The Coconino Sun from Flagstaff, Arizona • Page 1

MPS 5 tL'f" t.S' --U x. V. Largest Weekly Circulation in '); Northern Arizona A Modern Printcry Caflmftw uti Official Stock Paper of Northern1 w5r; Arizona -u Fine Commercial Printing Volume XXIX FLAGSTAFF, ARIZONA, FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1912 Number 18 1 i. W- I a- 7 3 V-, i SI I A i PRESJDENTTAFT'S ECONOMY RECORD A progressive Policy His Personal Efforts to Reduce Cost of Efficient Services Brings Results President Taft, more than any of his predecessors in the White House, has given strict attention to placing the Government upon a business basis as regards its receipts and expenditures. Economy and efficiency became one of the cardinal policies of his administration as soon as he entered upon the presidency and it was well for the country that this was so, for his administration inherited a deficit in the treasury of 58,000,000 which has now been transformed into a surplus of $3,000,000.

The average citizen and tax-payer will be interested in this fact because the problem which confronted the President at the outset, although upon a gigantic scale, was similar to thatlof the oridinary shop-keeper or business man, farmer, or wage-earner, or even housewife who is called upon to make "both ends meet" either in buisness or in the home. As soon as Pesident Taft took office he at once impressed upon his cabinet officials the absolute necessity of economy and efficiency in their departments. He admonished them that not a dollar beyond what was necessary to run the government efficiently in their departments, including a fair margin for progress, which is a part of officiency jn the program of President Taft, should be asked of Congress. The effect was immediate. Every department began work at once to investigate it's own expenditures and to devise ways and means of curtailing ex-travanganccs.

The result was that Congress received the lowest estimates it had seen in years. This was followed by a reduction in appropriations to correspond, always allowing, for the natural growth of the government's, acti vities, which represented a net saving to the tax-payers of the country. President Taft was not, however, satisfied all had been done that could be done. He realized that the departments of the government, like individuals, are naturally prone to jbe proud of their own achievements and by reason of their familiarity with their own endeavors, often insisted that their work was more important than the work of the other departments, relatively speaking. In order to correct that evil Jie asked Congress to give him $100,00, for a commission of disintersted experts to investigate and report on the business of the government with a view to further economy and efficiency.

Thus came into, official being the commission of that name. This commission, among other dutites, was directed to prepare the receipts and expenditures of the government on a "budget" basis, which is the system followed by practically till the leading nations of the world except the United States. Under this system it is possible for the humblest citizen to analyze, the finances of the government, at any time and to lay his fingerupon the responsible political pariy in the event of extravagance or of stinginess. The system, undenyhich appropriations for the government of the United States have been made has even defied the" experts in their endeavors to unravel the tangled skeins of expenditures so that it is a fair statement to say that no citizen of this up to the present time has ever thoroughly understood where, his taxes were expended. THE PRESIDENT'S POSITION At the present time the Democratic House of Representatives is endeavoring tcTcrid the usefulness -T- of the economy and efficiency commission by cutting off its appropriations.

In a recent appeal to continue the great work it has begun, which all thinking men and women will approve. President Taft pointed out that the people of the country as a whole are interested chiefly in the following governmental objects: The national defense; the protection of persons and property; the promotion of friendly relations and the protection of American interests abroad; the regulation of commerce and industry; the promotion of agriculture, fisheries, forestry and mining; the promotion of manufacturing, commerce and banking; the promotion of transportation and communication-the postal service, including postal savings banks and parcels post; the care and utilization of the public domain; the promotion of education, art and science and recreation; the promotion of public health and the care and education of the Indians, and other wards of the nation. There are many other public questions, of course, but these are the vital and comprehensive ones, and the "budget" is proposed for the purpose of giving information of economy and efficiency as to the needs of these matters. The President, in order that his policy of economy and efficiency may be concluded and become one of the greatest achievements of his administration that of placing the government on a business basiswants Congress to appropriate $250,000 more for the support of the commission now doing that work. The Economy and Efficiency Commission has already saved to the taxpayers of the country more than $3,000,000 annually by its suggestions and by the time it has completed its work it is believed ten times this sum can be saved annually to the tax-payers.

In the matter of railroad fare for government officials alone, it has louna tnat 712,000,000 was expended in a single year at the highest prevailing railroad rates. At least a fourth of this can be saved by the application of business methods such as President Taft has applied and has insisted shall be applied to all the departments of the government. WILL WALK TWICE ACROSS TRE CONTINENT J. Justice and M. Brody, two pedestrians from the coast, arrived in Flagstaff last Wednesday.

