Arizona republican., 1912-02-28
Governor Hunt is Anxious That the Session Should Not Last More Than
 Sixty Days
CAN'T BE DONE
 SOME DECLARE
Important Work, it is Be lieved, Will Require More Time Than
 Anticipated

Politics have been reasonably ac-
 tive in Arizona for two years. There
 have been candidatorial breakfasts.
 nomination luncheons. and election suppers followed by combination
 nightmares, but all of the past eX perience along these lines promise
 to be as nothing compared to the epi sode which is in store for this fair i young member of the sisterhOOd" | just before and for some time after
 the convening of the first state legis l lature which event is scheduled by His EXcellency Governor George w. ! P. Hunt for March 18th
 What will the legislature do? is question which is giving some con- siderable pause to the citizenry at
 large and the members of the law making body particularly. Pending | the caucus. which will occur a few days before the opening session. sev- eral momentous questions must re-
 main unsolved. and it is altogether within the range of probability that even after the members of the house and senate have put their heads to- gether there will still be good many | things to be threshed out in commit | tee and on the floor.
 Governor Hunt has declared for an economical administration. and would
 like to have the legislature press the spurs into the legislative program and finish its work within the sixty day period prescribed by the constitution. hut Maricopa county members. and those from other counties, recently in
 the city are of the opinion that the great volume of law making neces sary properly to start the state upon it's way down the corridors of time cannot be accomplished in a pair of months. no matter how diligent the statesmen may be or how much
 "scrapping' they can get along without.
 Just at the present time there k
 tacit understanding on the part of the party leaders to rest upon their
 oars and let mater take her course" About the middle of March. however.
 mater will retire with such dignity as she may command. and the stage will be clear for the human history
 makers.
 There is decided disinclination 10 talk inside politics just now. Not | that politics are not discussed from | "early morn till dewey eve" in every
 hotel lobby. upon every street corner. and every park bench, but there is feeling on the part of the leaders l TOW in the city that they should not organize the legislature prior to the | actual assembling of that interesting l body. This sentiment will gradually recede until in a couple of weeks | there will be programs and states | ascending and descending in every direction, much after the fashion of | birdmen at an aviation meet.
 The first business which will con- i front the members after the gavel | falls on the day after St Patricks day in the morning" will be the cleo l ton of a president of the senate and
 speaker of the house. It is gener-
 ally conceded that Michael Cuniff, of | Yavapai. will have no opposition for | the honor in the senate. The repub-
 licans have not yet advanced a can didate to receive the honorary and perfunctory vote of the minority but
 one of the lonely quartet will be offered upon duty's altar and receive
 the undivided vote of the solid three ! If he votes for himself he will have
 a grand combined total of four votes. In the house there is a semblance
 Of d contest between Sam Bradner.
 ot Benson, and A. F. Lynch, of Solo
 monville, but as indicated by The
 Republican yesterday Bradner at this | stage looks a safe winner
 There are already several hundred applications on file for clerkships.
 secretaryships, pages, stenographers,
 and all of the etcetera which accom- pany a fully equipped law making
 body. Just how many places will be made for the faithful has not yet been determined, but it is a certain
 ty that about ninety mine per cent
 of the willing applicants are doomed
 to bloom and blush to fame uE-
 known
 When the legislature is finally or
 ganized one of the first of the inn
 portant acts will be the election of
 two United States senators. Because
 Of the primary vote this election will
 b. purely mechanical. Eloquent ora tors will point out the unrivalled
 merit of our distinguished fellow
 citizens than whom, etc, etc. each
 cration closing with the acclaimed
 names of the Honorable Henry Ash urst, and the Honorable Marcus
 Aurelius Smith exploded with rising infection. Then the legislature of
 the State of Arizona in joint session
 assembled will rise upon it's hind feet not to say upon the chairs and desks