Arizona republican., 1909-03-06
Fatal Error Corrected In the
 Nick of Time SEGREGATION BILL PASSED
A Day of Feverish Anxiety Among Majority of Mem bers Who Were Within Twenty-Four Hours of End of Their Period of Grace.

The astounding discovery was made by the democratic leaders of lthe legislature yesterday morning that the educational qualifications bill, which had been passed over the governors veto three days be- fore was not yet law, was a worth less bit of paper, made more worth less by the writing which had been inscribed thereon; but, that if it had little more writing thereon it would be a law.
 | In short, the bill as returned to the governor after it's passage, his ob- jections to the contrary notwith- standing, lacked the certification to that effect required by Section S4, Title l, Chapter of the Bill of | Rights.
 "Ah, then there was hurrying to and fro and many a silent signal of distress" The council suspended business immediately after the read ing of the minutes which by the way were only considered read, and went into a caucus.
 There was no time to be lost. The defective bill, one of the most cher iShed of the caucus measures, could not be recalled without the consent of the governor. who it was under stood would not give it.
 There was nothing to do but pass another bill, and the legislature had not until Christmas to do it, for the legislature was brought to the very door of the fatal ten day pe- riod of legislative helplessness. I copy of the bill was hastily pre-
 
 pears, and after twelve o'clock it was introduced. The third reading of it disclosed the omission of a was met by the objection of MT. l Breen that that was illegally in formal. The bill was referred to the | judiciary committee and returned. | The reading was resumed at the be- | ginning, but a little farther along | two more errors were unearthed, and | the bill was referred again. Again it was referred and again corrected, l after which, at half past one o'clock, | it went without further interruption | to final passage, over the votes of | the two republican members and | was sent to the house.
 The manner in which the demo- crats discovered the fatal error is | only vaguely related, but 1t is un- derstood that the democratic leaders | observed prominent republicans l shaking hands with each other and | themselves and at length a connec- tion was established between these signs of jubilation and the qualifica- tions bill.
 The new bill was sent to the as- sembly at two o'clock. It was hur- ried through as expeditiously as the | suspension of the rules would per init and then it was signed by the speaker and the president; the pro- per authentication was endorsed upon | it and a special committee of eX- pert penmen was appointed to see | that the "ts" were all crossed and | the '1's" dotted in conformity to | Section s4, Title I, Chapter of the | Bill of Rights.
 The Examiner.
 The democrats are at sea in ths | matter of legislation to replace the l vacancy caused by the abolition of | the office of public examiner. It was thought that when the other day, the district examiner bill was | brought in that would be the mea- sure agreed upon. But the council l in the committee of the whole yes- terday afternoon appeared to have | dropped that bill and to have re- l cured to the Weedin county exam iner bill which was supposed to | have perished. Recommendations were made for its amendment. One | proposes an increase of the pay of | the examiners from $5 to $10 a day, | and the other, that the time allowed | them for the examination of offices | be increased from three to ten days. | In the house MT. Bourne carried out a threat that he made last Sun day on his return from Pinal county where he felt the pulse of his con- stituents. He introduced a bill in the. house for the re-establishment | of the office of public examiner. It is said that this bill may pass the house, but there is hardly a possi bility that it would go through the council.
 Nobody ever saw such a nervous, restless legislature as the twenty fifth has become. It was feverish yesterday. There was so much to do and so little time to do it. Bills were rushed through the house without a semblance of considera- ton. The main idea seems to have been to dump them into the gover- nor's office before the beginning of the last ten days. Some of the bills it was known would not meet with the displeasure of the governor, but