Bisbee daily review., 1915-05-15
HUNT CRIES IN BEHALF OF THE
 STATE
Governor Bemoans the Fact
 That Parole oard Acted Ac- cording to the Law and Not
 as He Would Have Them
SAYS CASE HAS SET
 A BAD PRECEDENT
Appropriation Bill Is Passed By the House and Goes 10 the Senate; Three Members
 Vote No on Final Passage

PHOENIN. May l4.-Goveuor Hunt today issued the following statement:
 In aludins to yesterdays action of the board of pardons and paroles, through which Arizona is confronted with the prospect of having an orgy of death written into her record as 90 young state No Assembling of my deep sorro wis necessary or possible
 Most of all am ! grieved to learn that the adverse influences oc the boards act upon the public morals and especially upon the growing gem eratiOns has been rendered more dis astrous by the concurrence, deplOr- ably, Of the state superintendent of public instruction who. as head of Arizoua's school system. is theoreti. cally supposed Co uphold the state'S educational ideal. There is, possibly more excuse for the attorney general. who as a lawyer and prosecutor, might more plausibly have become so iuured Co human agony and bloodshed as 10 be forgctlul of the fact that. aside from the impending slaughter of five men, the young state of Ari- zona is about to set an example of legalized murder, by which every hu- man being within its confines win be subjected to a brutalizing influence hardening back to savageTy.
 Despite electoral protest against capital punishment by almost half of Arizona's citizens the board has deliberately written legaliled murder as its decree. Deep grief and chagriu. which ! experience in behalf of Ari- 2oHa. at this time exceeds all other emotions. and render me doubly sure that not for any political prefermeut or hope of temporal reward would concur in the action of the board by standing red handed and uuabashed before the people of my state"
 Governor Pleased
 The governor found pleasure in tue action of the house judiciary com. mittee which this morning amended the senate memorial Co the Georgia governor by providing that in addi- tion to seeking executive clemency tor Leo Frank, Of that state the ses- sion should go on record as recom- mouding clemency in che matter Of tI Arizona men condemned to death. The house will act on the amendment to- day
 "Obeyed the Law"-Joncs
 When shown the statement of Gov ernor Hunt Jones, Attorney-General. said: There was no other course for the pardon board to pursue. We had taken an oath to obey the law of the state It did not matter to ms if Gov- ernor Hunt had seen ft 70 ignore this law in the past"
 Case and Trott did not care to dis cuss the statement
 Bill Finally Passed
 The house finally passed and sent to the senate the appropriation bill which carries 2.S57.l2S.j0. Christy. Lines and Lee voted against it's du- al passage the first named because he said the items were ridiculously high and the last two on account of the cut made in the general school fund appropriation.
 Graham, who led the fight against many items, voted for the bin, saying he did not approve, but it was the ! best he could get
 When received in the senate the bill was at once referred To Che appro- 1 priation committee and it was an- nounced that an effort would be made to return the bill to the house next Tuesday with the senate amendments. The house adjourned over till Mon day