Arizona republican., 1919-03-06
ELECTION BILLS IN HOUSE CAUSE
 LIVELY SESSION
After Vigorous Attacks On Present Primary System The Election Code Is Rec
 commended For Passage

tered, at times rather Stormily, about the two election measures, the Winsor code and the Howard bill providing for party conventions or, as the name was afterward amended primary assem- plies. Senate Bill 99, the Winsor meas ure, which had come over from the senate the day before, was made to displace House Bill 130 on the calen- dar, and it was agreed to consider that and the Howard bill together.
 The election code was taken up in the morning and MT. Winsor was in- vited in to explain it's provisions. In the course of a talk of a half hour he went over the more important features and the reading of the 13S-page hili was resumed. It was taken up again in the afternoon and after a reading of hour, motion was made to lay it aside temporarily and take up the Howard bill and dispose of it.
 The first objection raised to it was that It violated d mandate of the con- stitution which required the legislature to enact direct primary law. Mir. Howard replied that that was a matter concerning which eminent lawyers dis agreed and that it had been held that his bill providing for primary assem-.
 
 moved that the committee recommend the passage of the bill, and after some further debate it went to a vote with the result of IA ayes and 16 noes.
 Debate Starts
 MT. Eddy moved that the election code be recommended for passage, and then the debate set in. MT. Vyne, wno had not previusly spoken. made an at tack upon the Howard bill which ai- ready had been disposed of He said that he was surprised that so iniquI- tous measure had developed so great strength in the house. He spoke of the old-time political outrages. It was pointed out that the party conventions provided for in this bill were quite diff ferent frorn those conventions which Mir. Vyne had in mind. Under the pending bill the proceedings would be at all tims under the eye of the author tics; that every step would be as care fully guardd as they could be, while under the old convention system each party was left to it's own devices, to wallow in political corruption undis turbed.
 So unpopular. said he. had the pri mary system become that he was will ing to let both this bill and the election code go before the people and he would await with confidence the result.
 Mir. Lillywhite attacked the primar, system vigorously. He said that he had talked with men of all parties and he had heard it almost unanimously de- nounced by democrats no less than by republicans. The primary system pro- posed in the election code met none oI the objections that had been raised against the present one. On the con- trary it had increased the cost of can didctes. It was claimed, he said. that the proposed code would prevent voters from entering primaries of the other party: that the required affidavit would have that effect. But in order to do that now, they had to disregard the sacredness of an oath. th"t the oath prescribed by the code was only a little longer than the other, but not more binding.
 Endorse Soldiers Memorial
 MT. Kimball said that he had never talked with a voter who had not reviled the primary system and he believed that if the matter were left to a vot- of the people, there would be return to the convention system. By a vote of r to 14 the election code was rec commended for passage. and later when the house followed the recommenda- tion of the committee with reference L. the Howard bill. MT. Galbraith changed his vote for the purpose of moving a reconsideration.
 In the morning session of the whole committee. the house endorsed the amended bill providing for q commis- sion to select a design for a memorial to the heroic dead of Arizona, to be erected on the Capitol grounds. The bill was amended, increasing the ap- propriation for that purpose to S25,OO0 Mrs. O'Neill, its sponsor, speaking oi the bill said that among the sug- gestions she had heard was that Of an arch copied after the French me morials. and the suggestion continued that the pillars should be of Arizona granite on which tablets containing 1 the names of the dead might he placed, the arch being of native cop i per.
 l Mir. Little made at first wha seemed to be an astonishing statemen ! that there was probably not enougf i native copper in Arizona, the foremos | of the copper producing states, fol l such an arch. "Native copper" bl l the way. is not what people think i | is. that is, copper produced in a cer tain locality but copper smelted b! nature. The bill was reported favor | baly
 New Bills in House
 The following new bills were intro duced into the house:
 By MT. Waters, making an apprc l priation of $50,000 for the construction of the Arizona section of the Arrow head trail, a Utah highway. the roa' to cross the Colorado over a bridg provided foE in a bill that has recent. been passed.
 A bill providing for the management of state institutions.
 A bill making provision for the of flee and contingent expenses of tn agricultural and horticultural com
 -~ion.
 A bill for the relief of Henry White, the former teacher of the dea and dumb school of the university The amount asked for is $950, cover ing the period of year which. on ac count of a change of methods il teaching, he was not allowed to serve
 The senate, in the committee of tn whole and in open session, disposed O large amount of business, and tn various standing committees reporte for indefinite postponement a larg mass of bills.
 Measures Passed Among the measures passed wer the following:
 Amending the law with reference savings and loan companies.
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