Arizona republican., 1921-03-13
SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 1s. 1921
A man in earnest finds naeans, or, # he cannot find, creates them.
 -Williane Ellery Chnn'ssng.
The omnibus Bill

The omnibus good roads bill will. of course. en- able the to resume highway construction and state system of roads will be pursued after neces- sar1ly piece-meal and makeshift fashion This pur- suit will be carried systematically long the present administration exists but when one is established. there may there has been in the past. substituton for the present system in whole in part.
 The Republican never accepted the omnibus bill in principle and many others who were brought to the support of it, came knowing that the principle bad involving the log-rolling theory of legisla tion in its most undisguised and open form. They could other way highway legislation in the late session they chose the better than
 That good and needed highways will suit; that needed employment will be furnished we sure. and we believe that the money that will be expended win be judiciously expended is pos sfble under such system which Is really system at alL But we think that of the chief benefits that will result will be the disclosure the made quacy of the system in comparison with a continu- ing constructive plan to be maintained not merely through administration but through all admin istTations such plan as be instituted and main tained only under state highway commission sup ported by law creating and maintaining fund free the legislature from the biennial pultng and hauling, compromising and log rolling incident to such transitory and changeabe system.
 More time consumed in the late session of the Fifth legislature by the omnibus bill by any half dozen other measures. And many useful structivs measures adversely affected by the trading and compromising which brought this bill to final passage. But for it's intrusion believe that the entire educational reform program would have been carried out The omnibus bill also was indi- rectly of the of the political lineup which prevented the enactment civil administration law.
 An incident in the closing scene of this legisla- pulling and hauling. compromising and rolling character of it. Dr. Sims. one of the opponents the bill from the beginning, though he himself had offered no substitute plan made point order against the report the conference committee that the managers the of the senate and house had exceeded their powers in reaching agreement on an item of the bill that not in controversy between the two houses. re-arrangement and di- version of the money proposed for one of the two projects in Navajo and Apache counties The reply was that the arrangement entirely satisfactory to the representatives those countless each county still got what it desired slightly diff ferent form. Dr. Sims rejonder Then this is county and not state highway legislation?" To that there could be reply; that is precisely what it s and what it was intended to be, combination of the interests of enough counties which sodi fled. could the opposition the few coun- ties not admitted to share of the benefits and the spoiIs.
 But whom we come to look over the list of pro- jects we find that attempt made to enlist the interest in some degree of all the counties by pro- vidins for the construction of stretch of highway which under present plans may be a link of a state highway system but which under another adrninis- traton may be detached from 1t.
 We hopeful that one of the chief benefits of this legislation will be the bringing people the state clearer realization the inadequacy tho immortality of it. and the pointing of the way systematic highway legislation for the whole and not for isolated sections of the state- providing system of highways which will be built for the development of the entire state backed by tho taxable resources of the state and constructed without regard to county nnes under a continuing and constructive policy.