Arizona republican., 1910-12-10

reported from the committee on
 militia and defense This proposition,
 introduced in the first place by MT Cooper in the form of a resolution, disqualified the members of the con- | vention from holding any office ere ated by the convention for a period of five years
 Various attempts had been made to secure consideration of the proposi- tion, and only the night before such an Attempt failed. Usually this ques- tion had been brought up as a joke. Whether MT. Crutchfield intended it
 to be one or not was not clear, but
 Mir. Cunniff resented what he con- ceived to be i'll timed levity. The strain under which the chairman of the committee on style and revision has been for some weeks was begin ming to tell on his even temper, and he expressed a belief that the minis terial pleasantly was inopportune in this sad and solemn hour.
 There is no better place than this to pay a tribute to MT. Cunniff, who has had the most arduous task set by the convention. His courtesy to the members and to the representatives of the press even in his most hurried moments has been unremitting. The convention yesterday took occasion to express the thanks of the convention to MT. Cunniff and his committee for the able manner in which it's duties had been discharged. The reporters would have been glad to join in that resolution.
 SiIeneins DisspproVaI.
 MT. Goldwater then began the ap- plication of the' muzZle to the repub- lican members. Calling attention to section (k) of rule 53: After such final passage the constitution shall be signed by the president and all the members of the convention" he said that at the time of the adoption of the rule such a contingency as he had understood to have now arisen was not contemplated, and he moved that the rule be interpreted to mean that only the names of the members could appear on the constitution along with the names of the counties whence they came, and that there should not appear herewith loose, irrelevant and u1godly remarks derogatory of the constitution.
 Judge Doe in reply said that noth- ing of that sort had been contem- plated byE the rule, and it would have to be changed to take on such a meaning. A rule could be changed | only by a two-thirds vote of the con- vention. The resolution offered by | the gentleman from Yavapai, Judge | Doe said, was intended to repress the | of the minority regarding | q, for, would make it appear that all signers had approved the document. The | members cf the convention, he said | had righr to sign the constitution, and so signing it to express their at titude toward it. This was a right | which the convention could not take | away.
 It was true, he said, that the jour nal would contain the record of every member of the convention, and every | reader of the journal would know how the members stood toward the | But comparatively few | persons would ever see the journal, while the constitution, with the names of the sgners, would be read widely.
 Judge Doe said he would insist upon his right under the rule. but would yield to force. though he would com pei. no member of the convention to lay his hand upon him.
 It was not the. purpose, said Judge Doe. of the members of the minority to write their objections to the con- at length. They only asked that their names might be inscribed under the words i've disapprove."
 Mir Cunniff described the proposal of Judge Doe as the most outrageous of which he had heard, not shor. O: anarchy.
 Mir. Goldwater held that nc mem Der had an inherent right to sign the it was a privilege which the convention had given the mem bers. and the convention had a right to regulate the exercise of that privi- ege
 Mir Parsons said that the propo- sition of Judge Doe was a proposal to mutilate and dishonor the greatest document that had ever been con cocted since the formulation of the of Independence.
 Mir. Cunniff moved to amend the rule by providing that the members may sign" instead of shall sign" to make the rule fit the contention of Mir Goldwater that the signing was a not right. This amend nent was made
 The Last Roll Call.
 Then came the vote on the loption If the constitution. as so'loNs'
 Ayes. 40-Baker. Bolan, Bradner,