Arizona republican., 1915-06-15
Legislatures

There has been good deal criticism of the second legislature of Arizona: there criticism of the first legislature and there is criticism of cry legislature every state. growing fo th~ reason that tLe system law nai,ng lloyed in all the states is becoming oUtgrown.
 That the legislatures fail meeting popular ,-rectation is the fault the system of expectation will he satisfied until legislation under the unicamers,l system by mission, preferably hv the latter.
 Though the legislature of Arizona has led three sessions at m expense of more than SIeo,oeo and has failed of accomplishing an expected to accomplish cannot put finger any definite failure. know n a gen era, way shat the chief obstacle the mine bili but say who made it the obstacle. on onei side it is claimed that the mine did and the other. the administrative lobby. iut whoever did it ought never to nave been made obstacle. It should have been passed for its merits. or defeated for it's want of merit. It was a proper subject for consideration and prop erly presented. Passed or defeated. should have affected other proposed legislation but under system it almost inevitable that sh ould scandal attached the consideration of this bill any other bill
 believe the Arizona legislature in point ability point integrity and ir every respect far above the average state legislature. We thought all along and impressions 1rmed by article bv former Governor Hodges O Kansas. "Comrnon-sense for Commonwealths" in late issue O the Saturday Evening Post. We ,iuote from
 The bulk reading of omnibus appropriation bills totaling $131S.779 the only vaudeville feature the dav.' So said the Topeka State Journal-the official state paper Of Kansas-in its account of the doiugs of the kansas legislature
 With dozen :nennbers reading and singing a dozen different appropris tion bilis and the same tiTne-and members the floor and visitors the gallery shouting. Louder. Louder.'-the house members considered. deberated and arpro- priated and quarter million dollars of the states funds in old-fashoned singing school style.
 It was a regular "c,horus of Money" the Jour nal continues. the house members considerated deliberated and appropriated and a quar- ter million dollars of the states funds ir old fashioned singing school style.
 l a regular "Chorus of Money" the Jour nal continues. house sang appropri- atons-a real. true. genuine on.libls passage Of laws. No member objected to the procedure which represented the expenditure of vast Of other peoples money,
 The speaker announced "A bulk roll call and bulk reading of bills" and. calling dozen owners of basso voices the stand. each member given a that carried appropi ator for some institution state department "Is everyone ready?' asked the speaker A dozen answered.; Rye Aye sir" "One for the u'oney. for the show. three make ready and four they go!" shouted the presiding officer
 And the reading members vert. They sang and mumbled and shouted the words the pages O. the typewriter billseach reading from different bill with separate provisions. 'Louderi" shouted the members Louder: Louder." chorusee the gal lery visitors, who saw moment nf revel'y in an otherwise Gneventful day
 While the bills being read members rounded on their desks. and the reading ended in an uproar in which the members. clerkc and visit urs participated. The roll called and a deliber alive body lawmakers placed its official approval on measures that called the expenditure of one and a third million dollars. apprOT' OT'-iated in bulk form in a duration of possibly ten minutes of time
 Making laws is a serious undertaking and mal<- ing concentrations a vital part Of t,e states business The one hundred and twenty-five mem bers of the lower of the Kansas legislature seemed to think that approprating q vast sum or noney-bv :. mass meeting, as it were-was only T vocational recreation; while at other times they discuss with owl-like wisdom for hour more the best method of shortening hatpns!
 Such a thing could have happened in the Arizona Legislature which is governed oy rather rigid rules and they reasonably carefully ad- h-red to. That snch thing should almost neces- sariIy happen in the Kansas legislature appears in t.a statement that only important bill wa rlssed in the forty days of thc session while in the last twenty days S7S bills crowded through
 What happened in Kansas has happened in
 many other states-scandal bribery, freak legisla- lion from all of which. the Arizona legislature has Ieen free IL has not been hirted that mem- Ter was approachahe and have lad no pro- posed laws relating the shortening of hat pins or the abbreviating of the cludaI appendage of the cbcrnise worn bv ihe males Though many of the