El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-11-01
PATCHING ARIZONA
CONSTITUTION UP
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u IL percent OF the gross product or
yield thereof in value"
Should the proposed amendment to
the constitution be adopted, it is quite
probable that the assessors and coun-
ty boards will be shorn of all power to
fix valuations, that matter to be left
wholly in the hands Of the legislature
working through the tax commission
The Legislature in Question.
Owing to another flaw in the con-
stitution, there is doubt as to whether
or not the present legislature can
legally act after midnight, December
81, next, and that doubt is causing
much confusing discussion.
The constitution, as it stands. in one
clause provides that all state officers
chosen at the first state election snail
hold office until January !, 1913, and
in another clause provides that cleo
lions for state officers to succeed those
elected at the first state election shall
be held in the first even number
year after the state shall have been
admitted to the union and in even
numbered years thereafter. Arizona
was admitted TO the union in Feb
ruary, 1912, and the supreme court OF
the state has held that the officers
elected in 1911 shall hold over until
January /, 1915. when they win be
succeeded by officers chosen In No
vember, 1914
The question now arises Are
members OF the legislature legally IN
Guided in the list Of state officers and
did the decision OF the supreme court
cover them as well as the governor,
secretary of state, state treasurer, state
auditor, corporation comm1SSl OnerS ana
supreme court iudges?" Many hold
that the decision did not include them
and that if the proposed extra session
Of the legislature is not held prior to
midnight. December 81, next, any OF
It's acts will not be legal
Governor Hunt holds a contrary
view, however. He believes the legis-
Iators are state officers within the
meaning Of the law; that the decision
of the cuort covered them and that
they hold office and can or may trans
act business with full warrant OF law
until they are relieved on January i,
1915, by their successors chosen at a
general election to be held in Novem-
An extra session of the legislature
is needed and. while the governor has
made no announcement, it IS believed
he win not call it to meet before jan
uary IS.
Fight in Legislature.
When the extra session is called
there will be launched an interesting
fight between conservatives and rad1-
Gals for control. Sam Bradner, OF
Cochise, who was speaker Of the house
during the last session, but VINO was
made secretary Of the livestock sanl-
tary commission, viii not be canul-
date for reelection, it is said. and II
he were the conservatives have MN
slated for slaughter. There is some
question. too, as to whether or not ne
can hold his seat in the house ana
his Job on the livestock sanitary board
at the same time. 1t is believed that
if he has to give up either ne VIII
cult the house rather than his lucra-
tive secretaryship, and that VIII leave
a vacancy in Cochise county's repre-
sentation and weaken the radlcaI
strength by one vote.
But should he elect to retain his
seat in the house, he VIII be opposed
for the spealzership by II. II. Llnney'
of Yavapai county, who Is the cnoice
of the conservatives, and prODaDly Dy
W z. Brooks, Of ella, who is con-
fron1 governor Hunts county and has
a radical constituency. If Bradner
should not be a candidate Tor any rea-
son it is thought by those VINO are
grooming BROOKS 1or the pace tnal ne
will be acceptable to both factions ana
that his chances for being the next
speaker of the house are good
sGThe Lion and the Lamb
When governor Hunt leo tne I'VE
stock parade at the fair grounds Tues-
dav with W T. Webb Of Graham ttne
real leader Of the conservative opposl-
tion to the governor and the man VINO
was more than any other responsive
for the turning down OF the governor
bv the recent Democratic party coun-
cid. in the state carriage with MIN, lC
was generally believed that IL was
modern example or the non ana ING
lamb and that a reconciliation mao
been effected but it was said by ach
to have no political significance what
ever. Personally they are friends, DuC
politically they are as widely separat-
ed now as they were when the party
council met and the conservatives put
the indian sign on the Hunt wing OF
the Arizona Democracy.
Speaking OF Webb, recalls that the
conservatives have already picked him
for United States marshal for Ari-
iona in the event that Wilson and
Marshall win the election next tues
day.
Governor Hunt is much in evidence
though, in his generally lnoDtruslVe
wav i'm the lobby Of the Hotel Adams
this week. His friends say he is sim
ply there as others are, to meet out
of town frierds who are in Phoenix
attending the fair but there are those
who insist that it was not until j. C.
Adams, the proprietor and erstWhlle
leader of NTarcopa county Republican !
ism. announced himself for Wilson for
president that the governor began 10 |