Ogden Daily Standard | 1915-01-07 | Page 1 | Arizona Alien Law is Void

ARIZONA ALIEN LAWJS VOID Three Federal Judges in Special Spe-cial Court Declare Measure Is Unconstitutional. Decision Open for Appeal to Supreme Court Treaty San Krancisco. .fan. 7, -The Arizona anti-ailen employment act, adopted by the people of the state ni the November Novem-ber election as an Initiative measure, meas-ure, was declared unconstitutional, null and void here today by a spei lal court of three federal judeea. In brief, the courv held that the statute. Violated the guarantors of life, liberty and the possession of property made to all alike whether aliens or not. under the fourteenth amendment to the United States constitution; that if the slate of Arizona could forbid for-bid any employer to hire more than 20 per cent of aliens, it could with equal justice forbid him to hire 1 per cent, or even an individual alien This struck nt the vitalH of the act which ordored that any employer with a payroll of five or more names must contain 80 per cent names of duly qualified ejectorw Great Britain anil Italy protected to the state department