Arizona republican., 1921-03-08
OMNIBUS ROADS
 BILL HAS CHANCE
 STILL IN SENATE
But Two Days Remaining Yet Friends Have Hope ; State Engineer Thomas Maddock Addresses House For Bill

fHdu ucdIQereu IL Wltn amendments, which last Saturday were regarded as fatal, to mourn it as one dead. the pre- vailing impression about both houses was that the senate woul accept the amendments and that the vote would be sufficient to carry the emergency clause. good deal of work had been done over Sunday. There was added in the committee of the whole, to the total appropriation. s100.000 for Co., chise county; the Holbrook- -Lupton Project was stricken out of the list an for the amendment offered last Saturday to eliminate the pot clause permitting the temporary transfer of money from one project to another. to be returned there was substituted an amendment by MT. Barry providing that s200,00O of the s500.000 available this year may be applied to the pay mcnt of claims originating not previous to March 10 of this year.
 Friend sof the bill though admitting the danger of amending it, were hope ful that it might get through the sen ate within the short time that will be left there for it's consideration, two days.
 Opposition to the bill developed early in the afternoon in motion to suspend all other business of the house and take up the general appropriation bill. This motion was offered bv MT. Curlee and was opposed by Messrs. kimbaH. Jones and others, who said that in the shape of the appropriation bill no time could be gained by it's immediate con sideration. Speaker Keefe insisted upon the hearing of the supply bill.
 Report Today on Bill
 Mir. Jones said that the bill omitted many matters of concern to the three great industries of the state >and he moved the appointment of a commit tee composed of representative of the agricultural indistry, of the mining in dustry and of the stock raising indus try to examine the bill and report at -1:30 today. This motion finally pre- vailed and the speaker desired it en- tered upon the record that he had in sisted upon the immediate considera- ton of the general appropriation bill. !, Mir. Curlee at one stage of the pro- ceedings generated some heat by re- ferring to the gentlemen who were ob- structing the general appropriation bill. MT. Kimball warmly objected to inc language.
 It was later arranged that the report of the special committee should be submitted not later than 50 o'clock earlier if possible, and that then the general appropriation bill should have the right of way
 This matter having been settled, the regular order was taken up and wher it was exhausted the house went into the committee of the whole and senate bill 51 was called up. This is the om- nibus bill. Under an agreemen reached last Saturday afternoon, State Engineer Maddock was given the flool for 10 minutes, later extended to 2' minutes, in the course of which thu state engineer disproved much of thu wild talk which has been in circulation regarding the operation of the depart a r1d 10 cf af a nf ifo
 It had, it was true, outstanding war rants, but it had not expended nor, money than had been allotted to it It had suffered. as all departments has done, from the slowness with whicl taxes have been paid and from the ar engagement by which taxes are paid si months late.
 Been Told 1t Was Useless
 In beginning MT Maddock said tha he had been told that it would be use less for him to address the legislature that 1t had been settled by politics He did not believe so. He though that the state legislature would Urea the subject as broadly as the nations legislature had done in the matter c national road legislation. There. h said, though the congress was Repub lican, the Democratic members froI Arizona, Representative Hayden an Senators Ashurst and Smith, had sup ported the bill.
 MT. Maddock referred to the fas that the opposition to the bill cam from the northeastern states of tn union, who opposed 1t for the sam reasons that some of the counties Arizona were opposing the enactmeI of state road legislation Tn conclI sion MT. Maddock quoted from the a of the last legislature providing f' cooperation with the federal goverr saI, t. lod senla it faith" Another point made by u state engineer was that the propose appropriation was less than that pr' posed two years ago.
 Then came the offering of u amendments, but before the amend nent striking out the Holbrook-Lul ton project was submitted the privile; of the floor was granted to form Senator Hubbell, who urged again the elimination of that route, which said was a part of the Old Trails.
 But that went out the amendme giving to Cochise county $100,000 w adopted. but an attempt to take $500 from the Miami Florence project a propriation of s200,000 and give it a road south from Florence faile largely through an address by \ Barry, who showed that all of [ money that had been expended on t Miami Superior road had been expen Cd Tn tli1al county.
 A little later the bill as amended W returned to the house with the recol mendation of the committee. T house recommended the passage of i bill prohibiting hotels and lodgi house keepers from advertising u children would not be received.
 Takes Democrats to Task
 Tn the senate in the afternoon Pre- dent Wilkinson took the Democra members to task for their policy of ( struction of measures which they
 garded as administrative. This
 buke was provoked by a refusal of
 minority to agree to q suspension the rules to bring senate bill 125.
 civil administration measure. to tn reading yesterday. He referred to
 obstructive tactics of Saturday mig when the bill was brought out of
 reluctant hands of the chairman of
 committee on style, revision and co pilation and when it would have g regularly to the next stage but for
 unceremonious departure of the Der cratic members from the senate cha ber MT. Lines said that he was
 opposing the bill because of any r tisan reason. It was, he said, d IT important measure and should Il been presented to the legislature m