Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-08-15
SUFFER- POINTS
TO RECORD In :
AN INTERVIEW

! for nomination for state senator on
(, the democratic ticket, was in Doug
las Saturday in the interests of his
4 candidacy. While here, he conferred
with a number of prominent demo-
4 Gratis concerning the political race.
when interviewed regarding his can
! didacy, sutter said:
AS candidate for lne nomination
Ito the office of state senator on
1 the democratic ticket, 1 feel it my
/ duty to tell the public some of the
things I advocated and helped to
pass when / was member OF the
lower house of the territorial legis-
lature in 1909 and member of the
! state senate in 1917.
In the 1909 session of the legis-
Iature voted for and helped TO
pass a bill giving an eight hour day
to hosting engineers and smelter
employees. This bill was known as
Council Bill No. S5 and the record
4 of my vote on it can be found on
page 154 of the Legislative journal
for 1909.
! At the same session 1 used my
efforts in helping to pass and voted
for Council Bill No. 81, which re-
moved the limitation on the amount
of damages that could be recovered
| for the death of an employe through
the negligence of his employer. Be-
fore the passage of this bill the
| amount of damages which could be
recovered for such death was limited
to the sum of five thousand dollars.
The record of my vote on this bill
can be found on page LAT of the
Legislative journal for the year 1919.
AS a member of the lower house
of the Legislature at the same ses-
sion l voted for and helped to secure
the passage of Senate Bill No. %
1 which made it unlawful for any
corporation operating company store
to compel or coerce an employe to
trade at such store. The record of
my vote on this bill may be found
on page 377 of the legislative journal
for the year 1909.
AS a member of the state senate
in 1917, largely through my efforts,
: Senate Bill No. S9 was passed which
provided that the surviving husband
or wife of deceased employe could
recover wages due the deceased
without going to the expense of hav-
ing an administrator appointed, and
could also collect debts owed such
deceased employe or draw funds out
of a bank belonging to the estate
of such deceased employe up to the
sum of three hundred dollars with
out the appointment of an admins
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: this bill can be found on page 224
of the senate journal for 1917.
At the same session of the legis-
lature, 1 voted for House Bill No. 3
known as the Minimum Wage bill for
- women, which law was held con-
: stitutional by the supreme court of
the state of Arizona and afterwards
:. held unconstitutional by the su-
preme court of the United States.
u The record of my vote on this bill
: can be found on page 451 of the
4 senate journal for 1917.
Confident that my record in the
past as a legislator has been salts
II factory to the voters of Cochise
county, 1 am asking them. again tc
elect me to the senate and if I am
elected 1 pledge myself to a con
structive policy on the Colorado
river project. I do not deem i
sufficient to simply vote mo" OF
the approval of the Colorado river
compact as has been done in thu
past two sessions of the legislature
but 1 deem it necessary that SOM
affirmative action be taken by th'
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pute between the state and the othe
contending basin states and lead t
the immediate construction of dan
or dams at the best site or sites OBJ
I tainable. This can only be done b.
taking the project out Of politics
and viewing it from purely bushes
standpoint, which # I am elected
to the senate will use my best eff
forts to bring about.
also pledge that my supper
will be given to safeguard the schoo
system of the state and that shall
work for and support only those
measures that will advance the prog.
ress and growth of such system.
do not believe it conducive tc
the best interests of society thai
male and female persons should bt
incarcerated in the same penal in
stitutions and if become one o1
your senators I shall use my efforts
to provide separate institutions foI
the boys and girls who are unfor-
tunate enough to be sent to. the
stat. industrial school.
believe that the Legislature
should make an adequate appropria-
| tion for the carrying out the pro-
) visions of the Shepard -Towner bill
) passed by the congress of the United
} States, being an act for the promo
+. tion of the welfare and hygiene of
maternity and infancy, and intended
to improve the conditions of mothers
and infants.
believe the game laws of the
state should be amended in a man
ner to protect and increase the game
: of the state and that fish hatcheries
should be provided, from which the
many trout streams and lakes of the
1 cfofa ho mi or