Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-13
EXPENDITURE
MORE MONEY.
BEING FOUGHT.
Urge That Commission Re-
port Be Left for the Ex-
ira Session.
FIGHT LOOM S
Favour's Bill Creating Code
Commission Meets OppO-
sitiOn.

PHOENIX, Feb. 12. R-The exact
status of senate bill number II by
Senator Favour of Yavapai remained
something of a mystery tonight fol-
lowing wrangle on the floor of the
upper house of the state legislature
over the status of former Judge Fred
c. Struckmeyer's revision of the legal
code.
No action to either receive or re-
ject the favorable report of sub
committee was taken in the commit
tee of the whole which had enter
tanned motions to approve the bill
rise and report and to Indefinitely
postpone it.
Bill No. II, introduced by the sena-
tor from Yavapai by request of the
joint house-senate committee on code
revision and providing for the crea-
tion of code commission of six
members to carry on the work of
Judge Struckmeyer under an apros
priation of $4,000, drew opposition
from clique of senators headed by
Joiner of Pima, Bettwy of Santa
Cruz, Jones of Maricopa and Golfer
of Apache Declaring that he would
not vote for any measure providing
salaries for the legislature during
the recess between adjournment Of
the regular session and convening Of
a special session to consider the re-
codified laws, Jones offered an
amendment to the bill prohibiting
the payment of such salaries or the
payment of clerks. Senator Donnelly
of Pima opined that it would have
been more to the point if the sena-
tor from Maricopa had moved for
indefinite postponement. Jones was
the first to voice disapproval Of the
measure, contending that it involved
a useless expenditure of money. The
provision for a $25.OOO appropriation,
he declared, would go a long way
toward defraying the expense of an
extra session to consider the Struck
meyer report.
"The sooner the legislature is off
the job he said, 'the better it Will
please the taxpayers" He pointed
out that Judge Struckmeyer, appoint
ed code commissioner by Governor
Hunt. under authorization by the sew
enth legislature, had said that the
revised laws were in proper form TOT
consideration and reactment by the
legislature. He didn't like the idea
Of placing in the hands of a COM
mittee of six the consideration OF
the revamped laws, each of whlch
would have to be acted upon by the
legislature separately.
Senators Joyner and Bettwy CHOIR
used disapproval of the measure IN
much the same tone 1t would be
waste of money, they said, to create
such commission to work on the
code during the summer, inasmuch as
each law would have to be scru-
tinized and voted on in speclal
session. The $4,000 aproprlatlon'
thew said, would be wasted as MOTH
mo could be accomplished that an
axtra session of the legislature
would not have time and take time
10 consider.
The introducer of the bill led the
debate on the other side of the ram
nart of words. The senator from
Yavapai explained in detall lhe woi y
occomnlished by the code comfhls-
sioner, how the statutes OF 1912 ~
uether with the subsequent sesslo1,
laws had been styled, revised anu
compiled, and then card d-lndeXeu. LIZ
work was thorough as Iar aS - >
he said, and there was no thought u
rejecting on the ability OF the coue
commissioners But, he contlnueu'
conflict in the laws which required
harmonizing made it necessary lor
The legislature to pass on the coue'
and the next logical step would pc
to put the recodified laws IN the
form of bills This, he conclud@u'
would be the job facing the proposed
code commission during the recess
between sessions. The reading modl-
fication and adoption of the bills by
the legislature would require ne
Judged from so to 80 days.
Favour said that Judge Struck
meyer himself probably would be
asked by the commission to assist in
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