Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1895-02-27
THE LEGISLATURE
HOW Our LaE Makers ara Getting Down to
 Business al tho Capital.
List Of Bills Introduced aud Other DOings
 Of Importance
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 PagSlx, Feb. go. The House this morning passed tho bill introduced in the Council by Doran, repeating the merchants license tax. There was slight opposition to it, the vote being twenty one to two. lt is thought the governor will probably sign it.
 The governor has signed the joint resolution providing for a joint committee ot five from the House and three from the Council to inves- tigate the territorial institutions, and bill was introduced in the House today providing for an appropriation to deiray the expenses of the committee. The two com mittees will probably be announced on Monday.
 The bill taxing express companies two per cent. of their earnings, was indefinitely postponed today, and the bill taxing sleeping car com panies, in the same way, had very narrow escape from the same fate. Gaddis offered su amendment pro viding for taxing the cars and flrni- ture. and thus saved the measure from annihilation, and it was ordered printed As amended.
 Frank Heney dies hard, and still magines himself the Moses of Ari- zona. He has given notice that he will bring suits, on his own behalf, against the loan commission, and occupied a page of the Saturday Review to-day in a rehash of his platform of last fall. The arti- cle was intended to create a big sensation, but it is doubtful if two dozen people in Phenix took the trouble to read it. It contained nothing but what was fully ventil ated during the campaign.
 AssemblymAn Brown, who has been in the Sisters' hospital for 8 week, was able to be removed back to his room again today, but his physician has forbidden him from attending his legislative duties for three or four days.
 The Council has passed two relief bills, one for the relief of William Christy. ex territorial treasurer, and the other for the relief of ex-Gov- ernor WolAey. The former is for money paid out by Christy, while treasurer, and for which there was DO funds to reimburse him on turn ing the office over to his successor. Governor Wolaey's claim is for five thousand dollars, claimed to have been expended by him for securing the passage of the funding bill.
 PHENIx, A. T., Feb. 19.-A quiet session was held today in both houses and both houses adjourned at noon on account of the visit of the members to the insane asylum this afternoon and evening.
 The Council postponed indefinite ly, Hunts bill to prohibit the im- portation or maintaining of armed men in the territory. It also voted to indefinitely postpone Marshall's Sunday rest bill. A motion to reconsider the latter vote, it is said, will be mado tomorrow.
 The resolution in regard to print ing the proceedings had another round in the house to day, but the question is as far from being settled as it was on the opening day of the session. Aside from this nothing worthy of special mention trans pired in the House except the defeat of Council bill substituting the governor for secretary of the terri tory. on the board of regents.
 Governor and Mrs. \. O. Murphy will entertain members of the legis- lature as well as citizens of Phenix this evening by giving Q reception to Mir. and Mrs F. M. Murphy of Prescott. The latter and Mrs. ]. C, Martin and Morris Goldwater leave for home in the morning.
 The end of the track is within 10 miles of Phenix this evening and the company expect to have their telegraph line completed and an office opened in Phenix tomorrow, when the JoURSAL-MlNER readers will receive news each afternoon of the morning session of the legisla- ture of the current day.
 Phenix, Feb. 20.-Both houses held two sessions to-day without the resolution in regard to printing being called up in either house.
 The bill to create Navajo county by dividing Apache county, intro duced in the early days of the ses- sion by Barnes of Apache, was put on its final passage this morning and lost by vote of 16 to 6.
 Martins bill providing for the disposition of unclaimed property held by common carriers and others was passed unanimously with slight amendments. The mining bill, also introduced by him, was considered in committee of the whole, as amended by the committee on mines and mining, and was reported favor ably by a unanimous vote.
 The bill prohibiting the employ msnt of females in saloons and pro- M