The Arizona champion., 1885-01-31
LEGISLATIVE CoRREseoNpENcE.
PRESCOTT, Jan. 2S, 1885,

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 EDITOR CHAMPION: Yonr corres- pondent, through a press of private business, and the dilatory action of our legislative solons in the work of organization did not deem it pru- dent rrf' hsysasary to send a letter to your journal earlier. Your readers are already posted as to the officers of both houses and the bills intro duced by the Maricopa delegation.
 Aside from the regular official pro ceedings of our talented galaxy of law-makers, Dame Rumor in her gen tle and insinuating manner accounts for the presence of such an army of journalistic pencil puShers and such a brilliant and motley third house by the alleged existence of railroad saok," supplemented by a consider sble proportion of Mormon "polyg- amous soap"-the first to defeat any ir> ghts and fare bill that might arise SEd the latter to enable the members Ui the Thirteenth Assembly to let the saintly children of Zion slide Lawn easy until they develop enough numerical strength to look after the legislative department of the govern ment themselves. Just how much of fact or fancy there is in the foregoing your scribe will not pretend to say, hut your readers can depend on the ',a,ement that there are the usual h',uher of so-called anti-monopolists, Sho in their ardent (and honest, too zeal for the protection of the deal people, lose sight of the equitable tights of their opponents and the de ;eiupirg interests of the Territory, On the other hand we have the self. corstituted champions of corporate nghrs," eXtravagant, verbose and ar tcgant, whose existence could equally be dispensed with. We wish it dis ,incrly understood that these charaC terS take no part in the tranquil de hierations of the Legislature, but they are he defacing warts of fungus-likt growth that seem to be the inevitable concomitants of more healthy bod, polite.
 The House committee on election take up the Nash-Wardwell Contes this evening, and the Bohemians las night came to the conclusion to giv a supper to their friends and feast o reason and flow of soul--and othe things-to themselves at an early day These two facts in coDiUHction ma have sometbing .lh the stfs, ( ous efforts to organize an efectiv militia. for before another isSue of tn CHAMPION we expect 10 see the capi tai city of Arizona bright vermillio, long after sunset.
 Your correspondent takes consider able pleasure in announcing that th stockmen of the Territory are takin considerable interest in legislaliy matters this session, and that intcre: demands the attention of the promu gators of the written law equally 3 much as that of railroads and mining
 Dr. Brannen of your city has mad a "mash," as it were, Gf you wi pardon what seems to be the currer vernacular here), on all classes c peoplesby his capability, earnestre' and gentlemanly department. An the expressed opinion is that his elet tion was arranged according to Il ''eternal fitness" of things, and Il readers of your paper ought to | consiuently happy.
 Nothing of great momEnt has d. veloped up 10 date to cause any r
 'nt or jollihcation on the pa q ,.,izens of Yayapai, ard wit vigfiant sentinels on the battlemen to watch the movements of those ou side the citadel, your readers ca sleep as placidly as if the Thirteen Assembly had not convened. Goo night! INDEX
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