Arizona republican., 1912-05-26
Senators Put on a Stunt Yesterday That Would Have Done Credit to a Whole Regiment of Cic- eros
ALSO PASSED
 SEVERAL BILLS
And the Lower House, Too, Though It Was in Ses- sion But a Short Time, Transacted Quite a Lot of Business

Twice Saturday. when the senate was considering the newspaper pub Hcity bill and again when it was con- sidering the bill limiting the amounts to which municipalities shall contract indebtedness. the grave and dignified senators tore loose the fIOOdgates of their OratOry and engulfed everybody present in a deluge of words. For a time one was in doubt whether he was at a declaiming contest or a political meeting, particularly when Cunnirf and WorsIey delivered a cou- ple of red. white and blue orations on pure and undefiled democracy. as the said pure and undefiled democracy is known in the imperial common wealth of Arizona Everything from the constitutional bill of rights 10 the need Of an electric lighting system at Tucson was discussed; and when the roll of the survivors was called so far as everybody could see the de- baters were just about where they began.
 B tt Cunniff and WOrsIey didn't get to do all the talking. Every once in awhile the Hon. H 4. Davis, senator from MariCOpa county, contributed a few BryanesCue remarks of that sil- yer plated variety for which he is justly famous while his colleague, c. 2. Wood. handled the heavy linguistic artillery. Also Dr. Sims got into the game in a rapid fire way. while Hechtman, Roberts and others added to the gayety by chipping in from time to time. It was q great event, albeit if was hOt-aWfullv hot. But that made no difference to the sen ators They sweat and talked and talked and sweat and about the time it began to look as though they were going to quit and vote on sJEething they would take a long breath and do it all over again. And they had more fun with their speech making than a small boy has with a new red top. But with it all they didn't ac- complish a thing except to refer the bill to the judiciary committee for correction.
 It was slightly different with the newspaper publicity bill This meas ure. as is pretty well understood by this time, provides that in order to do any legal advertising the said newspaper must publish the names of its owners, stockholders. managers, and creditors After it had been raked fore and aft and from stem to stern with oratOrical canister and grape, the measure was recommended for it's regular course
 There were many speeches on this bill but it would be a little difficult to tell what some of the senators were trying to say. It must be said, however, that there were a couple of exceptions in the persons of Senators Hughes and Breen. who took the stand that has always been taken with reference to this matter until the sO- cialists came into control of the de- mOcraCy in the state of Arizona and got the publicity bug.
 Breen said if the gentlemen were really so curious as to demand all this information about the newspapers the papers could stand it. but he really couldn't understand what all the bother was about Because a newspaper owner happened to owe grocery bill and might not be able to pay it as soon as he might like he said he couldn't understand why the state should step in and demand that the fact be published in the columns of the paper.
 Hughes took the same ground Also, he said, he somehow had formed the opinion that the people of Arizona are reasonably intelligent; and he did not believe it made a great deal of difference to them whether a given editorial in given paper had been written by Mir. Smith or by Mir. Jones. It seemed to him the readers were possessed of sufficient inteTi- gence to know if the editorial ap- pealed to them or not and to draw their conclusions accordingly.
 Senator Sims said he was inclined to take the remarks of the senators with a grain of salt: whereupon Sen ator Hubbell. who was in the chair at the time. said if the democra tic party was not in need of salt he didn't know of any body of men that is.
 II. R. Wood said he had made the staggering discovery that the edi- torials in democratic papers are some times written by republicans and he thought it was time the people should know the extent to which they are being deceived
 These were the only bills that pro- voked any considerable discussion but the speech making was sufficient for all ordinary needs If there is
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