The herald., 1897-04-12
M'CORD'S LUCK
Amenities of the Battle
GubernatOriaI
SOME POLITICS IN ARIZONA
AN AGENT OF THE DEPARTMENT
OF JUSTICE IN PHOENIX
SOME POLITICS IN ARIZONA
Court Clerks May Have to Pay to
Uncle Sam More Than Half of
Their Back Salaries
Special Correspondence to The Herald.

nent candidate for gubernatorial honors
| in Arizona. 1t was then suggested that
| a man unlucky enough to have charges
| of all sorts of ugly things preferred
against him by legisla tive committee,
might also be too unlucky a man to be
entrusted with the emoluments and re-
| sponsibilities of so high an office as that
of governor-because, forsooth, his lack
| of luck might follow him even after his
| ascension to the throne.
But at that time very few people in
Phoenix realized to what sad extent
| Myron H. McCord's i'll luck had gone
! Enlightenment came early this week,
when a private dispatch reached this
| city from Washington which told that
McCords gubernatorial goose was cook
ed-and for what an unlucky reason!
| The dispatch was followed by letter
which explained that on Monday the
| friends of DR.. Evans candidacy pre-
sented to Mr.. Mckinley a certified copy
| of an indictment found against McCord
d few years ago III Wisconsin. The let
| ter also said that McCord's departure
| from Wisconsin to Arizona was almost
| simultaneous with the filing of the in
| dictment: that the indictment was for
| timber land frauds that its presentation
to the president forever settled the ques-
ton of McCords appointment under the
present regime.
| M'KINLEY'S DEMOCRATIC FRIEND
Nevertheless, the friends of McCord
| in this city declare that he will yet get
the office, and they are even now appor-
tioning the patronage. At all OF which
| Governor Franklin appears to be quite
amused. my commission does not ex-
pire for three years yet" he says, "and
| will serve out the full term. Why not?
am in full sympathy with Mr.. McKin-
| Iey's administration, especially on the
financial question There Will be no
change in this office for some time TO
| come, They need iiot Iret themselves.
Tnos- are the words of Democrats
governor.
For more than a week past special
agent of the department of justice at
washington has been nosing about
Phoenix and collecting data concerning
the earnings of the district court clerks,
etc., etc. J. H. Campbell is the gentle
| mans name, and he has been stopping
at the Adams hotel. He is quiet gen.
tleman who does not seek notoriety, and
is we'll pleased with the fact that none of
| the local papers have discovered his
identity
Yet his mission is most important
| one. particularly to the United States
| and district court clerks, and upon the
| information concerning the emoluments
of these gentlemen which he carries back
with him to Washington will be based
! the ruling of the department of justice
upon the application of an old Utah dis
trict court decision. This decision, which
has been raked up from the dust heaps
of dead-letter laws and rulings. was Civ.
en- when Utah was yet territory. 1t
affects the entire fee and salary system
| of the territories. Under Ire operation
| of this decision, for one thing, the fees
of the United States courts must be
computed according to the federal
| schedule, which is three times that now
| in force in this territory.
And, for another thing, all the fees of
the clerks in the United States courts,
| in excess of $3500 per year. must be turn
| ed into the federal treasury. This means
a reduction in the emoluments of court
clerks of about $4,000 a year.
| The same rule will also hold good re-
garding the clerk of the territorial su-
| preme court, while the district court
| clerks, except In counties where United
States Courts are held, will be dismissed
and the offices and function turned over
to the four United States clerks who are
the only responsible officials authorized
by law-according to this old Utah de-
cision.
OF course Mr.. Campbell does not care
to express an opinion as to what the
ruling of the United States attorney
general will be in the premises, but the
very significant fact remains that the
department of justice has considered the
matter in so serious a vein as to warrant
the dispatch of a special commissioner
to Arizona for the purpose of ascertain
ing the exact status of affairs.
And the most interesting point of the
whole story is yet to be told. If the rul-
ing Of the encouragement should up
hold the Utah decision, then the latter
will be retroactive, and all the district
court clerke will be called upon by the
federal government to yield up all their
collections for the past four years in ex-
cess of $3500 year.
How many of them will be willing to
do this?
How many of them Will be able to COM
ply with such request?
And if they fail to comply then what
will happen?
These are quite pertinent and interest
ing questions just at present.
Thursday evening Mr.. Campbell took
the train for Prescott, where he will
doubtless make still further inquiries
and collect still further data. 1t is, Alto
gether. quite possible that something
may drop before long.
200 JAPANESE LABORERS.
Another bit of information of some
what public character that the local
papers have missed or suppressed, is
the fact that the New York Canaigre
company has imported couple hundred
japanese into the valley to harvest the
,cidulous weed They are working now
the Aqua Fria, and shipments are be-
ag made regularly from Phoenix. The
tuff is sent to Liverpool and there ham
led for the tannerles.
have no race prejudices myself and
hink Jap is as good as negro. and
negro as good as a white man-if he
g. 1t all depends upon the Individual