Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-03-07

! ' -hiheT ot tne ZZd inst. contains an article of near'y two coI. umns m length in answer to sometbing that appeared in the CITIZEN few days ago. m relation to a proprosed appropri- 'lon ot money to one Murphy. who was 50 fortunate CT unfortunate Cs to Ina made :he representative of Arizona at the New Orleans Exposition. The writer. with great ostentatioD, starts ont a. though something awful was going to oe done, but before proceeding far ii is easy enough 10 eFce.ve that he has hut llttls use of ;hs mighty pen he gtte npts t' Wie'd. l. is very easy for little newspaper ike the Miner to open jts mouth vsIy wide and'say but little. Such empty talk is not creditable to Il newspaper. 1T that iJurnll had apy- thing wCTth saying, why G.d it not pro- ceed to s.y II, lnsteai of beating one plautude after another aud finally end- ing by wandering s5 far away from the subject that th, entire susstauca of tLe article, Il # had any, Was lost in it's uiul- htnde of Gi,c Dnn,c.ed sentences. There IS cue thing, however, taat ths Miner Is posted ou, and upon th1s partisular point the CITIZEN will Lo. question its superior knowledge. IL knows all about the dealing oui of ihe public finds of the Territory. The CITIZEN, quoting from memory, stated that about SIO0O h.d been gobbled up by so- called Ex- position Commissioners, something over 5000 of which went to Prof. Church, and the balance to Murphy. The Miner says Murphy got nothing. We shall not question the statement ut the Miner, bnt it IS general believed down this way that Mr. Murphy got slice about the size of that given t Church, though neither appears in the general appro- priation bill For that year. But II Mur- phy got nothing two years ago, why should Arizona pay him two or three thousand dollars, or any amount, to take charge oi our exhibet at New Orleans now? If that gentleman volunteered his valuable suTv.ces at Denver for nothing, why should he te paid for going to New Orleans when he has already beed pad for bis servlces by the government:
 MT. Weedin stated that 5000 had been pad the so-called commissioner. The Miner says 1t was only S4.OO1 bnt adds that "ihe sane amount Was given to the commissioners of other state and territories and they have used it in defraying their personal expenses incl dental to repres 'nting their exhibits al New Orleans, and in most cases they have been given large sums additional by their respective legislatures Now the expenses of getting Ariz mas ex- hibit to New Orleans was not heavy and Mir. Murphy may, ss he doubtless will, do what he plesses with the money he received. The states and terrItorltiss referred to made their appropriations be- fore any commissioner for those states had been appointed. They had a right to send commissioners because theIr sal aries had been provided for. No Gppru- priation had been made from Arizona, and if Mir. Murphy accepted the position under such circumstances he should be content with whatever the legislatar chooses to give him, which We trust will be not a dollar. MInes are not soli a New Orleans or Denver Expeditions Men who invest in mines W mt to $, e the ore in the mines and not in small bIts fartastically arranged in exposition buildings.
 TEe business Of mining as understood by some citizens of AIlz1na Is an anon ally They would have the taxpayers, tue owners of real estate and personal property, pay man to secure purchasers for our mines. The mines once sold and developed into paying properties, they want to have them exempt from taxa tion. They are perfectly wiling that S40OO0OOO should be taken from mIne without collecting a dollar tax on bull lion, but they are not willing that sin gle COW or an acre of land should escape paying tax The CITIZEN Is in favor of every tub standing on its own bottom. Peter should not be robbed to pay Paul.