Arizona republican., 1919-02-20
HOUSE SESSION MARKEDbYM
 HARDCQNTESTS
Anti-Syndicalism and Uni versity Bills Get Same Vote-Fail to Pass-De- bate Earnest.

A succession of contests marked the proceedings in the lower house yes terday, both in the open session and in the committee of the whole. There was no special bitterness, but great deal of earneStnesS, on both sides ana the honors were pretty equally dlvld- ed between the so-called radical and conservative elements.
 The trouble began when senate bill "A, providing for the reorganization of the board of regents of the university was called up on third reading. This measure had the emergency clause and the opponents felt pretty confident that that would be too heavy a load. It turned out to be, for though there were 21 votes for it and only II against it, the friends of the bill needed three more. Mir. Little. who had voted against it, gave notice that he would move for it's reconsideration but it is not easy to see where the other two votes are to be obtained
 Snydicalism Big Contest But the conflict of the day came when the Galbraith- syndicalism bill was reached in the order of third reading. There was a. general belief that it would be passed, but by narrow mar gin. The chief argument against it was that while the crimes it sought to dis courage should be frowned upon by all law abiding people, it was bad policy l to irritate organized labor by Haunt ing the bin in its face something the advocates of the bill averred they had
 had no intention of doing.
 MT. Francis rose, as he reiterated. for various purposes, one of which was to speak to the bill. He did not make himself quite clear at any time as to h~ nff trn@1 1. proposed legislation, though at one time he seemed to be offering an ex- cuse for the I. W. W. At one point he declared that the enactment of such law meant revolution. Whereupon MT. Howard rose in affected alarm and asked that the danger be more clearly pointed out to the house for the house certainly wanted no revolution. The position of Mir. Francis with respect to
 the bill; that is, whether he was for or
 against il, was disclosed on roll call
 when he voted against the bill. The vote stood
 Ayes-Barrows, Burk, Coleman. Gull
 Dobson. Flood, Galbraith. Gibson, He'd
 rick, Howard. Kimball. Lillywhite.
 Lines. Little, O'Neil. Perkins. Phillips.
 Richards Sullivan, Wylie, the Speaker | --21.
 Nays DeIbridge. Eddy. Francis.
 Hayward, Lacy. Mckay. Sealey, Stark, Vyne, Waters Westover-11. It is coincidence of figures that | the vote on the board of regents bill
 was also 21 to II, though there were
 slight differences of alignment but
 generally those who voted against the
 suppression of syndicalism and sabo-
 tage also voted against taking the uni.-
 versity out of politics.
 Other Contests
 The next contest was on what was
 regarded by some as another of inc
 labor bills but which the friends of if . called an Americanization bill, prohibit
 Ing the employment in hazardous oc- cupatlons or deaf and dumb persons
 and those who cannot speak and under- < stand the English language. The Amer
 lcanization feature of it that is the {. America for Americans" of it appealed
 to large majority of the members and js IL was passed by a decisive majority x The only surprise in the roll call was
 the nay vote of Mrs. Mckay and Nr
 Francis. Neither offered the usual ax.
 planation of vote, so that the mem.
 bership was left somewhat in doub-
 as to the motive of Mrs. Mckay anf l4 MT. Francis. It may have been dissatis.
 iaction with the amendments that hat B AiA lnt committee Ot in, 1. whole and it may have been an un. F willingness to be caught in the compan7 ss or the agriculturists of Maricop;
 county.
 Another of the labor measures. cam 4 up Tn the committee of the whole il A the afternoon. It was the Waters bill
 reiatlng to appeals in criminal cases n providing that when a case is on an i peal to the supreme court in which in
 appellant has been convicted of mur Q der and a showing is made to the aD on peilate court that essential evidenc H. against the appellant was periured D. the court may retain jurisdiction sn i,; oHder a new trial
 Objection was made to the unworlz IT. ableness of the bill. How. they asked li- could the supreme court be shown tha ed any testimony was perjured? Tha its question was not answered throughou he the debate. At the end. of it thong
 the committee voted a favorable rec
 ommendation of the bill, which wa
 later sent to the committee on en
 rolled and engrossed bills.
 In the morning session of the hous
 MT. Waters offered the motion. (
 which he had given notice, for a re
 consideration of the vote by which tn miners hospital bill had failed to pas: The motion failed by vote of 1e t
 13, lacking the required two-thirds ma jority.
 Bills passed in the course of th
 day were:
 The measure setting apart a pal of the fees collected by the clerk ( the superior court for a county la , library. |, The senate bill repeating the la creating the state council of defens New Bills
 The following new bills were brougl into the house:
 , By Mir. Sealey, providing for the crt , ation of the office of state fire maj
 shal
 By Mr. Barrows, amending the sta
 tax commission law providing amor other things that property shall , taxed upon its full value and not upC [ its profits or the volume of busine done; this is understood to be aimt at intangible values"
 5h By MT. Waters. for the discontinl !. ance of the legislative pamphlet al [. providing for the publication in dai |. or weekly newspapers of proposed col |. stitutional amendments and initiated. . referred acts.
 :. By MT. Lillywhite, amendatory ]. the law creating the office of sta '. dairy commissioner.
 Sends Resolution At the afternoon session the hou adopted a resolution of condolen with MT. Jennings of Cochise on t
 death of his son at Los Angeles
 Tuesday. The rest of the business