The copper era and Morenci leader., 1915-01-15
HUNT TELLS SOLONS
H | S n { "
HOBBIES
No Excitement Attends Open Ses-
sions of Legislature As Heads OF
Two Branches Were Already Decid-
ed on.

Two Branches Were Already Decid-
ed on.
HUNT SCORES FEDERAL
COURT FOR DECISION.
UphoIds Arizona's Late Freak Alien
Labor Law-FaiIs to Mention Mine
Taxation Which Was Taken to Him
PHOENIX, Jan. 1.-THE reading
of the Governors message occupied
the attention of the solons on the
opening day, the usual excitement OF
organization having been lessened
by the party caucus decision of Sat
urday. In accordance with that de-
cision Sims was regularly made
president of the senate and BROOKS
speaker of the house following which
Formally Chief Jutsice Ross admin
istered the oath of office to all mem
bers-
In the senate resolutions of re-
spect, read and adopted, concerned
two former members of that body
who have died since the last session.
Cuniff, of Yavapai, and VESSEL, OF
Yuma.
After the usual committees notify
ing the governor and the opposite
houses the organization had been
perfected, JOINT SSSSlOA was WI
vened at which Governor Hunt read
his message.
Strangely although the governor
had planned by reading his message
personally to give proper emphasis
to the various parts thereof, and in
his deliverance he made such an eff
fort, there was no applause other
than the usual applause at his con-
clusion. Numerous events of the
last few days and suggestions from
arriving legislators caused the gov
ernor to materially change certain
phases of the text of his message
with the result that no advance cop
les were available
He vigorously defended the initia-
tive and ferendum and its advan-.
tsgeous use by the working classes
of the state. He recommended
public defender for each county,
minimum wage for women, increased
acreage for prison and asylum farms
voters to declare their politics at the
time of registration, candidates to
be elected when receiving a majority
of the votes castNat the primary.
would create a board of public well
fare and purchasing agent for gov
eminent and state institutions and
does not discuss capital punishment
or mine taxation
He finds fault with the notification
of the Eighty Percent law on grounds
of unconstitutionality by the federal
court and declares:
Even though United States tpi-
burial has thus suddenly become the
arhiter of our states industrial des-
tries and set aside for the time be-
ing at least, the provisions of the
statute of which serious condition
affecting American labor was the
parent, the good which has resulted
from the whole occurrence may be
briefly SUNNI arized as an advisory
expression of the peoples attitude
toward the wholesale Importation of
aliens, to the virtual exclusion of the
American citizen from the right to
earn his daily bread in the state in
which he has taken up his residence
and is rearing his children. 1t is
logical to conclude that such employ
ers as continue to fly in the face of
public sentiment as expressed in the
adoption of the Eighty Percent law,
even though their punishment has
been stopped for the time by a fed
eraI court, will reap the highest cal
umny and general condemnation
which they have merited SO com
pletely >"
Arizonais two women LEGISLATORS,
taking opposite sides on the smoking
question, carried their points and es-
tablished the supremacy of sinele
female wish over a large number of
raale votes in the senate and house
Mrs. Rachael Barry, in the house,
disliked smoking. A motion forbid
ding it, inspired by her, carried
In the senate members can smoke
all they please. Mrs. Frances Mun1T
not only approved of smoking but
insisted that male legislators con
tillue to smoke during tie session
Who's Who in the Legislature
Apache County Erei CO..
er. house, Mrs. Rachael Berry
Coctise county-Senate, William
Riggs, DR.. w P. Sims; house, w
]. Graham, Oscar Doyle, Sam
BrisAoe, John E. Newberry, William
Merrill.
Campbell. house, William Marian
ella County-Senate, Alfred Kin
ney. Dr. John Bacon; house, William
Brooks. B. F. Baker, w. D. Clay
Graham County Senate, D. H.
CIaridge; house, J. H.: Lines, j d:
&c Green1ee County Senate. George
Chase; house, John Christy, S. F.
Lenford.
Maricopa County Senate, Sam F.
Webb, o. s. Stapley; house, T. T.
Powers, A. G.. Austin j. E. McClain,
J. c. Goodwin, Guy D. Acuff, Loren
Vaughn.
Mohave County-Senate, Henry
Iovin; house, w. P. Mahoney.
Navajo County-Senate, Del Crabb;
house, s.. W. Proctor.
Pima County-Senate, Andrew P.
Martin, Nose Drachman; house, John
w. Buchanan, J. B. Richardson,
A Rand