Bisbee daily review., 1919-03-14
SAVE CIVIL SERVICE ACT, LUNCHEON CLUB
 URGES LEGISLATURE
Eleventh Hour Telegrams Sent to Phoenix; Hughes Is
 Blamed for Delay

Strenuous eleventh hour efforts to obtain the passage of Senate bill No. III. the civil service act, yesterday were made by citizens of the Warren district and the Warren District Luncheon Club. following the receipt Of telegrams in Bisbee from Phoenix and the return of representative of the soldiers and sailors wno had bean in Phoenix in interest of the measure The telesrams and messages of the returning soldiers disclosed that the bill has been tied up in the Senate where several members have been blocking it
 At the Luncheon Club a telegram from Wm- Delbridge. representative from Cochise. was read as follows:
 Have just found civil service bill IL is buried in the Senate. Wire Hughes; he has charge of the bill ~ Hughes is the father and author, of the measure
 Several members of the club called attention to the importance of the act and asked for an expression of the organization, when the following telegram was drafted and the secrs- tary was ordered to send il:
 Hon T. A. Hughes, Senator from Ccchise county.
 Advised you are responsible for holding up or civil service bill. Unani- nous opinion of 75 members Lunch con Club that it is of vital imDcrt- ance that this bill pass now.
 Later in the day residents of the district were advised of the manner in which the bill has been handled by William s Beeman and Leo Mise. representatives of the discharged sol diers and sailors of the district. who have spent the past week in Phoenix in interest of the bill.
 Senator Hughes is responsible for holding up the bill" declared Bee man After Governor Campbell ve- 1 tOed the highway bill he told me tne Governor would get nothing more cut l Of this legislature The civil service l bill would give the Governor the ap- pOintment Of the commissioners. | Hughes is assisted by several other Senators. among whom is WinsOr Of l Yuma county They have used the | bill as political wedge and have bean | trading and playing with it."
 Phoenix Report
 Soldiers all over the State are in-i terested in the measure, declared | Mise Tn Phoenix we called it to the attention of the Great War Veterans Association. They appointed a com mittee to examine into and report tn the bill, and their report to the Leg islature requested favorable action"
 The report of the Phoenix associa- tion read in part: The committee has examined Senate bill III and fird T a desirable bill for the State at large and for competent service men tor this and other was and do hereby request the Legislature to act favor ably on this bill at the present es- siCn-"
 Soldiers of the district last night predicted that several gubeTnatOrial bubbles have been shattered by the refusal of the Senate 10 take action on the measure It is the only bill :n- trOduced which offered any degree cf recognition to the former soldiers. they declared, and those who have been responsible for its death. will suffer at the hands Of the soldiers.
 The whole trouble in Phoenix has been that the Legislature has been held in the rooms of a couple of Sen Y atCrs. declared Beeman- -Instead Of doing their work at the State house in the Legislative halls. the members have been playing clOsed-doOr politics in hotel The result has beer nc.i legislation and a lot of grief and the civil service bill has suffered in the. deal.r