The oasis., 1910-12-31
RECALL AND JUDICIARY.

Luo OHlleu DldGce5 WHlCH they kc6p ordinarily lying beside the Bible, and read it, they will see that the right of recall is the supreme function of the government, to be exercised over all it's parts, the Congress exercising 1t over all the other parts of the government the executive and the judiciary-and the people exercising it, every two and six years, over that epitome of all the people, men as well as women, the Congress. They will see that this prin- ciple, so loudly prated about now by those who want to be above the law, or want others to be, is applicable, accord ing to the Constitution, to the highest as we'll as the lowest, to both elective and appointive officers, in every depart ment.
 They will see that the principles of representation and recall are the princi- ples upon which the whole government is founded. They are the two princi- pies which distinguish American gov ernment from others. Those, then, who ask that the recall provision in the State Constitution of Arizona should not apply to judges, ask that the Amer jean form of government should prove abortive, and that the Constitution of the United States should be defed in the making of the State Constitutions. Southwestern Stockman.
 The foregoing excerpt was mark ed in a special copy of the paper from which taken addressed to Colonel Bird, Editor of THE OASIS, Nogales." So the inference is drawn that special attention by the editor of THE OASIS was desired and his comment invited. Which comment is given cheerfully in these lines;
 While it is true that the Consti. tuition of the United States fixes in the very fabric of government the principle of the recall, yet as out lined in the very article under con- sideration, it's operation is subject to such limitations as are not pro- vided at all in the proposed funda- mental law for Arizona. While the Constitution of the United States established the recall, the limitations imposed upon it's oper- ation prevent it's invocation lightly and without adequate cause, or through sudden gusts of popular passion such as sweep over the public mind at times.
 As set forth in the article the subject of this comment "Congress exercising it (the recall) over all the other parts of the government, --the executive and the judiciary and the people exercising it every two and six years over Congress. '"
 But the power of recall given Congress over the executive and judiciary requires presentation of an accusation by the House, and trial of the accused by the Senate; and to convict requires an affirma- tive vote of two-thirds of the Sena- tors present. The recall as framed in the constitution of Arizona gives the power of impeachment to twenty-five per cent of the electors. And the high court to try that inn peachment is all the people at the polls. At the same time any other aspirant for the office may go be- fore the people, and if his personal popularity be sufficient to give him one more vote than the impeached official receives, the latter is dis placed without regard to his guilt or innocence of the offence charged. Nor does the verdict require con- currence of two-thirds of the judges of the accused, as in the case of an impeachment before the senate,