These young men left San Francisco in January to walk from that city to New York City within one year from the time they left coast. After reaching the eastern city they will retrace their steps to the Pa cific coast. They have to make their own expenses on the trip and if successful in reaching their goal in schedule time they win a wager 01 52,500. ihey carry a complete camp outfit, tent, and they are making good time. They leave this morning for the east.

For School Trustee A member of the Board of School Trustees for Flagstaff District is to be elected next Saturday, March 30, and the patrons of the school should see to it the right person is chosen to fill that important position. It too often oc curs that the people pay very little! attention to this matter, which means a great deal to the children as well as the management of the finances of the district. This district pays out each year for school purposes about thirteen thousand dollars, and it would seem that the people should tak sufficint interest to see that this sum of money is expended wisely and well and that they get value received. Select some good, capable per son whd will look to the interests of the school and elect that person. CAFTLE GROWERS UNO TRE BRAND TAX LAW Arizona Ask Cattle Growers Association Relief From the Present Brand Tax System After a night of rest and a day spent in quietly discussing the issues in the hotel corridors of the city, the Arizona Cattle Growers association met again last night in the council chamber of the Water Users association.

uennue action was taken in accepting the first report of the special committee appointed to prepare certain proposed remedial legislation for the relief of the cattlemen, granting the com mittee further time to consider additional matters, and putting the entire question of working with the legislature for the passage of such proposed measures entirely in the hands of the committee. So unanimous was the action of the meeting upon these two things that the contrast with the previous meeting on Wednesday night was undoubtedly startling. Upon assembling last night, the report of the committee to which was referred the legislative suggestions brought down by the Coconino cattle growers delegation, was presented by Judge Frank Cox of this city. The pro posed bill deals directly with the brand tax, about which so much had been said and so little done. While the committee had not prepared a final report upon that important question, they had arrived at some very definite conclusions, which will be later made into statute form and submitted to the attorney general for his opinion as to their constitutionality.

The bill revokes the present system of assessing and collecting the brand tax, and places the collection of this tax into the hands of the county tax collectors, by them to be transmitted to the state treasurer and held by him subject to the warrants of the cattle, sanitary board. In assessing this tax the bill proposes that an assessment be made each year upon the live stock, sheep excepted, in the county assessor's office in each county, not to exceed in any one year five mills. The present assessment is $1 for every hundred neat cattle, horses, mules, and asses up to one hundred head, and one cent each for every additional head, and places the collection of the tax into the hands of the cattle sanitary board, while the proposed. measure makes a pro rata assessment upon the return of the number of cattle, horses, mules and asses in the offices of each county, and the tax will exist and draw penalty ex- actlv as every other state and county tax now does, making the property of a delinquent cowman subject to execution and sale upon such delinquency. The present method differs from this in that no penalty is provided for delinquency, and unless a cowman voluntarily pays his brand tax, there is no power to force him to do so.

The proposed law does not interfere with the payment to the cattle sanitary board of the fee of 2 for the recording of every new brand. The proposed legislation is largely along the lines suggested by the delegation from the Coconino county association J. A. Johnson, E. H.

Crabb, F. A. Reed and O. L. Hart, who since coming here three or four days ago have worked hard and un ceasingly for a new brand tax.

They brought the suggestion and have the satisfaction of going back to their people with 'the consciousness of having succeeded in the completion of the task as signed them by the cattlemen of Coconino. Immediately following the settlement of the brand tax matter, a lively discussion upon the good of the organization was entered into, in which the necessity of closer organized relations with all the cattlemen of the state was strongly brought out by Frank Cox, Dwight B. Heard and W. M. Riggs.

'All further suggestions concern ing legislation were turned over to the committee appointed the previous night, with full power to act. James A. Johnson of Coconino county, Frank Fogal of Maricopa and Oscar Roberts of Cochise were indorsed for membership on the live stock sanitary board. Gazette. AT THE COUNTY RECORDER'S OFFICE The Transactions of the Past Two Weeks in That County Office Warranty deed, J.

B. Todd et ux to Frank J. Stein." Quit claim deed, I. O. Harrington et ux to Frank J.

Stein. Warranty deed, J. L. Daugherty et ux to R. G.

Babbitt. Quit claim deed, J. L. Daugherty et ux to R. G.

