Bisbee daily review., 1907-01-04
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Assemblyman Bell Is Preparing a Memorial to Congress Praying That Arizona May Elect Territorial Officers,
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Special to Reylew3


 PHOENIX. Jan. 3.--W. D. Bell, mem Der os the 24th Assembly from Mari copa county, wants to see Arizona elect it's public officials, and enjoy all the privileges that statehood would bring with the exception of two United States senators and representatives in the house,
 To get the matter before the people of Arizona Bell has written a bill which, if IL meets with approval, he will introduce in the lower hoase. In an interview at Phoenix he made his position clear, giving out the bill he has written. He said:
 ! '1 have a tentative plan that it seems to me will give the people of Arizona all of the benefits of singie statehood, with the exception of rep resentation in the senate and house Of representatives of the United States. and I would like to submit it to the public foi adverse or favorable cliti- cisms
 "To the Senate and House of Rep resentstives of the United. States. in Congress assembled:
 Your memorialists, the legislative assembly of the Territory of Arizona. respectfully represent:
 That the United States government is on the eve of granting full terri torial rights to the people of Pcrto Rico and the Philippine Islands; that the people Of Arizona are free-born American citizens, whose forefatheTs laid the foundations of the American republic. gathered together from all parts or the United States, and are pfe-emihently able to conduct a gov eTnment along American lines; being in this particular infinitely superior in intelligence and political sagacity to the people of the Philippine IslanHs and Porto Rico
 That the people Of Arizona have for many years looked forward to the time when Arizona would come into the pnion as g sovereign state. be- lieving that the promise of single statehood is implied hy the organic act and was actually made in words by President Lincoln at the time of the creation c9 the territorial lines, to take effect when Arizona should have a population of 60,000; that not withstanding the fact that your bonor- able bodies have denied this right to our people for three successive con. gresses they still think that they are entitled to independent autouomv and will never consent to the loss of their right Of local government. or to the merging of Arizona with any other state or territory.
 That in view of the fact that your honorable bodies seem to be in a mood antagonistic to the just claims of the people of this territory and not inclined to grant Arizona single state hood at this session of congress, there fore be it
 Resolved. by the legislative assem- bly of Arizona, that your honorable bodies are hereby requested to change the organic act ceIatiAg 10 the con- duct of territorial governments in such 2 rnanner as to permit the people of Arizona to elect all of the territorial officers, now created and hereafter to Fe created by the legislative assem- ply of Said trritorrz including the governor. all of the district judges, the secretary of state, the auditor, the tres surer. the attorney peuerai. the public examiner, the citizen member of the board of control, and any and all officers of a territorial character, re- serving the right to the board of con trol to appoint the head of the peni- tentiary, the asylum, the university, the normal schools, the reformatory, the territorial board of equalization and such other boards as are of ter ritorial nature: and be 1t luther
 Resolved that your honorable bod les arc further requested to segregate the courts of this territory to the ex- tent of giving the chief justice. who shall be appointed by the United States. jurisdiction in all federal mat ters and giving the district judges ju- risdiction in all territorial matters; 1t being understood that the supreme court reTnain as now eslah'isaed. but that the chief f'sstice does ot si. as la district judge"
 h case that there should arise op position to this plan, either st home or at Washington. because the federal government has not sufficient su1er- vision over tho territory under this