Arizona republican., 1895-03-23
NOT 50 BAD.
The Situation on Sober
Second Thought.
Because the Appropria-
ton Bill Died
Territorial Institutions Will Not
Languish and Die.
How the Prisoners ir Not the Prison
May Be Removed
From Yuma.

The first question every man asked
his neigh Dor yesterday morning was
well, what's going to be done about
it ?" referring, of course. to the adjourn
ment OF the Legislature without any
provision for the support of the terri
torial government during the next two
years. The situation was SO unusual
that it was not we'll understood and the
plan of relief became subject of serious
conjecture.
The only thing available seemed an
extra session and it was doubtful
whether it could be called with the
simple permission of the president or
| whether an act of congress was neces.
sary.
1t was later discovered that while the
failure to pass the appropriation bill
had somewhat mixed things, 1t had
not left them in hopeless condition
after all. The law provides for the
carrying on of the territorial institu
tlons whether territorial legislatures do
or not, and they will go on and receive
the necessary maintenance. Clerks
ard other salaried persons will re-
ceiye their salaries, but in round
about way. Certificates OF indie bted
ness may be issued to them.
| Congress may pass an act providing
/ for necessary and contingent expenses
or the board of control may be au-
thorized to dispose Of these matters
upon basis fnrnishez4fv the estimates
| made by the appropriation committee
in the bill under consideration by the
house when it adjourned.
| The usefulness of the board OF con-
troll, by the way. at this juncture. which
OF course could not have been con-
sidered when it was created, becomes
apparent. 1t is invested with fuller
powers than the combined authority OF
the boards and commissions which it
has displaced.
Spe king OF the board Of control na-
turally leads to another subject, prison
removal. 1t is limited that a joker ex-
lists in the act which created the board
and which was to be played in the
event that the prison removal bill
should fail
While the board OF control has no
authority to move the penitentiary to
Prescott it is fully empowered to move
the prisoners to Prescott or Chapparal
dulcb or any other point in the ter
ritory at which a lessee may want
them, and they may be kept there for
twenty years.
The fight between the Santa Fe and
the Southern Pacific was not SO much
for the location of the penitentiary az
for the business of carrying needed
supplies for it. Empty penitentiary
Buildings at Yuma would not afford an
overwhelming pretext for transporta.
tion. Said gentleman yesterday
The railroad companies selected the
wrong battle ground. Instead of bring
ing the fight into the legislature they
should have fought in the board oi
control"
But more about the appropriation
bill. The Eighteenth legislature has
been severely censured for letting mid
night overtake it. The general result
would not probably have been widely
different if the bill had passed the
house at 10 O'Clock or even earlier. A
friend of the governors said yesterday
that his views failed by so far to coin
eide with those OF the appropriation
committee that he would not have ap
proved the bill as it was presented. II
was doubtful even, he thought, if The
notifications and changes which would
likely have been made in the legisla
ture would have secured gubernatorial
sanction