Arizona republican., 1919-02-26

proceed 10 get busy. He did so and the reading of the long bill was con- tinued
 Couldn't Fix Responsibility
 Finally MT. .Galbraith had his ready. there were several of them, but the important one was the first dealing with the organization of the state highway commission. leav- ing out entirely the state highway board. The amendment provided that the appoinement of highway commits sion consisting of three members should be made by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate. as appointments are almost universally made. The appointments should be made so that the term of one member would expire yearly. Subsequent ap- poirtments should be made to fill va cancies by the governor with the aid of the president of the senate and the speaker Of the house.
 Mir. Galbraith said that under such a good roads department as the senate eill. even amended, contemplated, 1t would be an impossibility to fix the re- sponsibility for mistakes. extravaganza and other ills so common in good roads construction. Constituted as the de. partment would be. the buck" would be kept in continuous circulation. The taxpayer would never be able 10 ascer- tain who was 10 blame for the wasting 0f the funds.
 Denounees Unfairness
 The control of the department. he said, was one of the natural functions of the governor; the people would look Co him. and now his hands would be tied. Arizona was being made safe for democracy.
 Mr. LillyWhite denounced the unfair ness of the senate plan. It was a nout- ing ot the will Of the people in the mosl unfair manner. lt proposed 10 take from the governor the power the peo- pie believed inhered in him at the timc when they elected him 10 that high office. Certainly they would r~- sent the action of the legislature. with out any mandate from them. in shear ins him of this important power The democratic party said Mir. Lillywhite, could not afford 10 do what it was about to do.
 Speaker Peterson then rose in de- tenSe or the party lt was about 10 do what had been done four years ago in the matter of shearing the governor Of | fNffN+s AA At NtAn lS llA NO NO IL lAtIi. II was right now. He declared that the same elements which had insisted then ! that the power of the governor should be restricted were now insisting that the power Of Governor Campbell should not be disturbed
 Not The Same Republicans
 Gentlemen had made much of the ! fact, said the speaker. that the people | had elected Governor Campbell. re- | publican, and that therefore the gov 1 ernor should be left in enjoyment of the | power he had when elected. But, said Mir Peterson, at the same election tho same people had elected a legislature overwhelmingly democratic in both oi i it's branches. In his own course in thi. matter hc felt that he was discharginl a duty he owed to his democratic con stituents.
 The speaker was corrected by Mir ! blllyWhlte as to his assertion that wha had been done four years ago had beer done by the same people who were pro testing against it now. Who. asked MT LillyWhite. Of the republicans now il the legislature were here then. Tn, speaker replied that he was speaking o parties and not men. The republicar party was then clamOring for the re mOval of as much power as possibl from Governor Hunt. But who. asked Mir. Lillywhite again, had achieved tn removal? Was not the legislature fou years ago much more overwhelming, democratic than it is now? In Arizon; state legislatures the republicans Ina, always been a negligible quality.
 What is "Pinto?''
 The speaker then laid the blame upoi the pinto" democrats. This brough Judge Phillips 10 his feet with the in quiry for a classification of democrats Would the speaker define pinto democrat? The speaker defined tn pinto as a democrat who had partici pated in the election of a republican governor.
 Judge Phillips followed with a scath ing denunciation Of the action of tn democratic majority which he pre- dicted would be brought home to th party in the next election. It was pro posed, he said, to throw the road d-mak ing machinery of the state into th
 hands of politicians, but it would als
 throw the democrats out of power. Nc again would they have a majority i
 the legislature after the people ha
 beheld the waste of the money tha
 would occur under a road departmeT
 constituted as it was proposed to con
 sutute this one.
 He charged Speaker Peterson with
 consciousness Of the wrong doing in volved in the program of tho majority
 otherwise he would not have been s
 vehement in his remarks and have be , come so heated. One sure of the right eOusness Of his own cause can afford 1 . remain calm With another warning 1 the democrats that they were plsyiu
 with fire which would consume then , Judge Phillips concluded.
 Misery Loves Company Mir Nyne. still suffering from abra
 asions he had received from the steal
 roller in the morning. said that now l was feeling much better as one alway does when he has company. He sal that he and his associates Of the SC , called radical wing had suffered ' many like mishaps that they felt genuine pleasure in viewing the opei [ ations of the steam roller from the ou look on the side-lines.
 This was the end of the debate. ar . vote was taken on the first of tl ; Galbraith amendments. It was defeats 2 by strict party vote. the band of eigl
 republicans standing alone. Mir. Bal
 rows, the ninth member. was absent [
 reason of Illness. All subsequent vot,