Arizona republican., 1912-06-22
Members of the Senate Were Put Into a Cheer full and Even Jovial Mood for the Days Grind by a Prayer
SINGLE THING IN WAY
 OF ADJOURNMENT
Probability of Passage of the Registration Bill; Agreement Reached by Both Houses on Primary Bill

If Chaplain Crutchfield hadn't come to the rescue yesterdays session of the Arizona legislature would have been as dry as any other part of the American desert But the chaplain, always to be relied upon, was there with the ecclesiastical goods. He seen his duty and done it noble. It may be the petition the chaplain sent to the throne of divine grace yesterday morning was not quite up to that notable, effort with which he launched Arizona and the Hunt administration upon their joint and several careers: but considering the circumstances and the audience the good dominic did well-very well, indeed. He advised the Lord regarding the Arizona leg isiature-tOld the Creator it is a very good legislature and even if the boys have made a mistake now and then they didn't go to do it." Then he turned his attention to the repubi- can convention at Chicago, prayed that the country be delivered from the rule of graft and grafters' and admOnished the Lord that If we have to endure another republican admin istration" he would expect the Gre ator to do the best He could for us under the circumstances.
 When MT Crutchfield made that suggestion to the Lord it really seemed he didn't expect to get much results-it seemed quite plain he re- gards republican rule as a calamity too great even for divine correction But when he began to talk about he Oa1 changed and the revered gentleman became so eXuberant that no one would have been surprised if he had Duplicated his inauguration day per- formance and turned the solemn pe- titiOn into stump speech
 It afforded vast amusement to the senators and it's dollars to a hole in the ground that they each and all felt like giving the preacher a vote of thanks for giving them such a hilarious start on the days work
 And really they needed it. In both the house and senate there was al- most nothing doing worthy of the name. It is true there was another prizefight bill-and the primary bill was passed, but there has been so much primary talk lately that it is beginning to pail somewhat
 The prizefight bill was put in by Harry Davis This bill merely re- enacts the old territorial statute which Harry thinks has been repealed because it was superseded by one of Uncle Sam's perfectly good statutes which in turn went by the board when Arizona got into the union. thereby running the animus furandi afoul the sine qua nOn-and a few other things like that that every law yer will be able to understand and which the layman has no business to anyway. But the gist of it is that Harry is afraid if we don't get some legislation along this line pretty soon there will be an invasion of Jack JohnsOns and Jim Jeffres and Ad Wolgasts and so on ad in finitum. Wherefore the introduction of the bill, which, by the way, didn't get anywhere in particular, but has gotten as far as it is ever likely to get, at that.
 There was one other little incident that is worthy of mention-the Gun nice Worsley proposition to slaughter the emergency clause by means of
 
 was the only man to speak at length on the bill He made a poetic appeal in which he likened the constitution to a pretty girl who covers her face here and there with a court plaster or leecheS or plaster of paris, or something of that sort-putting on piece after piece until the before mentioned pretty and kissable face is nearly covered with the patches And so, Mir. Wood said, MT. Cunniff and his followers are about to put on these amendment patches until after awhile we will not be able to recog- niZe the fundamental law at all
 The bill was lost, as a matter of course Everybody had seen that be- forehand. Even Senator Kinney, whose name was attached to the measure. voted against it. Senator Hughes took a rather peculiar stand He said he didn't know that the submission of such an amendment would do any harm and so he would vote for it.
 However, there were only eight votes for the bill or two less than the required number
 At a late hour yesterday afternoon the senate received the primary law from the conference committee and voted to accept the amendments. The most important change is this meas ure is the insertion of a clause sim liar to that which is in the California