Bisbee daily review., 1921-02-19
SCHOOL FUND MEASURE RECOMN|E NDED
 FUR ADOPT T|ON
Sims Withdraws Plan To Cut Per Capita Appro-
 priatiom To $l5
COCHIsE COUNTY HIT
Rich Counties Must Help
 Educate Children Less Wealthy Places, Plan

PHOENLX, Feb. 1S.-The senate committee of the whole today recom- mended for passage senate bill S3 for the creation of a state school fund It differed from a similar house bill in that the latter proposed an appro- priation of $50 per capita on the ba- sis of the school census while the former based it on the average at tendance. though naming the same per capita sum-
 From. the outset, the bill encount- cred opposition from the large min ing counties and when the bill was in course of reading today, Senator w. P. Sims, Cochlse. offered an amendment reducing the per capita appropriation to S15. He said the state school fund had grown from a modest beginning under in the last Legislature it had reached $75O, 900. He said il was the ultimate aim of advo- cates of the bill to lift the entire bur den from the counties and place it on the state
 Under such d b1li as the one pro- posed, he said, COchise county last year would have drawn from the state for it's schools less than half the fund it contributed to the state for school purposes and nearly all the mining counties would have fared as badly. On the other hand. he said, Maricopa county would have contributed $201,- GOO to the fund and would have drawn out $33S,000.
 Senator J. H. Lines spoke in reply. He sketched certain phases of the drouth of education from the time when only the children of the rich were educated. The public school system had come into being and grad ually was being perfected, he said, and it was now proposed to make the rich counties assist in the education of the children of the less prosperous counties. After some further debate, | Senator Sims withdrew his amend- ment.
 l The following bills were passed by the senate:
 i Substitute senate bill No. ,, regulat- | ing transit of sheep through recog. nized cattle country. It provides that | in moving to market or lambing grounds the sheep shall travel at a lrate of not less than three miles a fday.
 House bil 26. permitting municipal ities to engage in business.
 Senate bill 59. amending the law relating to the satisfaction of mort gages.
 Senate bill 57, providing for cancel lation of contracts of sale ] The senate also passed the bill for regulation of fire insurance compan lies with an amendment which would ] eliminate rates of insurance of cotton , from regulation by the state until January l, next
 The house spent the afternoon ir committee of the whole. disposing oi long calendar. It tabled the bill tC prohibit the use of tobacco by public school teachers and recommended foI passage the following measures:
 Changing the date of filing primary election petitions.
 1 Amending the Prescott charter. Permitting boards of supervisors tC fill legislative vacancies. I Prohibiting collision in bidding or public work or supplies.
 Furnishing certificatiOn of fraudulent claims.
 Amending the blue sky law.
 Amending civil procedure relative
 to joining actions.
 Giving police courts concurrent jur lisdiction with justice of the peace courts.
 Permitting changes of articles of in
 corporation of churches and similar
 bodies without disincorporation. ! Darp,i.t;pu chaupa of Vpnup in iuS
 tice courts.
 Fixing county office hours.
 Fixing salaries of court reporters.
 Providing for destruction of wil'
 burros.