The copper era and Morenci leader., 1915-04-30
HUNTS MESSAGE Is AN INNOCUOUS
 APPEAL

Legislature. Instead he intrusted i Ito the respective committees iron
 the House and Senate and it wa
 read separately in each jurisdiction
 no joint session being held.
 The message is innocuous; deal : ing in generalfties and pointing ou the terrible consequences of a fail ure to adopt liberal policy. Thii he said, would create condition SC appalling as to transcend even the possibility of contemplation.
 Here is the message in full:
 Governors Message.
 To the Senate and House of Repre-
 senatives:
 At this particular time, when il again. becomes my duty, in fulfillment of law, and in discharge of the res possibility placed upon me by the electorate, to address the supreme law-making body of the state, I shall not go far afield in quest or either pretexts or valid reasons for volubIe expression but prefer rather to |fittingly sound the keynote of the occasion by ,erring, if at all, on the Iside of eresences, in bidding you a cordial welcome, in briefly recount ing the immediate needs of the state. and in pledging my most whoIe-heart- ed corporation in furthering, through suitable legislation, the general wei fare of all Arizona, and the sovereign people who collectively constitute her citizenship.
 The purposes of the present special session are so fully contained in the issued call as to need merely en- phasizing rather than elucidating in this brief message to the legisla- ture. Concisely expressed, the state, through lack of appropriations for the maintenance of departments, and because of the absence of any stat ute giving specific directions for fix thg the rates of taxes during the two fiscal years next ensuing, is con fronting an actual crisis of such ser ious aspect and proportions as to impose upon legislative and execu-
 
 prompt and judicious effort toward securing the adoption of such pro- violent measures as will permit the continued competent discharge of public business
 While it is plainly the part of re |dundance to dwell in passing upon the gravity of an emergency which is evident to the most casual ob- server, ! shall, nevertheless, even at the risk of trite reiteration, suggest most earnestly the essential nature of monetary provision for depart mental and institutional use, and of conserving, through t speedy con summation of legislative work, the resources of the people, who, in- evitably, must always bear the bur- den of taxation. To pursue any other course, or to utterly fail in the dis charge of a manifest duty would very | apparently create a condition so | appalling and so clearly repugnant to the general welfare as to- transcend \ even the possibility of contemplating {
 
 as worthy of serious consideration The preparation of the call where | oy the Second State Legislature of |! Arizona was convened in special ses- I sion involved no slight measure of 'efection upon the needs of the $ 'tate and the best means of speedily securing such legislative action as is -ftally necessary. Although, in the 'xercise of my best personal judg- l nent, and with the welfare of the a 'ublic fully in view, I found it ad- S '1sable to so restrict the scope of k he call as to insure a concentra- b ion of effort upon these subjects which stand first in order of impor- ance among the needs of the state, F was not my purpose, in so doing, c 3 visit discomfiture upon any one I r deny the important character of 1T other topics which were resented to my attention with the equest, that they be included in the q reclamation. In at least several f, of this kind, it was mat tr sr of keen regret for me to exclude b- which were deserving of ST ore than passing consideration, and ie hich were suggested not only by SC tizens having the well being of the ate thoroughly at heart, but also, , in some cases, by members of the te gislature in whose sagacity I place Sl rofound confidence and reliance by otwithstanding the importunate re- ar tests addressed to me in this con- fo .ction, and, likewise, my respect r their sponsors, it appeared con