Bisbee daily review., 1916-11-18
BISpEE MAY LAND PRESIDENT OF SENATE
 OR SPEhKERSHIp
Fred Sutter May Be Chosen for President of Coming Legislature or Tom Hughes .Speakership in the House.


 next Arizona state legislature when that body is called to order on Janu- ary next. All three women mem ters of the legislature are members of the house of representatives and all are representatives from southern Arizona counties. They are Mrs. Ro- sa Mckay of this city, Mrs. Pauline O'Neill of Phoenix, one of the six rep resentatives from Maricopa county; and Mrs. Theodore Marsh of Nogales, the sole and only representative from | Santa Cruz county.
 This is not the first time that wom- en have sat in the Arizona legislature but it is the first time that there have been so many women members, and the first time that they have all been elected to one house. In the second state legislature which net in 1915 ! there was a women senator and a woman representative. the senator be- | ing Mrs Frances Munds of Prescott, and the representative being Mrs. l Rachael Berry of Apache county. | Mrs. Munds was not a candidate at the recent election and Mrs. Berry was defeated in the primary election by a large majority. the voters of Apache county evidently preferring to | be represented by a man.
 | Five of the nineteen members of the state senate of the third state leg islature are Republicans. The Repub- Jeans also elected four representa- | tives of the thirty-fve members of the lower house, making the largest representation they have ever had in tNe state legislature. Two of the Re publican senators are from Maricopa county. one is from Pima. one from Yavapai and one from Santa CruZ. While five out of nineteen is not a large proportion, the Republicans say they will have good working minori- " in the lcsislature that will serve to get as check on hasty and ill-ad- vised legislation on the part of more radical memt CTS.
 The Republican members of the sen ate the H B. Wilkinson. president of the Phoenix Title & Trust Company, and a prominent attorney of the capi- tai city; Ernest Hall, an architect and owner Of what is known as the Blue Pibbon ranch near Phoenix; F. O. Goodell of Tucson. chief clerk to President Epes Randolph of the Ari- zona Eastern railroad company; N. H. Getchell, mining operator from Va vapai county, and Dr. Ray Ferguson of Nogales. pr. Ferguson was for merly superintendent of the state asy- lum for the insane at Phoenix.
 Republican members of the house of representatives will be: T. H. Cureton of Williams. representative from Coconino county, and formerly principal of the Williams schools; Harold Baxter, young attorney of Phoenix: C. c. Green, a rancher of Glendale and A. R. Bueham. photog rapher of Tucson.
 Although it is seven weeks until the opening of the legislature, candi- dates for president of the senate and speaker of the house, as well as other offices are already springing up. Mul ford Winsor, the little czar of Yuma county" is a candidate for the presi- dency of the senate, claiming that po- gif T. r.ier of VI claims, however, will be contested by D. H. Claridge, senator from Graham county and C. H. Rutherford, one of the two new senators from Yavapai, both of whom would like to be presid- ing officer of the state senate. Win sOT, Claridge and Rutherford are all avowed candidates for the place. The conservative Democrats, it is expect either Claridge or Attorney Fred Sut- ter of this city.
 In this move they will have the sup port of the Republicans. In case Sut- ter should be their choice. for presi- dent of the senate, it is probable that either Thomas P. Walton of Maricopa or W. E. Wiltbank of Apache will be chosen speaker of the house. Other wise the speakership will go to T. A. Hughes of this city, who is being men toned for the post, and who received the highest vote of the legislative candidates in this county.
 Candidates for secretary of the senate and clerk of the lower house are not lacking. For the former pos sition Oscar Zapf of Bisbee is men, tioned while Maricopa will furnish an aspirant in Ira Huggett of Phoenix. Both men have been active in Demo cratic politics and have mary friends in the legislature. For clerk of the house Frank Pinkley of Pinal county is being mentioned as 6 likely candi- date. PiHkley served in the last legis- lature as representative from Pinal county, but was defeated in the pri- naries last September Another pos sible 2spirant for the place is Oscar Cole now secretary of the prison at Florence. Cole was secre'gry Of Inc senate during the last session of the