Arizona republican., 1910-10-18
THE MACHINE
 YET CREAKS Convention Lacks Something
 Of SmOOthneSS
 ID BE ND VERBATIM REPORT The Advancing Wave of the Flood of Direct Legislation Proposition - The First Insistent Demand of La Dor From Gila Miners.
ID BE NO VERBATIM REPORT

The second week of the constitution al convention opened with good deal of grinding and creaking, indicating that the machinery was not working smoothly in all of its parts or in many of them The preliminaries had not all been arranged; the plans for putting members on permanent record were not complete That is to say, there was no agreement as to the employment of an official stenOgrapher who should faithfully record the language as well as the gesture and the vote of every member on every question
 It was understood on Sunday night that a stenographer had been agreed upon: that is that it had been agreed that there should be a stenOgrapher, and there was a tentative contract in the hands of w. D. O'Neill. It was the Larrabee contract in which the name of OiNeill had been inserted in the place of that of Joe Larrabee, who might have had the contract last week.
 On the strength of this contract or what he believed would mature into contract. MT O'Neill became a heavy patron of the Western Union and wired far and wide for expert stenographers. His telegraph bills ran to more than $50
 Under this contract MT. O'Neil was to receive SS0 a day for forty days and in case the convention should last longer than the biblical flood he was to get $50 for every additional day. He was also to be allowed 20 cents folio. Chairman WinsOr of the rules commit ha1 oh nf matter. made a statement as to the probable cost of the employment of a stenogra- pher on this basis. The folios at 20 cents, he believed, would not exceed s2.2OO; the stenographers per diem s1.2OO and the printing of the journal would be not more than $7,0OO
 Nothing more was done about the matter in the morning session. but it was taken up in the afternoon. When MT Winsor was asked what the com mittee had done about it he replied that those who had heard Governor Geer of Oregon in his speeches in this territory would remember his story about "in statu quo" It will be re- membered that the governor defined that classic phrase as ''in a hell of fix" MT. Winsor said his committee had nothing new to offer,whereupon MT. Coker moved that the authority which had been granted the committee to em- ploy a stenographer be rescinded- An amendment by MT. Ellinwood to con- tinue the committee until tomorrow was voted down and the original mo- ton prevailed by vote of 34 to 10.
 To meet the new emergency it was resolved to change the word minutes" as they appear in the rules to "journ- al," restoring the original form which had been changed at the last session.
 MT Cobb gave notice of the introduc- tion of a motion to change the rules with respect to the form of presenting propositions. That will come up to- day.
 petition was addressed from sev- eral citizens of Gila county to "the Gila County Constitutional Conven- ! tion' desiring some fundamental or legislative provision regulating the em- ployment of foreign labor by mining and other large corporations. The pc titioners demanded that the corpora tions should be compelled to employ at least so per cent American labor. This was referred to the committee on la bor.
 The fifteenth proposition of the ses- sion was presented by pr. Moeur relat- ing to the maintenance of uniform system of public schools. The propo- sition first dealt with the disposition of school lands, providing that their proceeds should be kept fund in per petuity for the use of the schools. The !. lands were to be sold, the more valu- able first, in periods of ten fifteen and twenty years.
 The schools were to be thoroughly sectarian, no religious service was to be required of any teacher or pupil nor was any, religious test to be ap- piled In this proposition were includ- ed all sorts of public schools from kin dergarten to university.
 Mir Sims of Cochise also introduced a proposition relating to the disposi- tion of school lands providing that none should be sold within period of twenty five years.
 There being no other business, the convention took an adjournment until 9 o'clock this morning.
 The morning session opened with a burst of activity, in which the. chief business for which the convention had assembled was taken up. the initiative and the referendum, concerning which four propositions had been presented. The first was by Judge Baker, as fol- lows:
 Section 1. The legislative power of