Arizona republican., 1891-03-12
AN INFAMOUS MEASuRE.


 Should the apportionment bill passed by both Houses last Friday, become a law, the Sixteenth will pass into history aS the "Dsfranchising Sixteenth" As TIE REPUBLICAN has before expressed it, ii Mir. Baldwin had laid awake nights fer year studying up some unjust scheme of apportionment he could not have presented one more unfair than the bill passed.
 As to the Council, it places the con trcl of that body absolutely at the dic- tation of four counties. But each county in the district is to have Coun- cilman," will say the supporters of the measure. Granted that they will, let us see how utterly at the mercy of the large counties the smaller ones are. fake the first district, composed of the counties of Mohave, Yuma and Maricora. The two first named have a combined population of 4l15, while Maricopa has ,9S6. Is any one so foolish as to pre- lend that Maricopa will not absolutely control the nominations of all parties in their respective conventions? Even if this were not 80, by her superior vote she can dictate with ease who shall be elected from the smaller counties in ad- 3ition to her own Councilman. Ia the second district, composed of IaVapai, Coconino and Apache, it would be the same, Yavapai county holding absolute sway. Apache county has 42Sl inhab- itants, Coconino, reckoning on the basis of the vote cast, has 2342, and the present Yavapai 6343, so that Yayapai could dictate the nominations and cleo tions. So it would be again in the third district, composed of Pinal, Gila and Graham, the latter holding sway.
 Then in the fourth district Cochise county would be practically without representation in the Council. Pima county, with her 12,673 inhabitants, would so overtop Cochise, with her 693S, in voting power that the latter would be practically without a voice. Even should Pima be liberal and allow C'ochise one Councilman, Pima would l ty her greater strength still control the other two. But she would net stop there. Maricopa, Yavapai and Graham, as the populous and powerful counties in the other districts, each controlling the three Councilmen from their re- spectivo districts, Pima. as the powerful county in her district, would want to do the same thng--and she would, too and these four counties would say who should constitute the Council.
 The House apportionment is equally unjust under this bill. Apache county, with 428l inhabitants is given two representatives and Gila with only 202l inha bitants is likewise gwen two, while Pinal county with 425l inhabitants, only 50 less than Apache, and more than twice as many as Gila, is given but one representative. Could anything more unjust be devised? Coconino has over 300 more inhabitants thap.siiLsss and lfyufna $50 more, yet G,,congiio and EiFansa wi But aaU repssssint ss each |ispd tails twosssAg Again sayspsi with ,i343 inhabitants is given four repre- sentatives and Pima with l2,673, more than twice as many, is also given but four. In other words, it takes two of Pima county's citizens to equal one of Yavapai's, and it takes four oi Pinal county's citizens and two of Apache's, Yuma's and Coconino's to equal one of Gila's. One may well exclaim, "What doth this, our Gila and Yavapai coun- ties, feed upon that makes them 80 superior"
 Again, Cocbise county, with 693S in- habitants, is allotted but three represen- tatives, while Yavapai, with 800 less population, gets four. Maricora, with I0,0S6 inhabitants, nearly twice as many as Yavapai, also gets but four represen- tatives, yet as many as Pima gets with her 12,673 inhabitants.
 No one questions the injustice of the present apportionment of the House, by which Cochise and Yavapai counties have five representatives each and Mari copa, with greater population than either, has but two, and Graham, with only l250 less population than Cochise, has but one. All admit this unfairness outside of any political consideration. But the new bill just passed is even more unfair, It says to the people of part oi the counties that they are of but one-half and even of but one-fourth the importance and value of the citizens of other portions of the Territory, when all know such is not the case. No man would dare go before the people and at temrt to declare that the miner of Yayspai county was equal to two of the miners of Pima county, or that one miner or cattleman of Gila county was the equal of four of bis neighbors just over ir Pinal county.
 The measure is infamous, and how any intelligent body of men could be led by demagogues into supporting it IS past comprehension.
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 IN 1890 there were ,522, ,731 tons of suyar copaumad in this country or q hout