Weekly journal-miner., 1909-12-29
MORE FEATURES IF STATEHOOD BILL
 BROUGHT OUT
Delegates May Receive 6ODayS Pay For New
 Constitution


 ably never see a copy of the pending statehood bill. Comparatively few who will see it will take the time to read it. For these two large class es of citizens Rev. James E. Crutch- field of Phoenix presiding elder of the Methodist Episcopal Church South of the Arizona district, has prepared the following analysis of the bill which embraces in concise form the most essential features of the meas ure:
 "'The bill recommends that a con stitutional convention of ffty-two del egates be elected by all who are now qualified voters within ninety days after the passage of this bill. The delegates are to be apportioned among the counties in proportion to the mum Der of votes east at the last congress ional election. Their election shall be in accordance with the regular elec- ton laws of Arizona. The delegates shall meet in the hall of the House of Representatives on the fourth Mon day after they are elected and after adopting the constitution of the Unit ed States, shall frame constitution and submit it to the voters.
 
 "The following restrictions are named: The constitution must guar antee tolerance in religious worship; must prohibit polygamy and the sale of intoxicating liquor to Indians. or its introduction into Indian country. It must waive all right to tax Indian or government lands, and must agree to tax all property owners alike. whether they live in or out of the state. It must assume all of the debts of this territory, and provide for good public school system. No law must be allowed that will abridge any person $ right to vote because of his race, color or previous condition of servitude, and no man may be elected to an office who cannot speak and read our language well enough to conduct the business of his office without an interpreter.
 "The capital must remain at Phoe- nix until 1915. The privilege granted the United States by the act of June r. 1902, touching the reclamation ser vice, shall not be interfered with.
 "Four sections of land from every township must be reserved for school land; 100000 acres for the state uni versity; 9O.OOO acres for legislative, executive and judicial buildings; 10O.- OOO for insane asylums: 100000 for penitentiaries; 100000 for asylums for deaf. dumb and blind; 5OOO0 acres for miners hospital; 2OO,OOO acres for normal schools; 100000 acres for state charitable, penal and rcforma- tory institutions; l05.O0O acres for an agricultural and mechanical college; 100000 acres for a school of mines; 100000 acres for military institute; 6OO,O0O acres for public irrigation and improvement of rivers; 3.300,00O acres to go to pay the territorial debts, of which. if there remains any after the debts are paid, is to go to the permanent school fund. The schools supported by state funds must always remain non-sectarian.
 "None of the public school land must be sold for less than s per acre. and none in irrigation districts for less than $25 per acre. No case now on appeal from the supreme court of this territory and no homestead entry or desert claim will be affected by the change to statehood or the adoption of the constitution.
 "The ffty-two delegates may re- ceive pay for sixty days, and $1OO,OOO is appropriated for this, and the cost of the elections. The people may vote for or against the constitution as a whole or any separate provision of it. If rejected, the delegates must assemble and frame another. When adopted and approved by the Presi- dent, an election of full state off, cers shall follow, and the legislators, when assembled, shall elect two state senators, and the present territorial government shall eease.''