elective officers, including judges. The New Mexico constitution

contains a referendum clause, but the clause providing for initiative

was rejected.

Copyright by Clinedinst, Washington.

President Taft signing the proclamation making

Arizona the forty-eighth State of the Union,

at the White House, February 14, 1912.

The constitution of Arizona was attacked in Congress and opposed by

President Taft on account of the provision for the recall of judges. The