Arizona republican., 1914-10-31
Arizona Republicans Editorial Page

tire The referendum inv &c, by the railway
companies ald the law was RATIFIED by the people
a ne election Of 1872. 1t was ant.".ri al the next
of the Legislature AMI again the referendum
was invoked, bringing it before the people next
Tuesday Meanwhile the railway company went
to Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals for relief
from its r,,n isons. and tie is still pending.
Since then the United States Supreme Court in the
Shreveport practically removes from the state
the power do what this law proposes to do. Also
the supreme of this state in another has
held, in effect, that this law conflicts with the
authority of the corporation commission vested in
by the state constitution Therefore, what the
people may do with this bill will be of no effect.
Nos. 3O4-3O5 and -307 provide respectively for
the creation of new counties changing of
county seats. These laws enacted by the
legislature it's last session and referendum
applied by residents of northern Cochse county
to prevent the removal of the county seat from
Tombstone under its provisions. Both of these
measures are improvements upon present methods.
No. 50S-309 is the first of the initiated bills, I'M
dertaken the instance of the state admlnlstra-
ton to abolish capital punishment
Bill 310-311 provides for the semi annual pay
ment of taxes, making one-half of The taxes due
this fall and payable in December payable at that
June While the passage of this measure might
cause some temporary embarrassment to the school
fund, the principle involved is undoubtedly so"ho
and would materially relieve the people.
Six proposed acts, the so-called labor bills were
initiated by the Arizona Federation OF Labor. They
are numbers 312-313 31435, 31S319, 22032l 32E-325
and 1925. They known as the blacklist
ing making it unlawful for any employing person
firm corporation inquire into the antecedents
applying for employment; the eighty per
cent law, requiring that at least four OF every 1Ne
persons employed by a person. firm or corporation
snail be qualified electors native born citizens of
the United States; the old and mothers pension
act to which the only objection offered is that the
state cannot afford at this time TO establish such
a system of pensions it provides; the so-calied
Australian act. requiring every tax payer TO
be his own assessor, leaving the state the priv-
lcge of buying his property at the estimate he places
upon it for purposes of taxation; act to regu-
late the placing of electric poles; and the public
welfare" act authorizing the board of control to
plunge the into sort of enterprise with
out limitation as to the of money to be
raised by direct taxation or bond issues for that
purpose
No 316-317 appropriates $4,000 to enable the state
to participate in the San Francisco and San Diego
cxposons, a bill for that purpose having been de-
fcated in the Legislature.
The last of the initiated bills 326-327 proposes the
division of ella county and the creation Of Miami
county.
Many these measures, especially 102-10S, 1OS-
f0e sos 500 512-S13, 51S-319 320-321 and 324-325
have been discussed at considerable length and ad-
versely by The Republican We believe that the
best interests of the will he served by their
defeat by such majorties that they will not be soon
proposed again.