Arizona republican., 1891-02-07

Ieague's energetic charge, but the twenty years of public, parliamentary tourna- ments, although they gave CoOlness and to the older disputant, could not pale the sparkle of his juvenile Op- ponent's onset. Chalmers won his spur, and kept it, much to the satisfaction ol assembled wOmanhood.
 THEN a question of this very police power came up, the fallen women evil and its suppression or control. One member opposed such a measure be- Iause 1t would cost money. That stung | layman, who knew no book law ill particular, into a speech that secured the other of the two spurs awarded that afternoon. Cough, of Graham County, advocated the proposed bill. He is only plain unpretentlous miner from Clifton. But he had q burning wrong e right and he did it. Clifton boasts one street only, between steep mOun- tain ridges. Everybody has to live there. Before New Mexico passed her law, which is sought to be reGnacted here, Clifton contained scarcely ten oi the demi-monde. They formed a minor source of complaint. After the New Mexico law went into operation this little lewd nucleus of ten suddenly expanded into 250 of the lowest, most degraded beings that sexually are called women. The filled the streets, jostled respectable ladies at midday, and familiarly accosted their husbands while esCOrting them.
 That was bad enough. But, as Assemblyman Cough recalled more vividly the shocking abuse, he pictured those little girls that these brazen creatures picked up in their arms and fondled, breathing into their ears that loathsome knowledge which sometimes men of fifty have been fortunate enough never to have heard.
 Ir is needless to predict that, with Coughs picture hanging on memory's wall, there in that Assembly chamber House Bill No. 37 is extremelya liable tC pass. "He was just splendid," said one of the lady hearers of the earnest de. bate. After all, what does it prove but that, in Arizona as elsewhere, for every crying ill, some one will spring forth from some bovine source to throttle it {
 TIE Council was treated to another splendid exhibition of Zulick dema- goguism yesterday. It was all over the proposition 70 allow the Goveruor a messenger during the Legislative session. Of course the gentleman from Maricopa assailed the measure, affirming that it the creation of another office and was in the nature of raid upon that treasury which he and his fellow memb bers had been elected to guard. Even in the notorious Thirteenth no such proposition had been made. In the interests of his constituents he should vote against it, though he acknowledged that he had voted for additional clerk hire in direct opposition to his COnstruc- ton of the law. He grew eloquent in his defense of the peoples money, yet stated that had the resolution taken the usual course of an appropriation of $4 per diem extra pay to the Governor s private secretary, he would not object. He did not see why the Governor should have a messenger to go to the postofiice or telegraph office, or do other little errands. Let the Governor do them himself.
 To WATCH this thick-neCked bump of as he stretched himself and roared, it made one think of Puck s saying:
 What hempen home-spun have we swaggering
 here,
 Through bog, through bush, through brake,
 through brier;
 And neigh and bark and grunt and roar and
 tear,
 At every turn like horse, hound, hog, and
 bear2
 Of course to Governor-beg pardon, now ex-Governor-who is, and always was a regular habitue of saloons, gamb- ling houses, and other places of question. able resort, such thing as dignity is hardly to be expected. To such man the running of all his own erands, cary ing his mail, etc., would be but a pleas ant pastime.
 MEssRs. SIMPSON AND DORIAN COntended that as the Legislature had arrogated to itself the right of employing clerical as