Arizona republican., 1921-03-11

ing S3,000 for cleaning up the work of the legislature and designating that S200 should be paid the secretary of the senate and the chief clerk of the house, and $100 each to their assist ants. Some objection was made to this distribution and the resolution was referred In the house there had been introduced the day before a bill appropriating sS,000 for additional ex- penseS of the legislature. This bill also was passed by the senate and In- ouiry was made if this sum was to be frittered away as a similar fund was disposed of after the legislature two years ago.
 The senate lost some time in the afternoon in discussing the order of business but it was resolved to take up the reading of bills while waiting for the conference report on the omni- bus bill and the report of the appro priations committee.
 The following senate bills were passed: Providing for the employment of matrons in jails; the bill increasing the salary of the state engineer to $6,000 a year; the bill providing for the organization of flood control districts, a half dozen relief bills for small amounts; a bill making it a misde- meanor to start or circulate a false rumor regarding the condition of a banking institution; the bill providing for the retirement of teachers on pen- sions; bill providing for revoking the licenses of common carriers in cer-' tain circumstances was rejected on the ground that 1t could be of no effect if it should bloom into a law.
 The bill proposing an increase of the remuneration of members of the legislature was defeated. Originally the salary was fixed at s20 a day, but that was reduced by amendment to S15 a day.
 House Busy in Afternoon
 The house in the course of the after noon gave a long list of bills to the committee of the whole and marked another long list for third reading.
 It appeared in the afternoon that sdr Haynes of Pima would be about to start something when he asked what bad become of senate bill 126, the an- ticfpatory tax collecting bond bill. He was informed that it was yet in the hands of the committee on banking and insurance. He sought a way to rescue it from the death grip of thar committee and was informed by the speaker that the first step in the pro- cedure was a written request ad- dressed to the chief clerk of the house. Mir. Haynes prepared and submitted the request, but immediate action re- quired a suspension of the rules, and that could not be effected
 There was no hope entertained by MT. Haynes that. the bill could be passed through the house; the bill IS an administrative measure. and the Democrats of the senate were lined solidly against it and those of the house had been directed to emulate that solidity. It appeared to be the effort of MT. Haynes to get the bill somewhere that record vote might be taken
 The tax inheritance bill which had been almost forgotten. was exhumed in the afternoon and considered in the committee of the whole and ordered to third reading.
 The house, like the senate, suma mariiy disposed of many measures.
 Among the bill which had been res cued from the jaws of death in the house were the inheritance tax bill and the measure for the validatfon of the last issue of the Maricopa county high way bonds. After midnight the house spent the greater part of the night at recess, the length of which could not be officially determined, for somebody had tempered with the clock which pointed silently to the noon of night.