Arizona republican., 1922-04-05

senate bill so. III the course of his
remarks he spoke rather bitterly OF
| his associates, who he understood
were leagued against him and were
double crossing him, having long
ago made up their minds to pass the
substitute and defeat senate bill so.
Previous to the roll call on SO
President Wilkinson left the chair
to speak against so to express his
resentment at the language of Mr.
Burton and especially to deny knowl- :
edge of any league against him. He
declared that the proposed act for
the abolition of the county highway
commission OF this county in the
midst of its activities as outrageous
and not legislation
After the roll call and after the
members who had voted aye had
changed their votes it was found
that only four votes had been cast
in its favor.
Pass Banking Code
The house in the afternoon failed
to pass the long banking code on
third reading but later in the day
the emergency clause was taken off
and the bill was passed. Word wa
received from the senate that that
body had failed to pass the house
marriage and divorce bill and then
another message requested the re-
turn Of the bill for reconsideration
Again the senate failed to pass it.
The house. though not in retalia-
tion, failed to pass the senate war
finance corporation measure and re-
turned it to the senate where a sug-
gestion was made TO Mr. Scott, the
author, that but for the amendment
containing the provision for the ad
mission of non par valuation corpor-
|ations. the bill would have gone
through the house.
House concurrent resolution was
introduced by Mr., GiIleland. There
had been set aside from the military
fund $4,000 for the construction of
an armory at Flagstaff The people
of Flagstaff had matched $4,000
against it and had contributed a site.
The lowest bid for construction ex-
ceeded the available funds by $500
and that amount was contributed by
George w. Harlem and +. M. Cold
with the understanding that they
would be reimbursed from the mill :
tary fund. The resolution contained
an authorization for reimbursement.
The resolution was adopted and
sent TO the senate where question
was raised as TO the necessity of
authorization The bill was left on
the calendar.
House Joint resolution 2 for the
appointment of commission to pre-
pare an income, tax act for presenta-
tion to the next legislature was
passed and sent to the senate where
1t was laid on the table.
An incident Of the house proceed
ings was a series of congratulatory
expressions in favor of o. D. Belts
on his election as mayor of Glendale.
There were vases of flowers and
outbursts of congratulations through :
out the day each calling for another
speech of appreciation BY Mr.. Belts.
The senate in the afternoon had
up the Wilkinson- Elliott bill, requir-
ing dividend from persons and
companies using the public high
ways for profit. This dividend had
been fixed originally at twenty per
cent of the gross receipts. That had
been cut down to s and then to 5
per cent. An attempt was made yes
terday to reduce IT. still further and
succeeded by bringing it to per
cent
Another bill by Mr. Eddy yester-
day provides another way OF secur-
ing revenues from transportation
companies. 1t requires a schedule OF
fees to be paid on application for
certificates Of convenience and
necessity and after that imposes q
tax of 10 per cent on gross receipts,