Arizona republican., 1912-06-21
Deadlock Over the Registra- tion Bill Effected by the Small But Active Hand full of Republican Mem bers of That Body
UNCERTAINTY STILL
 AS TO ADJOURNMENT
This Day Will Exhaust the Appropriation; Serious Objection to Annulling Emergency Feature of the Constitution
Is the legislature still in session?

Is the legislature still in session?
 It is
 And somebody says it is the fault of the wicked republicans in the sen ate. There are just three of those wicked republicans ill the senate at the present writing and there are an even dozen democrats. Just how the three republicans have succeeded in bulldozing the twelve democrats and keeping them in session against their will presents a pretty problem that it might be worth the time of some citi- zen of leisure to figure out.
 They do say it is because the re- pubicans aforesaid will not let the democrats pass their primary bill. But just why the republicans should help the democrats with that bill has never been discovered. There was no great objection to the greater part of the measure on the part of the repub- licans. They have said in effect all the time. Give us a fair and just primary bill and We will be only too glad to vote for it. But they have opposed the so-called educational feature that runs through the demo- cratic election program-the feature that proposes the disfranchisement of some thousands of citizens of Arizona. They have opposed that scheme on principle and now that the democrats discover that they may not be able to put through their program mighty wall has gone up. It is wall that makes the vocal efforts of the bull of Bashan sound by compari son like the cooing of a turtle dove.
 And so the legislature is still 'in our midst" And this notwithstanding the fact that the appropriation is dwindling more and more. And as we tarry by the WaYside a new bill is thrown in once in awhile and the committee that has the primary bill in charge is trying to get somewhere but with no result that anybody has lately heard of.
 The registration bill has gone through It went through to the tune of twelve against the republican mi nority That was sufficient to pass the bill but it is not sufficient to pass it as an emergency measure, so it will not take effect until along about the middle of September. And the md dle of September is not so aWfully | long before the election. So, 1t is doubtful if the new registration law, which is about as simple as a prob 1 lem in comic sections, will take effect this year.
 1 Senators Wood. of Yavapai. Hecht- man and Hughes, of the upper house, 1 and Messrs Saxon, Murphy and Cooke, of the lower house. were in confer ence on the primary measure for cons iderable part of the time yeSter- day They didn't seem to get any where particularly and it has been nightly uncertain just what was likely to be done The house con- conferees were willing to make con sessions They offered to recede from their first position, that the house bill would be insisted upon and said they would accept the old prim- ary law with provision extending it's operation to state officers. But the majority of the senate committee stood pat for the unlimited yards of red tape that goes with its bill. And in the face of this condition the charge went out that the republican senators are holding up the senate and caus- ing the deadlock.
 But as a matter of fact the repub-
 
 body to bring the session to an end However. as stated above. there is matter or two on which they have worked and voted as a matter of Iprinciple and they have consistently occupied the same position since the various bills relating to registration nominations and elections were intro- duced.
 But all this sort of thing took sec ond place compared with a pretty lit- tie scrap between members of the democratic majority. This scrap was Iengendered by the scond attempt to
 fore through tlP bill providing for a constitutional amendment annulling the emergency feature of the consn- tution
 There was a sharp parliamentary skirmish between Senator Cunniff and Senator C. B. Wood when this Dill
 was called up at the forenoon session and Wood won. He prevented the consideration of the measure under suspension of the rules, as an emer- gency. which makes the situation rather funny one. The situation Is just this An emergency measure per mts the suspension of the rules and the passage of bill with almost no formality And it is this very sus- pension of the rules that MT. CunnHf invoked to secure the early passage or the bill. However, the attempt failed
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