Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1895-02-06
ARIZONA LAWMAKERS. Legislative Doings in the
 Capital City.
What Has Been Done And
 What is to be Expected.

PHENn, Jaa. 2S.-l Editorial Cor respondence. Both houses got down to business this morning, as all the members were present and Chief Clerk, C. D. Reppy, was at his post of duty for the opening roll call.
 As soon as Speaker Carpenter had announced the committees in the house and introduction of bills were announced, four or five members rose to their feet each with bill ready to be presented. Moore, of Pinal, was the first to receive recog- milton from the speaker and he had the honor of introducing house bill number one. It provides for female suffrage and was referred to the committee on elections. Skinner, ct Graham, who was a member of the seventeenth legislature that passed the merchants license tax was the next on the list with a bill to repeal it. The bill provides for amending other features of the li- cense law also, among the amend ments being one repeating the clause allowing producers to peddle their own products without a heen> c. Among other measures introduced were for the creation of Papago county by the division of Pima, a measure which was defeated two yesrs ago, under the title of Santa Czuz county. Mir. Chenowith is the spousor of 1t. Nogales is named as the county seat. Barnes, of Apache, als 70 introduced bill for the creation of Nayajoe county by the division of Apache, with Hollbrook as the county seat.
 House bill number 1 amends the license act.
 Number ,, provides for taxing sleeping car companies two Der cent of the gross receipts of their earn ngs in the territory.
 Number 6, by Hunt, provides for creating a territorial board Of health and vital statutes and asks for al appropriation of 5000 to carry out it's provisions.
 Number :, by the same, is for a just division of taxes.
 MT. Hunt also introduced mum Der 8 for protecting the rights of workingmen.
 Mir. Fish, of Graham, introduced q bill to classify counties aud pro vide for the compensation Of county officers. It provides for their classl fcation by taxable property a. shown by the capitalized tax roll, into SIX classes. The compensation allowed is as follows: Treasurer from S2,500 per year, in first clas' counties, down to Sl, l,2O0; Recorder from S2OOO to SI.0O0; District Attor news from $500 to Sl 200; Assessor | in first and second class, Sl,S00 snC in all other counties the sheriff | sx-ohcio county assessor his com pensation, as such assessor 10 be sl,OOO.
 The house made a good start to day by ordering the printing Q. 10 copies each, of the entire twelv' bills introduced. The general gov srnment, appropriates money foI this purpose and there is no reason why ail important bills at least should not be printed, so that citi gems of the territory, whose servants the legislators are, may sec whal the nature of proposed Legislation is.
 The JoURNAL-MINER wit be fur nished a copy of each printed bill of general importance, and they should be kept on file for tho convenient inspection of al citizens who may desire to see them
 The session of the council thii morning was rather brief and but few bills were introduced President Doran announced the committees which with the exception of ono oS two changes are the same as hereto fore sent.
 There is considerable speculation being indulged in already as to th' fate of the woman suffrage bill ir the council, should it succeed 1T passing the house which seems very probable now. Of the twelve mem bers in the upper house only three are married.
 1t behooves the advocates of thii measure to concentrate a strong lobby of ladies at the capital al once. in the int arest of the bill. AnC right here, knowing as l do th' individual members, l will offer ths gratuitous suggestion that bacl number sprinters or a homely dele cation will accomplish nothing.