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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. (ARIZONA.) 



was taken Sept. 3, after the Constitution as pre- 

 pared had been adopted by a vote of 132 to 12, 

 only 1 Democrat voting against adoption. The 

 Governor appointed Nov. 11 as the date for the 

 election to ratify or reject, and the majority was 

 in favor of ratification. The official figures 

 showed a majority of 26,879 in favor of ratifica- 

 tion. 



During the progress of the convention consider- 

 able opposition to the " grandfather clause " was 

 developed. Four of the Committee on Suffrage 

 and Elections presented a minority report oppo- 

 sing the clause, and Senator Morgan wrote a 

 letter setting forth the reasons why it is opposed 

 in his opinion to the spirit of the American Gov- 

 ernment. 



The following " reasons for ratifying the new 

 Constitution," published before the election, will 

 give an idea of the changes it made: 



" 1. The limit of State taxation will be re- 

 duced from 75 cents to 65 cents on every $100 

 worth of property, with perfect safety. 



" 2. The power of counties and towns to con- 

 tract indebtedness will be restricted. The rate 

 of taxation in counties will be reduced. 



" 3. No bonds, except those already authorized, 

 can be issued except upon a vote of the people. 



" 4. Thirty cents of every 65 cents collected for 

 State taxes will be devoted to the public schools, 

 in addition to the poll-tax collected. 



" 5. Judges may discharge, under fixed rules, 

 juries from the consideration of any case. 



" 6. Representation will always be according to 

 population, and can not be changed except by a 

 new convention, and not by amendment. 



" 7. Banks .will be examined into by public ac- 

 countants. 



" 8. The Legislature will meet every four years, 

 saving $50,000 every two years, and elections will 

 be much less frequent. 



" 9. Local legislation will be next to impossible. 



" 10. Circuit solicitors will be elected by the 

 people. 



"11. Succession in the Governor's office is pro- 

 vided for in case of absence, inability, or death of 

 the Governor. 



" 12. All State officers are elected for four 

 years, and no one of said officers shall be eligible 

 as his own successor, and the Governor shall not 

 be eligible to election or appointment to any office 

 under this State, or to the Senate of the United 

 States during his term, and within one year after 

 the expiration thereof. 



" 13. Inferior courts of law and equity, or 

 either, can be established only in counties having 

 20,000 inhabitants and $3,500,000 of taxable prop- 

 erty. 



" 14. The Constitution of 1875 (Sec. 38, Art. I) 

 recognizes the fifteenth amendment, which Ala- 

 bama never adopted, and guarantees the negro 

 all the rights of suffrage the white man enjoys. 

 The new Constitution omits that section. 



" 15. Members of the Legislature and judicial 

 officers are prohibited from using free passes, un- 

 der heavy penalty. 



" 16. Assessments for street improvements will 

 be limited to the benefit done abutting property. 



" 17. The new Constitution will be more easily 

 amended than the present one. 



" 18. Under the suffrage provisions, the white 

 man will rule for all time in Alabama. 



" 19. Prominent lawyers have expressed the 

 opinion that under the present Constitution the 

 State has no authority to fund its $9,000,000 in- 

 debtedness. Under the new Constitution this can 

 be done, and the debt refunded at from 1J to 2 

 per cent, less interest than now paid. This will 



save between $100,000 and $150,000 each year, a 

 saving in one year of what the new Constitution 

 will cost." 



The suffrage article provides for the registra- 

 tion of all voters under the present law who have 

 honorably served their country in war in the 

 land or naval forces of the United States in the 

 War of 1812, or in the war with Mexico, or in 

 any war with the Indians, or in the civil war, 

 or in the war with Spain, or who honorably served 

 in the land or naval forces of the Confederate 

 States, or of the State of Alabama in the civil 

 war, the lawful descendants of such persons, and 

 all who are of good character and who under- 

 stand the duties and obligations of citizenship un- 

 der a republican form of government. 



The registration will be made in each county 

 by a board of 3 persons, residents of the county,, 

 to be appointed by the Governor, Auditor, and 

 Commissioner of Agriculture. 



Heretofore the State has had no Lieutenant- 

 Governor, the succession devolving upon the 

 President of the Senate. The new Constitution 

 provides for a Lieutenant-Governor, and the At- 

 torney-General, State Auditor, Secretary of State, 

 and State Treasurer have been added to the offi- 

 cers upon whom succession may devolve. If both 

 the Governor and Lieutenant-Governor die, re- 

 sign, or are removed, more than sixty days prior 

 to a general election for any State officer, a Gov- 

 ernor and Lieutenant-Governor must be elected 

 at such election for the unexpired term. Provi- 

 sion has been made for ascertaining and declaring 

 the disability of executive officers, when they ap- 

 pear to be of unsound mind. 



It is provided that " whenever any prisoner is 

 taken from jail or from the custody of the sheriff* 

 or his deputy, and put to death, or suffers griev- 

 ous bodily harm, owing to the neglect, connivance, 

 cowardice, or other grave fault of the sheriff, such 

 sheriff may be impeached under section 174 of 

 this Constitution. If the sheriff be impeached and 

 thereupon convicted, he shall not be eligible to 

 hold any office in this State during the time for 

 which he has been elected to serve as sheriff." 



Political. The highest vote for presidential 

 elector of each party in November, 1900, was: 

 Democratic, 96,368; Republican, 53,669; Populist, 

 3,796; Prohibition, 1,407. For Governor the vote- 

 stood: Samford, 115,167; Steele, 28,291; Crowe,. 

 17,543; Hargett, 1,301. 



ARIZONA, a Territory of the United States, 

 organized Feb. 14, 1863; area, 113,020 square 

 miles. The population, according to each decen- 

 nial census since the organization, was 9,658 in 

 1870; 40,440 in 1880; 59,620 in 1890; and 122,212: 

 in 1900. Capital, Phoenix. 



Government. The following were the Terri- 

 torial officers in 1901 : Governor, N. O. Murphy 

 Alexander O. Brodie was appointed Governor in 

 October; Secretary, Charles H. Akers, succeeded 

 in July by Isaac T. Stoddard; Auditor, G. W. 

 Vickers, who resigned Nov. 1; Treasurer, T. W. 

 Pemberton; Attorney-General, C. A. Ainsworth;. 

 Adjutant-General, H. F. Robinson; Superintend- 

 ent of Education, R. L. Long; Geologist, W. P. 

 Blake; Surveyor-General, Hugh H. Price; Veter- 

 inarian, J. C. Norton; Chairman of Live-Stock 

 Sanitary Board, A. C. McQueen; Surgeon-General, 

 William Wylie, succeeded by M. M. Walker; 

 Board of Equalization, R. N. Fredericks, M. P. 

 Freeman, Michael Ohl; Game Commission, W. L. 

 Pinney, T. S. Bunch, Eugene Allison; Chief Jus- 

 tice of the Supreme Court, Webster Street; Asso- 

 ciate Justices, Richard E. Sloan, Fletcher M. 

 Doan, George R. Davis; Clerk, Lloyd Johnston. 

 All are Republicans. 



