Arizona republican., 1916-02-22
W0U[DN0T SEND l. 0UT REGISTRARS
City Clerk Frank Thomas
 Declines to Accede to Re quest of Mayor Young Because Majority of Com mission Voted Otherwise

When Mayor Young yesterday re- ceived a request that a clerk be sent out to a local hospital to register convalescent patients in the institu- tion unable to visit the registration places but likely to be sufficiently recovered to vote on the date of the primary election on March 4, he inn mediately referred the request to City Clerk Frank Thomas. The city clerk, recalling the action of the commission at a recent meeting in declining to direct him to send out registrars in formed the mayor that he was of the opinion that he would not be within | his rights in sending out a registrar or in going himself.
 Determined that those who were l confined in the hospital would be given the opportunity to register they sought, Mayor Young thereupon di 1 rected that q call be issued for ] special meeting of the city commission to be held at three o'clock yesterday afternoon. The call was issued in | due form but at the appointed hour
 
 MacBean appeared. Through lack of a quorum no meeting was possible. 1 The situation threatened to become tense when the mayor again brOached the subject of sending out a clerk to City Clerk Thomas. From the mayors standpoint the city clerk would be perfectly justified and within his legal rights if he were to accede to the request. In this contention 1 the mayor was sustained by City At tOrney George D. Christy. But City 1 Clerk Thomas, while admitting that ! there might be times when he would ! be justified in sending out registrars l held that whereas a majority of the commission had voted against sending 1 out registering clerks, he would at | least be acting contrary to the wishes 1 of majority were he to do sO.- And | there the matter rested.
 Mayor Young expressed himself freely on the situation last evening He said that he felt that there were no ground for the attitude assumed l by the city clerk and he was more l than free in expressing his indignation at the failure of Commissioners Corp stein, Cope and Richey to be on hand for the special meeting
 l There were a number of other matters that required immediate at | tentiOn,' said the mayor First of | all the commission should have got ten together yesterday to consider the matter of the laying of a sidewalk ! Nl1ran ha which had already begun and which was halted this morning on an order 1 from City Manager Robert A. Craig. | There were also some paving bids that should have been opened this after l noon.
 | Then there was another matter that l wanted the commission to con- slider immediately. There are a num- Der of Gypsy fortune telling, estab- lshments that l have been informed
 are nothing more than pitfalls for
 young men and boys. I wanted to lay this before the commission and
 have action taken looking to the re- turn of their unused license fees and the closing up of their places of bus mess I talked with the chief of police but he said that owing to the
 fact that they had been licensed by
 the city he was of the opinion that he lcould not act until their licenses had
 been revoked. The character of these places may have been exaggerated to
 some extent. but l am convinced that
 the city can get along without them
 and that their license money should
 he returned and they be ordered out
 of town"
 This is the last day of registration and the seven registration stations will he open until five o'clock this
 afternoon. That at the city hall vii he kept open at least until ten o'clock
 and later if it appears justified. Not
 much more than one half of the qual.
 flied voters have been registered fol the primaries There is still time fol a large number of eleventh hour reg.
 istrations to be made. There will b, plenty of clerks on hand to take car,
 of all who desire to register today