Arizona republican., 1921-03-19
FOUR BILLS PASSED BY THELAST. LECISLATUREDECL AIRED TOPLACE.
 1T AHEAD OF ALL PREVIOUS ONES|

The Fifth Arizona legislature, re- gently adjourned, accomplished more than any previous Arizona legislature, declared Con P. Cronin. state librarian, who was the principal speaker yes terday at the weekly luncheon of the Rotary club. MT. Cronin gave a resume of the principal measures passed by this legislature. His address was an interesting and instructive one, and it gave the Rotarians a better idea Of what the legislature had done than they had known before. MT. Cronin said in part:
 During the Fifth legislature 392 bills were presented, 192 in the senate and 200 in the house. Many of these died either in the house of their presenta- ton or in the other branch, while a number slept in committee when the hour of adjournment arrived.
 Following two calls for bids for necessary legislative printing, in which the bids of the Phoenix printers were all the same, the largest individual item connected with the operating ex- penses of the session, went to Tucson, while Mesa firm secured the printing of the journal. Immediately thereafter S B. 2. '-forbidding combinations for furnishing labor material, supplies of printing in dealings with th/ state or any political subdivisioni thereof was introduced.
 .-S. B. No. 3 is a bill of merit. holding every public officer responsible, both personally and on his official bond who audits. allows or pays any claim not authorized by law.
 For many years great ri~asry has existed between sheep and cattlemen over rights to the open range and con- ditions under which migratory sheep bands should travel. Substitute s. B. <1f these questions, having been finally agreed to by both classes of stockmen.
 "S B. No. II clothes the police court judge sof all incorporated cities in the state with the powers of a justice of the peace, and gives him concurrent Jurisdiction.
 IS B. No. % amends the present law against frauds and protects miners and other workingmen In their wages by making the offense a felony instead of a misdemeanor. as at present thus making the non- payment of wages an extraditable offense
 "S. B. No. 24 adds another legal holi day to those we already have-Armis- tice day-November Il, of each year.
 '.S. B. No. 37 is a measure that the friends of the old soldiers have tried for years to have enacted. It provides for the burial of all honorably dis charged soldiers. sailors and marines at an expense to the county not to ex- ceed s150 each This will not prove burden to the taxpayers. as during the past ten years but two instances which would have benefited by such { law have been known in Phoenix-ont of which was cared for by the United Spanish War Veterans; the other, g member of the American Legion who was shot and killed a few miles from Phoenix and who was buried by his To- cal comrades
 "S. B. No. s9 is measure guaran- teed to set at ease the minds of thos' loyal. militant partisans who have beer wondering what would happen if on of the senate majority of one shoul, die. or one of the democratic member of the house majority of one shoul' = he called to join the fnnumerabl throng' and urgent necessity occasion an extra session. The bill provide that upon the death of member or to be more explicit-'whenever
 vacancy occurs in either house, tn