Arizona republican., 1922-03-09
OPPOSITION.
TO.
AMENDMENTS.
IS USELESS
Two Proposed Changes To
Constitution Accepted
And Bills Sent To Gov
ernor For Signatures

Opposition In the house to the pro-
posed constitutional amendments,
though not withdrawn, was recog-
nized as futile yesterday morning, so
that only perfunctory objection was
offered when the various bills were
presented for final passage or were
considered in the committee OF the
whole. TWO Of them were finally
passed and sent to the governor for
his signature. They were the bill
amending the public revenue article
of the constitution and the bill strik-
ing all reference to the direct primary
out Of the constitution.
The first record vote was obtained
when the former came up for third
reading and was passed by the fol-
lowing:
Ayes-BarkeIl. Baxter, Cobbe. Cur
lee, Farrell, Frazier, Gale, Gilliland,
Hall. Haynes, Kimball, Kinney,
knight, Matthews, McGratf1, Perry,
Philips, Remington, Schupp. Snyder
Stewart, Udall, Wylie, the speak
er-24.
Nays Barry. Belts, Boehringer,
Burk, Bush, Ellsworth. Hays, Jones,
Krebs, Mccullough, Miller, Rickerson,
Wilson'S.
publican, were absent. Seven Demo
Gratis voted for the bill and one Re
publican against it.
The bill striking out the direct pri-
mary was passed by a vote of 70 to
Is. several OF the members changing
sides.
The other four Of the proposed
were taken up in the
whole committee in the afternoon and
all were favorably recommended.
They will probably be passed today
and sent to the governor. The re-
manning bill is yet in the hands OF the
senate, the bill amending the initia-
tive and referendum clause OF the
constitution concerning the amend
ment of which there has been some
misunderstanding but against which
there has been no further develop
ment Of opposition.
Delivers Lecture
When one Of these amendments
was taken up in the committee of the
whole in the morning, Mrs. Bush, who
is opposed to many of the amend
ments but not to all of them, took oc-
casion to read a lecture on the iadul-
gence in personalities which had
marked the debate of the previous
She said that the personal
attack that had been made upon Mr..
Boyle, the chairman of the legislative
Of the Industrial Congress,
who was a spectator in the gallery,
had so affected her that If she had
intended to vote against the bill she
would have been moved to vote for it.
Though Mrs. Bush's finger was not
pointed ait Mr.. Barry of Gila. that
gentleman felt iinpelled to reply and
he said among other things that he
had intended to offer an apology for
his heated remarks concerning Mr..
Boyle even if the lady from Yuma
had not suggested such a thing. He
pleaded in behalf OF himself, how
ever, the manner in which these bills
proposed by the Industrial Congress
were being maneuyered.
The proceedings in the house
opened with the introduction of
bill by Mr.. Frazier for the amend
ment Of the gasoline tax act follow
ing some suggestions that had been
made by Secretary Hall the afternoon
before for the correction of certain
oversights in the law. One OF the
proposes that no tax
shall be levied on gasoline to be ex-
ported out of the state and on none
sold to the agencies OF the United
States government. It had been
brought out that agents Of the federal
who had paid the tax
and sent in their bills were told in
reply that it was against the settled
policy of the government TO pay taxes
to anybody; its chief business just
now was to collect taxes.
Senate bill 40, for the relief Of the
which had ben passed at
the other end Of the corridor the aft
ernoon before under a suspension OF !
the rules, was brought in, given It's /
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