The Holbrook news., 1921-03-25
SENATE IS BUSY
 IN LAST HOUSE

Phoenix, March 21..-With only two days of the session remaining, both houses worked hard and late yes terday in an attempt to get thru as much legislation as possible be- fore the sound of the final gavel. The house spent the entire day in considering the general appropria- tion bill, while the senate put thru number of important measures Legislators are now beginning to see daylight through the maize of con gestion with the prospect that their duties will be pretty well rounded out tomorrow the closing day.
 The civil administration bill cal ing for a reorganization of state of ficers and departments was passed by the senate by a strictly party vote.
 TAX LEVY BILL CUT
 Senate bill S3 providing a tax levy for common and high schools suf- ficient to raise $50 for every school child as shown by daily average at tendance records was amended by Senator Woodward to cut the allow ance to S25 per pupil and send back to the enrolling and expressing com mittee to incorporate the amend ment.
 PROMPT ACTION ON SOME
 A record for prompt action was the action taken on a new bill by Senator Woodward regarding the banking of state funds. The bill was introduced in the morning and under suspension of the rules rushed through to third reading and final action and was carried by vote of IT to l.
 The bill amends the present law to provide that the state treasurer shall not deposit with any state de- pository stato moneys in excess Of 70 per cent of the amount of the con- bined capital and surplus of said bank.
 The senate killed two bills one calling for a government poultry ex- perimental station at Glendale, and another regulating junk dealers for the protection of railroads and tele- graph companies.
 The cooperative marketing bill was favorably reported.
 Senate bill 30, to provide for the establishment of a teachers employ ment bureau was indefinitely post poned.
 Senate bill 1S7, providing for 8 per cent instead of 5 per cent on state warrants, was passed without division.
 Substitute house bill 19, providing for the certification of doctors and surgeons and osteopaths under reel procity, was passed without division, as was house bill IA, creating board of chiropractic examiners and per mitting the practice of chiropracty.
 COUNTY SEAT ISSUE UP
 A lively tilt between the advocates of county seat removal followed the reading of senate bill Al. As read this bill provides for the removal of county seat to any incorporated or unincorporated town in the county upon a majority vote in an election which may be called by the filing of a petition containing the names of 5 per cent of the qualified electors, provided, however, that the new CO., unty seat shall be 15 miles distant from the old.
 Claypool of Gila, objected to the 15-mie clause If this legislature is going to be a joke all the way through I suppose it is alright to let it go that way. You have brot nothing but logic legislation in here to be voted upon, and there are too many bills which are designated to fit some particular county without giving residents of other counties the same privilige."
 The bill in question is supposed | to have been drafted to aid in the removal of the county seat from Tombstone. Claypool was charged |