Arizona republican., 1912-04-27
Measure Which Was to Have Been the First Leg islative Enactment, Final ly Goes Through After Many Trials
WOMAN TALKS
 ABOUT PRISONS
Tells of Wonderful Inven- tion Perfected by Flor ence Convict by Which Electricity is Extracted From the Air

rom CNo AIT
 Legislative routine was smashed yesterday ill several ways. The usual daily error was found in the judiciary recall bill but all precedents were violated when the measure was cor rected, passed by both houses an1 sent to the governor.
 The senate having much committee work on hand did nothing in the forenoon and in the afternoon the members Were so much interested by what was going on in the house that they did not get together in their own chamber until four o'clock. They did not accomplish much. though the governors recent appointments were confirmed
 The house logged along at it's usual gait until noon, receiving q carpet bag full Of new bills, most of them of general interest. One provides for redistricting justice precincts in all counties the coming fall. and another repeals the law prohibiting county treasurers from succeeding them selves.
 The house had consented to listen to an address during the noon inter mission by Miss Kate Barnard. super intendent Of charities and corrections in Oklahoma. She began her address at 1:40 o'clock before a house and gallery that were crowded to the point of discomfort So interested became her audience in what she had to say that nobody was impOlite enough to look at the clock and it was nearly o'clock when she had finished The house then decided to make a day of it and go home and cOgitate on the remarks Of the tal- ented Oklahoma official.
 Miss Barnard is not an orator; does not pretend to be, but she can talk indefinitely on her chosen subjects and also most entertainingly. After she had spoken for some time she took a chair and concluded her ad- dress from a sitting position. She spoke at the rate of from zoo to 300 words a minute and the numerous stenagrophers in the house all faded one by one and gave up the job.
 In concluding her remarks she sprang something that took better than carefully prepared peroratiOn. She announced the means whereby the world can be given the benefit of a new discovery that will equal in importance such things as wireless telegTaphy. the telephone, etc. etc, completely revOlutiOniZing the world of mechanics. Also this invention is to be credited to Arizona. and to the genius of a convict who may eX- change his stripes for the tOga that Tom Edison will have to discard sometime in the natural order of things. ana mayhap a bank account that will make common folk sit up and take notice.
 Miss Barnard said that when she visited the prison the other day she met Roy j. Myers a former emplOye of T. 4. Edison at Orange, Y. J. who came to Arizona and in a moment of recklessness drew a check for fifty dollars on a bank where he had no funds to cover. That incident earned for him his stripes. She further learned that he was a trusty around the prison and had been given an op- portunity to utilize his genius. He had shown her a twenty five horse power engine which he was operating by means of a device he ha3 perfected for snatching electric power from the surrounding atmosphere. at an eX- pense of nothing save the cOnstruc ton of his mechanism.
 Miss Bernard said she further learned that Governor Hunt and Prison Superintendent Sims were dis posed to liberate the man to permit him to go to Washington and secure patents on this and other invention. he has perfected. Their only nesi- tancy was a fear of the reproof by the legislature which might frown or the project as chimerical and stimu- late a sentiment detrimental 70 the administration. She said she told Myers to destroy his device at once together with all his blue prints, les some avariciOus person might stea his ideas sell, or capitalize then cheating him of the fruits of his owl genius, and that she would un1ertakt to secure him his liberty That don, she advised him to go direct t Washington to Samuel Gompers anC other personal friends of ners wh' would safeguard him from patent at torneys and take him in person to tn patent office Then he could repro duce his ideas and his blue prints an, secure his rights by law. The worl, needs his invention and he is entitled to some of the fruits of it.
 Then addressing the members o
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