Babbitt. Bill of sale, J. L. Daugherty et ux to R. G.

Babbitt. Warranty deed, Clyner D. Jeffries to Mrs. Josephine Reinhardt. Release of chattel mortgage, Chas.J.

Babbitt to W. H. Dickinson. Warranty deed, David Babbitt to Mrs. Mary Coffin.

Official bond, W. H. Anderson, county superintendent roads. Bill of sale, Thomas Wagner to Ulvan Stewart Anderson. Quit claim deed, Jennie H.

Purdy Anna H. Clark to Campbell, Francis Co. Release of realty mortgage, A. J. Humbert to V.

Fisher. Realty mortgage, J. V. Fisher to Arizona Lumber Timber Co. Deed, Santa Fe Pacific Railroad Co.

to United States. Notice of water appropriation, 400 yards from Patridge creek, Sec. 34, T. 23 4. E.

Notice of water appropriation, reservoir, Sitgreaves, J. F. Daggs. Flagstaff townsite deed, Robert J. Kidd, trustee, to Gustav Sauer.

Flagstaff townsite deed, N. G. Lay ton, trustee, to Gustav Sauer. Flagstaff townsite deed, A. E.

Douglass, trustee, to Gustav Sauer. Administrator's deed, L. E. Hart, Adm. of A.

Garthe, to Gus Sauer. Northern Arizona Normal The eighth summer session of the Arizona Normal School will open June 17, and close August 9. The Normal under Dr. Blome has grown to be one of the leading educational institutions of the southwest and the attendance is steadily on the increase. Two aims are kept in view in conducting the summer session.

One is to help students to prepare for the September teachers' examinations and the other to do the regular work of the school with a view to graduation. Raudebaugh Gets Contract The contract has been let at Williams by A. R. Boling for the construction of a fine two-story opera which will contain under one roof several large store rooms, an opera house, and a number of excellent office rooms. The building will face something like a hundred feet on two streets, and the structure will cost something like $20,000.

E. B. Raudebaugh, the Flagstaff cement contractor, has secured the contract for the cement work and that is sufficient assurance that the cement work will be done in most satisfactory manner. Work on the new building is to begin at once. LEGISLATIVE MATTERS AT THE STATE CAPITOL The committees which have been appointed in the senate are as follows: 1.

Rules The president (ex officio), C. B. Wood, Worsley. 2. Finance C.

B. Wood, Sims, Pace, Worsley, Kinney, H. Wood, Hubbell. 3. Judiciary Hechtman, Worsley, Pace, Hughes, C.

B. Wood, H. R. Wood, Hubbell. 4.

Public Lands Davies, Pace, Harrison, Worsley, Wes-sel, Roberts, Brown. 5. Labor Worsley, Chase, Davies, Harrison, Breen. 6. Mines and Mining Chase, Lovin, Hectman, H.

R. Wood, Brown. 7. Appropriation Roberts, Wessel, C. B.

Wood, Hughes, H. R. Wood. 8. Banking and Insurance-Sims, Worsley, Kinney, C.

B. Wood, Hubbell. 9. Private Corporation Wor sley, Chase, Harrison, Hechtman, Hubbell. 10.

Municipal Corporation's Davies, Hughes, Kinney, Breen, Willis. 11. Public Service Corporations Sims, Pace, C. B. Wood, Lovin.

12. Constitutional Mandates H. R. Wood, Roberts, 'Lovin. 13.

Constitutional Amend nients and Referendum Kinney, Hughes, H. R. Wood, Roberts, Lovin. 14. Suffrage and Elections Hughes, Lovin, Pace, Hechtman, C.

B. Wood. 15. Education and Public Institutions C. B.

Wood, Wessel, Pace, Hughes, Sims. r6. Agriculture and Irrigation-Pace, Harrison, Davies, Brown, Willis. 17. Live Harrison, Kinney, Roberts, Breen, Willis.

18. Counties and County Affairs Hechtman, C. B. Wood, Roberts, Brown, Willis. 19.

Militia and Public Defense Lovin, Chase, Kinne Breen, Brown; 20. Public Health and Statistics Wessel, Harrison, Willis, Breen. 21. State Accounting and Methods of Business H. R.

Wood, Davis, Brown. 22. Style, Revision and Compilation (To be announced later.) 23. Enrolling and Engrossing-Wessel, Sims, Hechtman, Chase, Hubbell. 24.

