Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1914-12-15
ARIZONA NOW
HAS NINE NEW
ENACTMENTS
Governor Hunt Issues Elk
pected Proclamation De
claring Results Of Recent
Election on Ballot Propo-
SitiOnS

The governors proclamation declar-
ing laws those measures adopted at the
November election was issued late yes
terday afternoon. With its issuance,
two new constitutional amendments
and seven news acts were added auto
matically to the laws of Arizona, and
with the exception of the prohibition
amendment and the electrical constitute
ton law are now in effect.
The two amendments to the const-
tuition are those prohibiting the sale and
manufacture of intoxicating liquors
within the state of Arizona and provid-
ing a penalty for the violation thereof,
and the amendment providing that the
veto power OF the governor, or the pow
er of the legislature to repeal or amend,
shall not extend to initiative or refer
endum measures approved by ma
jority vote of the qualified electors.
The vote on the referendum on the
sections of the revised statutes 1913
providing for the establishment of a
new board of pardons and paroles re-
moved the cloud placed against the eff
fectiveness of that enactment of the
legislature by the referendum. This
referendum was invoked by the friends
of Governor Hunt, because the act as
written into the statutes limited the
right of he executive in such matters.
Proclamation of the adoption of this
law therefore practically amounts to
an admission of defeat by Governor
Hunt coming as it does as protest
against the wholesale granting of re-
prieves and paroles.
The other law referred to the people
for acceptance or rejection which. car
ried is that prescribing three cent
fare on all railroads operating within
the state. AS this law has already been
passed upon by the supreme court and
declared unconstitutional, it will have
no effect. The supreme court held that
the regulation of railroad rates was eX-
clusively vested in the corporation
commission by the constitution.
The four initiated measures which
are now in effect are: the anti black
list law, defining and prohibiting black
listing and unlawful interference with
pension act, which stipulates that all
almshouses shall be abolished and the
property sold to provide funds for old
age and mothers pensions; the 80 per
cent law, providing that any employer
of more than five workers shall en-
ploy not less than eighty per cent qua
lifted electors or native born citizens of
tho JTnitad tat ctth dfxriCion
thereof: and the industrial Pursuits law
aboishing the contract system on all
state construction and providing for
the construction, establishment, and
maintenance by the state of water
plants, gas plants. printing plants and
all other plants necessary for the OPP
GRAFTON and development of the resour-
ces of the state" The new law also
provides for the establishment and
maintenance of state banking system
and state printing plant, to print all
school books and do all state printing,
and appropriates "a sufficient amount
to carry out and put in effect its pro-
visions" from the general fund.
The new law regulating electrical
WHICH Is a copy Oh Tie eX-
listing California law, goes into effect
six months from the date of its passage,
in so far as it relates to construction
and new work and allows a period of
five years in which all existing work is
to be changed to conform with its pro-
visions.
Prominent among the measures
which went into effect yesterday on
the issuance of Governor Hunt's proc
lamation is the so per cent. law, pro-
tests against which were lodged with
the state department by the Itaailn
and British embassies on the ground
that it constitutes violation OF
treaties between the United States
and those nations. Copies of the law
have been forwarded to Washington
and, in spite of the fact that it has
already gone into effect, are now be-
ing gone over carefully by Secre-
tary Bryan and members of the for
eign embassies.