Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1919-02-01
SENATE BILL AIMS
TO KILL ATTEMPTS
OF SYNDACALISTS
By Review Leased wire)


! PHOENIX, AriZ-, Jan 31.-Syndical-
ism is classed as a felony and punish
ment is provided for it even more
drastic than that outlined in the Sabo-
tage bill of the special war session
in measure introduced in the house
To-day by Representative Galbraith of
MaricOpa. Penalties for conviction IN
der the bill are fixed at a term of i'm
/ priSOnment not TO exceed ten years.
or a fine of not more. than $4,000. or
both II is provided further that a
/ fine of not to exceed $500. imprison-
ment for not longer than one year. or
both would be visited on any person
or persons convicted of renting a
meeting place for the spread of GRIM
inal syndicalism's propaganda.
The bill defines the evil which it
proposes to check as follows:
Criminal syndicalism is the teach
ing. advocating or committing or at
tempting TO commit criminal acts,
sabotage. violence, or acts or meth
DDS OF terrorism or intimidation for
the purpose or as a means of accomp-
! fishing industrial or political reforms"
Regulate Cotton Gins
Discussion in the senate today on
sealer of weights and measures took a
turn which was assumed by spectators
TO indicate that a number of senators
favored placing this office under the
state corporation commission. 1t was
freely stated in the Hobbies that an
effort would be made to bring cotton
gins within the state under the jurIs-
diction of the corporation commission
On motion of Senator Windsor the
bill was sent back to the committee.
Speaking to the bill, Senator WinsOr
of Yuma, said that the question of
weights and measures was one that al
fected his county seriously and par
ticularly in the matter of cotton gins.
He favored sending the bill back TO
committee with Instructions to redraft
it, placing the office of sealer of
weights and measures within the cor
poratiOn commission. giving that body
full charge of it.
Senator Winsor declared that the
corporation commission had informed
that committee that it was in posi-
ton to handle the work of the office
by adding one clerk to the commits
siOns staff
Senator Wilkinson of Maricopa. also
the corporation commission.
County Classification
President Jones of the senate, In
troduced senate bill 40 TO amend the
county classification bill in the mat
ter OF salaries OF members of the
boards ofssupervisOrs and deputy coun-
" officials in counties of the first
class. those having an assessed Valua-
0E
Under the provisions of this mea-
sure the salary OF the chairman. of the
board of supervisors would be in
creased from $500 TO $4,000 and the
salaries OF other members Of the board
from $1,000 TO $1,000, with the stipula-
ton that the supervisors should main
tain office hours similar 20 those of
other county officials
The salary OF assistant county at
tOrney in counties of the first class
would be increased from $4,000 to
S24OO and the salaries of all the as
sistant county officials from $500 TO
$500.
SANDER Measure
Mrs. Hayward of Cochise county,
introduced a bill prescribing a penalty
for and describing SANDER A feature
of the bill is that only in certain
specified cases may the truth of a
slanderous statement be set up as
defense. At present there is no statute
in Arizona covering SANDER.
House bill So provides an emergency
appropriation of $4,000 for clerical
work for the present fiscal year in
the office of the superintendent OF
public health
House bill so would amend the state
land laws enacted at the second Spe-
cial session of the second legislature
House bill 50 makes provision for
an appropriation of S255O.5O to pay
drug bills contracted by the Northern
Arizona Normal school during the in
fluenZa epidemic last fall.