Arizona republican., 1922-02-18

! but since the committee had proposed
reduction to $4,000, he would as
sent to that
Senator Sims saw no reason for
making any change in the house bill.
| No more money would be used in
consequence of appropriations that
might be found to be excessive and
! he doubted very much whether the
! appropriations were excessive. Ger
| tainly they would not be if the legis-
lature should undertake the consider
alton of all the subjects the governor
| had presented in his message. In
all probability the session would
then run the full statutory 60 days.
Another reason why he believed that
| the bill should be unamended was the
possibility OF a conflict with the
house over a essential matter.
All Are Adopted
The amendments were taken up
one by one and all were adopted by a
strict party vote, 10 to s, Mr.. Elliott,
Democrat, being absent. When the
amendments had been disposed of
seriatim. the committee adopted the
bin as read and the committee rose.
At this point Senator Sims intro
duced a l1notty parliamentary prob
lem. He inquired what would be the
rule of the president ON a point of
order involving an objection TO the
adoption by the senate OF the report
OF the whole committee on a bill bear
ing the emergency clause. After
some debate, President Wilkinson
announced that he would hold that
mere majority would be sufficient
for the adoption OF the report. though
the final passage Of the bill would
require a two thirds vote.
What, them asked Senator Sims,
would be the rule in the case of the
presentation OF a conference report
on an emergency bill?' That, said
the president, was not under consid-
GRAFTON.
The report of the whole committee
was adopted by a majority vote and
the chair was sustained when Mr..
Sims raised a point of order. It was
plain that there could be no suspen-
sion of the rules with reference to
this bill, which then went over until
today for a second reading. Unless
the Democratic members change their
minds, it will go over until Monday
for the third reading and will then
be defeated. Monday is the day when
the first payment under the bill was
to be made.
In the House
The house session was begun late
and ended early. After the routine
matter was disposed OF, Speaker
Keefe said that he had been in con-
ference with the governor, and the
latter had given him three bills Gov
cred in his message. They would be
presented to the house as soon as
they could be put into shape.
House Bill No. was offered by
Mr.. Kimball of Pima. 1t is one of
the measures mentioned in the mes
sage and provides for an amendment
of the Improvement Act Of 1912 and
its several amendments, for the pur-
pose of bringing about livelier compe-
tition in street paving, the original
act having been designed to limit
competition. The legislature of 1915
had sought to remedy that feature.
but the validity of that amendment
was questioned. The bill Of Mr.. Kim
ball proposes, among other things, 10
validate that legislation,
The speaker announced the appor-
tionment Of the governors message
as follows:
Paragraph 1, to the committee on
agriculture.
Paragraph 2, to the committee on
appropriations. the judiciary Commit
tee, and the committee on accounting
and business methods.
Para graph s, committee on judo
| larry accounting and business meth
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