Bisbee daily review., 1918-05-16
ARRANGEMENTS ARE BEING MADE FOR
 LEGISLATU R E
Comment as to What Bills Will Be Passed and Who Will Be Elerted as Presid- ing Officers.

! PHOENIX, May 15.-With the as-
 sembling of the special session of the
 legislature but a week off, the hum
 of industry that now permeates the
 corridors of the capitol as workmen are engaged in making ready the as-
 sembly rooms and providing quarters
 for the disconnected departments is expected shortly to be replaced by the
 gossip of politics. Just now, however.
 it is industry that is in evidence and to such an extent that w. A Moeur, commissioner of the land department
 was seen this morning diligently pick ing his way through upturned desks and cffice furniture that filtered the rotunda of each floor of the capitol, trying to locate the exact spot that the commission on state institutions had selected for him to call his own during the period of the session.
 | Put the time for the assembly is near enough at hand to cause the wiseacres and know-it-alls to begin sitting up and taking notice and this they are already doing. Just now the matter of principal concern is the or ~ani7ation of the two branches of the l | by precedent that the organization of the regular session does not hold over and that a special session must re- organize. consequently Representative Johns and Senator Claridge will have to be reelected to preside over their respective bodies.
 Around the capitol it is generally conceded that Representative Johns | is to again be speaker of the house and Senator Claridge is to be re-elect- ed president of the senate. No one is being mentioned as aspiring to op- pose them and what little dissatisfac- tion has ever been expressed seems to have blown over.
 With the same officers presiding over the two bodies, it. is expected that the remainder of the organiza- tionwill be practically the same. At the regular session c. P. Hicks of! Prescott was secretary of the senate and Sam W. Proctor was chief clerk of the house. These two officials had a large corps of assistants for the reg ular session and will probably be quite as capably assisted during the special session.
 How long the session will last is the question upon which opinion is divided. Befcre issuing his call for special session Gov. Hunt remarked that there would be nothing in his call that should occupy the attention of the solons more than a flew days. Whether "a few days" means 10 or so the governor failed to state and speculation is extended over that wide period.
 One subject included in the gov erncr's call will probably be exclud- ed entirely, although it would have required less time than any of the others. That is action ratifying the suffrage amendment to the federal constitution. Congress has not taken the action necessary to submit the amendment to the states and 1t looks as though the senate will not act m time.
 The bill to enable soldiers to vote will probably occupy as much time as any other measure. Senator Golfer is preparing such a measure and 1t IS considered probable that other legis- lators will also have bills along this line. At the present time it would ap- pear that such a bill will have little effect on the vote, as most Of the Arizona troops are expected to be in France by election time and the war corridors of the capitol asworkmen the front.
 Dairy legislation is another matter that is expected to require much time for it's solution. This is included Tn | the call and the present situation be- tween the creameries and dairymen | seems certain to demand considerable time for it's solution.
 Altogether it would appear that the | session will last some flew days
 Land Commissioner Moeur finally ] found himself located in the office | formerly occupied by State AudTtor | Jesse l.. Eoyce. Measurements taken | by the commission on state institu- | tions showed that the space occupied | by the state auditor would fit the land | commissioner and other measure ments showed that tine auditor could | be made to fit in aTi unoccupied space | in the back office with his clerks.
 The legislature may now meet.