Arizona republican., 1912-05-25
Resolution Asking the Gov ernor to Issue a Call for Battle of Ballots Is Sent to the Political Bone yard
LEGISLATORS HAD
 ONE QUIET DAY
Senate Considers Several Measures and Receives One Providing for Legis- lative Expenses; Other Matters

tive from Gua county yesterday in troduced a joint resolution declaring it the sense of the Arizona legislature that there should be a state. county, and precinct election the coming fall. the things the house did to that res OlutiOn were a shame They bounced upon it. tossed it about like d foot ball. punctured it with the dagger of ridiCule and then, when they thought il had received adequate punishment they laid the remains on the table.
 It looks. il really looks, as though there will be no election this fall that is. no election of state county and precinct officers It looks as though the governors recOmmenda- tions are to be disregarded. It looks as though the governors interpreta ton of the constitution is to be treated with lordlv contempt. Silly. absurd. preposterOus, ridiculous. are some of the adjectives applied to the unlucky Whinple resolution.
 The joint resolution had been hand ed 10 the clerk and Mir. Thum read il yesterday morning by title. It re- cited in perfectly understandable En-
 
 having made provision for an election the legislature should call upon the governor t6 take the steps requisite to giving the sovereign electorate of Arizona chance to do business with the ballot box the first Tuesday after the first Monday in the coming No vember
 The reading of bills was no sooner out of the way than MT. Saxon, who calls Santa Cruz county his home. rose to his feet and made q few re- marks anent the subject of this bill He didn't talk very long but he cr3mmed a big bundle of hostile sen timent into his speech. He told his colleagues that if they wanted the impression to go abroad that the house had wholly and irrevOCably lost it's head the best way to accomplish that object was by passing the Whip ple resolution. The law does or it does not require the governor to is sue an election proclamation Mr. Saxon said If it does not, then this resolution has no merit whatever. If il does, the resolution is useless. Far be it from me to ridiCule the efforts of the distinguished gentleman from Gila county or to question the quail ity of his statesmanship' but there is just one place where this resOlu- ton belongs and that is on the scrap heap. If the gentlemen who want an election this fall want to get any thing done about it. why don't they go 10 work and have a law passed ? They can't help knowing this resolu- l1 [ 11ys out of place without any merit at all. and I hope the house will give it very little consideration
 Thus Mir Saxon And thus also MT. Brooks. The house should take no action on this resolution" said Brooks. There is no reason why it should take action. It is not entitled to consideration and move it be laid on the table" WhereupOn. after a few more members had relieved their feelings the motion was put by Speaker Bradner, and prevailed. The negative vote was so scattering there was not even 2 division.
 That was the first and only chance for any real fireworks in either house yesterday; and the pyrotechnics that resulted from it did not get beyond the pinWheel class. But the only req son was the lack of conflict. Nobody could be found to champion the bill, and of course it is just a little hard to stir up a fight where everybody, or almost everybody. is on the same side. Not even Whipple was Suf- ficiently enamored of the proposition to make more than a perfunctOry cf- fort in it's behalf Indeed except for handing it to the clerk he did almost nothing. It was a half hearted at tempt all the way through and un- less the senate starts something this may be the end of the election busi- ness so far as the legislature is con cerned.
 In the senate there was almost nothing but the dry routine. The day was given over largely to the con- sideration of bills on second reading with Senator Pace acting as chair man Of the committee of the whole The senate did pretty well yesterday but it was considering measures fol the most part that had already gOn' through the senate at the regular ses sion, by reason of which the difficul points had been pretty well threshcC out. The one little item of mor, than usual interest was the introduc tiOn, by Senator C. B. Wood. of bill authorizing an appropriation t
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