Arizona republican., 1916-02-10
M BEAN BRINGS NEW ACTION 0N
 REGISTRATION

It required just about two min utes for the city commission late yesterday afternoon to unanimously reconsider the action of Commissions CTS RicheY, Corpstein and Cope of a few days previously. in voting down the proposition to permit registration at other places than the office of the city clerk in the city hall building. It required about the same number of minutes for Commissioner MacBean to convince the majority of the com mission that reconsideration was just about the best thing the city fathers could do at that time And as a re- suit of the reconsidering vOte which was unanimous. there will be estab- lished a registration station in each of the six voting precincts. presided over by a registrar, sworn in as deputy city clerk. It is probable, too, that like the office of the city clerk these precinct registration stations will he kept open continuously from eight or nine o'clock in the morning until nine o'clock in the evening.
 
 Commissioner MacBean was accom- plished near the end of busy after noon's session during which the re- port of the committee named to in Vestigate the widening of Van Buren street was introduced, discussed and approved, and also during which a proposed anti gambling ordinance. cal culated to give the police powers they do not now possess with rela- tion to the prohibiting of gambling and the prosecution of offenders, in- troduced by Mayor George Y. Young was voted down despite his urgent appeal that it he considered favOrably.
 Just as the matter of the widening of Van Buren street had been dis posed of, Commissioner MacBean, hay | ing been recognized by Mayor Young rose and stated that the commission 1 had been criticized for it's action at ! a recent meeting in voting against | sending out registrars. He stated that | there are hundreds of voting citizens ! who are hindered from registering be- cause of the fact that they are em- ployed during the daytimes and do not come up town in the evenings. With a registration station in each 1 precinct, according to MacBean the registration would he more general ! and would be entered into with great 1 CT spirit than would be the case if there was but the single station. , As result of the remarks of | Commissioner MacBean, supplemented ! by others by Mayor Young. a motion to reconsider was adopted and the i city clerk instructed to establish registration places in each of the | six voting precincts.
 As soon as suitable locations are secured the registration stations will be opened and it is expected that like the office of the city clerk, they will be kept open each day until o'clock in the evening until February 21 when the books will close for the primary election.
 ] The report of Commissioners Joseph Cope and O. T. Richey, City Engineer J. B. Grand and City Attorney George D. Christy, the committee named to investigate the widening of Van Bur en street, presented the following re- port;
 We, the undersigned. your commit tee appointed to investigate the wid- ening of Van Buren street do report as follows:
 , We find that petition signed by more than 95 per cent of the prop erty owners on this street has been : filed praying that the Commission at once establish the curb line on Van Buren street in this said section, at i 22 1-1 feet each side of the section line im Van Buren street, this giving us 45 foot driveway.
 Tt is the unanimous opinion of your committee that this petition be