Arizona republican., 1919-03-09
HEAR GOOD AND
 BAD IF TIE LATE 1. GOODROADSb BILL
Senate Gallery Crowded Yes terday When Last Obse- quies Of Highway Com mission Bill Pronounced

 the eulogies pronounced upon it as well as the anathema- Senate Bill r had been dead for two days and 1t was urgent that something should be done. It was generally felt that the interment had been too long delayed; that while the funeral was pending, nothing else could be properly attended to and there remained much to De done. The veto message accompanying the return of Senate Bill r had been made a special order in the senate for 2:S0 o'clock, and promptly at that hour President Johns called the senate to order and asked the simple question, Shall Senate Bill F be passed, the objections of the governor to the con- trary notwithstanding? The query came under the head of useless ques- tions." Still it served as a vehicle for expression of opinion, and Senator Winsor entered upon a lamentation or the failure of good roads program which he attributed to Governor Camp ben. It was the more regrettable that it had come at time when men were walking up and down the land demand ing employment He said that the democrats had offered the program, 1 but that it had been rejected by the ! governor with a degree of petulance 1 which indicated that his pride had been ! injured.
 Reply is Lacking
 The senator replied to the constitu- ! tional objections that the governor had urged against the bill, but his reply ! lacked something of fullness. The purpose of his remarks, ingenious and able but badly handicapped. was to 1 place the blame for the collapse Of ! good roads legislation upon the gov ernOr
 He was followed by Mir. ClaridgA who said, among other things, that the proposal in the bill for the crea- ton of a highway commission was not without precedent. Four years ago, he said, the legislature with the consent and assistance of the republ- can members had taken from a demo- cratic governor the appointment of the land commissioners and had ere ated a land department similar to the proposed state highway board, by which a single land commissioner was to be appointed.
 This was an argument that had ire quensly been heard throughout the debate on the bill. But there was a circumstance that destroyed the an- alogy of the two bits of legislation. In taking the appointing power out of the hands of the democratic gov . ernor, it was still left in the possession of thedemocratic party. It was one of the incidents that marked the split in the party. In this case it was pro- posed to take out of the hands of a republican governor an appointment I that had always, under the state and before that, under the territory, in hered in the governor. Moreover. the appointment of a land commissioner was a new one and it was under stood that it was to be only a tenn porary power.
 Bill Goes to Vote
 Senator Wilkinson replied against the pending senate bill. He first spoke of it as a departure from ar established practice. There was but one other state in the west whose highway commission was made up ir the manner the bill proposed and ar effort was being made to modernize the system in that state. Experience had shown that a commission ap- pointed directly by the governor was the best because it was the most re- sponsible. In fact, under no other system could responsibility be fixed.
 Then the senator gave the history of this bill. It had it's origin in poli. ties. It was a party measure when i was first presented. It had been passed upon by the "predestination commit tee" and thereas after that no pos sibility that it could be changed ol amended. Members. though thel might be convinced that it was bad were bound by their party pledge t, support it and they had supported it throughout. The bill provided fo party machinery and in the natur, of things it could not be hoped tha it could become effective good roadi machinery.
 The debate occupied about an hour and the question then went to vote The vote was cast along party lines All the democratic members wer present except Mir. Herndon. Ther were therefore 13 ayes and , nays When that was announced there wa some partisan applause from the gal lery, by reason of a misunderstandini that the bill had been passed over tn veto. But the bill required a three fourths vote. Three more votes wer needed.
 Had No Chance
 There was no illusion among tn members of the legislature that the bi had chance. So sure were the mem oers of the house that they would no be called upon to participate officiall In the ceremony that many of ther deserted that chamber to lend thei presence to the performance of tn last sad rites.
 Soon after the disposition of senat blll IT another measure was brough Tn by the majority which turned out { De nothing more than senate bill F it seif with the emergency clause omitted No effort was made to advance it an II 1t should be passed it will be onl a matter of form, without hope that it fate will be different from that of I If enough time remained it might h possible to pass it in that shape owe veto. though, perhaps not in tn house, but at this late date it woul De subject to a pocket veto.
 Another state highway bill was ir troduced by Senator Wilkinson. It fo lows closely the Colorado state higf way law. So had senate bill r as the operation of the law, but differe from 1t materially in the manner { making up the commission. The Wi hnson bill provides for the appoint ment by the governor of a commissio of five members. each representing
 section of the state which is divided ; follows: l, the counties of Mohav Coconino. Navajo and Apache; ?. Y; vapaL Maricopa and Yuma: 3, Gil Graham and Greenlee; 4, Cochise, Sal ta Cruz, Pima and Pinal The fiji member is to be one of the professo of engineering of the university. 1T commission thus formed is to appoi