Weekly journal-miner., 1919-01-22

will be necessary to permit the high CT development of state institutions, notably, good roads. The develop ment of arid lands by returned sol dier, with state and federal aid was also advocated.
 Under the head of the Workmen's Compensation Law, the governor pointed out these results to be ex- pected from a properly constructed law:
 1. Assurance of immediate, eff cient medical attention for injured. 2. Prompt average justice.
 3. Prevention of accidents.
 4. Elimination of litigation. 5. Compensation without expense to the employee.
 Confusion as to Finances.
 Leading up to the request that the state auditor be provided with fund for the auditing of the books of the state, the governor pointed out the state of confusion existing in the fi- nancial department. Among other Institutions he mentioned was the Pioneers Home at Prescott, his re- marks being given in full here.
 That Military Tangie.
 Referring to the military tangle that imposes on him the services of an uncongenial official, Governor ! Campbell said:
 While he is commander in chief of the military forces of Arizona, the governor of Arizona finds him self in the unhappy position of re- quiring an. adjutant general who must be chosen from members of the national guard with all the national guard of the state away on active service except one man who IS now filling the office. Owing to Objec- tionable personal and temperament al qualities, this individual is not de- sirable for the position since the ad jutant general must. of necessity, be tne governors personal adjutant and secretary in military affairs and should. as a matter of course, be a man not obnoxious to his superior,
 "The absence of the. national guard from the state also makes 1t impossi- ble for the governor to have at hand military staff such as the statutes contemplate, through whom it would be possible to secure the appoint ment of man qualified under the statutes for the position.
 "A further embarrassing feature of the situation lies in the fact that the general staff, whose term had ex- pircd, we're re-appointed while f in federal service by an executive order, dated November l3, 1918, although it was known at the time there there was no possibility of their being able to cooperate with the chief execu- tive as is contemplated by the exist ing statutes.
 Coupled with these unfortunate conditions is the fact that there eX- iists a grave doubt as to whether the federal government will ever re-es- tablish the national guard along the old lines and appropriate money for its maintenance.
 "Under the circumstances, l must advise and urgently request an amendment to the existing statutes which will enable the chief execu- tive of the state and commander in chief of the military forces of Ari- zona to secure an adjutant upon whose cooperation he can depend and with whom he will be able to work without friction and with satis- factory results for himself and the state"
 Pioneers Home.
 "The annual appropriation for the maintenance of this institution IS $18,OO0 For the year ending June 3Oth, 1918, the warrants. totaled Sl6,- 86Llt. On January lst. 1919, ac- cording to the books of the Commits sion of State Institutions. the main tcnance account of the Pioneers Home had been overdrawn $l72.V and there were outstanding unpaid bills amounting to $l,l53 which would make the actual deficit of the institution at the present time $l,- 325.97. It required $8,071.55 to meet the warrants for the last six months of the year, ending June 30, 1918. Ac- cording to the books of the auditor, there was available on January lst, 1919, balance of $2,090.37.
 The improvement fund of this in- stitutiou for which an appropriation of S4,O00 was made, carried a bal anoe on January 1st, 1919, according to the auditors books, of $268 10. According to the books of the Com mission of State Institutions, the fund is now S2,068, overdrawn."
 The following on the election laws is quoted in full:
 Experience has demonstrated that revision of the primary and general election laws is badly needed. We have now experimcnted in this di- rection for nearly seven years, with the result that all political parties are in agreement upon the con olusion that the election machinery lis not only cumbersome and uu' Wie1dly but permits great abuse oi