Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-03-11
OIL BONUS BILL
IS PASSED OVER
GOVERNOR s VET
Senate Committee of the
Whole Declares for Land
Measure Designed to Liber-
aIize Leases in Arizona.

Phoenix, Ariz,, March 10.-Late to-
day the senate repassed over the gov
ernor's veto the bill providing a $10,-
900 bonus to the owners of the first
oil We'll in Arizona to run 80 barrels
daily for 80 days. The only senator
to vote mo" was Green.
After a two-hour debate which ran
far past the regular o'clock adjourn
ment hour, the senate today in COM
mittee of the whole recommended
the passage of the land bill. The
vote was eleven for and seven against.
The bill would do away with limiting
the size of leases to one section for
an individual and would set no max
imum. 1t also would extend the per-
iod of leases from five to twenty
years, with provision for readiust-
ments of lease prices every five years.
The bill gives homesteaders prefer
ence in taking up adjacent lands. 1t
carries an emergency clause lifting
the constitutional possibility of a re-
ferendum.
Winsor Opposes Bill.
Senator Winsor, who signed q min
GRITTY report of the land committee
against the measure, led the attack
on it today. He said he would OPP
pose it, no matter what its provisions
so long as it carried All emergency
clause, since, he asserted, no emer-
gency exists. He also believed the
20-year lease clause meant giving land
holders practically title to the land.
President Johns and Senator Clar-
idge defended the bill, Johns was of
the opinion it would result in the
opening of immense stretches of land
while Claridge contended that men
XNth ixr1I . n p
induced to make considerable i'm
provements and thereby the states
property would increase in value.
Governor Signs Bill.
Governor Campbell today signed
two bills which provide for further
opening up of the northern part of
the state. One gives an approprIa-
ton of $4,000 to build a bridge over
the Colorado river in Mohave county
and the other makes provision for
new approaches to Lees Ferry. Other
bills signed today by the governor in
clude:
Senate bill &c, prohibiting dumping
of rubbish within mile of a city or
town. house bill Sc, making up the
deficiency in the motor license plate
fund; house bill 70, to permit federal
surveyors TO enter Arizona lands and
making provision Tor Se1tllnS dam
age claims arising from their work
house bill so, increasing the deputy
mine inspectors salary; house bill Is,
regulating architects on public build
ings and contracts for the buildings;
and three relief bills.
Orphans Home Bill Fails.
After a stifsfight, Claypoors bill 70
provide for a state orphans home
which had passed the senate, was
killed in the house today, and Phil
lips introduced an alternative meas
ure toy give the state authority to pro-
vide funds for the keep OF orphans in
private homes.
The arguments on the two bills
threatened to develop considerable
heat, especially when Lines referred
to the Phillips proposal as a trick"
Phillips took exception to the term
and the debate twas gathering mo-
mentum when a motion to eXpunge
from the records all reference to
trick was passed.
Barrows brought the new substi-