Douglas Daily Dispatch

APPROPRIATION ACT FAILS TO PLEASE HUNT

Lee's Ferry Bridge Bill Also Frowned On By Chief Executive.

CZAR ATTITUDE

Non-Partisan Primary Elections Bill Also Fails of Passage.

PHOENIX, March 1 (AP)—The shadow of the executive veto again fell across both the senate and house of the eighth legislature today when Governor Hunt made it known that he was displeased with the general appropriation bill introduced in the house yesterday and with the Runke, Coconino, Lee's Ferry bridge bill, passed and sent to his desk for signature. Intimation that a special session might be called if agreement was not reached on the provisions of the appropriation bill—which reduced by some $2,000,000 the total amount carried by the governor's biennial budget—was made at the governor's office, and the chief executive himself sent to the senate a letter to the effect that he "may of necessity be forced to veto the bridge bill."

It would be, he said, an unbusiness-like and uneconomic thing, to sign the bridge bill in view of the assertion of W. C. Lefebvre, state engineer, that it would cost $368,000 to build a fireproof bridge across the Colorado river at or near Lee's Ferry. The Runke bill appropriates $130,000 to defray approximately half the cost of a bridge at that point, the federal government having already appropriated the other half.

Faced with a 3 or 4 day session with the appropriation bill alone, both houses jogged along at a steady pace today, passing on the merits of seventeen measures on final reading. Fifteen of the seventeen were passed, and two of the fifteen were prepared for the governor's signature, having been approved by the law makers of both houses. One of the two bills defeated on third reading was that by Senator Favour, of Yavapai, proposing to place in the hands of the state law and reference librarian all "patronage" appointments. The librarian also would have fixed the attaches' salary.

Senator Colter of Apache, was incensed. "Why," he exclaimed, "you might just as well have the librarian appoint the members of the senate and house and pass a bill such as this."

Senator Sutter, Cochise, was quite agreed. "I move you, Mr. President," he said, "that the bill be amended to include a provision for appointment of the legislature by the librarian."

Senator Kimball, Graham wagged his head doubtfully. "I don't know of anybody that could be worse than this one," he opined.

The other bill failing of passage was that by Representative Wisener, Yuma, providing for non-partisan primary elections which Representative Norvell, republican, Maricopa, characterized as a "direct attempt to disfranchise all the republican voters."

True to its sentiment of yesterday, the house passed the Hannon, Greenlee, bill providing for the submission to the state's electorate at the next general election of the question:

Whether congress should modify the Volstead act to enforce the eighteenth amendment to the constitution, "to the end that said enforcement act shall not prohibit the manufacture, sale, transportation, importation and exportation by the federal government * * * of beverages which are not in fact intoxicating as determined in accordance with and by virtue of the laws of the respective states of the union."

The Akers, Maricopa, bill, regulating the hours of women in industry, was passed by the senate by a vote of 18 to 2, Senators Kinney of Gila,

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Appropriation Act Fails to Please Hunt

and Wills of Pinal, voting negatively on the roll call. The measure proposes to limit the working hours of women to eight for a six day week, excepting only women employed as telephone and telegraph operators in small offices and women engaged in the fruit and vegetable canning industries.

Other bills passed were:

By the house:

By the house committee on education amending the school law to provide for the registration of electors; by Senator Donnelly, designed to cure a constitutional defect in the "Tucson zoning bill," enacted by the seventh legislature; by the house committee on education, twin bills pertaining to the election of members of high school boards; by Representative Boville, Yavapai, amending the state banking code; by Representative Abell, Cochise, validating Tombstone city bonds; and by Representative Peters, Pima, amending the livestock sanitary act.

By the senate:

By Senator Kimball, Graham, amending the law governing the organization of irrigation districts; by Senator Akers, Maricopa, accepting an endowment from the federal government for the University of Arizona agricultural college; by Senator Colter regulating tuberculosis hospitals and sanitariums; by Senator Donnelly, permitting union high school districts to establish junior college; and by Representative Nor—