The Arizona champion., 1885-02-07
LEGISLATIVE CoRREspoNDENcE
PREscoTT, Feb. 4, 1885.

would suggest to the '1ooker-on in Venice"-prescott, we mean-that the members ot both houses are do- ing a penance for their deadlock proclivities and seeking to make amends by an unusual activity in all matters pertaining to the interests of their constituents and particular sec tions. This is specially true of the Yavapai delegation.
 The lower house has passed a reso- lution favoring the Inter State Com- merce Bill now before Congress. Your correspondent mentions this fact, not because he deems the matter of any importance itself, but on the principle that "coming events cast their shadows before," and your req ders can therefore readily anticipate the action of this branch of the Legis- lature in regard to railroads and rail, road interests.
 The bill for establishing an Insane Asylum has made many friends, and It is safe to say that scarcely anything but difference as to its location and the amount of money necessary for its cstablis hment and erection can defeat it. There is but little doubt, however, that the Maricopa parent of the measure is capable of trading for and skiliully manipulating its pas sage.
 Considerable levity and humor is manifested over Gen. Wardwell's bill providing for female suffrage in this territory. In view of the fact that this same spirit preceding similar successful act in the Legislature of Washington Territory, aided materi- ally to effect its passage, those who desire to defeat it will find it conven- tent to treat the matter seriously. Tke members of the republican fac ton should remember that at the first election the sensible ladies of our far northwest sister, after attaining the blessed privilege, elected a Democratic Delegate to Congress. But he was q very good-looking man, something rare in the g. o.p,
 The alleged violation of agreement on the part of the republican mem- bers of the Council and their vigorous denial of the charge has caused some feeling, and as a consequence A. K. Ainsworth and Tom Weedin have measured steel (pens) and ventilated their ideas on the subject in print.
 The numerouS bills referred art getting thoroughly cauterized by the committee surgeons, and some of the introducers will scarcely recognize their own handiwork when they come out of the laboratory or dissecting rooms of these gentlemen, and in some instances the bills will die un- der treatment.
 The question of the health of the fgurative new county baby among the legislative nurses, both wet and dry, IS causing more Commotinn than tho merits of the matter demand It is called Sierra Bonita, and some of the defendants proclaim it healthy anC promising, while others gravely shake their heads and whisper that it IS O. premature birth. One cruel and heartless newspaper man here calls Il a "miscarriage,"
 A blll has been introduced grant ing the Arizona Mineral Belt Rail road certain water rights and privi. leges on Salt River, in Gila county, and Col. Eddy, the President of the company, is here, presumably in the interest of the bill. Nothing can b, said now as regards :he success oI this bill, but this particular railroad enterprise has many friends here.
 Some of the many important act. now pending will have reached a cul minatlng point before your next issue, correct information of which you vii receive from another source than
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