Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-10-27
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engineers be the judge OF which
would be the better route. Wlsefer
threatened that ''the house would
olive Phoenix another trimming" II
the Maricopa delegates attempted to
repeal the appropriation without OF
fering a substitute measure.
Both houses today passed under
suspension of the rules a resolution
by C. j. McQuillan, of Navajo, urg-
ing the president Of the United States
to appoint Amos A. Belts OF tne
Arizona corporation commission to
the vacancy on the interstate COM
merce commission caused by the re-
cent RESIGNATION of commissioner Hall
of Colorado.
Opposition to senate bill 13 by the
committee on highways and bridges
was eyinced this afternoon in the
uuper house when the measure came
up for discussion in the committee
Of the whole. The measure amends
house bill No. / of the fourth special
session, which created a highway code
for the staUe, and which was passed
August IL.
The amendments in question pro-
vides that the highway commission
of five members, as provided in the
new code shall approve all payments
for work done for the state highway
department. The state engineer form
erly did this and will continue to-
do so if the bill fails of passage.
Senator Fred T. Sutter, Of Cochise
county. explained that the bill was
introduced on the recommendations
& Of f10n hi0I0W0U
commission. w lam G. Joyner, jun
ior senator from Pima county, op-
posed, the measure. The bill was
recommended for passage, but stltt
opposition is predicted either on Sec
ond or third reading of the bill.
Senators Harlow Akers, Maricopa,
and Joyner, Pima, introduced senate
bill Is, providing for the appointment
of director of labor statistics by
the industrial commission at a salary
of $4,000 a year and making an ap-
preparation to care for the office
salary of the director, printing and
travelling expenses through the pres
ent fiscal year and the next fiscal
year. The appropriation totals
$15,7OO.
Two measures pertaining to land
leases were introduced in the senate
today. They were senate bill 16. by
iJcyner, by request, pertaining to the
leasing of state lands for the pros
pccting for oil, and senat bill II.
by Kimball, amending the law re-
lating to the leasing of oil lands.
Senator Fred T. Golfer, Apache,
introduced a memorial, the first OF
the fourth special session, praying
congress ''to repudiate the eight-item
proposal made by the Arizona Colo
rado river commission at the Denver
conference. The senator in the me-
mortal declares that mo constructive
Colorado river legislation on behalf
of the state has ever been accomp-
lisl1ed by a commission or majority
of the legislature
The committee of the whole sena e
recommended three bills for passage.
Besides the bill curtailing the ap-
proval of the state engineer for pay
ment of warrants, the whole commit
tee approved senate bill 8, by the
judiciary committee, providing for
the appointment of a legislative COM
mittee to supervise the printing Of
the laws of Arizona and carrying
an appropriation of 100000 for the
purpose and senate bill IL, by Runke,
Coconino, authorizing counties to SILL
toll roads to the government.
Bills introduced in the house today
included:
House bill 35, by Orme, .Mari:opa
appropriating $4,000 for additions to
the pioneers home at Prescott.
House bill 36, by Francis, Maricopa,
reducing maximum charges of money
lenders on small loans to one and
one half per cent.
House bill 81, by Kennedy, Pima;
Kimball, Maricopa; Morgan, Pima;
Old, Pima, and Peters, Pima, Great
ing county boards of charity.
/ In c1nmittee of the whole the
house recommended four relief mea-
sures, house bills Z, 16, II and IS
for passage; also house bill %, by
Peters, Pima, amending the Casa
Grande-G Bend road appropriation
bill of the regular session.
A measure appropriating $4,000 or
more for the state hospital for insane
will probably be introduced tomorrow.
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