Arizona republican., 1910-12-06

The constitutional convention last night began putting the final coat of polish on the organic law. As a pre- liminary to this Mir Crutchfield who felt himself responsible for the exi- cisiOn last Saturday of the Y. NJ. c. A. from the tax exemption list. moved for d reconsideration of the vote by which that had been done. He ex- plained that though he had been a member of the organization for sev- eral years, he was more familiar with the work in California where such an exemption had never been sought. He had since learned however that the Y. M. C. A. of this territory was in need of such aid as had been pro- posed.
 His motion to reconsider was sec onded by MT. Jones of MaricOpa coun- ty who said he had voted for the ex- clusiOn of the Y. M. C. A. on the statement of MT. Crutchfield. The motion was carried and it was ar ranged that the Y. NJ. C. A. be re- stored to its former place.
 An ordinance was brought in by the special committee providing for the election on the constitution. It was given a second reading and referred to the committee of the whole for con- sideration today. It provides among other things that the election shall be held the blank day of February, 1910" but that errvr-wilI no doubt be discovered and corrected
 Chairman Short of the printing com mittee announced the receipt from the printer of the first four articles of the constitution. the preamble, state boun- diaries. declaration of rights, distribu- tion of powers, the initiative and ref erendum and the legislature.
 There was some attempt at hair splitting amendment but the conven- ton was not disposed to waste any further time except in cases where palpabIe errors had been discovered So frequent and persistent were these efforts to monkey with what was sup posed to be the last form of the con- stitution that when the following sec ton of the declaration of rights was read, "The constitution of the United States shall be the supreme law of the land" Chairman Goldwater of the whole committee asked, Now, who's going to kick?"
 The only spirited contest that was developed in the course of the cOnsid- eration was when Judge Baker pro posed the following section for inser- ton in the bill of rights: Every person in this state shall be free to obtain employment wherever possible and any person, corporation or agent, servant or employe thereof. malicious Iy interfering or hindering in any way, any person from obtaining employ ment already obtained from another corporation or person, shall be deemed guilty of a crime. The legislature shall provide by law for the enforce ment of this section
 Judge Baker stated that the fore going had been taken from the North Dakota constitution. Mir. Feeney was on his feet to say that labor had all ready all the protection it needed. MT. Connolly detected in it an impending blow at picketing.
 MT. Ingraham implored the com mittee not to adopt it. He said that labor had already suffered at the hands of the convention. Labor hav- ing asked for bread. why. now, give it this stone?
 It was useless to point out to the convention that the section provided for nothing but the freedom of labor and the section was overwhelmingly rejected.
 In the course of the consideration of the article on legislatures the ex- pected happened when the apportion- ment was reached. MT. Cobb. hope less of obtaining the relief so long and so persistently sought, introduced an amendment permitting the legisla- ture to atone for the crime which the majority had perpetrated against Greenlee and Pinal counties. The amendment proposed that hereafter the basis of the apportionment should be changed; that the census should be the basis and not the vote. MT. Webb admired the persistence of MT Cobb but declared that it was illogical to ask the legislature to do some thing that the convention had refused to do. The amendment was defeated as was a later one by Mir. Coker re- ducing the membership of the legisla- ture. The rest of the night session was without incident.
 A CONVENTION PANIC.