Arizona republican., 1912-06-20
But No Man Has the Hardi hood to Fix the Date When the Legislature Will Finally Knock Off Work
BARE POSSIBILITY
 TODAY MAY END IT
Heavy Work Cut Out in Closing Hour; Proposal to Amend the Initiative and Referendum Clause of Constitution

Constitution
 It may be stated as a certain, pos- tive, undeniable and unequivocal fact of a doubt that the legislature will adjourn this afternoon-maybe There are several reasons, though, for believing that adjournment is looming above the horizon. For one thing the legislative appropriation is running low: and it is freely con- ceded in both houses that the legis- l latOr. no less than the preacher, is worthy of his hire. So, if the hire IS not forthcoming laWmaking becomes mOnOtOnOus, not to say oppressive. In fact it is a thing not to be endured. | Then, the lawsmiths say, they are | tired of the grind, anyway. and are
 going to quit. Some of them have already deserted their posts and have shaken from their feet the alkali dust of this favored section
 And then, finally, C. B. Wood yes terday evening introduced in the sen
 ate a resolution stating it to be the sense of the senate that the legisla-
 ture should adjourn at three D. m. today
 | Of course these resolutions are hardly as strong as a steel cable. And when Wood was asked if there 1 was enough glue attached to this one
 to make it stick he said he didn't l know
 And that's fact He doesn't l I.
 journment has been expected every
 day for a week but it has resolutely
 refused to become a fact At times expectation has risen high only to be
 dashed to earth again. Didn't some
 body say that hope deferred maketh
 the heart sick, or words to that ef- feet?
 1 But this isn't telling the story of yesterdays "doings." To be sure there
 was not a great deal to recOrd-in fact there was almost nothing until well along in the evening when every body had become so tired that a gen. eral air of cussedness-beg pardon lennui is the WOrd-sat like the old Man of the Sea on the shoulders of leverybOdy. Then Senator Kinney touched a match to the powder mag Iazine and the whole works blew up
 with a loud report.
 Figuratively. of course. Senator Kinney isn't in the habit of blowing lup things or creating any other kind of disturbance. In fact his silence throughout this entire session has been so deep as to be oppressive. In fact it is about the most silent s- lence that anybody ever heard of
 But about the explosion. It all came iabout through bill introduced by Kinney. Rather, the bill bears Mr. 1 IKinney's name. There is a strong lsuspicion that he had about as much to do with the writing of the meas lure as had the ancient and honorable gentleman who lives in the moon. Maybe it's bad guess, but if the Honorable Michael Graham Cunniff
 senator from the jagged peaks of
 Yavapai county, didn't have some thing to do with the birth of that bill. he must at least have been ap- prised in advance that the infant was lcoming
 We'll. the bill provides for a con-
 stitutiOnal amendment-one more con- lstitutional amendment. And this time lit is a corker. It takes the sacred Iconstitution by the hair and yanks it Iall around. It provides for the elim- Iination of the far famed emergency feature. for it's slaughter without ben eft of clergy, and incidentally, it provides for voting on a few score Legislative propositions at each recur- lrng election. There's nothing to it: if the people of Arizona don't become Ipxpqrt voters if will not be because Ithey do not get sufficient practice.
 This pretty little bill says the peo- pie shall have the right of referen- Idum on all bills, no matter if they do carry the emergency feature. As lthe constitution stands now a bill tpassed under an emergency, becomes Immediately operative and the people ihaVe no recourse except through an Initiative petition. Under the pro- IpOSed plan the law would become loperative; but at the next succeeding election the people would be given automatically the chance to stop it
 in it's mad career. This would apply to appropriation bills and to all other
 kind of bills. There would be no leXception whatever.
 It may seem a little strange to a lman who is not well acquainted With the senate that an attempt would be made to provide for such an amend ment to the constitution in the clos ling CD hours of the legislature But that is only a little part of the
 story. Not only did they try to do Ithat; but they tried to put through 1 Continued on Page 3.