Tombstone epitaph., 1921-02-20
SENATORS FAIL TO PASS
 HIGHWAY BUILDING BILL

day evening that today the omnibus highway appropriation bill would be passed finally by the senate. the suy- mise proved wholly incorrect After a day passed in taking the bill apart again. il was left in the peculiar sit nation that it's itemized appropriati., aggregated more than the total ao propriation. thus setting at nausht the mathematician principle that the whole is equal to the sum of all its parts.
 shortly before adjournment. Presi dent W. II Wilkinson remarked;
 ''If there is nothing further 10 be said on the bill. il will be sent to the committee on style. revision and com. pilation.
 "I have much I would like to say" replied Senator w D. Claypool but | notice there are ladies in the gal lery"
 C. A Becker of SprinServille. was allowed the privilege of the floor to speak against one feature of the bill. appropriating s5o.ooo for road east from Holbrook along the line of the santa Fe railroad to Lupton near tho New Mexico line. He appeared on be half of another route which would pass through St Johns. Springerville. various Indian villages and the Petr:. ticd forest
 The former route had the support fl the Gallup. x NJ. Chamber of Commerce which sent q telegram to- day to the legislators stating the road would be an extension of New Mexico state highway However, NIT. Becker presented his case so strongly that the Holbrook- -Lupton item was stricken out uf the bill snd the Springerville route substituted.
 Restore hoIbrook Road.
 Later in the day, OF motion of Senator Scott. without disturbing the substitution. the Holbrook-Lupton item was restored and an appropria- tion of s50000 was made for il. It was then that Senator Eddy moved that. in order that the total amount be made to conform 10 the items. sl,- I25.0o0 be substituted for s9-5.00a Somehow the motion failed
 Restore Ten Cent Levy.
 In the morning session. Senator Stoddard. Maricopa. moved that the continuing tax levy oi ID cents for road work be reduced 10 five cents. which would have cut th. appropria- tion by about si00,00o. it was said The amendment was adopted but n the afternoon it was reconsideerd and rejected.
 House bill No. r.. was taken up in the senate in committee oi the whole this afternoon. II would legisIste "hawkers, peddlers and itiHerant ven dors" out of business Former Sena- tor D. II. Claridge appeared to speak for an amendment 10 the bill so that out goods in motor trucks or other wise to serve the needs of customers in remote regions. Also, he said, in certain camps where companies own ed all the ground. passage of the biN in unamended form would leave the | inhabitants at the mercy of company stores The views of Mir. Claridge i were put in the form of an amend l ment by Senator Lnies and the amend !. ment was adopted.
 To License Lobbyists. ,
 Two other amendments also were !, adopted. One. by Senator Claypool. would include lobbyists" with haw- 1 kers, peddlers and itinerant vendors ! and provide for the licensing of them. | The other. by Senator Eddy. provided | that all monies received from licenses , be converted into the state road fund I
 Most of the morning session was taken up with the consideration of ] motion by Senator J. H. Lines of Ora ham county to amend the omnibus bill . to change the S50,0O0 road through | Apache county by way of St. Johns to the New Mexico line in the Zuni valley The motion called for strik- ing out the road designated from Hol- brook to the New Mexico line near