Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1889-03-06
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The Phenix Gazette is the organ oi
 Coconino county.
 SherifIs of the various counties want
 the legislature to raise their fees. "A. Luke has his biennial relief bill in the present legislature again. MT. Luke is persistent, to say the least. Bills appropriating money for public institutions are beginning to show up now as the session is drawing near its
 end.
 Sheriff O'Neill appeared, on Saturday, before the committee on county boun- daries of the Council, to argue against the Coconino county bill.
 The JouRRSAL-MINKR is under obli- gations to Representative J. l.. Fisher, for co,ics of a number of printed bills
 and other legislative information.
 The JoURSAL-MINER is in receipt cf
 . private letter from Phenix, in which
 1t is stated, that Governor Zulick and
 his private secretary, Joe Alexander,
 are both working for Coconino county.
 The editor of the Courier, writing from Phenix, in regard to the Coconino county bill, says: "Should the worst come. believe that Governor Zulick
 would do his duty and stay the hands oi those who would be despoilcrs of good old Yavapai." We have faint recol lection oi res,iing similar declaration, in regard to Governor Zulick, on the Capital question, from the same source.
 Bills are being Introduced thick and fast in the legislature conferring pat rOnsge on the governor. In addition to the present officers provided for ap- pointment by him, the circuit court bill opens the way for numerous ap pointments. Coconino county bill pives its organization to the governor Jordsn's liquor law bill provides for an excise officer appointed by the gover- nor. Just how many more soft hesths will be opened for appointment by the chief executive Is yet Sn op n question.
 While there may be some other members of the legislature equally true to their constituents, there arc none who has battled harder for them than
 Hon. J. l.. Fisher, of Yavspai county
 Mir. Fishers work has from the very start been an up hill pull, but he has stood up manfully for the interests of the people on every occasion. and has won the plaudits of his constituents, regardless of party affiliation. While much was expected of him, he has shown knowledge of parliamentary law, coupled with 6 keen sense of jus ticc and right whereby hs has been able to meet the enemy at every point even though unnecessarily, that has sur prised his friends who expected most of him. Fisher is . trump in legislative matters. We do not wish by this to detract oRe iota from the services of his colleagues in the house, Brown and Thornton, or from those of Mir. Moore, in the council.
 Our great big credit mark given the republican printing committees of the fifteenth legislature seems to have been somewhat premature. In common with five or six other publishers of the Terri tory, the editor of the JoURNAL-MI- SER had bid presented which was knocked completely out of time by one from one-third to one-half lower, and we were informed that the contract had been let to the lowest bidder, as it should have been under the circum- stances. It now transpires that such WAS not the case, but that all bids have been rejected and new ones calledsfor. The new bids asked for contain differ ent specifications front the former ones, making it an impossibility for printer or publisher, not on the :ground, to bid. Bids are wanted in rouni numbers for printing the entire batch of reports. Of course, estimates for the work can be made only by those on the ground, who can have access fo tho reports. Just what smO i've prompted the con- mittee to reject the bids we are at n loss to state from this distance, as the Ari- zonan was clearly entitled to receive the contract. Had the printing com- mittee in the first place given the work out to some republican paper, at fair price, in accordance with the precedent set by the democratic legislature two years ago, they could not have been c. insured. Each of the chairmen of the printing committees are practical printers, and they could have pro- tected the interests of the territory, and at the same time given the work to re- publican papers. It looks at this dis dance considerably as though this was intended to protect the Phenix printing combination, as the new deal virtually rul, out all other printers in the territory.