Arizona republican., 1910-11-29
cHAPLAIN's CONFIDENCE
That President Taft Will Wink a,
 Little Shortcomings.

! The convention, on the very threSh
 hold of the new week was thrown
 into a happy state of mind and filled with confidence in the ultimate result
 of its labors by the prayer of the
 chaplain, Mir. Crutchfield who has
 endeared himself to the members by
 his specific interest in their physical
 as we'll as their moral welfare and
 by his daily expressed concern in the
 minutest particles of the forming
 constitution as we'll as by his resent ment against those who would con
 found the efforts of the delegates
 and bring them to naught.
 Yesterday morning the chaplain all
 luding to the near approach of the end of the labors of the convention and commenting the work already done. breathed hope that there would be no faltering within the next few days, so that when the constitu- tion should be finished there would appear in the newspapers no con- demnatory. flaming headlines.
 Reciting the apprehensions which had been expressed regarding the fate of the constitution in Washington. Mir. Crutchfield mentioned it to the Lord as his opinion that President Taft was not of such a narrow. parti- san spirit as ito turn down the con stitution on account of a little thing like the initiative and referendum"
 Proposed to Muzzle the OK.
 The first proceeding after the pray CT was the introduction of a resoiu- ton by Delegate Cooper of Pima to the effect that whereas the conven- tion had created SO many offices. be it resolved that no member of the convention shall be eligible to hold any office. in the state. county or precinct within a period of five years. The resolution was received with signs of wild approval. MT. Cunning ham. when the tumult subsided, nov ed the adoption of the resolution. In the general joy which greeted this motion and amid the hand cIapping. the convention forgot to take a vote and the resolution was subsequently referred to the committee on militia and defense or to the committee on foreign relations.
 The report of Chairman Wood of the committed on finance and ac- CbuHlS SftONtu liit NOIlNeIllOn TOT idSl week had cost s2S44.
 Mir. Cunningham started something in the way of a recriminatory dis cussion by asking why the apportion- ment proposition had not been re- ported and it finally led up to a | statement by Chairman Cunniff of l the committee or style. revision and | who said that nearly all | the more important measures which | had finally reached his committee | had been put into proper shape and | would be reported to the convention | m the course of the afternoon or in | -he morning. They had been arrang- sd in the probable order in which | hey would appear in the constitution. He added that about half of the con 'ttution had been finished by his committed He Twas of the opinion hat the committee had made extra ordinary progress seeing that it's time lad been consumed by sessions of he convention lasting from 9:3O in he morning until ten o'clock at light. But by working on Sundays md until long after midnight on weekday nights it had succeeded in making headway.
 Memorial No. i.
 The convention then went into the whole committee with Mir Scott of Navajo in the chair whereupon Mir. Morgan. his colleague. announced that dr. Scott would serve a double shift IS chairman and so discharge the laim of the convention upon Navajo or service of that kind
 The first matter before the com nittee was substitute for 66. the ir- igation proposition which was re- ected on Saturday when the commit ee on agriculture was directed to ring in another proposition validat- ng the existing Irrigation laws. The ommittee agreed to the recom- nendation for it's adoption and all ther measures bearing on that sub ect were indefinitely postponed
 An unexpected contest arose over femoriai No. l. directed to congress rging legislation by which holders school land leases would be given reference rights in the sale of those inds after statehood and should be for the improvements | hey had made.
 There was apparently a good deal |. opposition to the memorial. It Dme from the section which had op-
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