Arizona republican., 1922-03-25
HOPE RECESS
OVER SUNDAY
AIDS WORK Of
| LEGISLATURE
Horse Play Of Senate Yes
terday Fails To Relieve
Middle In Which Finan-
cial Code Is Thrown

The horse play which marked the
brief senate proceedings yesterday
morning fooled nobody who was
aware of the situation, nor did ii
conceal the tenseness which the
members had felt since Thursday
morning. 1t was therefore with some
relief that a motion to adjourn until
Monday morning was offered as an
amendment to a motion for adjourn
ment to this morning.
In insisting upon it. Senator Sims
said that it was useless to ignore
the reason why he had offered the
amending motion, in the hope that
some way might be found TO extri-
cate Senate Bill as the financial
code, from the muddle into which il
had been thrown That might be
accomplished in the two holidays.
1t is a curious fact that in all the
proceedings of the senate of Thurs
day there was not the slightest al
fusion to the <code and previous to
Dr. Sims statement only once yes
terday was it mentioned and that
was done jocularly in a suggestion 10
take 1t up, to which no reply was
made.
But as the day before. that was
the chief subject of conversation in
the corridors. and various predictions
were made as to the fate OF the bill.
There appeared to be an impression
that the code was likely to be aban-
doned.
Only "A members OF the senate were
In their seats Mr.. Burton had gone
home and it was stated that Senators
Woodward and Claypool had left the
city. Chairman Elliott. in charge of
the code, was not in attendance. AS
most of the pending measures have
the emergency clause attached, it
was evident that none OF them could
be passed unless by unanimous vote.
Therefore. none over which there
was likely to he division was
brought up for final action.
Most Important Action
The most important action OF the
day was the consideration in the
committee Of the whole of House Bill
So for the organization management
and maintenance OF agricultural inn
provement districts. This bill had
passed the house the day before. The
nature OF the bill was explained at
some length by President Wilkinson
who said that it was only intended
TO meet situation in the Sal. Riy-
er valley. 1t was proposed to extend
the privileges of the projects to the
lands not now included ;yithin 1t. or
such lands were the Tempe lands
now dependent upon priority rights
to the normal flow of rhe river and
5000 acres Of land which had at
present no claim to water under the
project but had been granted water
under orders of the interior depart
ment as a war measure. The period
covered by that order though was
about to expire. The Tempe lands
and these 5000 acres were of sep
arate classes and would have to be
brought in under different methods.
The former would have to be bond
ed to meet the accumulated assess
ments which had been made upon
other lands within the project. The
lands in the 5000 acre area would
also be bonded, but i'm lesser amounts
to meet assessments which had been
made on lands within the project for
power development.
Mr. Wilkinson said that the bill
had been gone over with himself and
Senator Lines and Eddy by General
Manager Cragin of the Salt River
Valley Water Users association.
Some objection was raised to the
bill by Senator Curtin. 1t would
probably have been obviated If the
discussion had attended the reading
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