Arizona republican., 1912-06-23
The Final Adjournment of the Special Session of the Legislature After Sitting of Exactly One Months s Duration
REGISTRATION BILL
 AND PRIMARY PASS
Prize Fight Measure Left Suspended in the Air; the Closing Scenes Were Un- attended by Special In cident

There is more joy over one sena- tor who returns to the capitol than over ninety and nine that went not Cruz, who came back" yesterday morning and thereby permitted the legislature to adjourn It was about 9:3O when Harrison arrived in our midst" and it was 12:40 when the last speech was spoke, the last tear was shed, the gavel had whacked its last Whack and the first legislature of the state of Arizona passed quietly and unOstentatiOusly into oblivion.
 But about Harrison. Harrison an- nounced couple of days ago that he had heard the call of the wild and
 simply must get back to the south ern hills. His colleagues told him it was dangerous-that there were still three perfectly healthy repub- licans on the job and with only twelve democrats there nobody knew what might happen. But the untamed wilds of Santa Cruz were too strong for him and he left. He got as far as Tucson
 For the santa Cruz member had hardly left the city before trouble arose It rose over the registration bill This bill is fearfully and won derfully made and nobody knows just what it is all about but the democrats declared they had to pass some sort of bill and as they couldn't agree on anything in reason they de cided to pass one entirely out of reason. And they said they must have an emergency clause to it 50 | that the thing would be ready to shoot off for the coming election. But an emergency bill requires thir- 1 teen votes in the senate and without Harrison the democrats had only | twelve. What was to do? Just one | thing Send for Harrison.
 So they did send for Harrison. | They sent frantic telegrams after him. Just what a frantic telegram 1 is the deponent does not say. but | that is the kind they sent. And one | of these frantic telegrams reached I Harrison at Tucson and shortly there | flashed across the intervening desert wastes the message-"Hold the fort 1 for I am coming. (Signed) Harrison" And so Harrison came and saw and was conquered. To prevent fur
 ther lapse of democratic duty his 1 compatriots took large cable and bound Harrison to a chair. They
 wrapped that big rope round and l round until there seemed more rope than Harrison and there they kept thim for space U.aughter and ap
 plause)
 But thev did get the two bills 1 through They passed the registra- ton bill in the senate, it having passed the house the day before. And they passed the primary bill in
 the house it having already been ipassed by the senate. That is to say. the house has a sort of impression lit passed the primary bill It is Inot quite sure. however. if the bill Tor only some of the amendments were passed and at the last mo- Iment Judge Wren raised the point Ithat the bill really hadn't been passed lat all However at that time the lways had been greased for adjourn lment and the house was in no hu- lmor to have the program delayed by la little thing like that. Wherefore lit was left just as it was, though the irecOrd vii show that the bill really land ruly passed. And who is there so base as to dispute the record?
 There is funny thing about these two bills. Almost any senator or Representative will admit they are Iabout as worthless a pair of statutes as the human mind can conceive. In both the house ana the senate men got up to explain their votes and said they voted for these bills because it seemed impossible to get sensible measures enacted The bills were ldarned and denounced from Dan to iBeersheba. and from Kalamazoo to Kennebec and back again-but they tVoted for them just the same. The Iregistration bill passed the senate by a bare two- thirds and that was the
 lot of the primary bill in the house.
 And it is not only that the mem lbers don't like the bills--it is also true they are not understood-which lis not strange. for they are of a lcharacter to puzzle a Philadelphia lawyer But they were put in the statute book to do duty for this election and in the expressed belief
 that they will both be repealed by the next legislature.
 The house also passed the bill pro-
 viding for the issuing of certificates
 of registration to peripatetic voters.
 So if any elector doesn't happen to like his own county as a place in
 which to eercse his prerogative as a l l o,