Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1912-03-20
Two Whole Days H lave
Elapsed and the Legis-
lature Has Not Yet Done
a Blessed Thing at the
Lawmaking Job
NAMES ATTACHES
AND THAT'S ALL
House Gets Into Curious
Tangle Trying to Pass a
Resolution and Finally it
is Compelled to Give it
Up

UP
Though a liberal helping of the
choice working hours Of the fore
noon was placed at the disposal of
the house of representatives yester-
day morning. and the lions share of
the afternoon was appropriated by
both houses Of the legislature. not a
great deal was accomplished. Two
whole davs have passed. and the
pages of the new states statute book
are vet unsullied. but this record VIII
not be maintained a great while.
When the gentlemen get good and
ready to jab their pens into their
ink-pots. viCariously. of course,
through the medium Of I typist. the
policies that will be promulgated and
the great thoughts that will be
"thunk" for future generations TO
cogitate over. will doubtless be most
amazing to these same generations.
The present generation will not be
SO greatly agitated. for it has been
prepared.
Yesterday was the appointment Of
the attaches in both houses. the de-
cision of the house to worry along
with %" standing committees
Though why that mystic number
should be chosen does not appear.
and the determination of the senate
to have "a committees. These COM
mittees have not been appointed yet,
save and except the rules commit
tees
Judge McCullom of Globe, selected
for secretary of the senate. arrived
and was placed behind the big ta-
BILE. Temporary Secretary Howe Civ
ing way gleefully, though he kindly
remained through the day to assist
the judge.
II is rather expected that the COM
mittees IN the senate. and perhaps i'm
both houses. will be named today. aft
er which the introduction of bills and
their reference to committees VIII
proceed. No one has yet flashed any
bills in public. but it is suspected
that the gentlemen all have their
pockets full Of them. But if they
are pet measures all they can hope
for Just now is to get them into COM
mittee for the administration will
have a lot of emergency measures
for the legislature to consider before
it gets too deeply absorbed in mat
ters of policy and statecraft.
The crudeness with which business
is now transacted. especially in the
house. will give place to greater for
mality once the committee on rules
makes its report. Many Of the gem
tIemen have had but limited eXpe-
rience i'm parliamentary practice. and
they have little now to go by. Also.
there is nothing at stake but the APP
pearance of things, SO as long as
they do what they want TO do. it
makes but little difference how they
do il.
In truth there was more To do yes
terday outside the session than with
in it: for while it was not apparent
to the public. there was all the usual
milling around in dividing the pat
ronage and in landing places on i'm
portant committees. This viii be
better seen when the committees are
appointed
The house convened i'm the morning.
half hour later than scheduled ac-
complished nothing and took a recess
until l O'Clock. Both bodies met in
the afternoon, but the attendance Of
visitors was small and the proceed
ings were of but little interest to any
save the members and the applicants
at the pie counter.
Both houses on adjournment threat
ened to meet again today at l o'clock
The senate convened at 1 o'clock
with the usual routine of roll call,
prayer ana the reading of the minutes
Judge McCu1lom of Globe who had
been designated by the caucus as the
secretary of the senate arrived the
night before and was in his seat at the
opening. though he was assisted dur
ing the day by Mr. Howe who had
served as secretary. temporarily. Mr.
Howe il should be explained was ne
yer candidate before the caucus oI
the legislature for anything and mere
ly served for Judge McCullOm pending
his arrival. Late yesterday at tn,
conclusion of his work the senate gave
him sincere vote of thanks.
e. B. Wool offered a resolution tha
a committee on rules be appointed
consisting of three members. the pres
ident being chairman of the commit
tee. The resolution was adopted ant
later Mr. Wood and Mr. Worsley wer,
named as the associate members o
the committee.
C. B. Wodd presented the following
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