Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1912-03-21
Photographic Copy of Orig
inal Judiciary Recall Sec
tion Will Be Attached to
a Senate Resolution to Be
Adopted
PROGRAM HAS
BEEN ARRANGED
This Resolution and Another
Providing for Ratification
Of Income Tax Amend
ment Will Be Rushed
Through

Through
There was nothing To- it yesterday
but unless somebody spikes the guns
before l O'Clock today the hair-raising
stunts will begin and before sundown
every judge in the state of Arizona
and every man who has a few dollars
and sixty cents viii have license to
tremble in his shoes, if he is at all
nervous in his temperament Rules
have been adopted sufficient for the
legal transaction Of legislative busi-
ness and as soon as the decks are
cleared for action this morning a
concurrent resolution will be intro
duced in both houses. submitting to
the people an amendment to the con-
stitution providing for the recall of
judges. and it Will be passed quicker
than either President Taft or the
proletariat can say Jack Robinson.
Before the smoke clears away a joint
resolution will drift in. to the effect
that Arizona endorses the proposed
sixteenth amendment TO the constitu-
tion Of the United States providing
for an income tax. Thirty-One states
have already endorsed ii and only five
more are needed. There will be one
less today and the time has arrived
for the plutOcrats to throw up their
hands or at least stand up and be
counted
Anyhow. that was the frame-up last
night.
That the legislature would do this
very thing very early i'm the session
has been expected. but it was left for
the genius of Homer Wood. council
man from Yavapai to inject the spec
tacular coIoring into the project That
* the reason no more was done yes
terday. 1t had been planned to do
nothing else until these matters had
been worked out of the legislative
system. The houses were organized
and everything put i'm readiness. but
with clean slate until the soda pop,
root beer or whatever the medicine
was. should get the gentlemen in con-
dition for the effort. and now they
are ready.
1t would seem to the ordinary per
son that this state of preparedness
ought not to be hard To attain but
the ordinary person has little knowl-
edge of just how thoroughly the work
was to be done The democratic
brethren went before the people
pledged to put back the recall pro-
vision eliminated last December. pre-
cisely in the same form it appeared
In the original constitution and they
propose TO redeem that pledge or bust
their gaIuses. Homer Wood took the
trouble to secure from the archives
the identical official copy Of the orig
-, ri in
blood that he would return the sacred
document TO its proper custodian he
sought the lair of a photographer.
where he had the recall section re-
produced with every pen-scratch,
smear and fly speck. together with
the yellow spots made by the tears in
which it was bathed when it was
found the section was for the time
being to be ineffective.
one Of these Photographic repro
ductions will form the body of the
resolution that is to be introduced in
each house this morning as soon as
the prayers Of the chaplains cease
their echoing and Mr.. Wood can gain
recognition of President Cunniff and
Judge Wren of Yavapai can detect
the nod of Speaker Bradner.
After this deed has been done G. r.
Wood will seize the earliest Oppor-
tunity i'm the senate and Don Babbitt
i'm the house. to present Arizona s
formal ratification of the sixteenth
amendment to the constitution of the
United States. These gentlemen did
not have time to send for the original
copy i'm Washington to incorporate
picture in their resolution. but will
have to express their sentiments in
the artistic hand of an official typist.
Yesterdays Work
II would be mean and fault-find
ing person who would take exception
to anything the Arizona Legislature
did Yesterday. More than that. he
would be a genius for the sum total
of important action consisted in the
adoption by both houses of the rules
of the twenty fifth legislative assem-
bly,. temporarily. until the respective
houses can formulate new rules. bet
ter to their liking.
Instead of being critical one should
be complimentary if it were neces-
sary for any comment, for the gentle
men displayed greater promptness
than at any time heretofore. The
senate began business promptly at
o'clock. the advertised hour. and the
house was only five minutes late.
The senate opened in due form with
roll call. prayer and the reading OF
the minutes. took the action referred
to and adjourned TO meet again today
at the same hour.
The house did a little better, for in