Arizona republican., 1922-03-16
WILL
meet EARLY
TO PREPARE
FOR SPEECH
Proposed Adjournment To
Shrine Auditorium To
Hear Hoover Address Is
Called OFF.

The house OF the legislature will
meet at o'clock this morning for the
transaction Of business preparatory
to going into joint session to hear
Hon. Herbert G. Hoover. The Joint
session will begin at 10 o'clock in the
house.
An arrangement was proposed in
the morning in both houses for the
holding of the joint session at the au-
d1tor1um and committees were ap-
pointed to arrange for it. Later when
the matter was brought up in the
open session opposition developed on
the ground that the law requires that
all meetings Of the legislature shall
be held Eat the seat of government, -
which Is in the chambers at the capi-
tol. Also the house committee
brought word that the auditorium
would not be available for joint ses-
sion.
The volume OF accomplishment in
neither house yesterday was a large
one. Perhaps the most important
proceeding was the recommendation
by the whole committee OF the SEN
ate of the passage of house bill ., the
Kimball bin, providing for keener
competition in bids for street paving
councils to advertise for bids on al
tentative specifications.
This recommendation was made
without division. The amendments
which had been offered by the COM
mittee on state, county and city af-
fairs were all accepted without op-
position, so that there was no debate
on the bill, which will probably come
up for final reading today.
Readiness to Change
The readiness with which members
of the senate may change front was
again illustrated in the proceedings
with reference to what happened to
senate bill 80, Mr. Eddy's measure,
relative to the collection of irriga-
tion district assessments on state
lands within irrigation districts. In
the morning session. under the order
Of third reading the bill was decisive
ly defeated. Under the same order
the noon hour only intervening. on a
motion to reconsider. the bill was
passed by vote of 13 to s.
MIR. Larson's inheritance tax bill
occupied a considerable part of the
day in both sessions, though the bill
was not really before the senate until
late in the afternoon. It had been
previously referred to the committee
on judiciary to determine the effect
of the "joint tenancy" provision on
the present law with reference to
community property rights. 1t was
expected that this matter would be
determined by Chairman Elliott. The
latter was engaged in other matters
recurring his absence from the sen
ate chamber when Mr.. Larson called
up the bill and it was not until late
in the afternoon that the matter was
again brought to the attention of the
chairman.
He replied that though he had be en-
unable in the press OF matters relaJ-
ing TO the financial code to give it
his attention. it was apparent that
there was a conflict between the joint
tenancy provision and the community
property statute and he indulged in
some structures of members who
brought in laws from other states
without reference to possible con
flicting laws in this state.
Following a heated reply by Mr..
Larson, Mr.. woodward rose to pay a
Il lsbute to the hard and effecti ye work
that had been performed by Mr.. E-
lott, who for days had labored until
midnight on important bills ana last
Saturday night had worked all night.
MI Larson said that he was aware
Of the arduous duties of the chair
man of the judiciary committee and
suggested that the senate employ a
lawyer TO look after the affairs of the
judiciary committee.
Said Mr.. Elliott: "Inasmuch as
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