Bisbee daily review., 1915-04-27
Tuesday Morning, April 27, 1915.
THE s25,ooo GRAB


 We congratulate the members of Che legislature assembled in extra session upon their introductory yitesf their cousciences are clean and if the proner of congratulations will not leave them shameaced We iecate Governor Hunt in his capacity as chief keeper of the States honor and the to whom the legisa- ure rghly looks for gudanceif he can accept these felcitatons with pure cart and clean hands.
 Our condolences are reserved for the people of Arl zona for the taxpayers who contribute their tthes the assumption that the money will be used honestly as would the proceeds of a trustfund
 In the absence of any stern protest from Governor Hunt it not to assume that he endorsed the ap propraon of 225ooo for the expenses of the extra sion? Is not fair to assume that he delivered his hand and seal this legislation by contract? Pause moment to consider this procedure Mir. Taxpayer!
 Tie legislature was summoned in extraordinary ses. sion i'd accomplish two specific obiects-the appropra- ton Of money legitimate expenses of the State and the passage of measure In all reason, both these duties should have been performed by the regular session But they were not Yet the same legislature which was guilty of dereliouon in duty is again invited to and continue deliberations" on basis of s25oOo for whatever ATTEMPTS it may make to de- liver of appropriatoutax goods No guarantee
 
 and the people get whatever the legislators see fit t dispense
 Prior to the extra session call. it was taken for granted the legislature would continue only as long was necessary the expeditions transaction of the assigned duties The people of Arizona would glad y at the accepted legislative rate for value received If it hqdbeen necessary to spend fortnight say to accompt the work the people of Arizona would hsv, paid the bp and included a vote of thanks If any legi- innate reason necessated session lasting longer even than thirty days would have occasoned sorrow bu. no valid cause for indictment rcpudiaon of the costs
 But legislators so brazen to size up the funds in the public treasury and arbitrarily abstract hererom sum whose proportions not regulated by pre-de, fined value of services to be delivered are pastmasters in efrontery. That is why we congratulate them A governor who subscrbes to- condones such proceed ngs is a model of snug complacency He shows a suDerlatiye contempt for public sentiment. That fl. why we congratulate MT. Hunt
 Such transactions Of a sort that indicate the es tabshed position of political machine which dares to traffic in spells conemptuous of what yictimzed taxpayers say represent the efforts of political boss whose ambitions lead to higher office and who co. vets pasture which he schemes to fence at public ez pense by subsdizing his fence-builders
 The Sz50oO appropriation is no and no less than an invitation to the legislators take their own sweet time for their work" IT the work gives out they can spend the leisure time soldering" until the appro pration is exhausted
 It's nice to be a legislator in Arizona!
 It's soft to be socalled Governor of Arizona
 And why is it nice and why is it soft? Because Of the legislative the gubernatoral policy in Arizona: "The people be damned"