Arizona republican., 1910-10-27
THE SESSION
UNEVENTFUL
But There Is Runor Of a
LiV|Ier One Today
AND CERTAINLY TOMORROW
Separate Submissionists to
Be Given Hearings in
Committee-Possible Pre-
sentation Today of Initia-
tive and Referendum.
AND CERTAINLY TOMORROW


constitutional convention was held
yesterday 1t was not devoid of prop
ositions A half dozen were submit
ted in the morning and one in the
afternoon, the convention adjourning
for the day after a session Of only.
half an hour.
The only other incident of the aft
ernoon meeting was the reading of a
letter addressed to Delegate Cunning
ham of Coehise county by o. Gibson,
an attorney of Tombstone and a Wen
known prohibition advocate.
Mr.. Gibson presented some sugges-
tions which he said he had received
during a conversation with former
Governor Folk of Missouri. Speaking
of the state of Arizona, Mr.. Folk said
that the governor should be empow-
cred to appoint his own cabinet"
that is, those members of the state
official list with whom he will be
more intimately connected, such as
the attorney general 1t was recon-
mended also that there be a separate
submission of the prohibition and
woman suffrage provisions.
convention today. and there certainly
will be tomorrow. The legislative
committee may report the initiative
and referendum provision, which it
has been constructing out of odds and
ends of individual propositions which
have been committed to it. 1t was
said yesterday, however, that the pro-
vision might not be ready for presen-
tation until tomorrow.
1t was also decided to give the pro-
hibitionists and the equal suffragists
hearings in committee on the question
of the separate submission of those
provisions. 1t was announced yester-
day that the prohibitionists would be
heard tomorrow. No date was sug-
gested by the suffragists as to when
they desired to be heard.
Some of the members of the COM
mittee are already talking of night
sessions, so that the day, like all
Gaul, will be divided into three parts
The morning viii be devoted to the
regular business of the convention;
the afternoon to committee business,
and the night to the committee of the
whole. If that order should prevail,
the downtown theaters will have a
hard time of it while it lasts.
The boundary question was brought
up yesterday and disposed of by the
discovery that it was never really
question Mr. Parsons impaired the
information that California was lay
ing no claim to any territory on this
side of the Colorado river. That was
learned about the time the question
4. fha Snr, I~arn
cisco Chronicle pointed out that
whatever dispute there had been was
settled more than fifteen years ago.
1t was, in fact, settled longer ago
than that AS early as 1874, when
the boundaries of the LosA ngeles
land district were established by con-
gress. which fixed the mid channel
of the Colorado as the western boun-
dary of the district.
However, for some time after that,
California, or the officers of San
Diego county, claimed a strip on this
side of the river and persisted in at
tempts to collect taxes on It,
Among the propositions introduced
yesterday was one by Mr. Ingraham,
bill of rights, in which the confer
ring OF the third degree" on persons
suspected of crime is forbidden. Other
propositions were as follows:
BY Judge Wells: Relating to cor
porations, prohibiting combines, the
purchase of stock of a competing
line, prohibiting discrimination in
rates. and establishing the power of
the state to control the roads.
BY Judge Wells: Property to be
taxed at its cash value; no exemp-
ton of corporations from taxation;
special taxation for local improve
ments to be on the assessment plan;
the limit of Indebtedness to be 4 per
cent, though that limit may be raised
by the vote of two-thirds of the tax
payers; a five per cent limit is al
lowed where public utilities are to be
| installed.
BY Mr. Hutchinson: Relating to the
militia, the legislature to be author
lied to provide for it's equipment
By Mr.. Bradner: Providing that
no fee shall be required of any candi-
date for placing his name on the ball
lot.
| BY Mr. Webb: Prohibiting the con-
solidation of railroads.
BY Mr. Bolan: Relating to con-
tracts and the relations between cor
operations and their employees.