Arizona republican., 1919-01-25
BILL AIMS AN END II COM. IF STATE |HST|TU TIONS
Senator Campbell Proposes
 Board Of Governor, Audi tor And State Treasurer,
 With Secretary Instead

Measured by the volume of business transacted, yes s,erday was an impor. ant session of the legislature in Dotil branches. The first step was taken toward the abolition of the commiss4on of state institutions, something that the democrats began to threaten last fall as soon as they had recovered from the shel-shock they received one day early last November.
 Senator Campb Il introduced a bill creating a state board of control. The board will differ from the old board, descended from territorial times, in that it will have no citizen member who, with the governor and the state aud tor, constituted the board. The bo9rd, contemplated in Senator Camp bell bill will st of the governor, the auditor and the state treasurer. The board is authoriZ to appoint secretary at a salary of $3,000 a year The members of the board shall re- ceive no pay in addition to their of ficial salaries. Provision is made fol their travelling expenses and office ex penses, though the appropriation waits on the general appropriation bill.
 The most interesting and imminent business of the day was the hustling through with feverish haste of a me morial to congress and the war de partment in response to word that or ders had been received to abandon all construction work on the base hos pital at Whipple Barracks at Prescott.
 For Orphan Commission
 Another bill brought into the senate by Mir. Young creates an orphan com mission to be composed of the secre- tary of state, the auditor and the treasurer who shall appoint a commits sioner at salary of s200 a month. For carrying out the purposes of the bill the sum of SS,O0O is appropriated l A bill was introduced by MT. Hern- ,, don amending the law relative to the l terms of county and precinct officers l The real purpose of it is to remove the limitation upon the occupancy ot 1 the office of county treasurer. A bill was introduced by MT. Campbell changing the law with reference tC appeals from superior courts.
 The only other business before tnt senate was the adoption of a join- resolution by MT. Thompson express ing confidence in President Wilson When the senate adjourned it was tC | 10 o'clock on Monday morning.
 
 measures, the most important being MT. Waterss bill for greater safety il mines. It provided originally that al blasts in mines should be set off b. electricity, by means of delayed cleo tric primers. Nobody was opposed tt the object of the bill, but it was though that it would work a hardship on tn, small mine owners and especially upol prospectors, since it made no distinc tion in mines. Mine Inspector Bolil was summoned before the committe of the whole in the morning, and a the end of a discussion in which man, of the members participated the bil was referred back to the committe, which amended it so that it would ap ply to blasting 15 feet below the sur face. Above that depth, fuse may b used. In this form the bill was late passed.
 MT. Lines's measure, a constitutions amendment changing the method 0 appropriating state school fund. among the counties from the schoo census basis to that of average at tendance. was passed, with three dis senting votes. Also the house passe, MT. Kimbalrs bill creating the Cata line Mountain Game Preserve.
 Bills in the House New bills were introduced into tn house as follows:
 By MT. Perkins, House Bill 34, pro . viding for the re-registration of cattl ) brands in accordance with the recon mendation of the live stocA sanitar board.
 , By MT. Flood, House Bill 35, amend ing the law with respect to the coun } ty and precinct officers. This bill i the same as the Herndon bill brough | into the senate yesterday.
 \ By Mir. kimball, House Bill 36, mak z ing provision for the appointment C Aeputy court reporters
 5 pv Mrs. Hayward, House Bill 3 | HNAERAT<H TIIESnAN ANN