Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1893-04-05

Phenix has recently passed vc- luminous license ordinance, occupy ing two columns of the Herald. II provides for a license for almost every conceivable business, but leaves out the newspaper business, and even job printing establish ments which are not connected with newspapers, leaving Prescott as the only city in the world where a li- cense is charged against a newspa- pes for doing job work in connection with its other business.
 It would seem that some mem bers of the Legislature he awake nights to devise schemes to squan- der the public money. Some one has introduced bill providing for a reformstory for the incorrigible youth of the territory. There is about as great necessity for re- formStory of this kind sn Arizona as there is for an institution for the entertainment of angels who may visit the territory. There may be a few more minors in the territory, guilty of crimes, than angels visits, but the difference is so slight that there is just as much need of one institution as the other. We do not believe that the better judgment of the legislature. as body, will en- dorse sucha bill. @
 Secretary Hoks Smith seems to be a great joker, judging from the tel egrams sent out. A telegram of March Sl says: President Cleve- land yesterday appointed W. NJ. Eads of Missouri to be governor of New Mexico vice l.. Bradford Prince whose term has expired. Another telegram dated April says: Secre- tsrp Hoke Smith has announced that on next Monday afternoon at four o'clock he will see persons in terested in the appointment of the governor of New Mexico with a view to obtaining information for the presidents use in making 8 selec- tiOn." As the frst.named telegram was sent out fIom Denver and the latter was dated at Washington it looks a little as though the an- nOuncement of 8 governor having been appointed was a hoax. If it was not, the appointment of Monday as New Mexico day was certainly a "Hoke's."
 The Phenix Herald is again advo- eating the passage of a law provid- ing for the payment of taxes on the installment plan. This seems to be pet measure of the Herald. as it has advocated the same ques- tion at previous sessions of the leg islSture. The Herald thinks that there are numerous and weighty arguments in favor of this proposi- tion which We have not, at present, space or time to detail, and there is certainly no objection that can he urged against the proposition" We would like to see some of the numerous and weighty arguments in favor of it advanced, as We can not imagine a single good argument in favor of such bill. There is a potent argument against burdening the statutes with such 8 law, from the fact that any parties who wish to::do so have the privilege under the present law of paying their taxes on the installment plan. while those who prefer to pay them all at one time, and this class is by far 1 the larger one, are not bothered twice a year by the tax collector. Let the law stand as at present and let all who wish to de so, pay their taxes when due, and those who de- sire to make two payments instead of one can also do so. There is no no class of legislation so valueless as the enactment of a useless law.