Tombstone epitaph., 1917-01-21
ARIZONA ONE wnIcn sAss
 ALL -PeRsoNAL use.

PHOENIX. Jan. ls-The state of Arizona will be thrown wide open to personal use. saloons and bootlegging unless 6 bill introduced by Represen- tative Harold Baxter of Msricopa in the lower house of the legislature this morning is rushed through. That m substance is the statement of Baxter in an interview after the meeting in explaining the bill.
 ''In introducing house bill No. IS. amending paragraph 2s2s of our code" Baxter stated. it was designed to take care of a peculiar situation which exists relative to the constitu- tional amendments enacted with re- spect to prohibition.
 "our existing law. by paragraph. 2s2s," he said, provides that all con stitutional amendment be printed upon the bottom of the ballot In the case of cur two constitutional amend ments voted upon in 1914 and 1916 these amendments were not printed on the ballot, but only the title of them was printed in each case.
 Tt is possible that the outside H. quor interests in their fight to obtain another wet spell in which 10 dispose of their mail order booze will carry out the same tactics here as were adopted in a middle western state where just such 8 constitutional amendment was declared to be void because it had not been printed on the ballot as provided by law.
 "To be positive that our constitu- tional amendments will not thus be set aside, ii will be necessary to enact in further legislation as session laws these two constitutional amendments verbatim Then there can be no question about the validity of our pro hibition laws"
 The California liquor dealers are preparing a suit, and according to Baxter there is no ground upon which to fight them. as the civil code of Ari zona was not followed to the letter Of the law when the proposed amend ment was placed on the ballot.
 The bill introduced is to amend paragraph 2e2e, chaper :. title F. ot the revised statutes of Arizona, 1915 pertaining to elections and oficial bal lots.
 The amendment as proposed Is:
 The title of all proposed constitu tional amendments or of other propo sitions or questions to be submitted to the voters shall be printed on 8 separate official ballot and in such order as the secretary of state may designate. and each such amendment proposition or question be followed by the word "yes" or mo" or flor" o. against" = and at the right oi and opposite each of such words shall be placed a square of sufficient size co Section 2, paragraph 2s35. oi chapter 2, in title 12, of said statutes and all acts and parts of acts in con fiict with the provisions of the forego ing section are hereby repealed.
 That word repealed" is it. Tha will. decide whether Arizona shall re main prohibition or be wet. The Cali fornia liquor dealers are positive Ari zona has no case against them, ana Baxter says the same thing. Jus what procedure the attacking forcei propose to take was not made knowr this afternoon, aside from the fac that their money is back of the nov, and also their legal machinery.
 The civil code as it now stands upon which the alleged blunder wa made. is as follows:
 1929. An proposed consultations amendments or other propositionss o questions to be submitted to the vot CTS shall be printed at the bottom O the ballot in such order as the secre tary of state may designate, and eacl such amendment, pr position or ques ton shall be followed by the word yes" or mo" or flor or -against . the nature of the amenonent. proposi ton or question may reqn.-e. and a the right of and opposite each :; sucI words shall be placed a square tn size of those placed opposite tn names of candidates, in which tn voter may indicate the vote for O