Arizona republican., 1920-05-20
STATE HIGH WAY.
 COMMISSION BILL READY ON MAY 28
Special Committee to Make Final Draft of Proposed Measure and Present to Arizona Good Roads Association

Final draft of the proposed initiative
 measure for the creation of a non
 partisan state highway corpmission
 will be prepared by a special commit
 tee of three and presented to the Ari-
 yona Good Roads associations S com
 mittee on national and state policies
 May 2S This was decided by the com
 mittee yesterday in the last session of
 two days of meetings, during which
 the proposed measure was considered.
 The special committee of three will go
 over the proposed measure, get it into.
 shape from legal standpoint and
 prepare a final draft free, as far as
 possible, from inperfections or points which might prove objectionable. The special committee named consists of
 Dwight B. Heard, president of the as- sociation and chairman of the commit tee: Walter Bennett, who has been engaged as special counsel in the mat
 ter, and a third member to be named
 by MT. Heard.
 The decision to name a special com
 mittee to go over the proposed meas ure, with particular attention to its legal phases, and prepare it's final draft. was in line with the committees aim to make the proposed initiative measure as perfect as possible, to pre- pare a bill of the greatest value and benefit to the voters and taxpayers of the state, and one free of points which might be objectionable to any one faction.
 Final Action May 2S
 Final action on the proposed meas ure will be taken May 2S, when the Good Roads association committee. in cluding representatives from all parts of the state, will meet here to receive the final draft. At the same time the committee will take final action on an- other measure of vital importance in the cause of good roads, the proposed -evoew limitation on bonded debt. Upon the | committees decision will depend whether one or both measures are pre- sented to the voters of the state in the election next fall.
 The Arizona Good Roads association committee. which spent Tuesday in considering the biIl resumed it's con- sideration yesterday morning. In the afternoon the proposed state highway commission measure was the subject of a conference of the committee in the Water Users building, at which the state engineering society. the county highway commission and the board of supervisors were represented. This aft ernoon's session was given over to a detailed reading of the proposed meas ure and an exhaustive discussion of it. with suggestions received and care fully gone over. It was hoped to have | Governor Campbell and a state high way department representative at the conference. but the officials, on ac- count of the press of business at the state house. were unable to attend. Of Vital Importance
 The proposed initiative measure N considered by the Good Roads asso- ciation committee and which will be presented to it in final draft form May 2S has for it's object the creation of a state highway department, cen tering about a state highway commits sion. The bill is admittedly of vital importance in the interests of obtain ing good roads in this state, as is the
 other proposed measure for increasfng the limitation on bonded debt by ar amendment to the state constitution thus permitting a source of funds fo1 needed public works and improve ments