Arizona republican., 1913-02-19


 lures. Upon d roll call vote on the | amendcmtn II representatives only voted no, which would send it to the committee on petitions. Under this ruling il vas sent to the axe" com mittec.
 This was too much for Captain kelton. Before the ink was dry on the roll "all vote he was on his feet and had resigned from the chairman ship of the committee on petitions, memorials and remOnstrances. When asked last night why, he said, T felt that the house had not confi- I dcnce enough in me handling the situation. and where l have not the confidence of my colleagues 1 will refuse to serve"
 In the senate about the same thing was happening except that the pres 1 dent acted first As soon as the reading had been done he started to refer the bill to the judiciary committee. but Brown of Pinal, urg- 1 ed that 1t be sent to the committee 1 on state accounting and methods of business" Senator Lovin said il 1 should be sent to a special commit I of that sort were going on, the sen ate had q right to know about it. Roberts moved a compromise refer ence to the committee on county and county affairs In any event Brown lis on the committee that handles the r.attcr.
 In the house the reference to the l axe committed is expected to bring developments in the course of d day or two. The same committee
 is sti1l considering the auditors re- port, and both documents are striC- lures upon the administration of the penitcntiary. it is thought that the oft times threatened and rumored in vcstigation committee may result, this however is merely rumor.
 Last night meeting of the gov ernor's supporters the house and senate with Mulford Wnsor chair man of the land commission and the governor himself held an informal but nevertheless important session all to themselves in the senate chamber of the state house. How ever in speaking of the proposition r yesterday afternoon. Governor Hunt . the management of the pcnitentiary p We have nothing to be ashamed oi p and nothing to apologize for. We ] have done what we believed to bt [ right. In his message on the ques- { tion delivered to the house and sen : ate at the opening of the present f session We are willing to stand [ or fall by the record
 To the members of the senate ant |. house of representatives. first lcgis !" .aturc of tho State of Arizona: | Gcntlcmcn:
 : Your petitioners. the undersigned ? citizens and residents of the towi
 of Florence, Pinal county. Arizona
 have for ten months past been silcn
 victims or the governors misconccp
 tion of prison reform. We have en I durcd in silence the outrageous in dignitics and annoyanccs this so-call
 ed reform has inflicted on us as
 whole, in the hope that our chief ex
 ecutive might after a little eXper U fence realize that his present ultra 1 reform ideas are both impractica
 and dangerous and adopt prisol
 reform policy based on common
 sense and sanity; but in this hop
 We have been disappointed and ca
 no longer in justice to ourselve
 and families endure without vigorou
 protest this probably well meant. bu
 idiotic prison reform policy whic is has become to the safety and tn T social moral and financial weIfar
 of this community.
 Ever since Miss Kate Bernard St 4 l main street in q buggy with murder K CT Louis V. Eytinge. stopping i I front of Joe Days ice cream parlC o and enjoying an ice cream soda wit
 her convict escort, convicts hay S' been running at large on our street - in citizens dress with no mark
 badge on them by which they mgl l. be recognized as convicts. They m and minsle with our youth at wi ~ and this of course. has q tenden( to impress upon the youthful mir b. that conVicts are not such bad fe
 lows" after all, and that punishmeI od for crime in this state does n amount to anything more than r ' Quiring the offenders to call at u h- prison for their meals and lodgin Ss We are taxed to build and mainta nd q reform school upon the theory tn
 it is unWise and un -Christianlike
 incarccrlte juvenile offenders again u the law in the state prison, with t
 adult criminals because the degra a's ing influence which association wi
 he adult criminals would have up
 inc imprcssionable minds of t
 young. Are the crfminally inclin u- law defying youth to thus sa 1's guarded against contaminating q
 socations, yet the honorable and I
 spcctable youth of this commun to be exposed to it merely to grati 'cn the governors lust for notoriety id the originator of startling stunts
 reform.
 Many of these convicts at libel 'c under the so-called honor system )t., are neatly dressed well educated. In- tercstinG conversationajists, prep' oc sessing in appearance and would {
 perience- no difficulty in imposi A' their company upon ineXperient se- and unsuspecting young girls; hen
 every father and mother of the to