Arizona republican., 1921-02-01
HOUSE FAILS TO REACH PROPOSED
 SUNDAY MEASURE
senate nat Passes Japanese
 Bll-Expected Action On Blue Law And School " Dancing Bills Does Not
 Materialize

expectancy was in the air and there vas an air of expectancy that held in eae mousse gallery until late yesterday lecrhoon. Yet, the expected did not nappen, development of the sentiment VI tnat branch of the legislature rela- .Ne 10 a more rigid Sunday law and on The subject of dancing in the public schoois The galleries were filled with representatives of the churches and Of tne meetings the day before, when law eniorcement leagues were organized The chaplain in his morning prayer alluded guardedly to the expected ac- ton Of the house on these bills.
 Both of them were on the calendar or the committee of the whole, but so far down that they could not be reached. though the house spent prac- ttcally all of the day in the committees. In the meantime there were represent atives, pro and con, awaiting oppor- tunity to avail themselves of the privi- iege of addressing the committee, such privilege having been voted both sides. Further evidence of the popular in- tcrest in these two measures lay on the desks of the chief clerk and of the speaker, in the shape of communica- tons and petitions in support of the bills. Already for days such documents had been received and read. There were a half dozen more yesterday,
 
 other side was heard from, when the reading clerk took up bundle of peti- tions. of which he said there were 1l, hearing an aggregate of 4.090 names urging the defeat of the Sunday ob- servance bill. Seven more petitions containing 204 names protested against q Blue Sunday law.
 Pass Anti-Jap Bill
 L The chief event in the senate was the passage under a suspension of the rules of the anti-Japanese land owning or leasing bill. It went through without a dissenting vote. pr. Sims said con corning his vote that he cast it the more readily since he had learned that an insidious lobby against the bill had approached every member of the sen- ate. Thus. in casting his vote he was not only voting against an unassimil- able population, but against a lobby.
 The reports of the standing commit tee of the house indicated continued hostility to measures carrying appro- priations. There were unfavorable re- ports on the bill for the relief of Mrs Nellie May Spangler. widow of tAt night watchman killed at Tempe; the bill for the relief of Claude Sharpe. . workman injured in the course of con- . struction of the west wing of the cap itol and in whose favor judgment though uncollectible, against the state had been given in the sum of $5.000 A bill making an appropriation for fur- ther experiment with artesian wells ir the San Simon valley and for the in -estigation or irrigation possibilities in that part of the country, was also turned down A bill appropriating s15000 to recoup Arizona stockmen for tubercular cattle killed by order of the livestock sanitary board was turned down.
 But a bill appropriating si7,00O fol the commission on agriculture and hor ticulture met with the favor or th' committee on appropriations, and 8 did a bill carrying a small appropria ton for <se publication of 500 volume of the sanDion laws of two legislatures Many of these bills, as well as som others, appeared later in the day on tn calendar of the committee of the whols
 Receive Senate Bills
 Bills which had passed the senat were received as follows and give their first reading in the house: tn measure increasing the fees of juror to $450 day; the bill giving polio courts Jurisdiction with justice of th peace courts in Jn-isdictions lyin within the mucipal limits in first an third class counties; the biil makin it a felony to defraud laborers of the wages, and a bill amending the ir rJrovcment act so that contractt having completed s20.0O0 worth of contract might receive an estimate C his contract.
 The following new bills were intro duced in the house:
 House bill S2. by Mir. Krebbs, declal ing irrigation districts to be municip corporations.
 House bill s3. by Mir. Krebbs. propo