Bisbee daily review., 1914-12-03
POOR FARMS SAVED FROM
 FORCEOSALE
Now Appears Liklihood State and County Institutions May Not be Abolished By Bill Intended to Destroy.
MOTHERS PENSION
 ACT IS DEFECTIVE
Word Almshouses, Intended
 Include County Hospitals, Probably Will Not be so h. terpreted by State Courts.

Probably Will Not be so h.
 terpreted by State Courts.
 That the prime purpose of the lab or element Of the state who enacted and framed the old Age and Moth er's Pension initiative bill is defeated by the very ignorance Of the people who drew up the measure. now seems possible. and there is a great likel- hood that the county hospital and poor farms will remain intact, re- gardless of the intentions Of the bill. This Is the opinion Of several of the best versed attorneys of the district who were yesterday interviewed on the matter
 The point on which the framers of the bill have erred in the opinion of the attorneys questioned, is in the use of the word "almshouses," Ac- cording 10 legal interpretation of the word, when the matter Of doing away with tho county farms and poor houses and hospitals comes be- fore the courts of the state they can not be construed Co come under the heading almshouses" and the bnl will fail in doing away With the char itable institutions at which 1t is aimed The provision of the bill which would abolish all institutions in the state of the character of the county hospital reads as follows:
 "All almshouses within the state shall be abolished their grounds and buildings sold for the best obtainable price and the proceeds shall be de voted to the purposes hereinafter set forth in this act"
 That the term "almshouses" as used in the act is intended to include the county poor farms and the county hospitals is evident from close reading of the argument submitted in favor of the bill by the framers of the measure, the Arizona State Fed eration of Labor, and Bert Davis president Of the federation. Through out the whole of the argument there ! is the same tenor of feeling toward the county institutions. and in sever al places these institutions are actu ally pointed out as the intended sac lrifices of the bill
 The last sentence in the first para graph Of the argument submitted is one of the most open statements oI the labor federation's stand on tn, abolition Of the poor farms It states I've, or our forefathers, at the close of the revolution. adopted the Eng fish system Of caring for the poor with this marked difference: W. called our homes for the indigent poor houses as distinguished iron the English prisons, but this wal merely distinction" Again MT Davis states Poor or almshouset Rre relic, etc." here definitely stat ing that the county farms, poor hous es and hospitals are what the bil would do away with
 Before election little attention wa
 paid to the measure, since the evi dent intent Of the bill was no
 brought to the attention of the pee pie and there was little expectanc
 generally that it would pass in th
 initiative However, since the cleo
 ton is past and it has become know that the framers of this measure hay
 secured its passage. the county gov Iernments of the several units of Oh | state have signified their intentio
 on numerous occasions of fightin
 the bill and of maintaining for tn
 future as they have in the past thei
 poor farms and their accompanyin
 hospitals
 It is highly probable that the meal
 ure will be taken to the courts fo
 their interpretation of the word "alm houses" as soon as the proclamatio of the governor completes the wor
 Of the federation which passed th
 measure. and the general legal ei pression is that the measure will b defeated in its main purpose-ths of doing away with tho institution at which it is aimed.
 However. there Is established tContinued on Page TWO