Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-01
LEGISLATURE
TURNS DOWN
GRAB
Members Not Attending
Third Special Session
Lose Allowance.
ATTACK BOARD
Medical Examiners Criti-
cized for Failing to Hold
Regular Meetings.

PHOENIX, Ariz, Oct. 81, Delight
new bills, introduced today, four in
each house, increased the total num-
Der of measures introduced since the
fourth special session re-convened last
Monday, to so, which is in addition
to three joint memorials and two
senate memorials.
After a two-day recess taken Fri
day afternoon, both houses were
scenes of turbulent action today. A
resolution introduced by Senator Tom
Donnelly, of Pima, calling upon Gov
ernor Hunt to remove at once the
member or members responsible" of
the state board of medical examiners
for alleged failure, refusal or neglect
to- discharge their duties, was the
cause for two hours of heated dis
cussion in the sentae this after
noon
In the meantime the house of rep
resentatives was engaged in execu-
tive session, said to have waxed
warmly at times, to consider the mat
ter of paying salaries and mileage
of certain members of that body to
the third special session, although
the members in question did not act
ually attend the session. At the con-
clusion of the executive session, it
was said that salaries void be met
but that no mileage claims would be
allowed.
Members of the state board of med
icaI examiners in the Donnelly con-
current resolution are accused of hav-
ing held no meetings on the first
Tuesday of July or of October, as are
said by the resolution, to be. required
by law
The resolution was vigorously sup
ported by Senator Sutter of Cochise,
who declared the board had "closed
the season on doctors for two years"
The Cochise senator wanted to know
"by what authority the board imag
ined it could arbitrarily suspend it's
meetings, but continue to pay out
$3.50 month for a stenographer, in
violation of a statute which had set
the compensation at $1,000 a year"
"The governor" Sutter said eel
ther should remove the board from
office or take steps to see that it
functions" President Winsor referred
the resolution to select committee
of three, composed of Senators Hill,
Greenless, Wills, Pinal, and Thorn
burg, Yavapai.
Other important matters before the
two houses today were the senate ap-
preparation committees report, code
revision and the bill to regulate drill
ing for oil. Code revision struck snag
and was sent to conference. The
house committee of the whole spent
the afternoon debating on oil lands
and rose without having taken final
action
Instead of reporting directly on the
administrators proposals for new
and additional appropriations, the
senate committee split the bill into
four parts and introduced them sep
arately, with the idea that each
should sink or swim by itself. In this
process, IL of the 16 proposals con-
tanned in the original bill were forced
to walk the plank, while the four
survivors have a hard fight ahead of
them.
The new lineup follows:
State hospital for the insane, ap-
preparation committee proposes an
additional $65,125.02 this fiscal year
and $26,867.20 next year, making a
total increase of SOL ,99222 over the
amount carried in the general appro-
priation bill adopted by the regular
session.
OF this sum. added salaries and
wages this year would absorb $9,773.32
and $14,66O next year; operation
would take $8,675 both years; repairs
and requirements $351230; while
capital investment would come to
Sal ,144.50 this year and cease next
year.
These figures amount to a greater
total than was proposed in the re-
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