Nogales international., 1935-03-30
Distortion And Flub-Dub
Haze Injured Arizona

appropriation of $500 for the purpose Of sending
representative to Washington to act ason officer
between the federal government and the state and IN
so doing they have harmed no one except their own
state
Before commenting the subject Dunbars de-
sires to make it plain that no one connected with this
newspaper will be named Arzonas representative.
The purpose Of the measure is to enable the Gov
ernor should he deem it to the best interests OF the
state, to send personal representative to Washing
ton to act for him in matters of vital importance to
Arizona.
Some newspaper we believe it was our friend
Bill Stewart in the Prescott Courier dubbed the nea-
sure "The Ambassador Bill" and said that Arizona
was going to send an Ambassador to Washington,
the other newspapers took it up and soon had great
many people believing that Arizona was sending an
ambassador to Washington at salary OF >! 900 per
year and all expenses to take take the duties OF
our Senators and Representative and lot more ItuD
dub just as ridiculous
Such was not the purpose the Intention The
$500 was the total appropriation to expenses,
salary and ALL Any poor devil who believes that he
can go to Washington paying his travelling and living
expenses and have anything lett out OF 1000 alo-
preparation is just not acquainted with Washington
Practically every state in the nation keeps rep
fesentatvc in Washington all Of the time. The City
Of Washington is situated right in the front yard of
the State Of Maryland still that State has kept rep
resentave of the Governor in the capital city every
minute Of the time during the past two years.
Last year Arizonas Governor made two trips to
Washington and sent representative there On seven
different occasions, costing in alAWe presume consld-
erably more than the present $500 appropriation,
ard the results achieved more than warranted the eX
p3nse Arizona's congressional delegation clad to
hve the assistance Of the Governors representative
anl all freely said that the assistance rendered was
valuable to them and the state.
Arizona is a small state far removed in distance
from the Nations capital Our delegation is small
compared with the populous eastern states Arizonas
congressional delegation composed Of three is suppos
ed to do for Arizona much as New Yorks big dele
cation Of As does for that state Pennsy yvanias AZ
for the people Of Pennsy lvania. In other words our
two Senator's and one lone COngreSsWOman must
compete alone and unaided, with the big and power
ful congressional delegations of Indiana, Illinois,
Ohio and the other big states. More than that is
only few hours ride from any Of those states to]
Washington making it easy indeed for representatives
OF cities and other municipal projects having busi
ness with the government to run down and attend
to their own business while Arizona being clear
across the continent distant three days and three
nights by train, must depend OH its congressional
delegation to attend to all of the business it's political
subdivisions and its citizens have with the national
government. Our congressional delegation is over
whelmed, offices piled with letters and kilograms,
asked to attend to more business than it is physically
possible to perform Undoubtedly every member of the
delegation would welcome the assistance Of repre-
sentative Of the Governor and would work in whole
hearted cooperation with such representative
It would have been possible for Governor Moeur
to have quietly requested Legislative leaders to in
crease his contingent expense fund by 81 500 and it
would have been done That money could have been
used to send 9 representative to Washington when
needed, and nothing would have been said about it.
That is the way those things generally done but
that is not Governor Moeur's way of doing business
He is right out i'll the open about everything He feels
that Arizona needs a man in Washington to act as
coordinator between the state government, the ma
tional government and our congressional delegation
and so believing he asked that the appropriation be
made in separate bill setting forth in full the pur
pose for which it would be used
We feel that the newspapers by ridicule and dis
ortion have nulifed to great extent at least any
good such representative could accomplish, and in
so doing have injured Arizona and its citizens.
The incomprehensible thing to us is that 50 many