Bisbee daily review., 1910-12-15

Snsle caucus. when We got them to- gether, they said, "No, you can not bind me by any caucus: 1 am willing to stick but will not be bound by i, any caucus" jApp ause)
 Perhaps they had In mind the 25th Il legislative eaucuses; but in the or | ganization of the convention it was the desire of the de eaates to get to- i gether as they were to be held re- | sponsibse for the results, and organ | ized the convention by placing in the | chief offices members who suited | them without relying upon the min ority in any respect. True they held a caucus as far as the organization was concerned. but when it came to any matter to go into the consitut- uon Lo caucuses were held nor were they possible because you never could find five men of the same opinion. Now. the president Of the constitutional convention, after two or three efforts, was finally SC ecIed and I believe without a question his I selection was wise. l heard ao ad- verse criticism among the members and I believe he treated all the members fairly and was certainly fair. The first proposition introduc- ed. and also the first one adopted by the constitional convention was the preamble: of course it is really no part of the constitution but it is simply in the nature of an introduc- tion as is almost universal with con- stitutions. And then the first article is that dealing with the boundaries of the territory. that one of course being necessary as We could only prepare a constitution for the people within the boundaries of the territory of Arizona as given in the statute of congress. Then comes the first inn portant article. that of the bill oi ghts: the bill of rights is an in strument that sets forth and declares the rights of the people to be govern ed. and it is the great bill of rightc that has come to us by the common law of England and is adopted into beritance of the customs and msn- nsrs O. the country from which al our laws are handed to us. It is no thing more or less than the prblci- , pios Of liberty prepared and set forth : in the ten ameEdments to the consti- , 1 tuition of the United States which . were made necessary by the stlDula- | ton imposed by the state of Virginia \ 1 before 1t would come into the Union . which required that these principles be set forth.
 Now, this bill of rights as included in the constitution sets forth and preserves to the people all the rights as were considered necessary 10 be reserved by the various states os the United States. es for instance suct as that no man shalt be 8 witness agllnst himself, and few othel broad principles. as that a man shal Ie protected in his life, liberty anc property nor be deprived thereof wits | out due process of law. In oae pro vision we have provided that the writ Of hateas corpus shall ueyel \ be suspended by the authorities o j the state Most of the other states S provide that it may be where public I danger may require it but 1t was con sidered that where the public wei fare might require it that the con situation of the United States ant | the laws of the federal government $ had power to suspend the writ 0
 habeas corpus, and in that view ii We did not need it; consequentl
 for the protection of the citizen
 those who might be imprisoned O
 H from any cause the writ or ha
 beas corpus should De In any wa
 suspended. it would be more danger
 ous than would be some labor troubl H where a man could be forced ava Y from home. imprisoned and simpi
 held there. That is one of the stronl
 provisions Of the bill O. rights and
 is there.
 Then the next step in the constitr
 ton building is the article which 70
 viii remember provides for the go'
 eyument and officers of the state an
 this article if you will note 1t take
 almost verbatim from any one oi tn
 constitutions of great many or tn
 states. and let me say that on ID
 floor Of the constitutional conyeiitio
 the members had seven different sci
 of the Constitutions Of the Unise
 States and Of the states and II
 & seven volume edition and is know
 as the Forbes editions, including n'
 only the charters of the old colonis
 but the constitutions Of the variou
 states adopted from the colonial pc
 iod to this day and every proyisio of the constitution Of Arizona hs
 been taken and carefully compare Wifh this The convention Wou