Arizona republican., 1919-01-31

the office of the superintendent of pub lie health, occasioned by the influenza epidemic. Under a suspension of the rules this bill was later passed on third reading. Another bill by MT Elliott would make sums due for irrigation lien on the land served.
 If the house accepts an amendment recommended by the senate committee on militia and the public defense, of the bill providing for the burial of in- digent soldiers, sailors and marines honorably discharged from the service, whole families will be buried. The house had amended the bill so as to in- clude the wives, widows and mothers of such soldiers. The senate committee includes the fathers.
 Several bills were passed on third reading. Among them was the measure making an appropriation of $7,500 for the Northern Arizona fair; bill for the relief of the McNeil company and provision for levy to meet expenses incurred in counties during epidemics.
 The San Carlos Dam
 A memorial to congress and the gov ernment was introduced by Mir. Devine and adopted. It relates to the con struction of the San Carlos diversion dam. It refers to a memorial of the twenty fourth territorial legislature on the subject in which mention was made os the report of the geological survey, declaring the dam to be feasible. Such a dam as Was then under consideration 1t was stated would furnish water for 150,00 acres. Since then the rich country about Casa Grande with 360,- 900 acres has come in. higher dam than had been considered nine years ago and which is entirely feasible would furnish water for all this land and would give 10000 electric horse power Mention is made of the fact that there has been appropriated for the project $250, 900 now available. The memorial directs attention to the fact that the government itself is clamoring for more land for soldiers. The memorial was adopted.
 The senate passed the bill providing for funds for county law libraries. | Senate committees in reports recom- mended the passage of the following bills: amending the law with reference | to appeals from superior courts; re- | pealing the law creating the council of ! defense; the anti-red flag measure; 1 bills for the relief of the governors and the auditors offices; for the amendment of the divorce code with reference to the titles to real estate in- volved.
 Other appointments by the governor were taken up and confirmed or fav- orably reported: the members of the live stock sanitary board, the members of the commission on state institu- tions, the superintendent of the prison the superintendent of the hospital fo1 1 the insane, the state examiner and the state engineer.
 Only Real Contest
 There was a stubborn struggle 1T the house in the afternoon over the bill of Mrs. Mckay to put the employ ment offices out of business by the imposition of a license tax of $1O 2 i day, no license to be granted for less than thirty days. Various objections were made to the bill. Mrs. Mckay said that it had been introduced at the instigation of Federal Labor Director | O'Leary who said that the federal la bor bureau would take care of those seeking employment. In reply to z question by MT. Barrows as to the reason for suppressing the private agencies, since persons need not pat ronize them, MT. Waters explained tha there was collusion between then and employing foremen of mines. Mer would not be given employment unles! they were sent by the employmen agent with whom there was an under standing that the men should be fireC at the end of a week or ten days tt make room fer a new lot whose fec of from $1 to s were split betweel the agent and the foreman.
 MT. Eddy stated that some year ago when he had charge of a force o
 thirty or forty men he was approaches by an employment agent who propose
 such a profitable arrangement for an
 nexing easy money.
 It was suggested that while ther
 might be such agents, it could not b
 assumed that they were all of tha
 kind and that therefore it would h
 better to regulate them and proven such practices than to put the innocen
 out of business. Objection was als r made that such an excessive licens { tax would probably not stand the tes , of the courts. After debate of tw hours the committee recommended tn indefinite postponement of the bill an } that was accomplished by a vote 0 3 23 to g.
 I Other bills in the committee of tn r whole were house bill 35 relating t
 county officers, proposing an amend l ment of the law by which the tw s term restriction on county treasurer l would be lifted. This bill was recon