Bisbee daily review., 1911-08-30
NOT ALL GAN VOTE AT
 COMING ELECTION
Restriction as 10 Suffrage Set Forth in Enabling Act
 Stated

TOMBSTONE. Aug. 29.-(special) ] According to the enabling act and ordinance No ? as adopted by the con stitution convention only those whose names appear on the great register of 1908 and the supplemental register |of 1910 will be allowed to vote at the coming state election. The section of the enabling act that applies to the qualifications of voters reads as fol lows:
 "A qualified eleotcr within the meaning of this section shall be any male citizen of the United States of the age of twenty-one years who shall have resided in the territory at least twelve months next preceding the date fixed for the election of delegates | to the constitutional convention. as | herein provided for, and who shall possess in other respects the quaiiii- | cations or an elector as provided by title twenty Revised Statutes of Ari- zona, August second. nineteen hun dred and one. And the provisions of l this section shall apply 10 all voters
 at all elections for the elections of | delegates to the constitutional con yention and for the ratification of the constitution, for state officers. mem. beTs of the state legislature, represen-
 tauyes in congress, and all other off cers named iu said constitution or in
 any manner herein provided ion or
 mentioned
 The section Of Ordinance No. 2 as Fadopted by the constitutional conyen.
 ton reads as follows:
 Sec. 3. Any male citizen of the ,i United States of the age of twenty i. ffene years, who shall have resided in the territory of Arizona at 1essi . twelve months next preceding ths date or the election heretofore hel5
 for the election of delegates to thi,
 constituti0nal convention. who shal
 possess in ether respects the qualih
 tions of an elector as provided bI Title Twenty. Revised Statutes of Ari izcna, August 2. 1901, and whose nams
 shall appear uPcn the great registel
 may be hereafter constituted by ac . of congress, shall be qualified to voti lat said election"
 Congress failed -to make any othe provisions so that it is evident tha only those on the two registers abovr ' mentioned will be qualified to vote The Smith-Ef food resolution g . adopted by congress and signed b the president does not change in tn ' least the above provisions but prs
 vides for the election to be held unde [ the provisions Of Ordinance No. 2. Th : part of the Smith-Fiood resolution re T ferring 10 this is as follows:
 Resolved. etc, That the Territorie 2 of New Mexico r-ehd Arizona ar V hereby admitted into the Union upo an equal footing with the originl states, in accordance with the term of the enabling act approved Jun
 %, 1910. and upon the terms and COT
 5itions hereinafter set forth. The a Y mission herein provided for shall talk
 effect upon the proclamation of th g president Of the United States, whe d the conditions explicitly set forth |. this joint resolution shall have bee e complied with. which proclamatio lf shall issue at the earliest practicabl IT time after the results of the eiectlo d herein provided for shall have bee d certified 10 the president, and als
 after evidence shall have been su
 mitted to him of the compliance wit
 the terms and conditions of this re
 olution.
 "a The president is authorized and q D. rected 10 certify tue adoption Of tn y resolution to the governor of eaC h territory as soon as practicable afts t the abortion hereof and each of sai