Arizona republican., 1912-06-11
Withdrawal of Amendments to Saxon Election Bill and Passage of Measure in Its Original Form by the Senate.
SPECULATION
 AS TO REASON
On the Surface It Seemed to Hear the Democratic Executive Committee Say Listen Here" - Senate Decides Location.

v the justly celebrated general who marched his soldiers up the hill and then marched them down again. Well. that is just what the democratic gen erals of the senate have done with reference to the election bill; only they did it good deal oftener than did the ancient gentleman whose eX- lott has delighted so many nurseries. They marched and countermarChed. sidestepped and retreated, hay footed and straw footed around all over the legislature and ended by running up the white flag and accepting without qualification the bill passed by the house. And they did this after they had solemnly declared that never no, never,-would they accept such d measure as that
 The denOuement came yesterday afternoon. After long having emu lated the example of the late lamented MT. Nero by fiddling around while the castles of democracy were being reduced to piles of rubbish before their eyes the statesmen abandoned the fastneSS on top of the hill and gloOmily marched their warlike hosts down into the valley of despondency. And when the news came to the house it was received with many handclaps and other evidences of an intensely human joy.
 For the house had put one over once again. The senate had declared for a bill providing for an election in accordance with the provisions of the constitution, whatever that pro- vision means while the house bill tells just when the election is to be held. So. there you are.
 And it is possible. barely possible that the action of the democratic state executive committee had some thing to do with the action of the senate. Probably not so much as the house seems to think. but it may have had something to do with it. This committe held a meeting yesterday morning and passed a series of reso- lutions. This statement is proba bly, redundant for it would not be a democratic gathering if it didn't do a certain amount of resoluting. But at all events this body passed a lot of whereases and wherefores followed by the inevitable Be it resolved
  feet that at the time of the historic constitutional convention everybody thought the first set of officers would be chosen for a single year: that the democrats made their race on that platform; that it has been the gen eral understanding that these men were to stay in office only for the short terms; and finally that the democratic party in Arizona is pledg ed to carry out that platform.
 Of course. everybody knew that be fore. The truth of the matter wasn't discovered by the state executive com mittee. The democrats in the legis- lature every state officer, every county officer. and all the rest of them knew that was true. But, when the truth and the joys of the pub lie pie counter conflict. shall the pie counter back down? Verify. it shall not.
 But about the state committee res olution. The Republican has a hor- rible suspicion that it did not have quite so much to do with senate's change of front as is supposed. IL is just possible that the iugglers ir the senate knew pretty well what they were doing all the time; and that the magnificent concessions they made to the house were, in part al least discounted in advance
 But all this is immaterial The fact remains that the house bill Number Twenty three it is called has been indorsed by the senate anC awaits only the signature of his ex- cellency, the governor, to make il into law.
 Of course there is always the chance that somebody may take the whole matter to the supreme court and there is the further chance that the said court may declare the entire business unconstitutional But this i, not likely; for he would be a bray, man indeed who would wantonly take q risk of that sort
 The performance with reference tc the election bill began this forenoon Senator Wood, of Marcoipa county offered an amendment fixing the bil as it came from the house. Then i went to the enrolling and engrossin committee and was reported back il the afternoon. When put on passag il carried by the vote of IS to none one being absent. This unlucky in dividual was Harrison
 According to previous agreemen the bill relating to the removal 0