The copper era and Morenci leader., 1919-01-17
BUSY LEGISLATIVE SESSION WAS BEGUN THIS
 WEEK

withal an important and extremely busy one.
 This is the general opinion regard i ing the Fourth legislature, as express ed by those who have been following Arizona legislative sessions since territorial days. With the. democrats in complete control of both branches of the legislature and a republican governor sitting downstairs to pass upon it's work, it can be realized that there are some great possibilities presented for some first class disa- greeing.
 Effort at Non-Partisanship
 With but one republican state off cial elected by the people at large and that official having at his disposal a great amount of patronage, it is ex- pected that the democratic legisla- ture will be called upon to devise some means by which this situation, at least may be modified.
 The ancient and respected plea of -non-partisanship" will be haled forth and is expected to be. freely used by the legislature during the session. It is thoroughly realized that the only situation that ever emerges from an effort at on-partisanship is the ere ation of one bi-partisanship and this will be the ultimate aim cf 1egisla- ton that is to be introduced.
 State Commission Doomed
 The commission on state institu- .. lions is expected to- occupy much Of the attention of the legislature. This institution now has the dispensing of a large amount of patronage and has the handling and disposing of most of the money of the state, it's au- thority even extending into the state educational institutions.
 In addition to this the commission has charge of the office of the state engineer and the handling of all the state road funds and highway con- sttuction work. During t.ie next five years Arizona will have approxi mately $21,00e,OO0 to spend on the construction of state highways and under existing laws the commission on state institutions would have con- trol of this great sum of money and the work for which it is intended.
 Has Chance in Disagreement
 Before the legislative session is two days old there will be introduced a bill to abolish the commission on state institutions. In fact, it is ex- pected that here will be several bills, designed for this purpose, introduced during the session.
 What will be offered in place of the commission it will be hard to guess. There will be almost as many sugges- tions as there are members of both branches and the hard thing will be to agree upon the plan. In fact, it would seem that the only chance the commission has to continue in exist ence is for the legislature to disagree upon a plan.
 ToCreate Road Commission
 However, it is practically certain that no commission on state institu- tions will have the handling of the $21 100000 road fund and the build ing of highways for the next five years in Arizona. A state highway commits sicn will be created at this session of the legislature and this will be created in a manner to meet the re- quirements of the federal govern ment, which will furnish a very large portion of the above S21.000,000.
 Various suggestions have been made as to the formation of this commis- sion and here "non-partisanship' will make it's appearance. Under present laws, those who will administer the state highway department in all it's functions are appointees of Governor Campbell. Any board created by the legislature will not be of the choosing of the governor and there comes the rub.
 May Revise Election Laws
 The state election laws are certain to come in for a large portion of the time of the legislature. Neither demo- crats nor republicans are satisfied with the election laws as they now are and an effort will be made to amend them.
 Following the recent primary there was a great outcry among a certain faction of the democratic party a2aiDSt the manner in which the nri- mary operates. It is claimed that the democrats are unable to keep the re- publicans out of their primaries and as result the primaries do not acu- fately register the will of the party.
 Republicans have other objections and it is not unlikely that some of the Maricopa county reDubIicanS will