Bisbee daily review., 1918-07-30
OF
 STATE PROMISE
 TO OPEN REVOLT
Naming of County Councils of Defense Will Start Under Inauspicious Circumstances Is Report

| A more inauspicious outlook hardly ] could be imagined than is that for peaceful quiet in connection with the
 naming of the membership of the coun-
 ty councils of defense for Arizona. The state council of defense, in its very l first move which smells of politics, has succeeded in antagOnlzing practically
 every board of supervisors in the state.
 according to information reaching here
 yesterday from Phoenix, relative to
 the meeting of the supervisors at the
 Grand Canyon, last week.
 The state law specifies that county
 councils shall consist of not less than three nor more than seven members,
 who shall be nominated by the boards
 of supervisors of the counties affected. then appointed by the state defense council
 | The state council now demands that
 each board name fourteen persons
 from among which number the state
 board will select seven. The super
 visors are reported to nave decided to refuse to name more than seven.
 The law, as set forth in House bill No. 26, better known as "The Act Authorizing the Establishment of State Council of Defense and County Councils of Defense" is:
 Section 5. County councils of de fense: The state council shall estab- fish in each county of the state a coun- ty council of defense; such council shall consist of not less than three (3) nor more than seven CD members. The chairman or a member of the board of supervisors shall be a chair man of such county council; the other members thereof shall be appointed by the state council from among the civilian electors of the county nom- mated by the board of supervisors. The membership of such county councils of defense shall be non partisan, and shall represent, as far as practicable, the various activities, Industries and resources of the county. All vacancies shall be filled by the state council, by appointment in the same manner as the original appoint ments."
 In letter received by the county boards of supervisors all over the state last week, the members of the county board were informed that the state council was ready to act upon appoint ment of the county defense councils The following appears in an apparent attempt to camoufiage the section of the act. quoted above: lf.t -'
 Your particular attention is called to the mandatory requirements Of the whole act, and especially to that DOT ton of 1t which you will find under Section No. 5. In conformity with this section, and guided by the following Rule No. of the report of the com mittee on rules and regulations, as adopted by the state council of de- tense:
 "'County councils of defense, con- sitting of seven CD electors from every county, shall be created by the state council and shall be selected from a list of fourteen C4) names submitted by the board of supervisors from each county you will kindly, at a regularly called meeting of your board of super Yisors to be held at an early date, ap prove 8 list of fourteen names of cleo tors of your county, from which seven will be selected by the state council of defense to constitute a county coun- ell of defense
 , The supervisors are said to feel that by calling fer fourteen nominations from each board in the state, the state council isgtrying to do politics, allow ing itself plenty of latitude to reject any names of persons personally or politically distasteful to the member ship et. the board.
 At their meeting at the Grand Can yen the letter is said to have precip- itated some heated discussion. It was pointed out that while the state law did not say the state board could not adopt rules, neither did it give the members any such power. It does state specifically that from three to seven men, first chosen by the super Tisors, must be named by the state board. The supervisors showed by their attitude and by the vote they are said to have taken with an overwhelm- ing majority in favor of standing pat and naming but seven men from each county, the feeling that they had the state board lover a barrel" from a legal standpoint. The vote for naming but seven men Is said to have been practically unanimous, only. one or two opposing 1t or refusing to vote.
 The Cochise county board probably will name the seven men of its choice at the meeting on the first Monday in August, but will not name fourteen, if a full grown rumor current here is to be credited. "-H
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