Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1895-01-30

Legislature. Do you NdHN AOut blunderbus sent down, Bossl
 It may not be surprising to learn that Maricopa has caught on to some of the legislative soft snaps.
 When the president goes fishing again will he please take Mr, Gresham and Mr. Carlisle with him.
 Harry Carpenters vocation is put down as a canal man, Shake, Harry. never desert the cause of "irriga- ton"
 If the House and Council ever expect to consider a question jointly, ali they will have to do is to insert a dry rider with wet clause in it.
 The election last November seems to have shown that a place still exists which used to be known as the ,'wooly west"
 If Mexico and Gustemaia declare war. Arizona ought to do q big bns'- ness in furnishing tomales and frijoles for war supplies.
 Representative Barnes of Apache, in the House, threatens to become as famous in literature as "Mr. Barnes of New York" recently did.
 During the late storm, from all reports, the country was pretty well washed out. Let us hope some good clean ups will be the result.
 The penitentiary is said to be self supporting. This is not sur prising when it is ribbed together by such means as Gates.
 The democrat party has caused a clould to lower over the land of plenty. The republicans will have a chance to furnish the silver lining in 1896.
 Because the legislative wheels ale grinding slow at present, is no indi. cation that they are to grlndexceed- ingly fue. The fine work will take place later.
 We hope his nibs, Grover, will keep his eye on the Arizona iegisla- ture for the next sixty days, as financeering is to be the hobby of the eighteenth.
 4 devoted wife of a member of the House recently placed a nice bouquet on her idols desk. Usually T fist "puddin" would be more ap- propriate for au Arizona legislator.
 The present assembly ought to turn out some pretty good laws, It has everything in it from a black smith to 8 carpenter, the only thing lacking being a lawyer.
 MT. Cordis of Phenix. says that according to the archives of the Spanish padres, Arizona is now entering upon one of its wet cycles. This wlll be good news to the man who is always dry,
 The Governor has 8 strong clause in his message on woman suffrage This should not be inferred as a weakness. however, on the part oi our executive for them.
 What is to become of the herd of legislative snap hunters, who took the first train south, last Thursday. More fatalities may be expected from Salt river We venture.
 The Governor is after the saloon and gambling element. Who is 10 be the Nose Gunst of Arizona, is now a leading question, in conse quence.
 It is a pity that Zulick is not a member of the present legislature, as the Hawaiian question is bound to drag, and poor Lii also will be without "protectorate."
 The wives of the married mem- bers of the legislature are threat ing to go to Phenix since it is announced that the pretty alfalfa girl is on hand there in great numbers.
 The Council refused to join the house in receiving jointly the Gov ernor's message. Why didn't he play even by reading it to his illus trious Attorney General Frank Heney
 The honorable editor of this paper was temporary chief clerk of the house, awaiting Reppy's arrival in Phenix. This is what a man gets for singing 8 pen all his life in newspaper work. The cruel eigh- teenth.
 If the income tax collector comes forward at once he will ind more busted men and less revenues here than in any town of its size in the world. What glorious work the rain accomplished after all.
 Zulick, according to a dispatch to-day from Phenix, is on hand as a full hedged obstructionist and fears the wrath that is to come. What a pity 1t is that the Yavapai log that went down Salt river did not hit him between the eyes.
 It seems to be the universal opinion of men yersed in astronomy that the heavy rains which passed over us, are due to a collapse of a