The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1910-01-06

The Hamilton S Ill
which will no douS ~
Eouse of RepresentativesWery
shortly, seems to be quite salts
factory in its terms to the PEG
pie of the territory. We have
heard of objection from nobody
The bill in fact follows so closely
the language of the various bills
which have been reported in
congress heretofore that it con.
tains few features that are new;
heuce there has been no occasion
for objection. And in truth the
people are far more interested
in the apparent certainty of
statehood itself than they are in
the terms of the enabling act.
The one important departure
in the pending bill from former
measures is the provision for an
election on the constitution sep
arately from the election of state
officers. The people are to say
first if the product of the con-
stitutional convention suits them,
and If they approve the consti-
tuition, the election of state Off
GERS will follow thereafter.
Assuming that the bill will be-
come a law before mid summer,
Arizona will become a state
about Christmas of next year.
The election for ratification or
rejection of the constitution will
be held on the nrst Tuesday
after the first Monday of No
vember next-November s, 1910.
On the third Monday after the
election November %, 1910, the
governor, tine chief justice, and
the secretary of the interior will
meet as yassing board and
canvass the returns of the con-
stitutional election. Upon find
lug that a majority of the legal
votes cast were for the cOnStitu-
ton, the canvassing board will
certify the fact to the President
of the United States. The can.
wasting should be completed in
one day, of course, and on the
18th of November the certificate
will be forwarded to Washing
ton. The president should re-
ceive it December 5. Within
twenty days after the receipt Of |
the papers from the canvassing
board the president, if he finds
that the provisions of the ena-
bling act have been complied
with, must tissue his proclama-
lion announcing the result of the
proceedings of this act, and
thereupon the proposed State of
Arizona shall be deemed admit
ted by congress into the union
under and by virtue of this act
On an equal footing with the orr
yinal states" The twenty days
HSnfd be up on Christmas.
Under the provisions of the
bill, however, it will be a state
without elected state officers and
without United States senators.
These come a(short time later.
That is,(The constitutional con-
IGNITION itself must provide for
IAN election of officers for full
state government, including a
governor, members of the legis-
ature, one representative in
and such county and
other officers" as the constitu-
ion may prescribe, to be held
lot less than ninety nor more
han one hundred aad twenty
lays after the election for ratifi-
,ation or rejection of the consti-
,ution. If the state election be
leld ninety days after November
;. 1910, it will be on the nearest
Tuesday after February 8, 1911,
presumably. In the interim be-
tween the constitutional election
If next November and the state
election in February, the terri
,orial officers and the delegate to
will continue to serve. {
The bill seems to be silent as {
o whether the present county S
,fficers will hold over. 1t may /
become necessary to legally con- s
true the meaning of territorial l