Bisbee daily review., 1921-02-09
SENATE HEARS SHARP DEBATE
 OVER OMNIBUS
 HICHWAY BILL
Supporters Of Measure Hope It Will Be Passed With
 Original Appropriation
REPORT IS REJECTED
Coconino Legislator Declares No Ground For Complaint:
 Yavapai Solon Differs

PHOENIX. Feb. Slopes of sup porters of the omnibus highway ap propriation bill that the measure would pass with it's s975,000 intact were brighter tonight. The senate in committee of the whole today vot ed down a motion to adopt the ma jority report of the appropriations committee. That report favored re duction of the highway appropriations to less than s5O0,OOO A minority re port favoring passage of the bill with its original appropriation might have been adopted this afternoon if it had been pressed. some of it's supporters said. After an afternoon of consid. eration. the measure was left as Un- finished business.
 spoke in opposition to the $975 -0O0 appropriation. contending that scar city Of money and the prospect of de pleted revenues for the state made an extensive program of road con- structiOn inopportuna
 Senator Charles F.. Larsen. Coconi- DO. speaking for the larger appropri- atiOn. declared the difference be tween il and the smaller sum suggest ed was so slight that the taxpayers would not feel it. He believed chief objection came from the mining com ranies and he was Of the opinion that they had done so well in the past five years that they had little ground for complaint.
 Senator C. E. Burton. who had vot ed yesterday against adoption Of the minority report. announced today he had changed his attitude because oi representations from his constituents favoring the original appropriation
 In the morning session or the sen ate the following bills were intro duced:
 Senate bill sS. by Lines. permitting counties, cities and justice precincts to bar sale or gift of tobacco within their confines.
 Senate bill S9. by Stoddard. increas ing the penalty for robbery so the minimum would be 9 years and the maximum life imprisonment.
 Senate bill 90. by Stoddard. setting up machinery for distribution of land to war veterans and appropriating sIO0 900 for the next two fiscal years
 The bill prohibiting landlords from advertising mo children" and at tempting to enforce that condition was favorably reported in the senate.
 A bill was introduced providing an amendment to the state constitution to the effect that while the state limitation of bonded indebtedness would stand at s350.000. mourning oi bonded indebtedness for public roads or other improvements would be per mitted to four per cent of the taxable vaIue of the state. An amendment 10 reduce the Limitation to two per cent was defeated.
 In the house the following oliis were passed on third reading:
 Measure by Representative D- r: Jones. Maricopa, for inspection oi field and garden seeds.
 House bill 3s. providing for regis tration and licensing of engineers as eavers and land surveyors.
 House bill 69 for dissolution or spe' cial road districts.
 House bill 7S. increasing the pehaf tv for dog poisoning
 House bill 79. amending the divorce ,ar- bv prohibiting issuanoce or the final decree until one year aiter une entering of the interlocutory oecree-