Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-07-08


 n now offered. Lsee hes been offered fc D it, though.
 r. THE Citizens League of taxpayers ( D this county in the two or three year 6 they have been in existence have don o some good work for the people of tn
 county at large and have efioientl
 checked abuses that were wasting th money of the people. As citizens of tn Territory and taxpayers supporting 1t govern menu they propose to know some thing of Territorial affairs and will fol low 8 course of vigorous investigation as we'll in Territorial lines ss in Count, affairs. The Lsegue is composed 0 nsither offios-ssekers nor politicians
 hence their value to the public.
 THOSE who have received the impress sion, through whatever source, that the opposition to Mr. McCord ss Governor of the Territory comes from few pol
 iticene in Phoenix ard elsewhere, are
 misinformed as to the fact. The ori
 ginsl objectors to Mr. McCord for that
 office were the Citizens Lssgue of this
 county, "good government" combina-
 tion of the taxpayers of Msricopa coun- ty. That League has uncovered fraud
 and missppropriation in our county govern ment and hss compelled the re-
 turn to the County Treasury of several
 thousands of dollars missppropriated
 and otherwise made use of, either from | the bondsuen or individuals them selves; and that seme League had tsk- en up Territorial affairs especially the | work of the Board of Control and made strong efforts to have abuses which
 they uncovered there corrected. They
 failed to get indictments they sought
 but they had that evidence upon which
 they felt justified in using every effort to prevent MT. McCord from becoming Governor of the Territory. Ia this way the opposition to Mir. McOord began
 and has been most vigorously oontin- ued. Dr. Evans is @ member of shat League for "good government" and rep resent it in the contest. The attempt to make it appear that he ia selfish is not entirely correc.. He represents large body of taxpayers of Mari copa county who are nob particularly interested in making any man Cover nor. They do propose, however, if pos sible, to prevent men they cannot trust getting into tnat position. Washington is to the effect that mem | bers ot the Senate have at last been | forced to take some notice of the dis graceful proceedings of the lobbyists | around the Capitol. They have direct ed their attention particularly to the 1 ex Senator's who have recently taken up | the doubtful practice of lobbying. Sen stor Hale was aroused to the point of l proposing sn amendment to She Senate | rules which would exclude from the 1 floor of the Senate ex-Sepators who are | interested pending Legislation, and | who acting as lobbyists. There are | 8 number of ex mem bers of the august | body who are abusing their privileges in the Senate cham Der, and who on the floor of the Senate sol cit the support of Senators iu respect of pending bills This has got to be so fagrsnt that to stop It Senator Hale has introduced his amendment to the rules. Senator Allen deme nded that lobbyists es a whole be thrown, root end crops, out of the Gap itol and be kept out. He said that the evil had grown to such an extent, that the Senators must avoid the corridors to save themselves from the importu- mites of these people. The present ses sion has seen the greatest amount Of lobbying that any session for years, and the most offensive and daring lobby of all is that maintained by the sugar trust Any professional lobbyist with any kind of pull on any member of Congress can make good thIng out of thIs trust. The trust want to control votes and is wiling to psy for them in cash or by tip on the stock market. It is evident that some radical action must be taken to check the lobby" It is not only few ex-eenstors and ex mem bers of the House who are interested ID the multitude Of claims that have for years been hanging on the skirte of Congress, bus those hunting bigger ;r