Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-11
HOUSE TELLS
SENATE READY
TO QUIT TODAY
Senate Adds 100000 to
House General ApprOpri-
alton Measure.
PLAY POLITICS
Highway Reorganization
Bill Tinkered to Avoid
Hunts Veto.

PHOENIX, March 10 P)-The hour
for sine die adjournment of the
eighth legislature today found
fast growing casualty list of bills
hair trigger action on the favored
measures and attention centefed
equally on the possibilities of pass
ing the state highway department
reorganization bill and of stopping
the legislative machinery at 5 p. m.
tomorrow.
The solons received their pay
checks for the first four days of
this week and late this afternoon
II representatives of the people
trooped out of the state capitol with
the avowed intention of stopping TO-.
morrow the legislative. machinery
which has been running since the
convening of the special session Jan,
uary 8. The regular 60-day session
started january 10.
Desks IN the two chambers were
cleared of the accumulations of al
most 10 weeks, senators and repre-
sentatives with pet measures in their
hands made frantic, last-minute ap-
peals to the sitting committee of the
house and the rules committee of
the senate for consideration and the
conference committees on the high
ways and appropriation bills debated
long and earnestly.
The house of representatives inv
formed the senate that, so far as it,
was concerned, the session would be
at an end at p. M Friday. The
senate hasn't replied, but it turned
thumbs down on a night session to-
night and left everybody guessing.
The house, on the other hand, got
ambitious and voted for a motion
recessing that body until 1880 p. m
when the third house, the at
attaches-stag their biennial take
off' on the lower chamber. There
after will come the resumption OF
work until what hour no one would
hazard a guess
Out Of the wearisome day, fraught
with uncertainties, chickering's and
in one instance, a physical encounter
at the door to the house chamber,
there emerged two concrete accom-,
plishments. The senate approved Ell
toto the general appropriation bin
as amended by the senate approprIa.
tions committee and dispatched 1T
to the committee on enrolling ane
engrossing for final action tomorrow
The highway department re-or,
ganization bill, providing for the
administration of that department by
a. five~member commission, was the
subject Of a protracted conferences
between conference committees of
the two chambers and late today ie@
was announced that the bill would
come up for final consideration in
both houses tomorrow.
1t was understood that the bill as
it emerged from the senate highway
and bridges committee was used as
the basis for an entirely new biz
and that the Jones, Maricopa, bilA
appropriating $665,000 for the relief.
of the departments creditors hac
been incorporated in it, The Jones
bill yesterday was passed by the
senate and sent to the house. a~
The bill as now written was said
to have been prepared with view
to precluding veto by Governor
Hunt. The governor on numerous
occasions has expressed disapproval
of the provision for the five com.
missioners and it was said informally
that clause requiring confirmation
of the governors appointees to the
commission had been retained in
the bill in the joint conference com,
mittee meeting.
Another move to make peace with
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