Arizona republican., 1921-03-19

board of supervisors of the county from which the member is elected shall appoint as his successor person of the same political faith, etc.
 'S. B. No. 5S amends and strength ems the present Barratry law of the state. and makes much harder the path of the ambulance chasing lawyer. It applies not only to lawyers. but to all other persons who may solicit the prosecution and pay the expenses of suit and maintenance of Ia certain class of possible litigants.
 .'S. B. No. 64 provides for the ap- pointment of a representative on the part of the state to negotiate a com pact and agreement between the states bordering the Colorado rivers and a few others that may be benefited by the waters thereof, and the United States. respecting the use and dis tribution of the waters of the Colo rado river.
 "S. B. No 65 amends the present anti-tobacco bill by adding the words: ito buy or have in his possession any cigar. cigarette, etc. and applies to all persons under 21 years of age.
 IS. B. No. 90, the Arizona land set clement act as legally entitled, or the
 soldiers settlement act as known by the friends and advocates of the meas ure. is one of the most important and ar-reaching laws passed by the Fifth legislature"
 The purposes of this act are to pro- vide employment and rural homes for honorably discharged soldiers, sailors and marines, and includes those Ameri cans who served in allied armies and have been repatriated. An important feature of the law is that it takes care of the man without a dollar. The bill creates no new board or commission, but provides Land Settlement Com mission" to be composed of present site officials, the machinery for car rying on the work being delegated to the present state land department.
 The initial cost to the state Is s100,- 000,-S50.000 to be available during each of the coming fiscal years. Great pains were exercised by the drafters of the bill to protect the taxpayers, while at the same time aiding the sol dier and sailor, and by the system of repayments and small interest ex- acted, the state will be paid in full for every dollar appropriated. with a req asonable interest for the use of the money, while at the same time hun dreds of thousands of dollars in ad- ditional taxable property will in time l be added to the tax rolls of the state l .'No measure proposed during the 1 life of the state is of greater potential value than this.
 "S. B. No. 63, also a constitutional | amendment, raising the amount of 1 bonded indebtedness of the state, is a l companion bill to H. B.. No. S3. It l provides in addition to the s350,0O0
 now allowed by law, and such sums l as may be necessary to repel invasion, ] suppress insurrection, etc, any further l sums or amount, in the manner to be 1 provided by law for the construction
 and maintenance of state highways and
 
 lie improvements, not to exceed 4 per cent of the assessed value of the tax able property of the state. As tho
 assessed value of all property in the
 state as returned by the state tax com
 mission for the year is $886, ,210, 900 , this would allow of a bonded loan ol loans by the state of s35,44S,400. HI B. No 139, is measure contin. gent upon the adoption by the peopl,
 of the constitutional amendments jus
 reviewed. The purport of this bill i. , to promote the reclamation and fri. gation of arabic and irrigable lands and provides the method by whicl regularly organized irrigation districts may borrow money for the construc ton and completion of the necessar, dams. reservoirs, canals, etc. These three measures, are, in m. opinion, not only of the most importan pieces of legislation passed at the re ! cent session, but the most far-reach ing conducive of the greatest good t the greatest number of any Legislation enacted in recent years, and this, afte ! all is said and done, is worth man, times the cost of the entire session ! just closed.
 IS. B. No. 51, the much discussed l (and 'cussed") Omnibus Road Bil whether it becomes law in it's en tirety or not, has merit. The oppon ents of the measure have argued tha | by reason of it's general character ap I propriations were asked and granted t sections where the immediate prosecu | ton of road improvement was not il demand: that members inserted item l purely for the reason that they wante' to get thei1s' while the getting wa