Arizona republican., 1918-06-14

that an outside job had been planned to secure the impeachment of the attorney general; that Hon. Lamar CoDb former state engineer whose differences with the attorney gen. erals office had been aired in the courts had addressed a letter to each house to form the basis of the i'm peachment proceedings
 CO-lncident with these preliminaries was the promiscuity of Judge A. s. Hawkins about the lobbies and in the chambers, introducing himself to the members and dealing out cards | announcing his candidacy against At torney General Jones for the nomina- l tion.
 Endoeenetical Speaking
 The presence of Judge Hawkins is suspected of not having been "endogeneticar to use a word which has come much into vogue in the | legislature within the last day or two but is supposed to have had some relation to the expected upheaval | following the introduction of the com munication. The judge is presumed | to have been there for the purpose of being the first to be on the ground to gather up the fragments. | Judge James Loy of Prescott, an other aspirant for the nomination for attorney general had not been ap praised of the intended cataclysm because of the carelessrcss and dere- fiction of one of his campaign man. agers, Senator Rutherford,
 Guarantee of Good Faith
 When the house assembled Speaker l Johns stated that a communication had been handed to him, by whom he did not say. looking to the impeach ment of an officer whom he did not name. He thought it was not worth while to read the document but that if members felt any consuming curiosity concerning it they might call at his private office and see it. It was form ally referred to the rules committee of which the speaker is chairman.
 Later in the day the speaker an nounced that the committee had de- cided to take no action on the com munication; that it was not to be made part of the record. In the same manner it budded and bloomed and perished unseen in the senate.
 Capital Punishment Bill
 The senate indefinitely postponed the house joint resolution for constitu- tional amendment for the restoration of capital punishment. An overwhelm- ing majority of the senate is in favor of it's restoration but it was feared that inasmuch as such a measure was not within the governors call its consti- nationality might be brought into ques- tion. Moreover, it was feared that its adoption would complicate the move ment to secure an initiated bill repeal ing the law enacted by the people two years ago, abolishing capital punish ment and assurance was given that the petition would be filed
 In the afternoon the record for rap idity of legislation was broken. Sen ator Claypool received a telegram from County Attorney Hugh Foster oi Gila county saying that 30 slackers had just been arrested and that IA of then were deserters. He suggested legisla- ton by which the cooperation of em- ployers might be enlisted in the de- lection of men engaged in evading the draft.
 g To Aid in Enforcing Draft Accordingly after , o'clock MT. Clay pool introduced a bill making it a mis- demeanor for a person, firm or cor poration to aid or abet or give employ ment to one trying to evade the draf
 
 ply with this provision. It further re- ,, quired such employers to question men apparently between the ages of 21 anC 30, regarding their registration ol classification cards and in the even of failure to produce them or offer z satisfactory explanation to bring theI , to the attention of the proper author ities.
 !, The bill was passed under serie! of suspensions of the rules and sen !. to the house where about o'clock l | was passed in the same hurried man ner and made ready for the signatur, of the governor.
 To Keep Foreigners Out
 Throughout the greater part of thu < day there was a spirited contest in thu house over the bill for the protection of workingmen but which was regarded as & revival of the old Kinney law tt exclude from the mines and hazardou! occupations persons who are deaf an( dumb and who cannot speak or under stand the English language. The bil was championed by MT. Foster of Co chise who threw camel flags to tn' | winds let no doubt exist that it was ; labor measure designed to keep for eigners out. He declared that ther were enough Americans to do all tn mining needed to be done in this coun try.
 Mir. Goodwin took issue with MT Foster and said that there was not nov enough labor in the country; that tn | enactment of the bill would result in curtailment of production and to tha extent it was pro- German. He believe, it was just such a measure as Berlil \ would frame for enactment in thi | country.
 Bill Is First Dfeated Mir. Walton offered an amendmen providing for the operation of the bil after January l of next year. Speake
 Johns opposed the bill vigorously an when the voting began in the afternoo the Walton amendment was defeated MT. Vaughn then presented an amend
 ment for the reference of the bill t the people at the next election. By
 close vote the amendment was adopte
 and then one of those inexplicabl
 things happened: by an equally clos
 vote the committee of the whole recon
 mended that the bill "do not pass" Then Turn About Again \ That was still not the. end of it fo
 in the regular session the recommen
 dation of the committee was rejecte
 and by vote of IT to Is and the bi
 was sent to the enrolling and engross
 ing committee. The smaller vot
 however, did not represent the opposi
 tion to the bill for some of the member
 voted for it with the firm conyictio
 that it would not survive rough pass
 age through the senate.
 Two new bills were introduced int Il tba ho1sa one to prevent hlirdness