Arizona citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Pima County, A.T. [i.e. Ariz.]) 1870-1880, 1876-06-10
WASHINGTON.
Our Delegate I'm Congress
at the National Seat OF Govern
menf-What has Been and What
May Yet be Done.


WASHINGTON, May II, 1876.
EDITOR CITIZEN Thinking that
some items of general and special in.
terest to the citizens of Arizona may
be acceptable to your readers, I will
summarize some that yoar Delegate,
die Hon. II. S. Stevens, has been main
ly instrumental in having passed The
bill has passed the House, and been
reported on favorably in the Senate to
nix the salaries of the District Judges
at $4,000 per annum IN all the Terrific
ries, and this is TO be all they are to re-
celve; there is clause in the bill to in
hibit the Territories, or either of them,
from increasing this amount of salary.
The bill to transfer the Indian Bureau
from the Department Of the Interior to
the War Department. has, after big
fight, passed the House, and is now
before the Senate committee on Indian
affairs, with probability of meeting
very determined opposition both in
committee and in the Senate. As it will.
necessarily cut off quite a lucrative
and influential patronage if it becomes
Ia law, and as the arguments pro and
con had on it in the House will no
doubt be TO Il great extent repeated and
enforced III the Senate, it is very doubt
full if it will become law; besides i'll
is generally thought that the President
is opposed to it, and that will have
considerable weight with many mem
bers of the Senate There is also al
bill of much interest to the Territories
which has passed the House, and
which provides for the election by the
people in the several Territories of
their Governor and Secretary. Your
Delegate has used his utmost cndeavors
to urge the passage Of this bill; it is
now before the Senate committee,
where it Will probably meet some OPP
position. But the right of the people
IN the several Territories to elect their
own executive officers seems to be so
just and proper that think the Senate
will pause before putting any Impedi-
ment in the way of carrying out this
measure. This bill, il passed, will
ncceSsitalc the election Of your Govern
or and Secretary of the Territory this
Fall, and would il not be the true poll
cy of your people to delay action in
holding conventions for election of
Delegate to Congress till the fate of
this bill is definitely settled? If fidelity
to the interests of the people, and a
yigilant energy on behalf Of the cIti-
zcns of Arizona is any recGmmenda-
ton for the continuance of good and
tried representative, | do not see how
your people could possibly better them
selves than by rejecting the Hon. IL
). Stevens t. the position he is now so /
ably filling Besides, as Mr.. Lincoln
once said, sit is bad policy to swap +;
horses whilst crossing a stream"
The bill has passed the House by {
vote of 1lc to 101 to carry into effect the c
Hawaiian treaty formed last year; it /;
will no doubt pass the Senate, when, if /
ratified by the Sandwich Island people, |
The products of those fertile islands a
will be admitted free of duty. and su .
CARS and cofees be much cheaper on /
the Pacific coast than they have here e
tofore been. Through the exertions of l
your Delegate, the bill tor an act re- =
ating to the approval of bills in the l.
Territory of Arizona" has passed the \
House and has been reported favOrably 7
Dy the Senate, with the prospect of be :,
coming law at very early day Its II
provisions are no doubt familiar to h
-our citizens; il takes away the alb ,
;oluie veto power now given your Gov h
srnOr, and provides that bills if passed 5
ly twothirds vote of each of the [
houses Of your Legislature shall be !.
come the law over the veto of the Gov y
,rnor. Bills kept by him over ten days, b
his action, are to become laws a
when passed by a majority of both !,
houses Of the Legislature. The Gov Y
,rnor Of Arizona is the only executive o
II any of the Territories who has the q
4bsolute veto power; this bills takes II !,
hat power from him. Il
Another matter of Interest to your a
PEOPLE, is, the bill for the relief of the $
ettlers on Camp Lowell in your Ter y,
itory. 1t has been reported favorably d.
N by the committee, and will no doubt 5,
become a law 1t provides for assess u
ny the actual value of the improv- -
nents made by the settlers on the lands W
hat were taken up by them prior to VI
he establishing of the military reserv- %
ton ut Camp Lowell, and the pay
lent by the government Of the amount |
D assessed; your Delegate has given a.
luch attention to this measure, and -
Congress considers it an act of simple Fl
lsticc that the settlers should be re- tn
nbursed for their OUTLAWS. II our Gov III
-nment cFpnot do justice to its from u, ~
crsmen, it can do justice to none, for s.,
hat would the country be if the in |
omitable energy and perseverance of =
lie pioneers of The great West are To NJ
e treated with meanness. 30
4 bill has been introduced by Mr.. 81