Bisbee daily review., 1921-02-11
SENATE PASSES 4 BILLS. HOUSE
 Z; CONVENTION
 DELAYS ACTION
Sessions Of Legislature Are Interrupted When
 Barbecue Is Given
BOTH HOUSES RECESS
Senate Favors Having All Deputy Sheriffs Having
 Casualty Insurance

the festivities of the Arizona Cattle Growers Association. neither house of the Arizona legislature Put in a full day today Both expected to do so. but once under the spell of barbecue at the state fair grounds and a mili- tary exhibition by cadet batJailons of various Arizona schools, the senators and representatives were unable 10 present the legislative day from De ing mutilated considerably
 At noon both houses took recess for the barbecue, the senate to 3 D. m and the house until 2 D. m- At the latter hour there was no quorum present and adjournment was taken for lack of such quorum. The senate reconvened at its appointed hour and put in the remainder of the day in the order of third reading
 The following bills were passed in the afternoon by the senate;
 Senate bin B. requiring sheriffs to take out casualty insurance for de puties. the premium to be charged against the counties.
 Senate bin A. appropriatins about S20OO for relief of attaches of the state fair commission for salaries for 1919
 Senate bill 7S. apprOpriating $500, 10 meet expenses of the office or the state auditor for the rest of the ifs cal year.
 Senate bill a, appropriating Se32S for the Pioneers Home for the rest ore the fiscal year.
 House bill I3. apprOpriating S5OOO to care for expenses of the motor Ve- hicie department for the rest of the 1iscal year.
 Land Bill Defeated
 House bill 8, providing for payment os interest on school salary warrants. was sent back to committed Tor re- vision. The bill provided for payment of six per cent interest lt was eN- plained that the rate, in the present state of the money market, was in- sufficient.
 Senate bill 43. which had been in- tended to preserve the rights or set tiers on the public domain. was de feated in the belief that It had been so confused with amendments as to remove from settlers what protection already had been afforded them
 Any senator who voted against the amendment to include the financial section of the soldier settlement mea' sure in the bill to increase the state bonded indebtedness would be lnsln- cere. Senator c. M Stoddard or Mari copa county. charged in debate In the senate today. Several senators promptlv voiced resentment at Stod' dard's remarks. The motion to amend was lost by a vote Of 19 to g. The soldier settlement financial program called for an appropriation of SlOO.Oou for the next two years and senator stoddard said $3,5OO.OOO would be needed ultimately.
 The vote was: Yes-Claypool. Cur tin Gooden. MacMillin, Morgan, Saun . ders Schliemer. Sims and Stoddard No-Burton. Gull. Eddy. Elliott, Hen drick. I.ardon. Lines. Scott, Wood ward. Wilkinson.
 President H. B. Wilkinson repub lican of Maricopa, asked Senator w CIavpooI. democrat of Gila, to take inc chair after Senator Stoddard had made the charge, and rom the IioOi stated his position on the soldiers bl.. the lrrlEdllOu DiAi anu NHN debt bill. These bills have been the subject of long debate for two days as 10 whether the financial part ol inc two former should become par of the bonded debt bill. The con tentiou had been that the people might not consider three bills whereas they would consider one olii and. on the other hand, the people would become confused by haVin' the three bills put together in on' bill.
 Bill Should Stand
 Senator Wilkinson said he had al wayst believed every legislative bil should stand on its own feet. He sat the people had a right to conslde inc three bills, each of which calle' for a referendum
 .'No bill should be tackled onto an other hill to help it through" he said "I don't think the soldiers need tn bonded debt bill to get their 0il through. The people have a right t consider these matters tseparately. will yield to the decision of the sen