Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1895-04-10
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THE coon THAT WAS DONE.
 Some of the small fry democratic papers of the territory are attempt ing to make political capital out of the closing scenes of the Eighteenth Legislature-or those transacted in the lower house. h doing so they claim that the democratic members opposed the illibustering methods adopted during the closing hours of the House. Nothing could be fur ther from the truth than this. or the seven democratic members in the lower house, all except one stood in on every fllibustering scheme advanced. The whole play was for the purpose of preventing the prison removal bill from being called up. Six democratic members stood solid in favor of fllibustering, the only three republican members who took any prominent part in the tactics being Moore, the honorable(f D gentleman from Pinal, who was paired on all questions pertaining to prison removal, Crosby, of Apache, who talked for three or focr hours, but said nothing, aud Mir. Speaker.
 A few of these self same narrow gauge democratic papers, judge the session by the proceedings of the last two days in the House, and condemn both branches and all the members indiseriminately for what only a few were responsible for, and give no credit for thegood that was performed. The fact is that the territory would have been we'll repaid for the session for ths pass sge of any one of a half dozen or more good measures which became laws. The Tucson Star, one of the leading democratic papers of the territory, gives the following fair and just criticism of the session:
 No legislature has ever convened in Arizona which has given more good laws to the people than the one just closed. It is true that the law concerning the classification of counties, seems unjust to those holding the offices, inasmuch as 1t reduces the salaries of the officers; but the tax payers at large will be the benefciaries, and this must have been the object of the legislature when 1t passed the bill.
 The board of control will result in saving the territory many thous- ands of dollars annually, as it has done in every state where the law is in force. and will also result in making the prison self-sustaining, and that within the next twelve months.
 The Parole bill will prove a yalu- able aid to this end, as eonvicts can be placed on parole and work on the public buildings of the terri tory.
 The board of immigration bill will prove to be the most profitable law to the territory ever placed on the statute books, and will be the most inexpensive for the work it will accomplish. While the classi. fcation of counties will save to the people from thirty to forty thous- and dollars annually, the entire cost Of the board of immigration for the counties and territory combined will be less than $l0,000 annually, and it will bring to the territory millions of dollars. It gives each county its own immigration agent, instead of the old system of taxing the territory for one agent, who. as a rule. gave his entire time to one county, and at cost greater than the present board entire.
 The purity of election bill will eh- minate whiskey from politics by dis qualifying those from holding offices to which they may be elected, who make their campaign through the saloons. This law will reduce the cost of candidates in making their canvass, and many good citizens who have been deterred from en- tering the field for office will now become available. as they will not feel obliged to waste the first years salary in treating voters, etc.
 The monumental fend" has been legislated out of his profession, To- eating and relocating scores of mines every year without doing a dollars worth of work, and now legitimate mining will get show, by the locator being compelled un- der khe law, to do development work on each and every claim before the same is entitled to record.
 The general features of the wolk of the legislature was on such prac- tical lines as indicated above. economy and retFenchment was its guiding princi les, and 1t can truth fully be said that the large majority of the eighteenth legislative assem- bly, was composed of splendid material, and it can also be stated that from the opening to the close of the session but one member of that body was known to be under the influence of strong drink, and that only once.
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