Weekly Phoenix herald., 1885-02-12

they ndQ StTuSSItu WAIA luC pl0pO~ sitien carefully and they present the memorial in anguish and rec, ommend that it do pass. Carried. Stewart introduced a bill to pree scribe salary of county, precinct and certain territorial officers. The bill provides a certain salary for each and every county officer.
 The House bill to prevent obscene and abusive language passed.
 The Insane Asylum bill Twas taken up and referred to Committee on Territorial Affairs.
 The bill to create office of Com> missioner of Immigration referred to appropriate committee.
 On motien of Weedln the Council went into Committee of the Whole to consider the bill for registration of voters. There are three bills on the subject, which it is intended to frame into a general law.
 The Council then took recess until two o'clock
 HOUSE.
 The House met at il 8. m., Speaker Rollins in the chair.
 The Council bill increasing power of Judges when sitting in chambers passed,
 The Council bill reducing license of commercial travellers from $200 to $50 per annum ordered to third reading.
 The Council bill on divorces in, definitely postponed.
 Wardwell's bIll to make County Recorder the Clerk of Board of Sue pervisors referred to Judiciary Com mittee.
 The bill to punish bigamy by inns prisonment in Territorial prison for ten years gave rise to le ngthy dee bate. Passed.
 Wardwell's bill to revise statutes indefinitely postponed.
 Rollins dynamite bill reported back by substitute, Passed. The bill makes it a misdemesnor for any one to have explosives in his pos" session without marking the same with the name and character of the explosive.
 The bill prescribing the salary of officers gives the sheriffs of Cochise, Pima, Maricopa, and "a Vapai $4,0OO each and other offices Tn proportion :.
 ABOUT PENSION LAWS.
 WASHINGTON, Feb. 9-George Le- man, pension attorney, of this city, was to-day before the House com mittee on the payment of pensions, bounty and back pay, and in answer to inquiries of the members, said he paid Col. Tngersol $2,500 and Judge Wilson $1,O00 to secure the passage of the law enacted at the last session of Congress, relative to an increase in attorneys fees in pension cases Leman further said the payment of these sums was contingent upon the passage of the aot.
 IN SELF DEFENSE.
 ST. LOUIS. Feb. 9-A Cuba. Mo-, dispatch says: At one o'clock last night E. S. Green, a clerk in a drug store, shot and instantly killed H. l.. Martin. Deceased was drunk, and went into the drug store and de- manded whisky, but was refused i; whereupon he assalled Green and the latter fired the fatal shot. Both parties are highly respectable.
 FIRE IN NEW YORK.
 NEW YORK, Feb. 9-The damage done by the fire last night to S. B .. Crittenden's building on Barclay street is said to be $5O,O0O; fully in> sured. Loss on stock $2OO,OO0.
 AssIG NEE,
 CINCINNATI, Feb. 9-D. W. Miller, proprietor of the Miller Carriage company, has assigned. Assets $125,0o0, liabilities $166, 1000.
 FAILURES.
 NEW YORK, Feb. 9-The failures of last week in the United States were 314. Canada 32, total 346, against 354 for the previous week, and All tor the week previous. The failures are still numerous for the western and southern states; in other sec- tions the figures are about up to the average.
 SUPPOSED TO BE LOST.
 SAN FRANCISCO, February 9-The British steamer Sardony sailed from Victoria, British Columbia, for Hong Kong, December 10. Since then she has never been heard of. She had 400 Chinese on board and a light cargo of coal. She is sad to have been unsafe and is supposed to have gone down.
 Found No Poison.
 pr. Samuel K. Cox. D. D., Prac> tical Analytical Chemist, Washing ton, D. C., who made thorough and careful analyses, reports that there is neither morphia. Onium. emetics