Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1889-03-06
Legislative cnt Chat.

WEDNESDAY, ... MARCH 6. 1889.
 Legislative Chit Chat.
 Now that Phenix has gotton the
 capital, she does not know what to do
 ssth sL Every man who owns half an acre Of alfalfa land within radius of
 t~o miles of the town wants a bill put
 through ne legislature authorizing the
 territory so purchase it at about forty
 tunes its real value, for the purpose of
 cspcAng thereon capitol building.
 Business men who have their money
 invested in the old corporate limits of
 the town, either in business or city
 property, want bill passed author
 iEing the territory to pay Ns,oO0 or
 Sloo.010 lor their $l7 600 city hall and
 Sl5.e00 or $a0,O00 plaza in which it is
 located The situation down there is
 groving quite interesting at present, and there does not seem to be either the
 harmonious unanimity prevailing now
 that did prior to the meeting of the
 legislature, or the same amount of se- cresy manifested on the part of the
 press un the subject In other words,
 there gre internal (spell this with an
 '.I instead of e ct" if you mant to) dis
 sensions existing in the alfalfa camp,
 an the papers do not seem to care
 who knows it.
 The Gazette says that Yavapai will
 have 1858 miles of railroad and Coco nino 9S.
 The vote on the Coconino county bill shows that the combination formed to secure the removal of the capital, which included no county division, has not hung together. From an analysis of the vote it is self evident proposition that money has been used to secure the passage of the bill, while the vote for it hy number of members who were pledged, both by words and in writing, against it, is also evidence that trades have been made on it for votes for cer- tsin appropriations. The latter asser- iion wil be capable of demonstration before he close of the session, while the truth o the former can only be judged b. circumstances.
 The Phcnix Gazette is proving an aTowed enemy of Ysvapsi county on every proposition which comes up be- sore the legislature. There has not | --hsch single bill come before that body | in which the interests of this county Il have been involved but that the Ga- zette has taken the side opposed to us. IL may or may not be significant that the Gazette is now the personal organ oi Governor Zulick.
 Notwithstanding the fears enter '.lnei by our contemporary on account 0 the low bids for legislative printing ie.t they be not cons dered, the con tract was let to democratic paper, the sriFanaa. In advertising for bids. and
 letting the printing to the lowest bid
 the action of the republicans, who
 ptrol the printing committee in each house. is ;n striking contrast with Sec re0ry Bsyard this year, as we'll as with thl action of the democratic legislature tNe years ago. Secretary Bayard duly advertised to open bids for printing oiiis Ter the legislature on the 18th of January. The JoURNAL-MINER and Courier were the only papers present. ing bids, .the former being forty per cent lower than the latter in the prin- cipsi item d expense-composition, and lower on all other items. Notwith- stsnding the fact that two years ago bids were opened for the same wor Ter the Fourteenth legislature about o'clock p. m., ct four o'clock w. o. ONeiil, who was the only bidder in op- position to the Courier, was informed a hat the contract was awarded to the 2 istier. being the lower, while this year ls WAS not until February 18th, or 0 within four days of . month, that the lowest bidder was informed that his bid w could not be accepted; that the gov c ernment preferred paying price seventy q per cent higher, in order to give the s' work to . democratic paper. Of course 1T tais IS true complication of demo- tl cratic economy. The same kind of economy was practiced by the demo- G cratic legislature two years ago when G ,he legislstive printing in its entirety o' sas carried to the party organ, all aaorts of republican members to have $ given to the lowest bidder being re- tf oeted. The printing of certain reports oi 'ost the treritory &4,O00. At the same th 'rice this year the cost would not be se ess than $s0,O0o, as there is fully five Of imes the amount of printing ordered tn his year that was done two years ago. ce 'uPerintendent Strauss report alone his year will require as much, if not a, aoro, work than the entire printing one two years ago. While the Ari- ,;, oman was the lowest, in the way bids co geTe advertised for, viz: "price of com n, 'osition per thousand; price of press m, fork per token; paper per sheet, and m inding per copy" the price offered by ns be Paenix Gazette was in reality the a, 'Ress bid offered, although not con- M 'rining to the specifications as adver- H ed. There are eight separate reports pa deTed printed: those of the teriito- thj ai saditor. territorial treasurer, and up peFintendent of public instruction, An 'ng extremely lengthy. The Gazette fro eFeito print loo copies of each for ssl .4sr or 5Oo copies of each for SI,OOO. mn Ina price tha v,,xl- h . l,...