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fkEScoTrs FeD. ~. etns tAollseS having adjourned al n carly iioar to. day, your atiatory soffespondsnt thought he could empisg his leisure time tc no better purpose than by let ting your readers know what capers their law makers are up to in this moral mountain town.
 Since my last, there has been q good deal of eloquent waste of breath; a l great deal more Of fuss and aurry, and q weansome reiterations but very few measures of particularly practical ben- eft to the people have become laws. l Perhaps ihe most important bill yet introduced in either House, has been that to provide for the erection and maintenance Of an Insane Asylum at the city of Phenix. The measure went through the Houseby tIs close vote of l3 to ll It las laia it the hands Of the Committee on Territorial Affairs of the Council spr oYsr two weeks, and has uet yss bssn ported. The bill to create tho oilios os fsonmissioneF of l Immigration, is h she same place, and also tbe Act to provide for the more efficient goysrnnsnt Of the Territorial Prison. These, probably the most in. l portant measures that have yetegome before the present sessieua ara pigeon holed for tue purpose of'inakiDg com 1 binations on certain other questions of 1 a purely local nature.
 The key that shus lockgthe door of Legislation is said to be the "sierra Bonita county proposltlon. Those l fog and against the new county are making | desperate fight and are ready 10 sacrifice all and everything 1 for tue success or defeat of their pet measure. Two weeks agot tue friends of tue proposed county had little hope of passing heir bill; but during the last eight or ten days they have be- come more confident, and now openly declare they will carry t tthrough the ! House.
 The Immigration bill is likely to go through, notwithstanding the opposi- ton Of some of inc Tucson papers. These decaying and decrepit burlesques on journalism, forwarded q printed bill al the opening oi tho session ask ing an appropriation of SIoO00 per annum from Ihe Territorial Treasury tor the free circulation Of Arizona newspapers This seheme met with opposition from every respectable newspaper in the Territory, is only advocates being tbe bankrupt shecis Of tue old Pusblo- The legislature. very properly sas down on 50 vision ! ary and impr4cticalle q scheme. and so bare-racsd an attempt 10 rob the public Treasury This is the secret of the opposition 70 the Immigration bill by some Of the public spirited { ?? jj0ut nalists of Tucson. It is well under. stood by every member in either Honse, and has about as much effect as the so-called newspapers from which 1t enianates. have influence,
 There is rumor that Gila will ask for slice of Yayapsi ere the session closes. Your representatives are both, as understand, in favor Of ihe prop. ositlon; and the first movement in the direction Iallude to, has been made in tue Couneii by Nj. Bailey The ter ritory asked for embraces a large DOT. ton of the Tonto Basin country, which is naturally tributary io Globe. What the outcome will be, no one can tell, but that the measure will have strong support in both Houses cannot be d .nied.
 And in this connection permit me to say, that the smaller counties are receiving little, or nothing. from the present Legislature. While Maricopa wants tho Asylum and Pima wants tue Capitol and Yayapai wants 10 ro. tain it; while Cochise is straining
 
 every nerve and making. every possi- D combination to keep her Territory tact, Clila, Pinal, Mohavean Apache are being used too often to rake out the chestnuts for their larger and more populous sisters.
 Aud right here, 1 will say that there never was an Arizona legislature where s;obbing and trading was 50 ap- parent and So openly practiced; You tickle me. and f'll tickle you, IS the motto of our present law makers. No matter how much merit a measure may possess, fl 1t cannot bring votes 10 another measure. of, perhaps, qnes- tionabls utility, t does not find much favor in the eyes of the majority of the solons now in Prescott This is 1 not a pleasant statemenr 10 make, but 1t is true one.
 The lobbyists are here in force, and move about the floors of both Houses as ifthey were entitled 10 more rights and privileges than the members, < themselges There is the railroad lobby tho Maricopa county lobby; the Hobbies for and against the creation of ! ssSssswr8 pan;fss kfa ysetiai pr1eantt