Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-03-14
CAMP BELL WILL
TAKE STEPS To
i REPAIR BRIDGES
Arizona Governor will Issue
a Proclamation to Cover
Diversion of $350,000 Of
the State Funds.
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ICY MORNING. JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED WIRE
Phoenix, Ari3.. March 13-Gov-
ernor Thomas Il. Campbell will is
sue special proclamation in, the
near future to cover the diversion
of state moneys within the amount
Of $4,000 for making repairs on
the Tempe and Aqua Fria bridge
made necessary by "act of God,
according to announcement at tn
governors office today. TIL
bridges were damaged by high wa
ter.
As no specific procedure for APP
propriating money from the gov
ernor's $350,0O0 emergency fund is
outlined in the state laws, the gov
ernor called upon Attorney General
Wiley T.. Jones for an opinion and
the attorney general advised him
today to the effect that in as much
as the emergency fund existed by
law for emergency use. it could be
drawn upon by virtue of a COVER
'nor's proclamation and that such a
proclamation would constitute suf-
ficicnt warrant for the state audi
tor to to honor the appropriation.
The Tempe bridge is said by the
governor to be in immediate need
Of costly repairs, one pier of the
bridge having Gbecome sufficiently
unstable to imperil the structure
and the safety of passengers. there
on, and no funds exist in the reg
ulaT channels for defraying the cost
of the reconstruction work. The
Aqua Fria bridge requires seven
teen new spans to replace the spans
carried away in the flood Of
Thanksgiving day and in the flood
of a short time ago. No 4. regular
funds exist for the costly recon
struCtion work required on the
Aqua Fria bridge.
Acting on the advice of the at
torney general, the governor has
instructed state Engineer Thomas
Maddox to report as soon as prac-
tiCable on the probable cost of the
two reconstruction jobs. in order
that a proclamation can be issued
without further delay Immediate
~ after the proclamation is issued
the state engineer is expected to
begin the reconstruction work.
some of which may or may not be
hampered by the markets inability
to supply certain needed materials.
The governors authority to use
$3.50, 900 fund in the present in
stance is limited to expenditures
for alleviating conditions, occa-
stoned by acts of God" and it is
taken that the conditions now ap-
to ~ A mi,
bridges are such. The attorney
states that there are q va
riety of definitions for the term,
tact of Cod" ana he submits the
following as the most comprehen-
sive.
at is said to be that which is oe-
casioned exclusively by the VIC
fence of nature; by that kind of
force1 of the elements which hui
man ability could not have fore
seen or prevented such as light
ming, tornado, sudden squall Of
wind and the like"
The statute providing for the use |
IF the emergency fund provides in
'ull as follows:
I'm the event of invasions, riots |
Or Instructions, epidemics of dis |
ease, acts of God which result in |
unforeseen damage or disaster to
the works. buildings, or properties
Of the state. which menace the |
health, lives or propertya Of any
considerable number of the persons |
in any community of the state. and |
confined to contingencies as to !
which no al hers funds orn ammo !