Bisbee daily review., 1921-03-03
ANTl-TObACCO BILL LOSES OUT'

fhOENlA, March D. The vehicle regulation code was recommended TOT passage but similar recommenda. lion for the anti-tobacco bill was r,,. used by the state senate in session as committee Of the whole today Is'oraDle report on the inheritance tax bill reported by the judiciary com HllItee, also was ordered
 Debate over both the anti-tohacco measure and the inheritance tax hin waxed warm. Several attemnfs toi amend the latter were made but thev
 failed, and the bill reported by the Juulclary committee finally was rec oIiiflehded Tor passage. The vote was 10 to &
 Predict Tobacco Prohibition
 The anti-tobacco bill would provide mat an election on the question of whether tobacco should be sold with In the limits of any county or subdi- vision thereof. should be held on ore sentation to the proper authorities of a petition signed by 25 per cent of The voters. Several members of the senate during the debate predicted fnal prohibition of the use of tobac- CO The motion to recommend pas-l sage of the bill was defeated by a vote or to 10. Another motion to recommend indefinite postponement was defeated and the bill went on the senate calendar.
 Senators Praise Burros
 During its session as committee of the whole, the senate recommended indefinite postponement of action on the house bill authorizing destruction of wild burros. A number of senators made speeches praising the burfos and opposing the bill.
 Favorable action was recommended on the following bills:
 One regulating the real estate bus iness. This bill was amended to make the state land commissioner the head of the department regulating the real estate business
 A bill permitting divorce from per sons incurably. insane.
 A house bill for regulation of pro- fessional nursing.
 house bill for determining by the, process of amortization the value of securities held by life insurance com panies
 A bill defining the duty of county engineers.
 After the senate resumed it's regu- lar session. two new bills were intro duced. One by Senator A. J. Eddy Of Yuma, would fix the compensation Of members of the legislature at S2O per day. limiting the period for which pay might be drawn to 60 days and
 allowing mileage at the rate of 20 cents a mile. The other measure, of fered by Senator Charles E MacMi
 lin, of Pinal, would allow clerks of school boards compensation in dis tricts having an average attendance of 800 pupils.
 For Vocational Rehabilitation
 The house today unanimously
 passed bills relating to bills of lading and warehouse receipts.
 Action on house concurrent resolu- tion No. l, which would amend the constitution by fixing the terms Of state officers and some county off cials at four years and fixing then salaries. was indefinitely postponed by the house.
 The house bill regarding coopera- tive marketing was recommended by the house committee of the whole for passage.
 Representative I. P. Frazer. of San ta Cruz. offered a bill in the house today to reimburse state officers for expenses incurred in moving to the
 canital when they take office.
 School trustees would have author ity to prescribe uniform to be worn
 by pupils under the terms of d meas ure offered in the house by Repre- sentative W. D. Baxter, of Maricopa.