Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1910-11-13


into the committee of the whole with
Mr. Osborn in the chair. The first
thing on the calendar was the sub
stitute for proposition 50 providing
for a complete judiciary system.
The proceedings were begun with a
motion by Mr. Cunniff for a post
ponement of the consideration of 1t
until Monday Most of the men,
bers, he said, were not familiar with
it and as ii was a necessarily COM
plicated measure it was desirable
that members be given an opportun-
| ity to study it.
Mr.. Cunningham, chairman of the
| judiciary committee who has been
trying to prod the convention into
excessive activity for the last week,
said that il was now four days since
the substitute had been reported and
he believed that if it had not been
for the fair, members might have
acquainted themselves with it's pro-
visions
Judge Doe believed that further
time should be given. He and the
other members of the committee, he
| believed, understood it but evidently
many of the members did not 1t
was proposed in the measure to rev.
olutionize the judicial system of Ari-
zona and he believed that the sub
! ject = was of sufficient Importance
to merit some contemplation.
Mr. Franklin opposed the motion
to postpone. He did not believe that
the committee should take decisive
action at this sitting but he knew
of no better way for the members
to become familiar with the proposed
system than by a discussion of it.
Mr.. Cunningham still insisted that
the need of long discussion was i'm
aginary. 1t was no new and untried
thing that had been proposed. The
system was taken in part from the
! long established system of Washing
ton and in part from California.
! Finally the motion to postpone
went to a vote and was carried, "a
to 20.
Abolition of Fee System
Next in order was proposition 61
as it had been amended by the leg
islative committee. This measure re-
lated to the compensation of county
and state officers and provided that
all should receive fixed salaries
| though sheriffs should retain such
] fees as they received for their serv-
ices in civil cases. The committee
amendment did not alter the propO-
sition materially 1t cut out what
seemed to be purely legislative mat
ter. Objection was raised to allow
ing sheriffs any fees at all and thai
was eventually eliminated
Mr.. Ingraham feared that it would
be interpreted to mean that notarie.
public and school trustees should
receive salaries in lieu of such fee.
as they now receive. Mr.. Short re-
piled that he had been a school trus-
tee for many years and he wondered
if he had missed anything He haC
never received fees and he had no
heard before that it was possibl,
for a trustee to get fees.
Judge Baker threw some light OF
| this discussion by his definition o.
county and state officers as officer.
whose jurisdiction was co-extensiv,
with the county or the state. No.
taries public and school trustee:
We're therefore not county or stat,
officers.
Mr.. Orme offered an amendment
putting justices of the peace anC
constables on salary basis. Mr.
Ingraham offered an amendmen
leaving fees to precinct officers il
precincts having a population of les
than 400.
Mr.. Kingan offered a substitute il
twenty words which il was though
would cover all the ground desired
But one amendment after anothe
was offered to it until it was bull
4 up to the original unwieldy proper
tions. Mr. Franklin offered one es
sential amendment which was read
lily accepted, to prevent legislature
from grating a fee system, as the.
could have done under the origina
bill
Two propositions then came vi
which had been marked by the ex
ecutive committee for indefinite post
ponement. They related to state an,
county officers. Final action wa
not taken on the report but ii wa
reserved to be taken up in connec
ton with substitute proposition
which deals more fully with this sub
ject.