Arizona republican., 1910-10-20
\ WARM HALF HOUR
 IN THE CONVENTION A MISUNDERSTANDING ABOUT THE PRINTING Led to a Defiance of Representative of the Federal Government.

The most spirited incident in the
 course of the constitutional convention
 occurred yesterday afternoon when
 Judge Baker elicited the first applause
 of the session by a defiance of the
 federal government in the person of
 Secretary Young. An attempt was
 made to settle the printing muddle
 into which the convention had in
 volved itself in the belief that it had "a right to do what it pleased with the S1OO.000 appropriation which the
 enabling act provided for the territory
 to try to get into statehood
 misunderstanding had arisen as
 to the attitude of the secretary. It
 had been reported that the secretary
 was trying to limit the convention as
 to the number of bills that should be printed. A special committee. consist
 ing of Messrs. .Ellinwood Baker and
 Kingan was appointed in the morning session to investigate the legal rights of the convention. The resolution of appointment was amended by directing. the committee to confer with the sec retary. --
 Judge Baker submitted a report on the legal phase of the controversy, when, in fact, there was no controver- sy as to the right of the convention to have all the printing it might want done.
 After Judge Baker had given the opinion of the committee, the question of the conference with the secretary was brought up and the Judge said that he had understood nothing about a conference report and could not con- ceive that one was necessary; he did not see what the secretary had to do with such functions of the convention as it had been invested with by the enabling act
 Several gentlemen addressed the convention, indicating misunder- standing, when F. A. Jones of the printing committee arose and said that the convention was confronted by a condition and not a theory as to its rights. It must take the secretary into account, for he said that Mir. Young told him that he would not pay the bills for the printing of 800 copies of any bill, the number required by the rules
 This statement produced stir and brought Judge Baker to his feet again, when, in the name of the convention, he defied the secretary. Thereupon with a whoop a resolution was adopt ed ordering the printing of 800 bills unless, in the wisdom of the conven- tion, 1t should appear that a less number was needed.
 After the adjournment Secretary Young was seen and expressed sur prise at the statement of MT. Jones which had precipitated the trouble He said he had not thought to limit the in any of its expenditures. It was his purpose that these eXpen- should be properly made and vouched for as the rules of the de- partment require.
 He said that the day before he had had a conversation in his office with Messrs Jones, Short and Cooper of the printing committee of the conven- tion In the course of the conference. which was informal, he had asked MT. Jones how many bills he thought ought to be printed MT. Jones re- piled that he thought 15O ought to be enough except in the case of the more important measures; 250 would have | been an ample numDer. One of the | members of the committee thought 15O | would be enough. The only observa- 1 ton of MT. Young was that he would approve bills for 250 copies. There was no suggestion nor intimation that | he would not approve bills for more than that number which had been named by MT. Jones as the maximum.
 This printing business from the be- ginning has been handled by the con- 1 vention in ain awkward manner, be- | cause the convention confounded the | of a territorial fund with that of a federal fund. The office of | the secretary, which is required to | know how every dollar has been spent and transmit that knowledge to the auditor of the department, had no of 1 ficial knowledge that any printing was being done. It was afterward | learned that. though bids had been invited by the committed. none hadl been accepted. yet bill after bill was | being printed until now sixteen have come from the printer. to say nothing of several copies of the yoluminous rules and other documents.
 On Monday the secretary wired to | the department for more definite in- |