Bisbee daily review., 1922-02-18
SENATE SPLITS
 0N SALARY BILL
State Senate Refuses Passage Appropriation Bill to Pay
 Salaries and Expenses

PHOENIX, AriZ., Feb. 17.-Party di-
 vision in the senate took serious
 turn today when, for the first time in the history of Arizona legislatures,
 territorial or state, it was found inn
 possible to pass an appropriation bill for payment of salaries of members and attaches and the contingent ex- penseS.
 The split came when house bill No. 1, appropriating $51,SS0 for expenses of the special session, came before the senate. It had been passed in the house the previous day and the ex- pectation was that action in the sen
 ate would be equally favorable and
 prompt. The bill, however, was sent to the appropriations committee over the objection of Democratic leaders, and it took it's regular course.
 President Wilkinson of the senate, earlier, had announced the appoint ment of Republicans as chairnen of all the standing committees.
 In the afternoon, the appropriations committee reported house bill No. l, with amendments reducing the appro. priations from $51.S to S40,000. on basis of a 30-day session instead Of 40-day session. which the house had used in preparing the bin Chairman Goodell of the approp.1alions com mittee, explained in the committee of the whole the reason for the amend ments. Senator Lines replied that while he believed that 30 days was longer than ought to be required, that all necessary work should be crowded into 15 days, he saw no reason fQg in- terfering with the house bill. Any unexpended money, he said. would be turned back into the treasury.
 President Wilkinson asserted that if no amendments had been reported. he would have offered from the floor an amendment reducing the total ap- to $35,000, but since the committee had proposed reduction to $40,000, he would assent to it.
 The amendments all were adopted by strict party vote, 10 to s. Sen ator Elliott, Democrat, was absent.
 The house session was brief. After routine matters were disposed of, Keefe said he had been in with the governor and that the latter had given him three bills covered in his message. They will be presented to the house as soon as they can be put into shape, he said.
 House bill No. 2, offered today by of Pima, provides for amend ment of the improvement act of 1922, and it's amendments, for the purpose of stimulating competition in street paving, the original act having been designed to limit competition. Kim ball also would validate this legisla- i ton.
 A unique incident was injected { when Representative Hayes, new | from Cochise, introduced a | resolution saying ne mad been of Il tended by the treatment accorded the | American flag draping the clock. He | explained the field was on the wrong | side. He further asserted the flag was not intended for drapery. His I request that the flag be extenoeu straight across the wall was granted I when the resolution was adopted.
 Two bills, senate bills O. 1 and No. Il ,, were introduced by Senator Stod- lard. No. 1 would repeal house bill )f the regular session authorizing the tate to underwrite bonds of irriga- ion districts, and the other proposes 'epeal of the proposed constitutional amendment under which the state would have had power to exchange it's Il ponds for irrigation bonds.
 The senate committee on printing II eported appointment of 21 attaches, 'nly three of whom had been held 'ver from the regular session.
 The governors message was appor- toned and the various sections were to revised and consolidated II enate committees.