Bisbee daily review., 1911-12-22
MAY
 MEET MIDDLE OF
 FEBRUARY, PERHAPS
Tenth Is inc Earliest Possible Day and fl May Be
 Month Later
REASONS FOR FASTENING
CBy Jo Conners.)

Arizona's first legislature may not meet until late in February, perhaps not until about March 10. The gov ernor, secretary of state and the chiei justice, acting as an election board will meet in Phoenix and canvas the returns. Jan. 2 as Jan. the day pro vided is a legal holiday. This it Is conceded will take about five days perhaps longer. Returns having been canvassed and certified. a notification will be sent to the president, by mall and upon it's receipt, alter checking it over. he will issue proclamation. If the board took week to canvas the returns, five days longer to gst the notification to he president, and he did not issue the proclamation tor a couple of days, the date would be Jan. IS. The constitution provides for the calling of a session of the leg islature at a date rot to exceed sixty and not less than thirty days after the proclamation is issued.
 This might extend the time of call ing the session until March IA, but 1 1t is generally believed it will be about Q lnonth sooner It might be possible to call the session Feb. 10. If the board met and canNassed the returns in four days, hurried the notification to the president in four days more, and he issued proclamation the fol. | lowing day, Jan. II. the governor could | call a session for Feb. To-
 This is the earliest possible date and | it seems probable there is no pOssibil- | itv of the session being called until [ at least a week later as delays are sure 10 occur, and the consensus oi i opinion seems to be there will be no ! session until about the middle of Feb
 ruary. perhaps not until a little later
 Hunt to Act Promptly.
 Governor Hunt will call the session
 as soon as the law permits, 30 days after the proclamation is issued by the
 president. He said when questioned ir rerard the date he thought it would
 be about the middle of February, per
 aays a little later. The president may wait a few days before he issues Inc
 urocla,uation. The enablinE act doe'
 no. say when he shall issue -ke ploc
 lamation II is .hc general belief
 however. ie gill lcse little time.
 The constitution was changed C suit President Taft, the recall of th' judiciary having been eliminated H' will be entirely familiar with the pfo visions and can sign fl a. once. and l is thought be will The senators iron Arizona. Henry Ashurst and March 2 Smith, Carl Hayden and others VII ' impress upon him the reason fo promptness as the session will ias GO days and tine moHth Of April towar the last days is pretty warn in Ar 5 zona and legislative work in Phoeni ! al that time will not be pleasant { Anotker reason for eliminating a
 possible delay is that April is bus s month throughout the state and th ' members, officers and attaches wi D want to get aaey and attend thei a other duties.
 a After the first session the 'eglslaJur e will convene the second Monday
 January This Is the most pleasan [. part of the year in Arizona, the month s of January and February. It is als e a time when the farmers, merchant ' and others can best afford to sery a the state at the capital. And durin !. this period Phoenix promises to bi
 come one of the gayest and most iv'
 ly cities iR the southwest