, 1886-01-23
THE LEGISLATURE.
Measures of Importance Beginning
to be Heard From.
Council and House Agree on the
Question of officers.
Council.

~" council.
The council met at 10 a. m, Prcsi
dent Blake in the chair, and all the mem
bers were present except MIR. Wright.
Mr.. Teschemacher introduced the first
bill of the council, entitled "a bill to re-
peal a license act
A report on the resolutions rendering
thanks to Governor Warren and Hon j.
NJ. Carey, was made favorable to their
passage.
The council ven into committee of the
whole, Mr. Teschemackcr in the chair.
At l045 the committee rose and reported
in favor Of the passage Of house bill No.
i, also house Joint resolutions Nos. s., /,
and 6, also that house joint resolution No.
3 be referred again to committee No. IA.
The committee rose aud under suspen-
sion of the rules, house bill No. ! was
passed. This amends the city charter to
permit the appointment by the city treas
urer, of a deputy. for whose acts he shall
be responsible and whom he shall pay.
1t will also permit the city treasurer to
maintain an Office at the city hall and con
tinuc his duties as county treasurer if such
an arrangement should be desirable.
As soon as the council reconycned u
message from the house was received an
%nouncing the passage of house joint reso-
luton No. ., ordering all the newspapers
in the territory. Mr.. Teschemacher
hoped that the measure would be settled
directly, as the papers were coming daily,
and it was possible that the council would
not concur. For one he should vote no.
The rules were suspended, when the
council went into committee of the whole,
Mr.. Grant in the chair, for the considera-
ton of the resolution. Mr.. Teschemachcr
then moved that in reporting the resolu-
ton back to the house, the council should
report that it does not concur. Last ses-
sion the amount appropriated for news
papers was 5000; this year, with the
number of papers increased to fifteen or
more, the expense would not be less than
1000. He thought the legislature had
no right to appropriate this sum for its
own use. 1t was impossible to read all
the papers if they are received, and they
lie on the desk unopened and useless.
Mr.. Cashin agreed with Mr.. Tesche-
macher that if the members wanted all
newspapers, or any of them, they should
pay for them out of their own pockets.
Mr.. Blake said that in his opinion the
representative newspapers of the territory
should be taken, and could be taken with
a profit to the territory as well as the
members. 1t was possible that from
them many valuable ideas as to the wants
of the various sections might be obtained,
as they reflect the opinions of those Sec
tons.
Mr.. Daley announced himself as en-
phatically a friend of the newspapers, and
he should vote for taking the few the en-
terprisc Of the territory published.
Mr.. Teschemacher's motion to not
concur was carried. The committe then
rose and reported as agreed upon, the re
port being laid upon the table to await
the second reading Of the resolution,
which was referred to the committee on
finance.
A communication from tlie house en-
closing joint resolution No. 6, and the
substitute far the same concerning revi-
sion and compilation of the laws was re-
ferrcd to the judiciary committee.
The finance committee reported an
amendment to the joint resolution re
garding papers, the amendment authoriz-
ing the chief clerks to order seven
copies of newspapers for the council and
thirteen for the house of each daily paper
published in the territory and the same
number of each weekly paper except The
LEADER, SIN and boomerang.
The conference report on additional
help for the house was adopted.
Dir. Dcloney was excused until next
Friday, and the sergeant ut arms was ex
cused until the same date.
Adjourned until 2 p. m. Monday.