Arizona republican., 1890-05-25
ACT THE FIRST. The HoldoverS Surrender
 the Asylum. Yuma Prison to be Turned Over on Monday. Cases Against Titus and Alexander AClerk Without a Commission
 Case of Meadow.

In the District Court yesterday the cases of the Territory against Secretary Alexander of the Zulick Board of Asylum Commissioners, and of Dr Titus, super intendent of the Insane Asylum, were heard before Judge kibby.
 The people are already sufficiently familiar with these actions, the cases made being substantially the same as those on behalf of Behan and Stein, superintendent and secretary respec' lively of the Territorial prison. The principal reason now alleged for the holding over by the Zulick appointees is that they desire to draw their salaries for the year that each has served since his successor was appointed, and the point is made on their behalf that when they were appointed to their respective positions the boards making the ap- pointments were legally constituted bodies having power to appoint.
 Yesterdays cases were submitted without argument and were taken under advisement There is every probability that they will be decided at the same time as the Behan and Stein cases, thus making clean sweep of the whole mat ter.
 The case against Meador, charged upon the relation of the Attorney-Gen- eral with usurping the office of Ter ritorial Auditor, is set for hearing Mon- day.
 1t is very evident that the early part of next week will see complete sur render of the hOld-overs all along the line-the prologue and first act to such surrender having been given to an ap- preciative audience yesterday.
 The prologue was given in the court room.
 1t will be remembered that motion fora new trial on behalf of the holdover Prison Commissioners had been made and denied, and that notice of q similar motion had been given on behalf of flakes and Fleischman. Yesterday the attorneys tor the holdovers arose and asked that these motions be stricken from the court records, and it was SO or dcred
 The first act was given in the office of Clerk Alexander precisely at ?. Tn. The new Commissioners, Messrs. Hardy and Monihon, with their Clerk, Knapp, were there and were met by ex-Com- missioners flakes and and Fleischman, with their Clerk, Alexander. Then the formal transfer of all the books, records and properties of the Asylum COmis- sion was made to Messrs. Monihan and and Hardy, who received them on behalf of the Territory, and directed Clerk Knapp to remove them to the new of- fee of the commission in the MOnihon building.
 The control of the Territorial Asylum had been wrested from the Democracy at last and, although Superintendent Titus and Clerk Alexander still nomi nally hold office, the latter is a clerk of a commission that no longer has a legal existence, and the former-well, his case will he settled early next week
 Immediately after getting possession of the books, the Commissioners held meeting when it was ascertained that there was due from the old board $477.OS belonging to the Territory and S447.47 belonging to the patients in the Asylum. This money will doubtless be paid over on Monday, to which time the Commissioners adjourned.
 Meanwhile, arrangements are being made by the Board of Prison Directors who have recently been adjudged to be entitled to the offices to go to Yuma on Monday to take possession of their posi- tions.