Weekly journal-miner., 1912-08-07

over the labor lien law. When that hil was before the Legislature 1t ,eeasioned a good many heartburn ,nes. largely because the senators from Yavapai county, who had loud lv proclaimed themselves many times and oft as true. blown-in-thc- ho,,le friends of the proletariat and yho. nevertheless, when 1t came to ,he test. fought this bill in face of ,be fact that its enactment vas demanded by practically all the working people of the state. says the Phoenix Republican.
 Bu, the really interesting part of inc affair came recently. when Sen ator II. A. Davis began shooting political grape and canister at both Mir. Cunniff and H. R. Wood, the yayapai senators, for their opposi- ton to the measure. There has been some talk also that referendum oe,ition will be put out in Yavapai county for the purpose of killing inc measure before 1t should become effective.
 If is said that Homer Wood is hack of this alleged movement, though Mir. Wood has SO far made nc statement as to his position. But at all events the matter has assumed wide spread interest and because of that fact the real history of the measure in the Legislature at this time will not be out of place.
 To get at the gist of the matter, then. it may be mentioned that while the present state officers were making their campaigns in Gila and Cochise county promises were ax- acted from them by the miners that they would use their influence in securing the passage of laborers' lien act
 When the Legislature assembled a bill was drawn and introduced in the House by w. J. Graham. oi Cochise county, and passed that branch of the Legislature with 1t. tle or no opposition. When is reached the Senate it was referred to the judiciary committee, of which Senator Hechtman, of Gila county was chairman. At first that com mittee thought the bill could be improved by amendment. It wa' said in the form in which 1t wcn' from the House it might be un constitutional and there was prop osition so to change the measure a' to eliminate that danger. However there were some members of tho lower House who protested SC vigorously that the committee yield ed and made a favorable report or the bill, recommending its passage in the precise form in which was passed through the House Senators Hechtmen, Wood of Mari copa, Wood of Yavapai, Worsley Pace, Hughes and Hubbel wer members of the Senate judiciar. committee.
 Then the bill was placed on tn calendar of the committee of tn whole where it stayed for som time.
 One day. for reasons best know to himself. Senator C. E. Wooo concedediy the best Democrat parliamentarian in either House, oi iered a resolution instructing tn committee of the whole to place tn laborers' lien bill, the bills for tn recall of federal judges and Unite States senators, the Carey irr'gatio bill, the drainage bill. the pawn bill, the bill relating to the stat auditor, the game bill, and wha was known as the North America Indian bill on the preferred eaier dar.
 It Is evident that this was rath' shrewd move. There was not member of the Senate but was II terested in some one or more these bills and by this blanket res' lution senators were required vote for the laborers' lien bill vote against their own pet measur ir was a most interesting situatio
 This resolution, as shown by u record, was opposed by the io' senator's from Yavapai and Cochis II. R. Wood, N. C. Cunniff, L. Roberts and Dr. Sims. All Il other senators voted for the passa' of the resolution.
 Every one of these bills receive favorable action and eventually D came laws. The laborers lien D was first passed through the COT mittee of the whole without oppo