Bisbee daily review., 1911-03-09
MERITS OF BILL ARE IN NJ WAY
 INJURED
Failure of Congress to Change County Seat Not .
 Set Back

-The court house and election bilt
 was a victim of circumstances, de-
 clared Postmaster Cassidy yesterday
 afternoon in dsseussing the ag1t made
 to have the seat Of government ol
 Cochise county moved from Tomb
 stone and located al some other poin,
 to be decided upon by special cleo
 ton.
 In the first place and sleahing in
 general. there has not been 8 con gress since Cieveland's time that has
 had so many weighty matters of nat
 ional importance before it for con uideIation and Bisbee and Douglas entered the fight with that handicap
 Senator Beveridge, the chairman of the committee on territories was
 buss engin>l lsrins the fight again
 Lorimer and the delegates were un- able to reach him for several days, finally setting into communication with him thT0ueh Delegate Cameron. said Mr. Cassidy. The committee did not have the time to give the bill a thorough hearing and to hear the arguments for and against the court house bill but a subcommittee was named. before which the delegates from Tombstone. H..Eea and Douglas made thsir arguments.
 2 During the committee hearings Senator Frazier of Tennessee was un- fortunately called home by a teIegran n announcing the Illness of a relative and that further handicapped the delelates Even had the sub-commit- tee had an opportunity of giving the matter thorough threshing out and made favorable report the fate Of the bill in the territorial committee is doubtful. The subcommittee re ported favorably on the sewer bond till for Phoenix but even with that advantage ii failed to get through.
 Plans for the furtl,sr pushing of the bill are under informal consider ation by the board of traile but no | iehnite line of action has been out l lined Mir Cassidy will make his re- | port to the board of trade either at f -he next regular meeting or at a call i ed meeting
 The argument against the bill was made by Brady O'Neille. of Phoenix, according to Mir Cassidy. Inasmuch IS Mir. o Nellie resides in an entirely part of the territory and he bill was purely of interest 10 Co ehise county the delegation was al loss to understand his interest in he matter. me delegates from Tomb tone were given the same opportuR " for argument as the Bisbee and Douglas delegates and the interyen- ion of the Phoenix man wss regarded Is uncalled for
 While in Washington Mir. Ca. idy 1, 'ot the impression that there is con objection to the Arizona and that the objections Ire not confined to the republican tide of the house The interpreta- ion of the senate in voting down iood at Washington is that the ac- ion of the enate in voting down for New Mexico and Ari. ona does not affect the matter and hat 1t is legally impossible for Ari- 'ona to get into the union until the text regular session of congress. re- 'ai diess of whether the maioritv of he next congress will favor or op- 'ose the constitution. MT. Cassidy that the New Mexico con titution would have been approved the Aribona constitution had not cen tagged on the resolution and nat the vote on that resolution may e taken as the sentiment of congress II n Arizona's organic law, though he that the vote against the Arizohs. constitution would have been aueh Iarger had it been voted upon ( 'arateiy fr0r- New Mexieo's con