Arizona republican., 1921-02-24

providing such facilities. This objec- ton was urged with redoubled force in the senate and the defeat of the bill was forecast. Rev. Mir. Sanford of the A. NJ. F.. church was given the prov ilege of the floor in the committee yes- terday and he made an eloquent appeal for the negro on the ground of Ameri- can citizenship. and for that he asked that they be given equal opportunity.
 Segregation Bill Referred
 At the close Of his address President Wilkinson suggested an amendment to the bill. He said that he himself was opposed to segregation, but since it was already provided for, it was the duty of Arizona to give the African pupils the facilities enjoyed by the white pupils.
 In order to meet the objection and the only one that had been put forward against the bill, he proposed that 1t De
 ycr to every county to determine whether it should segregate the pupils of the high school. Accordingly the bill was referred that that amendment might be incorporated in 1t.
 Partisanship for the first time rose to the surface in the house yester- day when a motion was made to recon slider the vote by which house bill 1l3 had been passed on the last legisla tive day but one, and to request the return of the bill from the senate. to which It was transmitted on Monday. House bill 113 is the measure by which cer- tain citizens of Spanish descent were to be exempted from the voters educa- tional qualification test The bill had been passed by a vote of 20 to IT, two Democrats voting with the Repub- licans. It was brought out that the operation of the proposed law would be to the advantage, of the Repub- licans, since the persons to be affected, living in the northeastern part of the state, are mostly Republicans, are. in fact, additionally Republican The vote to reconsider carried and the bill was returned from the senate and again put on passage and defeated by a vote of 20 to Is, strict party vote. Three of the Republican mem bers of the house were absent.
 Pass "No ChiIdren' Bill The mo children bill was passed by 1.-the senate yesterday in spite of 8 strong and threatening delegation oi landladies When it was called uI further talk of amending it was made but no definite amendments were of | fered, though numberless defects were pointed out Two widely varying views were entertained as to the effect o1 the bill. It was contended on one side that it would upset the theory of prop erty rights, and on the other that j would only make housewares. hote and lodging house keepers more polite in their treatment of people who. bur- dened with children, made application | for leases or for accommodations. Blu amendments not taking definite shape the bill was passed by a vote of | to 3, pr. Sims giving notice of a motion 1 to reconsider.
 Other bills passed by the senate or third reading were
 | Senate bill 19. amending civil pro l cedure in the matter of interrogatories reducing the number of them and re quiring that each should be limited t, l a single question of fact.
 House bill 55, providing for a chang of the date when supervisors shall mee to divide counties into supervisoria districts
 House b;ll 4S prohibiting the filinl with the county recorder of maps am plats of tracts of land lying within or adjacent to the corporate limits o any city or town without the approva of the governing bodies of such city o l town
 House bill 69, providing for the dis solution of special road districts. I Beside the civil administration bi l there were brought into the senat three small appropriation bills by tn appropriations committee to cove | small unpaid accounts held by variou parties
 Pass important Bill
 Then there was senate bill 126 b the finance committee, very import ant measure on which Governor Camp
 bell has been at work for some tim in connection with various financis
 concerns outside the state, to take u
 about S3,000,0 900 of warrants The bi
 authorizes the loan commission to ar
 ticipate the collection of taxes by tf issuance of bonds to be known as "Ti
 State of Arizona State Anticipatio
 Bonds" The volume of the bonds
 limited to 90 per cent of the taxt to be collected and the interest is lin
 ited to per cent
 In the committee of the whole sey
 eral measures were considered by Il
 senate in the afternoon. House bill 10
 providing for county farm bureaus ar
 making appropria ton for co-operatic
 by the counties with the universit i was made the subject of an addre
 by MT Brown.
 Senate bill l04 providing for Il
 county or community school systel
 was taken up. It had been before u
 committee on the last legislative da
 but on account of numerous amen
 ments suggested by Miss Elsie Tolt
 state superintendent of public instru
 tion,-it went over until yesterday wh
 Miss Toles was invited to address t
 committed She did so enlightening