Arizona state miner., 1927-03-05

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| five years.
| Ii the state solons decide to quit on
the road program, it would mean the
rapid deterioration of existing roads,
/ a halt on all highway construction
and coupled with that the throwing
out of employment of several hundred
men This fact is readily recognized
| by most of the legislators, yet how
| to solve the problem Of good roads
without hlttlng the pocketbook Of the
| individual is as much of a riddle as it
was at the opening of the session
| In the meantime creators of the
department are clamoring for pay
ment of bills long overdue. A sep
arate bill has been introduced appro
priating $665, 900 to meet the alleged
deficit Another bill has been intro
duced deferring payment until August
Is. 1t is presumed that this DILL shows
some Of the fine writing of the Co.
chise Taxpayers association, for it is
couched in pracucally the same lang
uage as the associations protest to the
highway commission bill.
The Appropriation Bill
The long withheld appropriation bill
was expected to put in a belated ap-
pearance this week. Many of the
items appearing in ,ne budget are
slashed.
Equal of Will Rogers
Francis of Maricopa is getting
rep as the Will Rogers of the house.
He has introduced unl demanding
that all highway bills be in by August
Is, and declaring that any entered af-
ter that date shall be null and void.
Up on His Ear
1t takes Senator Kimball to call
spade a spade, especially when said
spade is black 81 may be nothing
more than an old farmer" he told
the senate the other day, "but it seems
to me that Things have reached a
pretty pass when only such as | have
to come down to the legislature and
fight these. corporation lawyers to get
decent bank legislation" r\imball was
speaking in favor of his bill which
would require banks to pay taxes
on their realty holdings as we'll as
their capital stock. He was opposed
by Favour of Yavapai and Sutter Of
Cochise on the grounds that the bill
would impose double taxation.
sKimbaH disagreed, and shook in the
face of the senators a document pur-.
porting to, show that one certain bank
not more than thousand miles from
Phoenix had an assessed valuation of
more tnen million dollars on which,
under the present law, they were pay
ing taxes on basis of l.alf million.
Kimball's bill went to the slaughter
house on the grounds that it was too
radical. This action was taken de-
spite the pointed question of. Bettwy,
who wanted to know if Favour was
taking orders from his banker clients
or from the people Of 1avapai. ''Is
that intended for sarcasm or an in
sult?" asked Favour, but Bettwy was
content to let the senators guess.
Sweeping Change
Taking the pollulcs out of all county
and municipal elections seems to be
the aimed d-for effect of the Wisener
primary election bill passed by the
house. It provides mat the names of
all candidates be prin .e.. on lie BAL
lots of both parties. Norviel, Repub-
lican from Maricopa charged that the
effect would be to eliminate the Re
publicans and that they would stay
away from the polls. Despite his ap-
prehension the bill was passed
Special Barred
There won't be a special session of
the legislature either following the
regular session or next fall, for the
simple reason tnat Governor Hunt
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en- out by those who have interviewed
the governor about the code re-
vision. AS a result the code will likely
be turned over to law publishing
concern with the idea of completing
the work of Judge Fred c. Struck
meyer, named code commissioner un-
der bill passed by the seventh leg
islature The publishing concern will
put the work in the form of bills, each
one of which must be passed by the
legislature before it becomes a law.
When the code commissioner bill
was passed two years ago it was thOt
this time The apparent aim on the
part of lawyers in the legislature to
string the work on for another two
years has evidently got the goat of
the governor. At. any rate he is
said to be dead set against the spec
ial session idea, no matter how bad
ly the revised code may be needed.
Drastrc Provisions
Two Of Winsor's purity in election
bills have passed safely through the
shoals of house amendment. One pro-
hibits public officers or employees from
contributing to political campaigns.
The other prohibits the hiring of cam
paign workers or automobiles. The
first is intended to break up the state
highway and other political machines.
THE second is aimed to contravent the
alleged practice of buying elections
through a process of indirect bribery.
Violators Of either law would be
deemed guilty of felony and are pun
ishable by heavy fines and imprison-
ment.
Harmon of Greenlee voted against
the second bill on the grounds that