Arizona republican., 1912-05-06
CUNN|FF DOES NOT LIKE THE KING MEASURE Popular Recall of Federal Judicial Officers Does Not Look Good to
 Him. SENATE WILL
 UPHOLD HUNT Will Probably Turn Down Measure Designed to Sheer Executive of
 His Power
SENATE WILL
 UPHOLD HUNT

Every day there are people drop into the galleries at the capitol building to see the legislative wheels make impassioned speeches, see them tear their hair (almosO, listen to | the clerks and secretaries committing red handed murder on the English
 language in reading bills and resolu- tiOns, observe the roll calls; and the3 go away thinking they have seen legislation in the making. But they haven't seen anything of the kind. The truth is the legislation-the really important legislation-is not made at the capitol building. At least it is not made in open session. It is made in committees and in con- l ference. Occasionally, or rather fre- quently. it is made at riaces far removed from the capitol building. probably in the room of some down. town hotel. Or, it may be shaped up over cup of coffee and a cigar at late supper. The man who i thinks the really Interesting thing are done on the floor of the legis- lStive chambers belongs to that un- sophisticated class that tuys green goods and Jersey swamps by mail It is true some of the developments | take place on the floor and soIne- ! times these developments are quite l interesting. I or instance, if one had | sat in the 5rnat" gallery 8 few days l ago he WoIlG have noticed that a 1 federal recall bill was introduced. That bill was prepared by a gentle
 man named King, the agent for a l referendum league, or scmething Cf l that sort who has conceived the idea i that the ship of state is simply go- l ing on the rocks ker-pluuk unless he can get his legislation through. ! The bill was put into the senate 1 hopper and then it was taken out again. Then it was reintroduced: but when it went in the second time it went in as two bills One of them
 related to federal judges and the
 other to United States senators. 1 Now, just why was the program changed?
 1 It was changed at the behest of one man. It happens that this "one
 man. wields considerable influence in 1 the senate, since he is the presiding
 officer ox that body. His name is Michael G. Cunniff and he calls | Yavapai county niS home. MT. Gun niff said the two subjects were not | related-that the bill looked like the l Siamese twins and the parts should
 be amputated each from the other. Then it was that the senate took l Michael G. Cunniff at his word. The bill was withdrawn and sent to the leislative hospital, otherwise the conn., mittee which had the measure in 1 charge: and the necessary surgical work was performed with neatness and dispatch. And the committee re- ported the twins in good health and l likely to survive the operation. Wherefore, they were thrown into 1 the hopper again.
 But MT Cunniff fails to feel any affection for the judiciary recall bill 1 The recall of the senators looks req 1 sonable to him but the other one Is | anathema So Michael has done a
 good deal of fiddling lately. When
 ever the bill tried to get by he has
 been standing in its path Whenever !! it wanted to be voted upon, MT. l Cunniff saw several good reasons 1 why the vote should not be taken. 1 So the senate has dallied along. just
 because it's president couldn't see 1 clear to let the recall Dld pass. Aiid it is dallying still.
 And do you suppose the people who sit in the galleries to watch the
 wheels go round saw any of that? Indeed they did not.
 And how many of the visitors to the senate galleries know what IS likely to be done with the house board of control bill? That bill. you | know. is something of a Delilah. It is designed to shave Governor Hunts potent locks (what he has left) ana
 mt 2. copper riveted crimp in his authority over state institutions. It
 is designed to stop all tEis prison
 reform business by placing the state
 penal and other institutions in charge
 of a board of control, consisting or
 the governor, the secretary or state
 the auditor, treasurer. and the chalr-
 man of the corporation commlsslon' IT is notice able that all of these or
 ficars are elective; and it is hardly
 supposabIe they would all stand py
 the chief executive in carrying out
 his schemes.
 This hill was an idea of the house. IT was introduced in that body anu
 uaS nassed by the vote Of 70 10 It,
 ;ndicating that that beautlfut mar
 nonv which we have been told exists
 between the governor and the house
 of representatives once in While slips cog. And then the plu WIS
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