Arizona republican., 1922-04-08
HOUSE GOES
INTO
BILL
PROVISIONS
Increases Inserted Dur
ing Day Are Of Little
Moment; Session Will
Last Into Coming Week

The house slowly plowed further
into the general appropriation bill
yesterday, but by no means approach
ed the end of it. The changes made
in it were mostly raises in response
to the heads or representatives of
the departments who generally Of
fered in extenuation of their requests
the extra work that the judicial code
had placed upon them.
The morning session Of the COM
mittee of the whole was taken up
mostly with a statement by Secretary
M'Bride of the corporation commits
sion. In the afternoon Mr.. Cobbe
took charge OF a series of amend
ments which were to be offered for
changes in the subdivision Of the
corporation commission. Some OBJ
lection had been offered in the morn
ing to the varying salaries of ste
nographers ranging from $3.50 to
$4,000 a year.
To raise the salary of one of the
stenographers of the commission it
was decided to call her an assistant
chief clerk and a motion to incr&lse
her salary to $500 was carried.
About that time Mr.. Jones rose
and demanded that the scale be
equalized and he wanted policy
adopted fixing the salaries of all ste
nographers at $500. The motion
brought out a protest after which
Judge Phillips delivered himself of
certain views which had the effect of
restricting but not entirely prevent
ing other raises which had been asked
for
He described the condition of the
people of Arizona, OF the flight Of
the wealth of those who thought two
years ago that they We're rich. But
for two years many Of them had
not been able to pay their taxes:
agriculture had been conducted at a
loss. There were many men and
women who had not bought new
clothes within the last two years
and during that time had uncertainty
lived from hand to mouth.
Contrasts Conditions
He contrasted the condition Of the
taxpayers with the we'll fed and pros
porous officials and their attaches
who had been looking down smiling
" from the gallery of the house and
at 5 o'clock had Ieisurely closed their
offices, entered their luxurious cars
and sped gaily home over the paved
streets.
He described the clerks and ste
nographers who were busily engaged
from o'clock in the morning until 6
at night in the downtown offices and
who all the time were working. and
not lettering about. None of them,
said Judge Phillips, were receiving
such salaries as the much sought aft
er offices of the capitol building Of
fered. He urged that a halt be called
in the raising of salaries and the
employment of unneeded help in the
public offices; that the government
tighten its belt. as taxpaying citizens
had been compelled to do.
Mr.. Hays spoke vehementlv in ia
vor of the the salaries which he
hoped would never be reduced. The
mines, he understood, were intending
to reduce the wages of their employees
but he trusted that the state would
not emulate them. Other remarks
against the. cutting down of SAL
aries were made by Speaker Keefe
and Miss Boehringer.
A little later Mr.. Jones offered an
other motion which did not unearth
a second. He proposed that straight
cut of 10 per cent be made in all SAL
aries.
Beside the increase in the salary
of the stenographer already mention
ed another item was inserted provid-
ing a salary of S1,560 for mailing
and reception clerk. Lets call her a
postal secretary" suggested Mr.. Hay
nes. 1t had been explained that it
was the duty of this clerk to meet
visitors to the offices of the COM
mission and direct them to the de-
partments they sought Judge Phik-
lips remarked that there were re-
ception clerks in offices downtown
working for $50 and 500 month.
Allow Increases
The following increases for the
commission were allowed, though the
requests for raises were consider
ably scaled down; operation. from
SO 1000 to S10.0 900; contingencies, from
81, 900 to $2,500. A proposition to in
crease the travel allowance from $5.-
900 to $4,000 was voted down.
Secretary of State Hall who was
called before the committee was ap-
plauded when he said that he would
ask nothing on account of any ex-
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