Arizona state miner., 1927-03-05

overlooked which viii prevent this
bill sharing the fate of numerous bills
now held in committees, which will
never be brought out. The kilograms
from the board of supervisors Offering
the necessary site, were placed before
the house and senate by Senator Kim
ball and Representatives Williams
The Girls School
The bill authorizing an expenditure
of 100000 passed by the legislature
was signed by Governor Hunt last
week and will become law and the
money available in 80 days.
The bill authorizes the Board of
Public Institutions to select the site
and this selection will be made prior
to July 1st. In the meantime, a rep
resentative of the board will inspect
the various sites offered and will if
necessary make such suggestions as
are deemed advisable. 1t is probable
that other counties will bid for this
school and Governor Hunt has al
Maricopa county location, on account
of it being the county from which
most of the students come There
are other facts to be considered, how
ever, and these will be laid before the
board shortly after the adjournment of
the legislature. In the meantime,
there is nothing to be done except
"sit tight
Closing Days of Session
The remaining few days of the ses-
sion will witness numerous trades
and e-alignments and tie breaking
up of numerous factions within fac
tions. All of the members have pet
measures which they are very anx-
ious to have acted upon to enable
them to make good with the folks
at home. These trades and deals are
sure to have some effect upon the
fate Of the major bills which go thru
The lObbieS are already crowded with
people from all walks of life, inter
ested to a greater or lesser extent
in various bills now buried in commit
tee rooms. An eleventh hour effort
to have their favorite bills dug out
and headed for action will be made
by hundreds of people, many of. whom
are bound to be- disappointed as the
senate has adopted rule which per-
AAA1Co -ct h1AOWIt dS .IIlS sill
ing committee. to- designate the bills
which will receive consideration and
such bills are. the only ones which
will be brought. to light.
PHOENIX-With the Cochise Coun-
ty Taxpayers association on the one
side, and the wishes of the Hunt ad-1
ministration on the other, there is
strong probability at the hour this is
written that there will be material
changes in the Highway bill as passed
by the House before it finds it's way
to the Governors office.
The highway commission bill, car
rying with it plenty of financing from
a variety of sources, including a doub-
ling OF the straight road levy and an
Increase of one cent in the gasoline
tax passed the house by a vote of 46
to 6, but struck snag in the senate
when the powers that be decided to
take a second look at it before final
action.
Proceedings on the bill were halted
when S. P. Applewhite and C. M.
Roberts, president and secretary re
spectively of the Cochise Taxpayers
association made their appearance in
Phoenix last week, with a strong pro-
test against the passage of the bill on
the following grounds:
1. 1t would increase the appropria-
tion for state roads beyond the present
abnity Of the state to pay.
2. 1t would increase the taxes of
Cochise county for road purposes from
$108,00O to $300,000.
3. The counties would be robbed
of their Is per cent road fund
4. The counties share of the gas
oline tax would be cut to three-eights
of the total funds collected from this
source.
5. The bill appropriates $5OO,OOO
toward the payment of an unknown
deficit
All of which would seem to be rea-
sons enough for the Douglas school of
state developers, whose motto is "Cut
taxes at the expense of the roads,
schools or anything else, but cut the
taxes
But the strange part of the situa-
ton is that the highway commission
bill is no more to the liking of Hunts
followers than it is to those of the
copper counties.
Too much of a burden on the tax
payers, is the criticism contained in
an open letter signed by the state en-
gineer, W. G. Lefebvre. The letter
also attempts to puncture the theory
that the appointment of commission
would lift the highway department
out of politics. If the legislature
wants to pass a real highway bill, one
which will not impose a heavy load
on the backs of the taxpayers, let
them turn back in their bill files to
the original highway bill submitted
at the request Of the highway depart
ment, is the engineers suggestion.
That bill, the law makers are re-
minded outlines a comprehensive pro-
gram Of highway development, pro-
viding for an expenditure of $2,000,-
600 a year for five years, said funds