Arizona republican., 1910-12-01

| The report of the committee was adopted and the reconsideration of the election ordinance was resumed. 1 There was no serious contest over l any of the remaining sections. One unimpOrtant paragraph was stricken out without opposition and a motion 1 for the passage of the proposition was recommended. Mir Cunning 1 ham remarked that it was in con flict with the constitution of the United States and the committee agreed to favorable report with | out the formality of a rollcal It was, generally understood that some changes would be made in it at a later period, particularly with respect to those paragraphs in which | the friends and admirers of President Hunt had sought to engrave his name on the tablets of human memory by working it into the ordinance. When Chairman Kingan of the whole committee offered his report he neglected to move its adoption. His attention was called to that oversight. but he denied that il was an over sight If the convention waited for him to make such motion. the re- port would he a long time in securing adoption
 Judges Wages Reduced.
 The convention then took up the Judiciary bill. which had been pend Ing since the night before at a point where MT. Winsor was trying to re- duce the salaries of the judges He renewed his motion that the salaries of the supreme court judges be re- duced from S6,000 to 5000. That was done by d vote Of 25 to 2I Then the gentleman from Yuma attacked the salaries of the superior judges. nov ing that those of the first-class cOun- ties be reduced from 5000 to $4,0OO; those of the next grade of counties from S4,500 To s3,500, and those of the smaller group of counties from S5,50O to s3,000.
 Alr. EllinWood moved for a division of the question on the ground that il included three separate propositions. MT. Winsor raised a point of order and the president was about to sus- tain il when MT. Winsor proposed to put his motion in a different form. m which it was proposed to estab- fish schedule of wages" for judges. though that term was later corrected in the record.
 This motion was also believed to he divisible, and it was changed again. and. the limit of changing having been reached, Mir. Wnsor was sus- tained by the chair and the motion went to a vote as whole and car ried. Messrs. Cobb, Parsons and Webb declined to vote, on the ground that in the form in which the ques- tion had been forced upon them they could not vote intelligently Mir Cunningham got an opening again by proposing to amend the section as it now stood. by moving to increase the salaries of judges in the larger coun- ties to 5000. NIT. Kingan made an earnest talk against seating men at the salaries of biacksmiths in judicial places, but it did no good and the Cunningham amendment was defeat ed. Previous to the vote on the Win sor amendment. MT. Cassidy had caused to be stricken out a provision placing minimum limit on the salaries of superior court judges. Thus there is no bar to hiring a judge at dollar a day. except the circum- stance that he can make more than that digging ditches.
  whole. and the executive proposi- ton was taken up. Here Mir Vein berger offered a test of the consis- ! tency of the members who had just ! reduced the wages of the judiciary ] He proposed reduction of the sal ary of the governor from s5.O0O to ' $4.00O. and that Of the secretary of | state from s4 .0O0 to s3.5OO
 l laa .raah hn h..A | ing the reduction Of salaries for the | judiciary to a point below which they would be attractive to men of ability | contrasted the shortsighted disposi- ton of the members of the ma iority with the 'liberality with which they had provided salaries for members of the many 'pinhead" commissions. The word in quotations is that of an ob- jecting democrat.
 Age Nor Youth Spared.
 The last measure of the day for
 third reading was the legislative
 proposition. Few changes were made
 in it, but after it had been gone
 through. Mir. Cobb made another at
 tack upon the apportionment which
 had been based on the vote ..ast in
 the different counties in 1908. Mir l CpDD hdu CuOSti TOT HIS DdSlS iil''
 population of the counties, by which
 there would he allowed one repre-
 sentative for each 7.5O0 of population
 He raised the further objection that
 in the original apportionment four e untieS had not been represented in the committee-Mohave, the republic an counties of Coconino and Pima and his own county of Greenlee. He moved, therefore, reference of the apportionment section of the bill to a select committee consisting of the legislative committee and other mem bers
 All his efforts. as well as those of Messrs. Osborn and Coker. failed. and when the last vote was taken, Mir Cobb remarked, We have this day witnessed the robbery of the cradle and the grave" referring to the out rage upon Greenlee. the baby county. and Pima. the mother of all the coun- ties of the south
 |. On the consummation of this crime, the convention adjourned until the usual hour this morning.
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