Bisbee daily review., 1913-01-29
OSBORN REPORT
 E NOW READY
Secretary of State Will h. sist Necessary Changes Be Made in Law Con-
 trolling Elections
SOME ARE IMPOSSIBLE

PHOENIX. Ariz. Jan 2s.-Be- tween February IA. 1912, the day on which Arizona became a state, and December 3l. the office ot Secretary Of State Sidney P. Osborn collected sl21S9.z5 The expenses o, the of fec for that perIod. including all sal. aries. were Sfs.55244, leaving a ne, profit of more than 20,000.
 Secretary Osborn thinks this profit entirely too great and he win say so in reports that he is now preparing Tor submission Co the governor and legislature.
 The report to the governor VIII b, submitted within two or three days and the one to the legislature a short time after that body meets in special session. The one going to the legis- lature will poin out the necessity of revising the election laws. Various changes in other laws affecting the secretarys office will be strongly ad- yocated.
 Changing Election Laws.
 It is provided in the election laws that by the first Monday of the thiro month preceding an election the sec. retary shall have ready for distribu- ton printed pamphlets containing the constitutional amendments and bills to be referred at such election. The pamphlets shall be mailed to aIl reg. istered voters sixty days prior to the election.
 Dut the constitution gives citizens the right to file initiative and refer. endum petitions up to 90 days prior to an election. lt is maHifestly i'm. possible to have all the amendments and bills printed 90 days before. Last year oEly the amendments referred by the legislature and eq'al sui frage amendment were in the cfice of the secretary August ,. the iifei Monday of the third month preceding the election. They were printed and pamphlet containing the other meas ures was distributed in order to com ply with the spirit of the law.
 Reeistratios Provision
 AEnthcr point O5 conflict Is that reSistration Is Permitted up tc zt days before an election. By far the heaviest registratioR is within 90 days prior to the closing of the books ! Pamphlets cannot be mailed out tC all voters 60 days before an election because many register later. Secretary Osborn will strongly urge that provision be made to prin copies Of each law as soon as il ii | passed by the legislature. and fol their free distribution to interested parties. Under the present systen no pEinted copies are available til the sessions laws are published which is usually about 60 days aftei ! rhe close Of a session. In the mean | time, persons requiring copies O ' laws must have certified copies pre- ! pared in the office Of the secretary | Under the law a charge of 20 cents s 1 folio is made for that work Las 1 spring the legislature appropriated $500 10 employ extra stenographers tC prepare certified copies. The $3Oj | was expended and in SO days the re oeipts for copies were S2G72O2. Many persons were gOuged heavily to pay ! that profit Of SI70O and over.
 Few Copies of Journal Wanted. Five hundred copies of the legisla tive journals were printed at cost [ of S2450.55, an exceptionally low bit ! being received. Less than 2J0 copies were distributed. Secretary Osborn says that the S3450.55 was wasted and he will recommend that no nor, money be spent in printing journals It cost S2727.70 to have the session laws printed and the return from ths copies sold was $92120 The initia tive and referendum publicity pamph lets cost $229122. As a result Of tbt motor vehicles registration law S10. 45S was collected. the expenses being S99S.5O. At. s2.50 apiece 6S5 notaria commissions were issued. a total o S1712.5e.
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