The St. Johns herald., 1889-04-18

legislature of any territory shall b
 held until tie appropriation for it expenses has been made"
 These estimates are made for ;
 session of sixty days. If the law
 contemplated the prolonging of ;
 session beyond the time fl ed by
 law, it would be impossible to esti
 mate the expenses or for Congress
 to appropriate the money to meet
 the same, which is necessary, for by
 section 1888 it is provided that "nc
 legislative assembly of a territory
 shall in any instance or under any
 pretext, exceed the amount appro-
 priated by Congress for it's annual expenses.
 From the foregoing brief sum- mary of the law governing territo- rial legislative assemblies, it is cer- tain that we were justified in refus- ing to sit longer than the time fixed by laS. Bound by our oaths to obey the laws of the United States in our capacity of legislators, we refuse to become law-breakers. In answer to the plea that territorial legislature may prolong it's session beyond the time fixed by law and pay the additional expenses from the territorial treasury, we hold that the decision made by Republican bench (see Arizona Reports, vol. 1, paragraphs 396-397, when it was decided that no "officer of territo- rial legislatures can be allowed any compensation beyond that which is provided by the laws of the United States is correct interpretation of the law, and is binding upon all who assume the duties and respon- abilities of lawmakers. We have no desire to impugn the motives of the Republican members of the fifteenth legislature in what appears to us to be violent and revolution ary schemes to set aside the laws of the United States and of the Terri tory of Arizona but, judging from their actions during the session. from the commencement to the close-we are forced to the conclu- sion that they, governed no doubt by the clamor of the office-seekers from without and within the halls of the legislature, were more intent upon transferring the official pat ronage of the territory to their par ty associates than making wise and wholesome laws for the government of the people.
 The first six weeks of the session were frittered away, only one bill passing both houses and becoming a law. It was openly given out that by the 10th of March a governor of their own political faith would be installed and, to effect this, aspi- rants congregated at Washington in such numbers as to make Arizona an object of ridicule from one end of the land to the other. President Harrison lowing to the pressure-l as we believe, against his own con- victions-on the 14th inst. nomi- mated a successor to Governor Zu- lick to the Senate, not that any charges were made against the Gov ernor, whose administration it is conceded has been one ot the best the territory has had, but because, from a Republican standpoint, it was absolutely necessary that the territorial offices should be filled by their partisans.
 In daily expectation that MT. Wolfcy would be confirmed, Re- publican councilmen and assembly, men for the remainder of the ses- sion run riot. King Caucus was deserving henchmen were slated to all the offices in defiance of parliamentary law and usage bills were withheld from the gov ernor by the president of the coun- n