Printing and Clerks Hughes, Wessel, Sims. Senator Breen of Coconino county has introduced a bill in the senate, offering as a substitute bill for one he had drawn for the recall of judges, different in its provisions and giving the judge a better chance for his official life and an opportunity to proceed with business while the recall was going on. The chair said as the house only had temporary rules and there was no provision for a substitute bill at that juncture he could not accept the Breen bill but it could be introduced later in its regular order. That was done and it became senate bill No. 6 and was read.

Senate bill No. 2, introduced by Mr. Hughes, provides for giving the ballot to women in Arizona. THE HOUSE The following committees have been appointed in the house: 1. Rules Bradner, Brooks, Babbitt.

2. Ways and Means Kelton, Babbitt, Wren, Kerr, Whipple, Brooks, Buchanan. 3. Judiciary Murphy, John son, Helton, Linney, Ljnch.Kirk, Moore, Maddock. 4.

Public Lands Drennan, Johnson, Duncan, Wren, Brooks, Saxon, Irvine. 5. Labor Graham, Hall, Kerr, Mattox, Jacob-son. 6. Mines and Mining HallJ Jacobs, Ball, Lewis, Barker.

7. Appropriations Brooks Jones, Ball, Hall, Drennan, Murphy, Kane. 8. Banking and Insurance-! Cocke, Craig, Drennan, Murphy Kane. 9.

Corporations Johnson, A A. Moore, Ball, Lewis, 'Kerr Saxon, Crofoot. 10. Constitutional Mandates Kerr, Graham, Whipple. 11.

Constitutional Amendments and Referendum Lynch, Mattox, Johnson. 12. Suffrage and Elections-f Wren, Irvine, Craig, Mattox! Maddock. 13. Education Jones, Cockef Graham, Buchanan, Barker, Mad dock.

15. Good Roads Linney, Cur; ry, Jones, Ellis, Gon' zales. I 16. Agriculture and Irriga tion Irvine, Curry, Jones, Kanej Lynch, Barker, Gonzales. 17.

Live Stock Saxon, Cocke) A- A. Moore, Ellis. 18. Counties and County. Af fairs Kane, Babbitt, Curry, Ball! Kerr, Murphy, Saxon.

i ,19. Militia and Public De fense Crofoot, Jacobs, 20. Public Health and Statist tics Mattox, Jacobs, Ja-, cobson, Buchanan, Kerr, Jacobson. 4 21. Enrolling and Engrossing Whipple, Jones, Craig, Mur phy, Crofoot.

22. Printing Ball, Gonzalesj A. A. Moore. 23.

Public Expenditures Cur-' ry, Irvine, Ellis, Jacobson, Cro-f foot. 24. Petitions and Memorials Jacobson, Irvine, Brooks. 25. State Accounting and Methods of Business Babbitt,) Duncan, Drennan, Kane, Moore.

Election Contest Judge Perkins went down to Holbrook the latter part of last week and held a short session of' court for "judge" Sapp, whose1 election to the bench has been contested. The judge heard the evidence in the case, and owing to the fact that the contest was not filed in the time required by law, rendered a decision in favor of the defendant. The contstants filed notice of appeal and will carry the matter to the supreme court of the state. A High Class Trio The Gluck-Dorn, Ivimey Trio has made a circuit of Arizona. They have played to full houses wherever they have gone.

The company is composed of three musicians who have few equals in the country. Each one is an artist in her line and the combination is a very pleasing one. The played in Flagstaff last Wednes day evening to a large and appreciative audience. Miss Lilly Dora. the soprano singer, was indeed fine, singing in a number of languages.

Her voice is most excellently trained and is full and rich. Miss Mangel Gluck, violinist, is an artist worthy of note. She handles the violin in a masterly manner and has few equals in' the country. Her selections were classical and exceptionally well rendered. Miss Ella Ivimey, as.

a performer on the piano, displayed a skill and talent that is. seldom found anywhere. The "touch" of this lady was so "beautiful" that it added materially to-the entertainment. This company of ladies were so thoroughly trained, so carefully developed in their musical talent and ability' that each number on the program was so pleasing to the audience that is was difficult to decide which was best. Mr.

J. M. of Phoenix, who is interested in-musical matters, personally made arrangements to tour the state -with this' company in order that the people might have the opportunity of hearing these clever artists. All in all the entertainment We'd-. nesday evening was a high grade musical treat.

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