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

NEoIOii, Jiu' <oJ iooS,
 EDITOR CHAMPION Yonr cores pondent, through press of private business, and the dilatory action of our legislative solons in the work of organization, did not deem 1t pru- dent or necessary to send 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 tie 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 a railroad "sack," supplemented by consider able proportion of Mormon "polyg- amous soap"-the first to defeat any freights and fare bill that might arise and the latter to enable the members of the Thirteenth Assembly to let the saintly children of Zion slide down 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, but your readers can depend on the statement that there are the usual number of so-called anti-monopolists, who in their ardent (and honest, tool zeal for the protection of the dear people, lose sight of the equitable rights of their opponents and the de- veloping interests of the Territory. On the other hand we have the self constituted champions of corporate rights" eXtravaganr, verbose and ar. rugant, whose existence could equally be dispensed with. We wish it dis tinctly understood that these charac- :ters take no part in the tranquil de- l,berations of the legislature, but they are the defacing warts of fungus-like growth that seem to be the inevitable ConComitants of more healthy body polite.
 The House committee on elections take up the Nash -Wardwell contest this evening, and the Bohemians last night came to the conclusion to give a supper to their friends and feast of reason and flow of soul-and other things-to themselves at an early day These two facts in conjunction may have something to do with the strenu- ous efforts to organize an effective militia. for before another issue of the CHAMPION we expect to see the capi- tai city of Arizona bright vermillion long after sunset.
 Your correspondent takes consider able pleasure in announcing that the stockmen of the Territory are taking considerable interest in legislative matters this session, and that interest demands the attention of the promul- gators of the written law equally as much as that of railroads and mining.
 Dr. Brannen of your city has made "mash," as il were, eff you will pardon what seems to be the current vernacular here),ss on all classes of people. by his capability, eornestress and gentlemanly department. And the expressed opinion is that his cleo. tion was arranged according to the "eternal fitness" of things, and the readers of your paper ought to be consequently happy.
 Nothiog of great moment has de. veloped up to date to cause any re. sentiment or publication on the part of the citizens of Yavapai, ard witf vigilant sentinels on the battlement, to watch the movements of those out side the citadel, your readers car sleep as placidly as if the Thirteenth Assembly had not convened. Coco night INDEX.