Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1908-08-14

It is not a fact that it was essen
TALLY different from the original Do
ran bill but that it was just such a
bill as President Doran and his as
sociates had proposed to the governor
when he and Attorney General Clark
in a joint meeting of the two houses
were denouncing the original bill as
vicious from beginning TO end" as
unsusceptible of amendment and as
filled with incurable defects. One of
the least of the objections raised by
the governor to the bill was the per
centage of the mine products pro-
posed to be assessed. The original
bill provided for the assessment of
20 per cent That was incidentally
secuted by the governor as being pit
iably small. Mr.. Doran then asked
the opponents of the bill to suggest
4 higher per cent but they refused
to do so at that time because the
bill was bad in form and principle"
Later in the session there was sub
stituted, not at the suggestion of the
governor but against his opposition
"25 per cent for go per cent"
That was readily acquisced in by the
friends of the bill as well as by the
representatives of the mining COM
panies. No other change of impor-
lance was suggested or made. This
was the so-called substitute which
the administration writer seeks to
convey was the product of the gov
ernor's pressure"
on the passage of the bill in the
council. the measure encountered the
opposition of three members who had
stood with the governor against the
original bill. In the house the most
determined opposition to defeat the
bill was made by the remnant of the
governors forces. The bill was Sc
questered by the chairman of the
committee on mines and mining on
the day set for the final vote and
when it was at length returned and
advanced toward a vote it was met
by precisely the same arguments the
governor and the attorney general
had used against the original bill,
seven members, including Mr.. Guild
of Pinal, the governors spokesman in
this legislation voting against it and
supporting all previous dilatory tao
tics.
This is a statement of the circum-
stances attending the passage of the
amended bill which the administra-
ton writer will not question over his
signature. 1t is a statement which
all who are familiar with the facts
will recognize as correct.
The Republican enthusiastically
supported the amended bill which
for the year 1908 according to the
administration writer's own state
ment, made somewhat boastfully, has
raised the assessments of mines to
100000, an increase of about &c.
600, 600 over the assessment of the
preceding year.
But none of these matters are of
current interest or of profitable pos
sibility on the eve of political cam
paign from which the republicans
of the territory had reason to ex-
pect much. They We're easily united
on a candidate-on any strong can
didate, whatever might have been
his former fractional affiliations, sup
posing that he might have been af-
filiated with any faction. The past
was past and there was no
bitterness which could properly de-
scend to the present. Whether or not
Governor Kibbey likes The Republi-
can or whether or not The Repub-
lican likes the governor, is the con-
Germ of nobody but the parties of the
first and second parts.