Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1895-01-13
HENEY RESIGNS.
The Attorney General
ship of Arizona
Vacant for the Space of
Five Minutes.
Judge SatterWhite of Tucson
Appointed to the Office.
The Last Act of General Heney Was
to Bring Another Suit in the
Name of the Territory.

There was vacant chair at the ter
ritorial administration board yesterday
afternoon, but it was not permitted to
remain vacant long enough to get cold.
There was picture in the territorial
administration gallery turned toward
the wall, but in five minutes it was
unhung and replaced by another.
Attorney General Frank j. Heney
transmitted his resignation to Governor
Hughes in typewriter letter of some
six pages. The governor commenced
accepting the resignation when he
commenced reading the letter and long
before the letter was finished the ac-
ceptance had been concluded.
There is mathematical irony in the
circumstance that the reply containing
the acceptance consisted of precisely
as many words as the letter of resigna-
ton had consisted of pages.
When the letter reached Phmuix is
not known but 1t arrived at the execu-
tive cham bers at half past three O'Clock
in the afternoon by the way OF the
Office of the territorial secretary.
Beyond the fact that the communlca-
ton contained some things spicy and
others irrelevant little ia known OF its
contents after the prime cause of the
resignation had been set forth.
The resignation is direct product Of
the late attempt to procure an indict
ment of the governor before the late
federal grand jury. A Phoenix morning
paper stated during the progress OF the
grand jury's deliberations that it was
rumored that the attorney general was
engaged with Secretary Bruce and
United States Marshal Meade in a con-
spiracy to cause the indictment to be
found.
General Heney writes that when he
read that statement he regarded it as
baseless but subsequently traced the
rumor to the door OF the executive
chamber. Nothing he says was there
fore left him to do but sever his connec-
tion with the administration. 1t didn't
of course require six type written pages
or considerable part of six type written
pages to set forth this cause OF action,
sc it may be pre- resumed that the rest OF
the letter referred, in the attorney gen
erals caustic style, to other and longer
esta blished causes of friction.
That he had differed widely from
Governor Hughes and the head of every
other department of the territorial gov
ernment concerning various matters OF
policy has long been an open secret,
and it was a hardly better concealed
secret that in the interest of harmony
his official career would end With the
term of his present appointme Mt, so it
is believed that he has only ANTICIPATED
| fate.
The same mail which conveys to the
late attorney general notice of the ac-
I ceptance of his resignation will carry to
| Hon. T. D. SatterWhite, his toWnsman
notice Of his appointment to The va
cancy. In fact, the new attorney-gen-
eral has been already notified by tele-
graph, and he has wired in reply that
he would leave Tucson last night and
arrived at the capital this morning.
| Members OF the administration who
were seen last night expressed gratif-
cation at the new appointment. Mr..
| Satterwhite, they say, is without a
superior in Arizona as a lawyer and a
gentleman and is known to be in COM
plete harmony with the administration
policy.
But the transmitting OF his resgna.
| ton was not the only surpris-
ing thing the late attorney gen
eral did yesterday. He caused
to be filed in the district court
suit by the territory against ex-
territorial treasurer, James A. Fleming
to recover the amount of loan COM
mission warrant paid by him last
spring. This complaint, like the letter
| OF resignation, Is voluminous and trea is
of other matters than the one at issue.
The warrant described in the petition
was for $510, drawn in favor of Maj. R.
| Allyn Lewis in payment of expert SER
vices in preparing statement of the
territory's financial condition for the
four years, 1890 4.
The work was undertaken at the re-
quest of the loan commission in re-
Spouse to the demand of eastern CAPT.
talists with whom the commission was
in negotiation for the placing of bonds.
Two views of the matter are con-
tained in the complaint. One is that
the warrant was illegal and the other is
that if it were not illegal, the defend
ants payment of it in cash and prior to
the payment of other warrants pre-
viouslv drawn, was go.
The first view is in consonance
with previously expressed opinions
of the attorney general. particularly