Tombstone daily epitaph., 1889-09-19

our readers as a matter of news. We do not concur With our contemporary as to its deductions, because we con sider that the opinion on which they are based was obtained on d misrcpne- sentation of facts as to the time of convcning of the Fifteenth legislature. The clipping is given merely tO show that other people are beginning to ap | preciaie the far reaching consequences | oi tine attempt to overturn the c"nven- ton act on tcchnicality several | weeks since the DAIY ErITArH called | attention to the disastrous cOn,c- yuences that would cnsue should the conspiracy of Wolncy, Churchill and Johnson succeed, and we are pleased L. see that al least one oi the ahier opponents oi the statehood movement is showing an appreciation of the evils sought ;o he inflicted upon our Terri tory by gang of political yultures whose thirst for office i> unsuitable For no other purpose than Co hold onto office these men would plunge the affairs ot the Territory into almost interminahle confusion. beside which the cost oi d constitutional convention would bc drop in the bucket. But Wolhcy and Churchill must have oi- fee al any cost We appeal ro P.e-.- dent Harrison to remove thi, man W"ney, for i, is evident that he ], cn- ,ircly and ute r. unfit for the position he occup,c,. should he be retained the Republican pa.;yo of Arizona might as well dishand, for any good it VII be able r. accomplish at the poll. uoyt year. Following are the remark, of the Silver Belt:
 | The opinion Of the Attorncy-Gen- cral of the United States declaring yoid the act providing for a convention to frame state constitution, on the | ground that the time when the Fiji teenth Legislature could legally be in session had expired before the act was passed and approved, fl sustained by the courts, opens the way for almost rminahle confusion and complica- ton in the laws of Arizona, since il affects legislation as far back as l>Nl.
 The gist of the Attorney General . opinion is that the date when the leg islatiye assembly Oi Arizona should convene is the first Monday in Jauu- arv. The Eleventh legislature. which met January 3, lSel, passed an act changing the date for the assembling oi subsequent legislatures to the sec ond Monday in January. That act
 however. was not approved until March 9th, two days after the sixty days tJ which legislative sessions are limited had expired. Therefore, the Attorney General holds the law as nugato-y, and the first Monday in January remained the legal date for the commencement of legislative sessions, from which date the sixty consecutive days must be counted.
 The Fourteenth legislature again changed the date for assembling to the third Monday in January, which act is also void on precisely the same grounds. The session of the Four teenth legislature legally expired on the 7th of March, 1887, and the act Council Bill 72) changing the date for the assembling oi the Fifteenth legis- iature and subsequent sessions to the third Monday in January was not ap- proved until March 10th. Conse- quently it Is void, and the first Monday in January is still the date for the con vening of the legislature.
 According to this view, therefore, the Fifteenth legislature should have convened on Monday, the 7th of Jan uary, 1889, and the session expired by limitation March 7th, and all legisla- ton approved after that date is void
 The effect of this opinion in annulling the convention act Is trivial when its