Bisbee daily review., 1908-10-31
CoChiSc County and Territorial News
K|BBEYS ATTEMPT AT POLITICAL BUNCO
 CLEARLY EXPOSED BY THOS. WEED|N

i, herewith present substitute for all of | same and respectfully recommend that the substitute pass.
 J. F. Cleveland, Chairman. (See page 19S Journals
 of 24th Legislature,
 The substitute biil was then placed on final passage and passed by the following vote: Ayes, Blakley. Cleve. land, Dickerman, Hogue, Hunt, Locket, Mcintyre, Roemer, Scott, Weedin, Mir. Prasident-H. Nay. o'Neil--l. See page 2O3 Journals 24th Legislature.l
 The bill was then sent to the house and the governor and his force made every possible effort to defeat it. They went so far as to have the chairman of the committe on mines and mining, in the house, hide the bill out and motion 10 expell hIm from the legislature had to be made to induce him to produce the bill, Seven members of the house, led by Mir Guild, resorted to all kinds of filibustering tactics TO defeat the bill for the governor, but it was finally forced to a final oassage and passed by the following vote: Ayes, Bail Burke. Coleman, Davidson. Grossetta, Hampton, Hull, krook. Martin Mccormick. Morgan of Pima, Morgan of Navajo, Murphy, Pace, Slaughter Whiteside, MT. Speaker-17. Nays; Bell, Bunch, Grenshaw, Day, Guild. Wallace, Williams. (See page 213 Journal of House, 24th Legislature.)
 Gov. Kibbey signed the bill because he knew 1t would be passed over his veto. After the law went into oper- ation and had increased the assess ment on mines oyer $6,000,00O the governor had the creek to claim he had passed the bill. This was too much even for the Phoenix Repubh- can, the leading republican paper of Arizona, and 1t went after the gov enor in a two-column editorial, a DOT tion of which we herewith quote:
 Later in the session there was substituted, not at the suggestion or the governor but against his opposi. tion, '25 per cent for'20 per cent. That was readily acquiesed in by the friends of the bill as well by the re- presentatives of he mining compan- les. No other change of importance was suggested or 2ade. This was the so-called substitute which the administration writer seeks to con yey was the product of the governors 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 se- qHestered 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 Mir. Guild of Pinal. the governors spokesman in this legislation voting against it and supporting all preTous dilatory tao tics.
 This is a statement of the circum- stances attending the passage of the amendment bill which the administra- tion writer will not question over his signature. It is 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