Arizona republican., 1912-04-15
Almost Half the Session Is Gone and Not Mony Laws Have Been Enacted By the Peoples Representa- tives
RECALL BILL
 IS HANGING FIRE
And There Are Many Other Matters of Both Interest and Importance on Which Action Has Not Yet Been Taken

If you get down your little cal cndar this morning and take look at it's rows of figures, remembering of course. that this is the third Mon day in the month. you will discover that today is the fifteenth of April Then if you do simple little sum in arithmetic you win make the inter- esting discovery that just three days hence it will be the eighteenth.
 That's a simple enough proposition but it is rather significant anyway. The significant part of it lies in the fact that on the eighteenth, which is Thursday, one half the legislative ses- sion will be al the tail end of the procession and that whatever is done will have to be done within the re maining thirty days And thirty days are not as long as sixty by ever so many.
 All of which leads up and apper tains to the little fact that the legis- laure has been using up some mighty precious minutes and doesn't seem to have accomplished a great deal Doubtless there is hardly d man in ither house but can show you by irrefutable arguments that every sec onJ has been used to the very best advantage and that really stupen dous things have been accomplished. But all the same. it really does look to those on the outside that if there had not been quite 50 much oratory and more business the lawmakers would have been just a trif'e farther along.
 This condition of affairs, of course, has given rise to considerable talk Of an extraordinary session. But as that is in the hands of '-he governor there is no telling just what will come of it. However, there is at least an even break that extra time may be an absolute necessity for the enact- mcnt of legisiation which now seems indispensable.
 But to give credit where credit is due. it must be said there IS one mat ter regarding which the legislature has been in no sense remiSs. That is in the introduction of bills. The 200 mark was passed long ago and the flood shows no sign of abatement. There are bills of all sizes pedigreas. and complexions. Apparently the lawmakers have started out to reform everything in sight or that they ever heard of: and it will not be their fault if they don't get it done
 At present Senator Worsley and Senator Wood hold the belt as the champion bill introducers. Each has little matter of 9 or so to his credit The man wno beats their record will have to get up earlier in the morning than legislators are in the habit of doing.
 There were several surprises rhe past week, the chief one being the de- feat of the bill requiring the union label on state printing. There was some surprise that the legislature took the declared unconstitutionality of that bill seriously. It will be re- called that there was proposition from one member to pass the bill anyway. and then fix up the const tu,ion to suit Just why that clever suggestion was not followed is not quite clear
 There is already some talk among the suffragists that the defeat of the suffrage bill in the legislature is only temporary setback. Some of then are talking of initiative proceedings to get the matter before the people; and they point out that if that course be pursued no time will have beer lost after all Even in the event ot the submission of an amendment by the legislature the election would no' have been held until next November and it is pointed out that it will no be difficult to arrange, by means oi the initiative for a vote at that time
 The real feature of the suffrage vote was q further demonstration 0 the fact that the democratic majorit! is not taking the referendum witt any great degree of seriousness. Tn, repudiation of that doctrine in tin matter of the various emergency bills so- called. is one evidence of thei state of mind; and the defeat of tn suffrage amendment is another Tn man who can figure out that thi legislature is friendly to the refer enJum is a mathematician worth to be classed with Newton and L Place.
 For the coming week the principa matter of interest will be the recal This bill has had d funny history. was probably the simplest measur the democratic majority had to enac but it has caused more trouble tha