeill limiting the fees of attorneys for plaintiffs in personal injury cases to 9 per cent of the amount to be recovered
 Errors in Committee
 Another bill for third reading was that of Mir. Galbraith, providing for the employment Of architects on all public buildings of the state, county and school districts. It transpired that the amendments ordered by the committee of the whole had been wholly neglected by the committee on enrolled and en crossed bills, and it was necessary to rc-refer it. Mrs. Hayward, chairman of that committee, said that the amend ments had not been handed to the com mittee until yesterday, though the bill had been engrossed as long ago as last Friday.
 A similar error appeared in the fraudulent check bill and also in the Phillips bill, but the corrections in the latter bill were made at once and ii was again read the third time and passed
 A little before noon the house went into the committee of the whole and took up the Sealey bill, amending the law relating to the issuance of i'm provement bonds. The purpose of this bill was to take the burden of collecting assessments against property for i'm provements off of the contractor anC putting it on the city. This, it wa: argued, would facilitate the sale of the bonds and give them a higher value Several amendments proposed by MT Lines were adopted. One of them re duced by from 90 to 80 per cent tn, penalties proposed for delay in pay ment of the improvement tax. In tha form, the committee recommended tn passage of the bill
 To Sing Anthem Saturday
 House bill 23 the Eddy eOOd road bill, was called up, but at the reoues of it's author it's consideration was de ferred for one day under an agreemen } reached last week that postponement should be made from day to day, rathe than for a stated period.
 The consideration of the Arizona An. lhem bill, fathered and mothered by the Cochise delegation, was again de terred, this time until next Monday, or the motion of MT. Francis who saiC that the anthem would be sung bv : Tempe musical contingent next Satur day sure
 In the course of the day, letters wer, read from Douglas and the Warrei district urging the passage of Hous, hlll II, providing for the election O certain town officers whose places ar, now appointive
 The house will not convene until o'clock this afternoon. The forenoon was made sacred to run of the Hop snake dance at the American theate this morning to which the members. q the legislature had been invited.
 Adios Council of Defense
 The senate passed the bill repealin inc law of the extraordinary sessio Craaung the state council of defense It also passed the bill amending tn lusges salary oct by adding Pim county to those in which the salar *hall be s4,500. The bills providing fo Inc expenses of the offices of the gov crnor and the auditor to the end of tn ilscal year were passed and also tn hlll providing for the relief of the laN ibrary by making appropriation { meet bills of publishing houses due fo the last four years
 The senate in the committee of tn whole made favorable recommendatio Of the following bills: providing tha estates ot not more than $500 may D 'lStrlputed without passing throug probate proceedings; The Claridge bil preventing the display of the red fla or other emblems of disorder: the Vii klnson bill amending the divorce lay so as to simplify the distribution of req estate involved, and the Buehman bil to take the board of university regent
 
 New Bills Introduced
 By President Johns, appropriatin s2O'oO0 for the cdAstruction of a bridg across Oak Creek in the vicinity o Cornville.
 By MT Campbell, authorizing tn sheep sanitary commission to lew tax on sheep sufficient to raise the SUI Of SlO,0O0 which, it is understood. is f Dc applied to combating diseases O sheep.
 Another bill was introduced by tn appropriation committee setting asid S29,OOO for the use of the Rocky Noun tain Club of New York in extending welcome to returning Arizona soldier, The bill will probably not go beyon the senate, as the house last wee frowued darkly upon a simila measure.
 At noon the senate adjourned to 1 o'clock this morning
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