Arizona republican., 1921-02-04
OPPOSITION ID
 LYMAN DAM LOAN
 BILL DEVELOPS
Senators Oppose Remission Of Interest On State Loans = B o t h Houses Pass Many Measures

lature took place. late in the afternoon In the senate committee of the whale when senate bill 60 was reached. This is bill to authorize the state loan board to remit to the farmers under the Lyman dam in Apache county the interest on loans made to them for the present year, in consequence of the disappointments they have suffered and their failure to raise crops because Of unexpected delays in the construction of the dam. The bill further author izes the board to grant these remis- sions as need for them may occur, to the year 1924 By remission is not meant that the interest shall be all lowed to the farmers as a gratuity, but that postponement of the payment of the interest may be made.
 The bill was opposed by several of the senators and was especially op- posed by pr. Sims who said that the loan board had loaned to those farmers more than $600,000 of the state school money on inadequate security. It was supposed that the security was a mort gage on the dam. but that was not the case; only on the lands that lie under the dam.
 At the close of the debate the pas sage of the bill was recommended but it was stated that a further fight would be made against it on the third reading
 Each house had two full sessions in the course of which a great deal of business was disposed of, and at the close each took an adjournment until next Monday morning. That covers the holiday today, and it was thought that it was not worth firing up the boiler for a single days session.
 Twenty-two bills were reported to the house from standing committees. Six of them from the committee on en- rolled and engrossed bills were passed or otherwise disposed of on the third reading and the rest were considered in a session of the committee of the whole that lasted all afternoon. Bills Passed by House
 The bills passed on third reading were: An appropriation of $3.500 for the publication of 1,200 copies of laws of three of the sessions; the bill au- thorizing the free filing in the miscel- laneous records of offices of county recorders, of the discharge papers of soldiers. sailors, marines, yeomanettes and others, men and women, who had served in war work; bill appropriat- ing $17,000 for the payment of the sal aries and other expenses of the of flee of the commission on horticul- ture for the rest of the fiscal year: senate bill 34, adding marihuana to the list of prescribed drugs; senate bill 4 increasing the per diem of ju- TOTS to $4.50. and senate bill 70. intro duced in the senate on Wednesday 1 and passed under suspension of the rules;i it abolishes the office of dis trict census marshal and provides for the apportionment of school money on a basis of average attendance. An emergency clause makes the bill inn mediateIy effective and obviates the l taking of the school census this year. l This bill was at once sent to the gov ernor and was signed by him. The house also passed senate joint me- moriai No. 3, the O'Callaghan resolu- l tion. That was also signed by the gov ernor yesterday evening MT Scott's senate memorial No. 3. urging the pass | ing of an emergency tariff law for the benefit of farmers. was also passed. New bills introduced in the house | were
 House bill 96, by Mir. Snyder. to 1 prohibit the advertisement of cures of venereal diseases and sexual disor- ders.
 l House bill 97, by Mir Burl. provid- 1 ing for the transfer of cases from one l superior court to another in counties having more than one superior judge House bill 9S, by Miss. Boehringer providing for the relief of certain state
 and other officers. This bill is de- signed to cover the period between the l end of December and the first Monday
 of January. a period for which, strict | ly under the law, officers retiring or the latter date can draw no salary. Il l is at most only matter of few days
 six at the most, but even one days
 salary is worth collecting. The bil
 provides that from noon of Dec. Is tc
 the first Monday of January shall be
 considered the last half of Decembei
 <.f% 1ox
 of January to the sixteenth of that
 month shall be considered the first hal
 of January
 Then senate bill 70, the bill abolish
 ing the office of school census mar
 shal, was taken and hurried along witt the same expedition that had marked
 it's passage through the senate.
 Defeat House Bounty Bill
 A wild animal bounty bill originat-
 defeated on the third reading by ti' vote. In the afternoon attention wa.
 directed to the fact that the senat'
 had just passed the same bill. It wal
 suggested that the vote by which thu
 house bill had been defeated might b,
 reconsidered, but it was decided tha time would be saved by awaiting th' arrival of the senate bill
 Fourteen of twenty-two bills on thu
 house calendar were disposed of in tn
 whole committee with MT. MGrath il the chair. The first was house bill
 Al, the two shift firemen's bill. It wa
 brought out that similar bill hal i been defeated in the senate and tn
 statement was further made that i
 was largely Phoenix matter in whicl
 no other town was concerned and tha l an understanding had been reachet ] between the fire department and tn
 city commission. House bill fl wa
 therefore recommended for indefinit | postponement
 ; House bill 4s, providing for the re
 imbursement of stockmen whose stocl a had been killed in the course of
 campaign by the livestock sanitary
 board or federal officials against tu berculosis, was recommended for pas
 sage with an amendment putting tn n provisions in the future tense. N
 stock that already has been killed wi I be paid for.
 The bill amending the law relatin
 to the statements of expenditures b candidates in primary elections wa | l favorably recommended after some ex - tensiye amendments. The bill orig = finally provided that expenditures fo r postage, printing and advertisement should not be included in the fileC | statements. The amendment provide ! that statements of such expenditure