Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-02
APPROPRIATELY
ACT FAILS TO
PLEASE HUNT
Lees Ferry Bridge Bill Also
FrOwned On BY Chief
Executive.
CAR ATTITUDE
Non-P artisan Primary Elec-
tiOns Bill Also Fails Of
Passage.

FHOENIx, March i (H)-The shadow
of the executive veto again fell
across both the senate and house OF
the eighth legislature today when
Governor Hunt made it known that
he was displeased with the general
appropriation bill introduced in the
house yesterday and with the Runke,
Coconino, Lees Ferry bridge bill,
passed and sent to his desk for
signature. Intimation that special
session might be called if agree
ment was not reached on the pro-
visions of the appropriation bill
which reduced by some $2,0OO,O00 the
total amount carried by the gov
crnor's biennial budget-was made
at the governors office, and the
chief executive himself sent to the
senate letter to the effect that
he "may of necessity be forced to
veto the bridge bill"
1t would be, he said, an unbusi-
ness-lilze and uneconomic thing" to
sign the bridge bill in view OF the
assertion of w. c. Lefbvre state
engineer, that it would cost $S6S,O0
to build fireproof bridge across
the Colorado river at or near Lees
Ferry. The Runke bill appropriates
S1SO,OOO to defray approximately half
the cost of bridge at that point,
the federal government having al
ready appropriated the other half
Faced with a 8 or day session
with the appropriation bill alone,
both houses logged along at steady
pace today passing on the merits of
seventeen measures on final read
ing. Fifteen of the seventeen were
passed, and two of the fifteen were
prepared for the governors sigma
ture, having been approved by the
law makers of both houses. One of
the two bills defeated on third read
ing was that by Senator Favour, of
Yavapai, proposing to place in the
hands of the state law and refer
ence librarian all patronage" ap-
points. The librarian also would
have fixed the attaches salary
Senator Golfer of Apache, was in
censed. why he exclaimed, "you
might just as we'll have the librarian
appoint the members of the senate
and house and pass a bill such as
this" ~
Senator Suffer- Cochise, was quite
agreed. "I move you, Mr.. President, u
he said that the bill be amended
to include provision for appoint
ment of the Legislature by the librar-
ian" Senator IIimball, Graham
wagged his head doubtfully II
don't know of anybody that could
be worse than this one" he opined
The other bill failing of passage I
was that by Representative Wise
ner, Yuma, providing for non-parti-
san primary elections which Repre-
sentative Norveil republican, Mari
copa, characterized as "direct at
tempt to disfranchise all the re-
publican voters"
True to it's sentiment of yester-
day, the house passed the Harmon,
Greenlee, bill providing for the SUBJ
mission to the states electorate az
the next general election of the
question: Whether congress should
modify the Volstead act to enforce
the eighteenth amendment to the
constitution, "to the end that said
enforcement act shall not prohibit
the manufacture, sale. transporla-
tion, Importation and expectation by
the federal government OF
beverages which are not in fact in>
| toxicating as determined in accord.
| ance with and by virtue of the
| laws of the respective states of the
union
| The Akers, Maricopa, bill. regulat-
| ing the hours of women in industry,
was passed by the senate by vote
of 1S to 2, Senators Kinney of ella,
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