Arizona republican., 1910-11-05

1 extension, but limited the Legislation
 to such matters as are already within their power to legislate on, or to such come matters for local special or mu-
 nicipal legislation. It was evident from MT Cunniffs remarks that he had in mind the segregation of the vote of incorporated towns in local option elections.
 Judge Baker opposed the amend ment as a wasteful expenditure of verbiage. In no case could munich palities, including counties, legislate as to those things which the general laws had not placed within their reach. The amendment designation of these matters. for local legislation, said the judge, was as useless as the writing of the legend, This is a cow ! under a picture of the patient and useful source of the lacteaI supply. Another objection of Judge Baker was the enumeration of cities, towns and counties. whereby there was ex- cluded with the privilege of direct legislation all other districts existing or to be created, such. as school dis tricts or irrigation districts.
 Mir. Cunniff, replying, said that the existing power of cities and towns to legislate was vague and shadowy, and 1 1t was his purpose to define and make plain the cities right of home rule, in which respect his amendment was quite different from that of MT. Webb, which would give to the counties the | utmost power and enable them to con- trol the cities within their boundaries. Judge Baker. in reply, said that this or no other proposed amendment could give to the counties or take away from the towns any right or power not now enjoyed. For instance, in the matter of local option, the county could not prevent a segrega- ton of the vote of towns under any direct legislative proposition unless a general law on that subject invested it with such control of cities. MT. Cassidy, who had concurred in Mir. Cunniffs amendment, said he had not understood 1t as either Mir Cunniff or Judge Baker interpreted It. In his opinion it was designed to cure the vagueness of paragraph and to
 
 should exercise delegated or reserved powers; whether they should exer- else such powers as were specifically granted to them or to exercise all that were not specifically prohibited to them. In the latter case, said MT. Cassidy, if the counties were to leg islate on every forbidden subject, as some of the gentlemen proposed, our state of Arizona would be made up of fourteen little sovereign republics This suggested to MT. Cobb later. as name for the state of Arizona, The United Municipalities of Arizona"
 Recurring to the legend of the COW, MT. Cassidy said that when a paint ing intended by an artist to be that of a COW was so indefinite as to be mistaken by the beholder for some thing else, it would be proper to affix the legend, This is a cow
 In reply, Judge Baker said that an artist of that kind should not be per mitted to make pictures at all-a re- mark that might have been intended for Mir Cunniff or for the author of paragraph of the committee propo- sition.
 In the opinion of MT. Webb, the Cunniff amendment leaves to much to the territory and too little to the -counties, not in consonance with the spirit of direct legislation, which re- serves power to the people.
 At this point MT. Feeney raised a question which was never satisfactor- fly answered in the course of the de- bate: Have the counties the right to legislate?"
 MT. Webb admitted that the counties were without power to legislate, but they had been given power to regu- late.
 At this point MT. Coker suggested that the Coker amendment which omits reference to counties be taken up at this time for discussion. As a matter of fact, the municipality feat ure of all the amendments had all ready been gone over and over.
 MT. Cobb offered an amendment to the Cunniff amendment designed to meet one of the objections of Judge Baker by inserting the words, "all other municipalities"
 Mir Cassidy believed that as this amendment, the Baker amendment and the committee substitute now stood, the counties would exercise su- preme control over the cities on the theory that the larger included the smaller. Mir. Weinberger took the same view and later offered an