Arizona republican., 1912-03-19
Organization Was Partly Effected at Meeting Held Yesterday Only a Few of Appointments Have Been Made.
STEAM ROLLER
 DID THE WORK
Program, Which Included the Election of Sam Bradner to the Speaker ship, Went Through Without a Hitch.

| With both the stuffy little galleries | of the chambers crowded to capacity and no great room to spare on the | floors. both houses of the first state ! legislature of Arizona were called tD order yesterday as nearly at the | noon hour as events could be timed | The prelimnaries recited below were 1 disposed of seating NJ C. Cuniff as president and Samuel P Bradner aS speaker. naming T. k. Howe as sec retary of the senate until the arrival | of Judge McCullOm from Globe naming Ben F. Thum as secretary | of the house. Jos. l.. Wiley of Tucson
 as sargent at arms of the senate and 1 Walter Brawncr for the same office ! in the house and then-they were l off for the building of the fabric of AriZOna's statutory law. Of course the paths were taken in both houses 1 before Alfred Franklin. chief justice | of the supreme court harmony speeches were made by all who as- sumed official responsibilities. either | temporarily or permanently and for
 the time being all weapons of of fense and defense were as effeCtuallv i concealed as though hatchets had
 never been. If there are bleeding
 wounds. and there are, the hemorr- haze for the time being is internal
 The proclamation for the assembl- ing of the legislature said at II l0'clOck. but it was held in some !quarterS. even by the governor him
 self. that the statutes and precedent
 should prevail and the people who had assembled in numbers to give their representatives an suspicious start. chafed under the delay and wondered what was holding up the procession. It was easily explained tu those who asked why F o'clock should be the hour for starting things but no light was ever thrown on the mystery of why another ten minutes was allowed to align itself with leternity before the house got into laction. After all the fuss and furore tat the alleged tardineSs of the late Icanvassing board. here was d house ialmOst Solidly democratic letting
 time slip away by seconds, even by
 minutes before power was applied
 to the legally constituted and fully equipped lawmill. designed to shat
 ter the last bond of vassalage. lift the yoke Of Serfdom and liberate q, lfree born sovereign commonwealth.
 But it did not last long and in the meantime the audience was well en-
 tertained by Rastus and Rufus who
 did all that two faithful colored men
 could 10 make the prospective states
 men comfortable. First they entered
 with d cartload of packages one fo.'
 each member. in each of which was a copy of the revised statutes This volume will look frazzled indeed m , another sixty days. Then they alter
 mated through the chambers leaving on each desk d bottle of ink. Sub 7 sequcnt trips left each member a bill
 file. desk file. d pad of legal cap. | shears. paper knife. bottle of ink.
 pen. pocket knife and other necessities.
 There was a deal of conferring and lmuCh humor eXtant. among republi-
 cans as well as democrats. for the
 former have done nothing yet tO : OstraciZe themselves from the gener ]. al society of which the fundamental l principles are harmony and good fel-
 lowship The two houses proceeded
 with separate organiza ton sessions and shortly before . o'clock took a
 recess to reassemble again in the = house chamber in joint session to \ hear reaiing of the governors message V The reassembling was prompt ana lGoVernOr Hunt appeared in person 9 and read his message which appears
 elsewhere in this paper, in full.
 At the conclusion of the message :, which took about two hours 10 de .. liver, each house reassembled in its
 Town chamber but did nothing of i'm ' pOTtance except to fix an hour fol ., meeting today. The house having ap-
 pointed al committee on rules. WhCt e is supposed to be working during laS u night. decided tO reConvene this u morning at 10 o'clock In the mean . time it K supposed Speaker Bradnel o vii have been able to select some t iof the important committees tha > Legislation may proceed as quickly = as possible. The committee on rule' e was the only one of a permanen character appointed.
 i In the senate none nf the perman O ent committees was appointed yester a day and the president requested eacl $ member to apprse him of his pref l. erences on the various committees t that he might be guided to as satis
 factory appointments as possible II There was d rather extended debat, 2. in the senate as to the hour of dail. . meeting All seemed inclined l.
 meet early as general practice an' I d few of the members thought tn I senate should get to grinding by
 lo'clock this morning but after | , was pointed out that the body stil
 lCnntinued on Paoa 5l