Bisbee daily review., 1912-02-14
CHANGES COME
 IN NEW STATE
Not All Smooth Sailing for Pilots at Helm of the Various
 Departments
PROBLEMS PRESENTED

! | StOtflLNtsD RtJIDBl4N Gl lt | As people watch the heavens on New Years eve to atch the portent of the budding year, so will Arizon- ans today watch the political heavens 1 for visible signs of the invisible transition from a territory 10 state. : Precinct officers will look eagerly tor news from Tombstone today to near what the neN board of super yisors Will do with the yeXing pre- cinct question. which. like a tail wag. ging l dog. has created more dis. cussiCn than any other feature of the birth of the state Of Arizona. Win the supervisors grant certiti- cates of election to the officers who were elected on December l3 to fill precinct offices, or will they accept Attorney General Bullard's interpre- tation of the law and regard the old precinct officers as hold-overs?
 Would Abolish Office
 4 Pima county representative has prepared a bill which he will intro duce into the legislature that will ! "kibolish' constables. That would | be one way Of solving the trouble some question It is reported that 1 the board of supervisors may disre. gard the election and name one con stable for the city of Bisbee. though 1 this Is not official
 Another incident tending to show ! that the times are out of joint" is that there will be no United States l commissioners until new set or crop of them is named by the judge of the federal court 6r the district of Arizona. When the president signs the admission proclamation to- day, Jared D. Taylor's figuratiye robe of office as United States commis- { sioner. in and for Bisbae. will drop from his shoulder and vanish, pool.
 like that.
 Hiatus Is Here
 1 The commissioners are a part of the fedeI-l courts. which will cease to exist today. and whose functions will be inherited by the new federal court Of the district of Arizona. While it is believed and reported on good authority that the president will send his nomination of Richard F.. | Sloan as judge of the Arizona dis
 
 sibility that he may not, and just SO i lCng as this nomination is deferred or postponed. just so long will there be no United States commissioners in the state of Arizona. If the nomi- nation of Sloan and the confirmation by the senate are made today. there will be no hitch, and. according to United States Attorney J. E. Nor risen. there may not be a hitch in any event. The new federal code that went into effect on January 1, contains a provision that, Mir. Morrl- sen believes, will cover a contingent cy such as the present situation seems to contain.
 Is Up to Mayor
 According to this provision, in the event there is no nited States com missioner, a preliminary action grow ing out ol violation of United States law could be instituted before Mayor Newman. Of Bisbee. or before a num- Der of other officials named in the provision. The section reads as fol lows:
 Sec. 1,O14. For any crime or i cffenss against the United States, tho offender may, by any Justice or Judge of the United States, or by any commissioner of a circuit court 10 take bail, or by any chancellor, judge of a suPfeme or superior court, chief or first judge of common pl5l2s. mayor of city, justice of the peace Or other magistrate Of any state where he may be found and agree ably to the mode of process against offenders in such state and at the f expense of the United States, be ar rested and imprisoned, or hailed, as the case may be, for trial before such court of the United States as by law = has cognizance of the offense."
 Another wrikle in the bosom of Arizona's full dress shirt is that until congress affords relief, the United states attorney and the U~,ed 1 SIl,ss marshal will work without compensation. The appropriation rom which their salaries are paid is for the United States marshal and the United States attorney of the territory of Arizona" There being no territory of Arizona, there will he no pay. This is the case from a technical standpoint, as congress will. at the request of the depart rnent of justice. remedy this defect of omission.
 Yet Another Problem
 Here's another nut for the sharps of the science of government to crack. United States Attorney Nor rison and United States Marshal Overlook and federal officials of the territory of Arizona" They hold office under commissions which state that they are official for the government in the territory of Ari- zor!' Query: Between the time of the signins of the admission proc lamation and the reappointment or these officials by the president, what will be their status? Win it be an interregnum in which they shall |, cease to officially exist? | Ordinarily, any official is consid- cred to be in ofihee until his sueces- so- is elected or appointed As there will be no successor to the United States attorney or the United States n1- -rshal for the territory of Ari- ZOna" this further wrinkles the sit