The Weekly Arizonian., 1870-04-30
From Our Washington Correspondent.

ugated.
 From Our Washington Correspondent. While the attention of the governnIenti is di rected to retrenchment in the civil list The arm
 ia rot neglected. We have the most sxpen.
 sively Ohicered qrmy in the world and it is th
 determination of Congress to cut it down to tn,
 minimum. ItiS proverbial that beth the arm!
 and the navy are sensitive subjects to handle
 in any way. Not only do the members of these
 services look upon thetr terms as perpetual,
 but the people holding in grateful remem-
 brance their sacrifices and heroic devotion iealouslY watch any legislation that apparently encroaches on the rights of our soldiers and sailors. But we must settle down sooner or later to peace basis. The theory ofour gov ernment IS in no way more definitely and uni, versay recognized, than that it is against public policy to maintain an expensive army in time of peace. Taxpayers demand u hat the expenses in this direction be at she very lowest figure The committee on Military Affairs have thoroughly examined into tho subject. When the revolution was at an end, tb.e officers were mustered out with three months pay: the same course wa5 adopted at the close of the Mexican war, but it appears that the reduction at the close of the late rebellion, of the nu- merical strength of officers and men was dis propOrtionate, and reuodeling is proposed which will necessarily retire some :ocI and worthy man. It is proposed to give them each one years full Pay.
 DRAMATlC SCENE IN TEE HOUSE.
 There was quite scene when rhf Sutro Tunnel bill came up io tic House of Re presen. tative.. The Bank of Cahforni& which is called the Incorporated Jim Fisk ofthe Pacific Coast. attempted to manipulate Q law thTorgsh Con- gress, and had sent one of the most prominent members of the San Francisco bar to attend to the business, The charge was openly intimat- ed that he had influenced" some of inc pa. eiic delegation, and the House by a decided vote administered rebuke to the wonld~bo nOnOpolizers that puts . cCielas upon the yrasping avidity of this institution. The gran,s Q Mr. Sutro are again confnded, end We sbalt now see, under his energetic rule, q develop nent of the miai: g resources of Fks country hat will be national benefaction.
 The labor of those hardy men who delreinio he bowels of the earth, mast be protected from he combinations ofcapital which. seeks to in -ugurate system of serfdom only one remove rom that slavery which has just had it's shack es broken.
 Labor needs protection, needs cncoura ge- nent for there is danger to the Republic if We Ire to boz to the monopolies that strive to hedge us in on every side. Labor is as much ,ntired to the fostering care or the goverh- nent as any other branch of the resources of he land and yet it is singular that the only practical legislation it has received from Con- ,ress is opposed by sOphistry and technical uipg allude to the eight hour bil which Tas so eaborately attacked by Seuater Morrill, # Vermont; it was defended in masterly . lyle by lion. Geo. E. Spencer, Senator from I 4labama who forcbly illustrated the persistent ' forts F ada to reduce the Iaborer and me, ' manic not only in financial benefits, but lower n lis moral and social standing. Senator Spen- t- CT deserves the acknowledgements ofthe work ng classes for the able manner in which he q eIsnded their rights, and the record will tell '' l his favor some day. 4
 SINGULAR ACCIDENT.
 Our street cars, instead of having mating a n their floors, have loose covering ol straw. ome one must have thrownNearne matches nong the combuslbIe material, for while one - as descending down grade, the whole mass iugh. fire. The passengers, among whom " ere several ladies, had just time to escape, A. It the car was entirely destroyed, and this in "' e middle of the day.
 TRANSFORMATION pr Boutwell, seems to be doing his best to dis gage himself from every combination in