The Holbrook news., 1921-02-11

HOl1BROOh, NAY raise in the pay of jurors from s; to $4.6O a day.
 Senator Stoddard introduced s. B No, S9 to amend the penal code tC make robbery punishable with a sen tence of from twenty years to life in prison. The present law reads
 mot less than five years"
 Senator Lines of Graham intro duced s. B. No. SS, to give counties justice precincts, common councils and other bodies privilege of prohib-
 ting the sale or giving away of to- oacco within their limits It pro yides for election to be called by boards of supervisors and other bod ies. The crime is a misdemeanor. For selling to adults, or giving away
 2 them, the fine is from s10 to $200 For selling or giving away to min DTS the penalty is from $25 to S25O. 1r from five to sixty days in jail, ol both.
 It may not be generally known. put there is one county in Arizona, where the sale of tobacco is prohib- ted, not, of course, by law, but by public opinion. That is Apache.
 Items ir an omnibus appropriation pill for state highways were cut in half by the senate appropriation
 committee, reducing the total iron S975,O00 to less than $50O,OOO.
 The majority report was placed on the calendar of the committee of .he whole house after a minority eport presented by Senator Charles Z Larsen, Coconino, had met with a .etback. The minority report rec Jmmended the retention of the orig nal appropriation and Senator Lar en demanded suspension of the rules o that a roll call vote might be saken on adoption of the minority 'eport. The motion was lost, 9 to 8.
 House bill 79, amending the di- Iorce law by prohibiting the issu- ance of the final decree until one year after the entering of the inter- ocutory decree.
 The state livestock sanitary board vas in session this week putting the finishing touches on legislation to be introduced at the present session of he legislature. It was announced the board would seek enactment of l measure placing proof of owner ihip of beef on the person in whose 1osession it was found. Under the present law, it was explained, in- spectors for the board are obliged, suspected cases of theft, to prove that the beef was stolen.
 Senate bill No. 30, giving women equal rights with men in represent ltion on precinct and county com mittees, passed the senate by a vote # 16 to 3.
 The "blue sky" bill for corpora lions passed the senate by a vote of l3 to five. This is senate bill No. g, which makes more drastic the blue sky law now in existence.
 A surprise was given observers in the house when the judiciary com mittee returned a recommendation for the defeat of the bill providing for women jurors.
 Two bills were introduced in the senate amending the law relative to of state funds so that fund not exhausted at the end of the year may be carried over into the next year instead of being trans ierred to the general fund, and the other amending the law regarding distribution of school funds so that .hey shall be apportioned on a basis ,f average attendance and not on the figures of the census marshal.
 Senator Hedrick also introduced ienate bill No. 72, providing that certified checks on Arizona banks 'nly shall be given by bidders on public contracts or for supplies for public institutions in Arizona.
 Long debate in the senate Tuesday in an amendment to include | soldiers settlement act in the pro- 1isions of the bill to increase pos ible bonded indebtedness of the tate to four per cent of the total assessed valuation of property.
 The soldiers settlement bill pro- yided for appropriation of state ands and financial aid. Senator C. VI. Stddard, Maricopa county, who introduced the bill, was asked how much money would be needed for the pill.
 "One hundred thousand dollars as l starter and at least $3,50O,0O0 to | arry out the provisions of the bill," le said.