Arizona republican., 1922-03-28
MAY EXTEND.
| LEGISLATIVE
SESSION FOR
is MORE DAYS
House Passes Bill For Ex-
penses OF Additional
Time Senate Slows 1t
Up - Amount $16,380

Up - Amount Sl6, $50
A bill passed by the house under
suspension OF the rules making ap-
for the current and con-
tingent exposes of the legislature for
another is days was sent to the sem
ate where IL was slowed down 10 the
regular course. A little later in the
senate a motion was offered for the
appointment of a committee to wait
upon the house and inform that body
that the senate would be ready for a
sine die adjournment at noon today.
The motion was defeated.
The second appropriation bill OF
the session carries $16,3S0. of which
Sll,235 is for the per diem of the
members. and s5.145 for the compen-
sation OF the attaches. The motion
in the senate for the preparation for
the obsequies OF the special session
was offered after the consideration or
several measures and especially the
bill for the current and contingent
expenses, in the course of which
there were calls OF the house and
long waits for the sergeant at arms
to gather in the members, and then
what Mr.. Lines construed to be dila-
tory tactics. His motion Immediately
followed a motion to adjourn until
this morning with the statement THAT
there was nothing else for the senate
to do yesterday.
Though his motion was defeated. in
the course OF the vote the statement
was made that amendments 10 senate
bill 40 were In course OF preparation.
whereupon Mr.. Lines remarked that
his motion had. at least. brought out
some information CONCERNING that
measure OF which nothing had been
officially heard since last Thursday
on the floor OF the senate.
More Amendments
The statement was made later in
the day that two amendments 10 the
financial code will be ready TO be Of
fered when the senate convenes this
morning. one of them designed TO
meet the objections OF the Legislative
committee of the state teachers as
sociation. and the other, the critic
cisms OF the state highway depart-
ment. 1t was predicted that the
amendments would probably not ST.
lence those objections. but that they
would leave the supporters OF the
code in a stronger position.
The muddle over house bill :. the
Kimball amendment TO the Improve
ment Act, was not quite cleared. The
bill was received from the house. and
Mr.. Goodell offered a motion that the
senate concur in the house amend
ment Mr.. Eddy objected on the
ground that the legislation thus at
tempted would be Of such doubtful
character that litigation would prob
ably result in tying up paving in
cities and towns until the matter had
been threshed out in the courts. The
situation was a peculiar one. without
precedent in the legislative records
of Arizona. A statement of it was
made by President Wilkinson which
il was admitted was correct. The
bill had been passed by the house and
sent to the senate where amendments
were made that were eoncurred in by
the house The bill then went to the
governor, from whom il was later
recalled by the house and further
amended and then was again sent 10
the senate.
The question was raised whether
the house could recall the bill since It
was no longer house bill after hay-
ing been placed in the hands OF tbs
governor, but a legislative bill The
suggestion was made that the only
way out of the muddle now was to
introduce the bill in its present shape
again into the house and hurry II
through that body into the senate.
Validity Assured
Mr.. Goodell then withdrew his mos
tion to concur, but later he renewea
it, saying that he had conferred with
members of the house who told hirn
Al. -.
tiles and had been informed that con-
currence by the senate in the house
amendment to the bill would leave IL
OF unquestioned validity.
The motion then went to a vote
and was carried. But the bill In
stead of taking the course on which
bills at that stage are usually sent.
went on the senate calendar. Stin
later IN the DAY house bill was re-
introduced III the house.
House bin So. SO far as this region
is concerned, the most important OF
the session. made rapid progress
This is the bin providing for the or
ganization. management and main-.
tenance OF agricultural Improvement
districts. authorizing the creation and
payment OF indebtedness OF such dis-
tricts and providing for the transfer
OF the management and control 10
such district. of drainage works or
drainage districts, and for other pur-
poses. This bill had been considered
in the committee OF the whole and
correction Of clerical errors were orr
dered. Otherwise it was in the same
shape as when it had passed ths
house. The bill was given its first
and second readings and but for the
absence of several OF the members
would probably have gone TO final
passage.
House bill 10, repeating the act OF
the regular session creating the de-
partment Of immigration commis-
siorier. was UP for third reading. But
little more than half the membership
of the senate was in the chamber,
and a call of the house was demand
ed. When at length the call was dis
pensed with and the roll call was
completed, it was found that the bill
had failed of passage by the fol-
lowing vote:
Ayes-Claypool, Gull, Eddy. Elliott.
Lines. Schleimer. Sims.
Nays--Burton. Goodell. Hedrick.
Larson, Morgan, Saunders. Scott.
Stoddard, Woodward and the presi-
dent-10. But before the result of.
the roll call was announced Mr..
Lines changed his vote for the pur-
pose of moving a reconsideration. 1t
will be observed that the foregoing is
q strict party vote.
The house bill amending the stat
ute regarding court costs in cases in
which the state, county or munici-
pality is a litigant, was passed aH
was F'raizer's bill amending the gaso