Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-25
DOUGLAS DAILY DISPATCH FRIDAY MORNING FEBRUARY 25 1927

by congress, unanimously was ap-
proved in committee of the whole.
The Colter-Bettwy- Kimball bill, ap-
propriating $5,OO0,OOO for preliminary
work at the Glen canyon damsite on
the Colorado river, met with the dis
favor of the majority of the senate
members, and it was indefinitely post
poned by vote of to s. The sena-
tor from Apache spoke at length, af-
firming that the bill represented a
| 'reiteration of the faith of the mill
tant group which has carried on
since and even before statehood in
the fight for just rights"
Kimball opined that 1--WE have, in
our efforts to reach agreements,
gone every direction but the right
one.' He referred specifically to the
effort to reach tri-state compact
on the ALLEGATION of water and pay
ment for power generated by a dam
on the river with California and
Nevada.
Senator Donnelly reminded the
senate today that section 10 of the
1925 senate rules providing that when
within 10 days of the end of legis-
lative session the president appoints
four additional members to the rules
committee for steering legislation to
vote, allows the few to dictate to
the many. There were times, he ar
gued, when necessary legislation is
showed back because of prejudice and
suggested that an amendment to the
rules be made whereby the steering
committee would consist of repre-
sentative of all the standing COM
mittee
President Winsor cryptly Informed
him that there were five more
standing committees than there were
senator's, and the amendment was de-
feated by vote of 10 to z. A mo-
ton to adopt the rules of the seventh
session carried by vote of III to 3.
The Favour, Yavapai, military train
ing bill, which met hard shedding in
the house on Washington's birthday,
today was approved for passage, and,
on a roll call, was sent to the COM
mittee on enrolling and engross1ng
with the possibility of it's coming up
for final reading tomorrow or Satur :
day McQuillan of Navajo again OBJ
jected to it's passage, offering two
amendments, one to strike teachers
colleges from coming under its pro-
visions and another so that schools
not electing to teach military train
ing should not receive state aid. Both
were defeated.
AS amended. the bill provides that
boards of trustees of school districts
shall elect whether military training
shall be taught Senator Favour in
troduced the bill, he said, because the
law requiring high schools to give
military training was being openly
violated.
At the adjournment, the house was
considering GIL by Representative
Bovflle, Yavapai, amending the bank
ing code, section by section. 1t was
retained on the calendar of the com"
n,ittee of the whole as the first order
of busines stomorrow. The author Oh
the measure characterized it briefly
as "including some amendments 10
put some teeth in the present code.
The senate passed on third reading
a bill by Representative Wisener
creating the anti-noxious weed dis
t1icts in the state; and one by Kim
ball, regulating the leasing of state
lands in the search for oil and mig
eral wealth. Both were passed unanl-
nously. The house passed four bills
on third reading: ~
House bill 80, submitting to the
people a referendum measure propos-
ing repeal of the fish and game CODE;
house bill 81, appropriating $4,000 for
a test irrigation well at Cane beds,
Mohave; house bill 40, appropriating
$1,25O to meet deficiency in the office
of the state service officers depart
ment, and house bill 142, permitting
county superintendents of schools to
fill vacancies in boards of school trus-
tees when boards are unable to do SO
themselves.
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