The Winslow mail., 1922-10-20

| long record of invaluable services to
state in the forefront of the progress
He served Ia years as member of
the territorial Legislature.
He served az president of the Con-
stitutional convention
Was the first Governor of the State
of Arizona.
Was appointed by President Wilson
as his personal representative, to act
as conciliator, in the industrial dis
putes in Arizona in the year 1917
Was appointed by President Wilson
as United States Minister to the King
dom of SIAM His appointment was
confirmed in the United States senate
by unanimous vote. Among the re-
publicans on the foreign relations
committee who investigated the record
of Geo. w. P. Hunt were such distin-
guished senators as Senator Borah,
Senator Johnson, Senator Lodge, SEN
ator Penrose, Senator Knox and SEN
ator (now Presiden) Warren G.
Harding.
What Was Accomplished
AS president of the Constitutional
convention, Geo. w. P. Hunt advocat-
ed and supported such measures as
the Initiative, Referendum and Recall,
Direct Primary, and other liberal
features of the Constitution, which
measures have been overwhelming ly
upheld at the recent primary cleo
tiOn
AS Governor of the State of Arizona,
he supported and worked for Woman
Suffrage.
Recommended and signed the bill
creating a state tax commission.
Recommended and signed Free Text
Book law.
Recommended and signed the bill
creating State School Fund, and made
education cost On the state instead
of on an individual school district,
thereby assuring an equal opportun-
ity for an education to all of the chill
dren of the state, no matter where
they reside.
Recommended and secured state aid
for Normal Schools and a $4,000 min
imum state aid for High Schools for
industrial education and vocational
training.
Transferred the Reform School to
Fort Grant, where it was made rossi-
BILE to make an industrial school of it.
Revision of the Civil and Penal
Codes was recommended and pei
formed during the Hunt administra-
ton.
Among the hundreds of construc-
tive laws passed for the protection,
happiness, safety and prosperity of
the people of Arizona may be listed
the following:
General Provisions
Civil Code revised.
State Tax Commission created.
Blue Sky Law passed.
Laws passed providing for reSlla-
ton of public utilities
Creation Of Board of Control and
Central Purchasing Agency, thereby
saving thousands of dollars to the
| taxpayers of Arizona.
Corrupt Practices Act passed to
prevent election frauds.
| Initiative, Referendum and Recall
put into effect.
| Direct Primary Law passed.
Woman Suffrage law passed.
| Prohibition law passed.
| Uniform negotiable instruments law
passed.
First law passed to regulate motor
vehicle traffic.
Good Roads movement started.
Office of State Examiner created tC
audit public accounts.
Coal to be sold by weight
| Regulation of railroads.
Semi-annual payment of taxes in
stituted
Tax burden eQualized and taxes lev.
led on equitable basis.
State Road Fund created.
Agriculture.
Experimental farms started.
Horticultural commission organized
improvements provided for STATE
Fair
Aid given by State for Count,
Fairs.
i The Carey Act accepted by tn
State of Arizona, which enabled tn,
State Government to cooperate witt
the federal Cover nment to aid agri
culture and the farmers.
Exemption OF homesteads from at
tachment.
Maximum rate of interest lowered
from II per cent to 10 per cent
State Land Commission established
to administer the 100000 acres O
state lands.
Provision made to teach agriculture
in Normal Schools and High Schools
Law to require that butter be solt
by weight with the weight marked OF
the package.
Hay to be sold by weight
Ice to be sold by weight.