Arizona republican., 1912-06-18
General Clearing of Decks in Both Houses for Ad- Journment Sine Die of the Special Session of Legis lature Tonight.
MUCH IS BOUND
 TO BE LEFT UNDONE
Side Light Thrown Upon Worsley- Roberts Bill for Abolition of Senate, But Which Is Really Aimed at the House.

Talk of adjournment has become l chronic with the legislature The law makers a week ago declared they
 would adjourn, but they didn't. They
 said the same thing Friday, with the same result They. said it again Sat 1 they are still with us Now they say.
 honest to goodness. they are going
 to quit this evening. and there is no doubt they will-if they don't change 1 their minds
 l And maybe they will quit this time. Not that they will get through with their work That would be expecting
 too much There are some things about which the house and senate are
 so widely divided that they have
 about as much chance of coming to- gether as they have on dozen other
 experimentation is next to none
 at all. But there is a limit to human endurance. as well as to human pa
 tience, and there is evidence that the 1 laWsmiths have about exhausted both. In the house yesterday there were a few fireworks set off when Messrs
 Kerr and Graham got into an argu- ment about the registration bill, and | they came so near to using the short and ugly word that there was no ! fun in it.
 1 And by the same token this regis
 tration bill is going to be a large sized bone of contention when it
 comes up in the senate Ditto, the
 primary bill. The senate, there is req H,T; l-.,, al
 to the sort of legislation the house | has performed on these two subjects
 and it is rather freely predicted there
 will be no registration or primary
 measues enacted by this legislature l And it is doubtful if any legislature 1 ever tried to pass a more complicated. bunglesOme and generally scrambled piece of legislation than is comprised 1 in these two measures that went l through the lower house yesterday. | If they become the law, it will be as hard to vote as to get into the inner most sanctum of the Ancient and 1 Honorable Order of High Mucka mucks They want a man to swear l that he is a democrat, a republican, | a socialist, or nothing at all. they are providing for a system of identi- l ficatiOn that closely approaches the Bertillon measurement scheme; there 1 is to be a redistricting of counties and q bundle of other things that are 1 impossible of identification. It is | doubtful if in the house, where there were some hours spent in discussing these measures, there are five mem bers who could tell you what they are all about if you were to ask them And it is no indictment of their intelligence at that.
 Among other things, the primary measure provides for a rotary ballot, by which scheme it is designed to give the Aarons and the Zebedcas all an even break That is, the ball )ts will be so scrambled that there will he but few on which the names ap- near in the same order. Hence the unlettered citizen will be shut off from all participation in the high md honorable calling of voting, if he has not already been moved down by the so- called educational qualification law.
 There was one neat little plan to
 help along his excellency, the gover-
 nor. when the registration bill was
 under discussion This neat little scheme was Spl uilS "llCh 'AiNF 'NA>
 talking about the work of regi stering
 voters who did not call in person on the recorder It was seriously pro-
 posed that this work should be done
 only by such nOtaries public as should
 be designated by the governor. But
 the plan was a little too raw, even
 for this legislature, and it was finally decided that these men should De designated by the county recorder
 The true inwardness, as Bill Wye would say. of the WOrsley- Roberts
 scheme of senatorial suicide, in other
 words. the scheme to amend the con-
 stitution to permit the abolition of the upper branch of the legislature,
 has been revealed. But it must be understood that this remark does not apply to Senator Worsley. Worslcy is essentially a socialist and stands for all the sOcialistic notions. But the other leaders in this movement
 the senators from Yavapai and Co.,
 chise counties-have an altogether
 different notion.
 Then truth of the matter is that the
 object is not so much a scheme to abolish the senate as it is a scheme to abolish the house The argument is that the real brains of the state is located in the senate anyway, and if one house should be abolished, then
 these men would be elected to the legislature and would crowd out the |