Arizona state miner., 1927-03-26

Ing the PROVISION creating a new COul-
mission
Il vetoed House Bill No. 80 Gre
ating mutual fire insurance companies
Information furnished me by the Cor
pOratiOn Commission, together with
the result of other Investigations, de-
veloped that the bill was based upon
an old California law which was found
to be very unsatisfactory. 1t would
open up a field for exploitation which
has already proved disastrous to this
State in the failure of the Arizona
Fire Insurance Company which
amounted to. bankruptcy some few
years ago. l believe that our present
laws for the protection of policy
holders could not be modified with
any degree of safety.
II vetoed House Bill No. 129 which
proposed to repeal the provisions Of
an act for vocational education. This
important department of education
was left entirely out of the general
appropriation bill in 1924 and if it
had not been for this provision of law,
this work would have had to stop for
lack of finances. Protests came in
from every part of the state and we
were able to keep the department
functioning under the provisions Of
this law. The present legislature re-
duced the appropriation this depart
ment has had for the past four years
and has provided funds entirely in
adequate to meet the growing needs
of this department. I do not tnlnk
that the school system of this state
should be permitted to be made a
political football by the members of
the legislature because of a desire to
take slap at some department head.
II vetoed Senate Bill No. 1870, to
abolish the Fort Huachuca game pre-
serve, because I believe we ought to
have more game preserves rather than
fewer.
II vetoed Senate Bill No. 81, to
amend our irrigation district law,
which would permit of bonds being
sold by private sale without adver-
tising This would have made it pos
sible, by advertising in some little
weekly paper which practically no
one sees, for a period of eight days,
the knowledge of the land owners
in an irrigation district project. Debts
could be saddled on land without the
knowledge of the land owners and the
whole system of law for the creation
of irrigation districts would be open
ed up for fraudulent manipulation.
81 vetoed House Bill No. 150, to Gre
&hn CrTpn G
of the Tempe Teachers College, for
mentally defective children who would
be admitted up to the age of FL years.
If they did not improve, under the
terms of the act, they would continue
to remain members Of the colony, as
no means were provided for their dis
charge The Mental Hygiene survey,
which was made under Governor
Campbell in 1922, indicated the need
of such a colony in Arizona and that
eventually such a colony will have
to be developed on a large scale. The
situation is such that, while there
is no objection to having the super
intendent of the teachers college act
as superintendent of the defective
children's colony, this institution
should be far removed from the COL
lege for very obvious reasons. The
amount appropriated in the bill was
entirley inadequate to make any real
start toward providing for such
colony. | consulted with the presi
dents of our two teachers colleges
and with other citizens interested in
this question, and after mature de-
l.. l1A oh
be amended and the colony statred
properly, rather than to start out
wrong as was done at the State Indus
trial School fifteen years ago.
II vetoed House Bill No. 70 Great
ing legislative examiner. This was
simply another of the many bills
that this legislature has undertaken
to pass an endeavors to harass the ad-
ministrative department of the state
government.
eve have in the employ of the
state, men capable of giving the leg
islature every material fact needed
for it's guidance A comparison of
the pro rata costs of the various state
institutions over the past several
years, does not justify the action of
the legislature in making inadequate
appropriations for these institutions.
Every one of them has had an in
crease in population. Cost of sup
plies have increased. The buildings
have grown older. Repairs and re-
placements are necessary. Much ma
chinery and equipment are worn out
This bill was a political bill, pure and
simple, and an unwarranted trespass
by the legislature on the admins
trative branch Of the state govern
ment.
''I vetoed the general appropriation
bill because of it's inadequate appro-
priations for nearly every state insti-
tuition and many of the departments
of state; and because it bristles with
unfairness and discrimination against
the executive department and the de-
partments over which | have any di-
rection.
II vetoed House Bill No. 127 because
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