Arizona republican., 1915-06-02
LAND MEASURES
 TAKE THE LEAD
Revival of Agitation Under Spur of Thermometer of Proposition to Transfer Legislation to Prescott Governors Message.

The second extra session of the second state legislature got away from the post on schedule yester- day morning. Notwithstanding the heat oI the season there was spasm of introduction of bills in both houses covering about one-third of the program outlined by the gov crnor in his bill.
 The senate at the opening lacked one of a quorum. but it blithely as sembled in the hope that there would he more members present in the aft trnoon The house had a fair at tendance much more than a quorum. After the roll call Chaplain Crutch- field delivered the invocation, in substance a prayer that this would be a more successful session. more productive than either of its pre- decesSors. He enjoined unity. the importance of which he made clear by a quotation from the words Of Jacob to his sons. See ye that ye fall not by the way lest the Ishmael- ites overtake you.T At the cOnclu- sion of the prayer Mir. Claypool moved resolution to be on the lookout for Ishmaelites.
 Who Called It?
 The Sffr3Aer U1feCteQ the itdulnS of the governors proclamation callins the se ssion wheTeupon Mir. Christy asked if any of the members of the house had received official notifi cation of the call. He said that he Lad not. all he knew about it he had seen in the newspapers. so far as he knew nobody but the press had called the legislature together fF,. lee and other gentlemen looked at the gentlemen in the press gal lcry. as if to inquire whether they would ne responsible for the per diem in case it should appear that the governor had not issued the call.
 But Speaker Brooks said that the call was on the clerks desk and he ordered it read. At the end of it it was found that it bore neither attestatiou nor signature. The ap- nrehensicn of MT. Christy seemed not to be entirely groundless. Clerk Munch hurried out of the chamber and soon returned with a properly signed proclamation.
 Later in the day the following message from the governor to the legislature was read in the house
 The Governors Message To the Senate and House of Repre-
 sentaJives. Second Legislature of the State of
 Arizona.
 In addressing your Honorable Body in accordance with custom. at the beginning of this second special ses- sion. 1t is presumably appropriate to again lay emphasis. in at least a casual way. upon the great need Cf concluding your legislative program with the greatest possible dispatch compatible with thoroughness of ac- complishment None more readily than yourselves will recognize that l the people whom you represent in these legislative halls. have a right | to expect with a fair degree of con fidence that such additional statutory ! provisions as are absolutely essential . in the functioning of state depart ! nents and institutions will be made ! efficiently and eXpeditiously in the | Judgment. So familiar to all of you ! Ere .he needs of the state in relation | to the subjects enumerated in the | call by which this session was con { Nened that your valuable time need | not be occupied with any lengthy | executive pronouncement bearing | upon the most apparent verities or | well known conditions | government.
 AIluGing. therefore, in a merely
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