Arizona republican., 1909-02-03
THE CAUCUS'S
 FIRM GRASP t Holds the Unwilling Demo-
 CratS Together TODAY WILL SEE THE LAST
Of the Public Examiner and the Arizona Ranger Laws When the House Admins ters the Spiteful Coup de Grace to Both.

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 Ii The institution of the Arizona ran gers and the office of public examiners are each hanging by a shread of skin | which will undoubtedly be severed this morning and unless something is done
 to stay the reign of official terror. the ] guillotine will claim it's victims until | the program of the caucus has been | enacted.
 The caucus by the way, was found | to be working more smoothly yester- ! day morning than rumOrs had led the | hopeful pOpulace to expect If there were any hitches they were not wis ! ible to profane eyes. There was some symptom of rebellion in the privacy of the committee room. For instance, MT Woolf of MarIc0pa believed that his duty to the people of the territory and to the democratic party was more binding than his obligation to the caucus. Other members were also of the opinion that a day of reckoning would come if the office of public ex- amincr should be abolished. In fact every member of the Maricopa delega- tion felt that way about it except Speaker Webb, and it is stated that eight democrats if left to themselves would vote against this bill.
 But the caucus was inexorable IL told the complaining members that if any felt himself weakening now was the time to turn back-fNresolutiOn to the effect that any member who did so should be considered forever with out the pale. was adopted. This had the effect of holding the dissenters in line and the hellish work proceeded.
 The house had the anti-ranger bill before it. That is, it was in the com mittee on counties and county boun- daries but the southern members who felt that they were being called upon to make a sacrifice declined to act un- til they were sure that the council would do it's duty by the public exam iner bill
 The council rose promptly. Its com- mittee not only reported the bill but amended it nnaking it effective on April 90, whereas it was not originally intended that it should go into effect until the close of the fiscal year, June 30
 In the afternoon the mfasure was AdhtlA up lDA AllleAA lfetossitsA-N A llptllplA by MT. Breen to table was defeated by a party vote, two to nine, MT. Good rich being absent
 Mir Weedin. the author of the bill. rose to a question of personal privi- lege. It was unnecessary to say any thing in favor of the bill for that had been fixed in caucus. But he wanted to advert to a report that Mir. Eos ter, the public examiner had stated that MT Weedin's objection to him was that he had caused Mir Weedin | as a bondsman to dig up $500 for a derelict official The preposterous- | ness of such q statement, said MT | Weedin, would be apparent to all who 1 knew him to be a country newspaper | man. He was now, he said, correcting | an erroneous impression that might l have been made upon his newspaper | confreres at the press table who would ! otherwise probably be disposed to | touch" him for a flyer and thus wipe l out his bank account. He was, he | said, not bondsman for $500 and he | had not been compelled to dig up" | for anybody
 MT. Breen desired to record not only | his vote but his sentiments against | the pending bill. He foresaw in the | course the majority was about to take. | the caucus pallbearers carrying the | corpse of the democratic party The | legislation he denounced as malicious, | but that no doubt. had all been gone | over in the caucus and by his re- marks Mir. Breen said, he was not | adding any new information. The sub l ject was a purely personal one. The | majority had not in mind any benefit | to the public.
 President Hunt desired to say re- | garding his vote that he had been a | member of the legislature that created | the office of public examiner; that the | people of his county had been satisfied ] with the law and with the manner in | which Mir Foster had filled the office. l Whatever his private views might be | now regarding the office he would | bow to the will and wisdom of the ma | jority, meaning thereby the caucus | MT. Hampton questioned the amend l ment which had been made to the bill | putting the law into force on April 30 | The bill passed by the same vote by | which the motion to table had been ! defeated. Messrs. Breen and Day vot- | ing in the negative.
 In this connection. with regard to | the statement made by Mir. weedin | when he rose to question of personal | privilege, MT. Foster afterward said l that he had never stated that the i animus of Mir. Weedin grew out of the | mulcting of him for the shortcoming |