Arizona republican., 1921-01-09
BOTK .l!,!''SES X! 2.
 THE LEGISLATURE
 MAKE QUICK WORK IF ORGANIZATION
H. B. Wilkinson Of Mari copa Is Selected President Of Senate-P. c. Keefe Of Yavapai Practically Agreed Upon As Speaker Of House

Earlier and more rapid progress has been made on an agreement upon the | organization Of both houses of the | legislature than ever has been accom- i plished. As a result of a caucus of the | Republican members of the senate yes l terday Senator H. E. Wilkinson was elected nominee for the presidency. On account of the nd1acy of Senator C. NJ. Stoddard, the matter had been thrown into doubt and it seemed pos- sible that the honor would go to a sen- ator of some other county. In connec- ton with such a probability the name of Senator Goodell of Pima was more frequently mentioned, and after that the name of Senator Charles E. Lar sen of Coconino Neither of the last two, however, was an avowed candi- date and the necessity of drafting eith- CT was avoided.
 Roy N. Davidson of Jerome was de- cided upon as secretary of the sem ate and R. c. Brown of Pima for ser geant-a at arms. Mir Goodell was named as chairman of the committee on appropriations.
 There was an incident in the Repub- lican caucus that was very gratifying to those who had hoped that extreme partisanism would be avoided Tn the canvass of names for chairmen of the more important committees, 1t always | has been the practice of the dominant party to award them to the members ! of the party That was generally fol' lowed in this instance and David Nor gan of Yavapai was named for chair man of the committee on labor.
 Morgan Withdraws
 | Mir Morgan, however. asked that his name be withdrawn and that the honor be accorded to Senator James Curtin
 of Mohave. He said that he had learned that the AIohave senator ex- ! pected to introduce compensation law and that it was fitting that it l should be sponsored by the head of ! the labor committed. On this repre- sentation, President-to-be Wilkinson l named MT. Curtin.
 T Mir. Curtin, though now cattleman,
 and stlll young man. was for many
 years a practical miner and a member
 of the union, with an understanding of the needs of the working miner and of
 the deficien1ies of the present com T penss tion law. The bill he proposes to
 instroduce is similar in all of it's es-
 sential features to the Nevada Av
 which says Senator Curtin, affords
 justice to both employer and employs
 while the present cumbersome law adapted from the law of great in.
 dustrial state, is not workable and in sures justice to neither employe nol , employer.
 , The offices of assistant secretar. and many of the clerkships were can
 vassed, but no agreement was def ? nitely reached as to them. They vii be disposed of tomorrow morning. t To Continue Monday
 t The meeting of the Democrat g caucus was a brief one and an ad 0 journment was taken to 10 o'clock to s morrow morning. P. c. Keefe of Yav Q apai had been frequently mentione D as speaker and from the outset he va q regarded as having the field to him self. He was therefore tacitly or prac $ ticany agreed upon as the presidin
 officer of the Democratic house. Nj 7 Keefe is an egineer of Jerome.
 There was the same practical agree ' ment upon Oscar Zapf as chief cler i of the house Mir. Zapf was the assist
 ant chief clerk of the third state legis , lature and of the two special session IF of that legislature. Two years ago ! q was sent to Yuma to take charge ( . the federal employment bureau ther
 Mrs. MaybelIe Craig was decided upo A as assistant chief clerk and John q Newberry or Cochise as sergeant al - arms Mir. Newberry was a membt e of the lower house from that count it in the second state legislature. l. So indefinite was the discussion z l. to the minor appointments that notf n ing could be statel last night that ws
 not likely to be revised at the at
 iourned meeting on Monday morning
 Nearly all of the members of bot ,- houses were in the city yesterday. IT Y, number of absentees from either caucl of was not so great that any agreemel " could be reached in it could be owe
 turned by new arrivals.