Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-10-15
ARIZONA CONVENTION
MEANS BUSINESS
1t is Ready With Preamble During Its
First Week and is Already Fully
Organized.

Organized.
Phoenix, Ariz., Oct. 15.-The pre-
amble of the constitution has been
introduced. After today propositions
will be submitted under proper order
of business and Monday the actual
work of drafting the constitution will
begin.
The committee on rules report, sub
mitted was considered today.
The convention will meet hereafter
at 8 o'clock a. m. and no proposition
shall become part of the constitution
without a yea and nay vote, Every
member may be heard on one ques
ton
Good headway is being made in
Arizona's constitutional convention
Actual work of framing the constitu
ton will begin at once, the standing
committees having been appointed
The rules reported by the committee
are elastic and liberal and allow the
fullest opportunity for expression OF
opinion and amendment of provisions
on the floor of the convention.
Public hearings will be announced
by the chairmen of the important com
mittees next week. The committee
on legislative is very progressive, en-
suring reasonable low percentages for
the initiative and referendum. Winsor
the chairman, is pledged to the Ore
gon plan, but favors higher percents
Prediction may be ventured that the
requirement for the initiative will moi
be over 15 per cent, possibly about /;
per cent; for recall Is to 20 per cent
A verbatim report of the proceed
ings including debates will be print
ed each day.
1t is going to cost about $3,500 tc
report the proceedings. There were
three bids submitted. w. D. O'Nei
put in one for $4,000 and a delegate
asked him if he wanted to buy the
capitol building, or was he goine
abroad for eight or ten years. There
was another bid of almost as much
from W. M Tiffany of Los Angeles
but the bid of J. A. Larrabbee of Tue
son, was recommended by Winsor anC
finally accepted. 1t will cost the con
vention $25 day to report it, ant
will require the services of three ex
pert reporters, and at times three
more operators.
The convention delegates are JUS
beginning to realize that they have {
lady page. for Miss Ethel Ming Of
Phoenix, who was appointed to thai
position, remained rather in the back
ground till yesterday. The reason
was that there wasn't any place to si
and she wasn't going to sit on the
platform like the other pages Ever
If she. wanted to sit on the platform
the delegates would be far too gallan
to permit it. But yesterday they pro
vided Miss Ming with an arm chair
placed on the platform close to the
presidents desk. She sat there II
state through the session with the
two small boy pages sitting on the
floor at her feet Miss Ming ex
planned how she happened to become
a page.
You see, l applied for a clerkship,
she confided, 'and I was terribly dis
appointed when they told me thai
Maricopa couldn't have a single one
There wasn't anything left but jot
as page and | said in minute
would take it. I didn't think there
was anything SO unusual about il
till the newspaper men told me / was
the only woman page of any consti
tutional convention. but I know they
have them at some legislatures. One
man sent out the report to eastern
papers that society girls were so in
terested in the doings of the conven
ton that there was a crush for the
position of pages. There isn't any
sentiment about it-I just want the
per diem of S., and l think can dc
the work just as we'll as the boys
don't you?''
The newspaper man fastened to as
sure her that he was quite sure she
would do the work just as well and
beside that would be an ornament tc
the convention.
Il almost had palpitation," she con
tinued, when that man from Yuma
proposed an abbreviation in our sal
aries, and Mr.. Goldwater objected be
cause the pages get more money thar
the delegates. He should remember
that the delegates will get big chunks
of honor and sprinkling of mileage
They haven't quite got used to me
yet, and Mr.. Hunt has only just dis
covered that / am page. He asked
me to take some dictation and said
/ am not that kind of an attache.
He laughed and said: What are you
anyway / replied: I am a page.
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