The herald., 1897-02-22

examiners was to charge the Nogales
Building and Loan association, for in
stance, full fare from and to Phoenix
after having had more than half the fare
already paid three or four times over at
Tucson. 1t took this little bank curbing
bill about fifteen minutes to be intro
duced in the house yesterday, placed on
second, then on third reading, and then
| finally passed and sent to the council.
where 1t now reposes In the printing
| committee.
! The bill exempting new railroads from
| taxation for a period of fifteen years has
| passed both branches of the legislature,
| and will, dou; u;btless, become a law.
| President Hughes, of the council, has in
| troduced bill of the same nature to en-
courage the construction of electric light
and street railway companies, also water
and gas companies.
| Mr.. Reppy of Pinal county has offered
a house bill to make railroads carry BIZ
cycles under the same regulations az
| baggage is carried. His bill Is almost
| identical with the law recently enacted
| by the New York legislature.
! The bill to reduce railroad passenger
rates in the territory to cents mile
died "aborning," being killed upon its
second reading. The same fate befell
the measure which sought to tax sleep-
ing car companies. To tell the truth,
| Arizona is not big enough and strong
enough yet to present any other than q
conciltary front to the railroads, and il
the railroads presume to abuse their
advantage a rival stage line can and
usually does spring into existence ana
live long enough to correct the evil.
| There Is going to be lots of fun when
| the appropriation bill gets into the
house, and it will come before great
WHILE for the days are passing rapidly.
1t is plain there win be lots of trading
done, and it is also evident that good
many people are going to come out OF
| the metaphorical battle with metaphor
! ical broken heads and shins and with the
feeling that they have got the wrong
end of the fight It's this way: The
cloth is only so big-not big enough to
make half the coats that are needed.
Ergo some must go without coats The
last legislature adjourned without
agreeing upon the ways and means
measure, but this body has way of do
| ing things that is highly commendable.
From all the signs 1t will leave nothing
undone that can be done at this session
| but there are limits.
| Appropriations have already passed
the house for the reform school at Flag
staff, the university at Tucson and the
Normal school at Tempe. OF these, the
university appropriation Is most sadly
needed and has already been concurred
in by the council.
On the 18th inst. the legislature passed
it's half mile post. having then been in
session for thirty days-not thirty days
of work, be 1t remembered, but thirty
calendar days. The national govern
ment has construed the law to mean
thirty calendar days, and under Its de-
csion the legislators are paid $2S week
on basis of Il 81 per diem. Already
there have been 12O bills introduced in
the house. and half that number in the
council, while the experts and oldest
it,l, n ict fI,1
entire session. Doubtless Arizona Will
be the better governed IL a very large
majority of these embryo statutes fail
to became laws. The legislators them
selves seem to appreciate this, and to
agree with Governor Franklin's mes
sage to the effect that the legislators
opportunity to serve his constituents
and his state lies not SO much in the
enactment of new laws as in preventing
the enactment of bad ones, and also that
old democratic adage which declares.
that country is governed best which
is governed least"
! One of the few good bills that should
and very likely will be enacted was that
offered in the house today by Mr.. Rep
py, entitled IAN act to encourage pros
| pecting for minerals" The bill estab-
| fishes a maximum charge of so cents per
mineral and S15 per specimen contain-
| ing more than three minerals for assay
rate of 81 for the recording of all mines.
| At present all sorts of rates are charged,
| some of which are reasonable enough.
but others are about prohibitive to those
| who are not capitalists.
It is quite evident now that when
President Mckinley can spare the time
to cast an eye on Arizona, he Will find
10 lacking of gubernatorial timber.
Aside from the tall and handsome Mr..
Penrose, there are others. One Of the
others is considerably in the race, too.
for he has secured the Endorsement of
the Arizona Press association, which
met at Phoenix this week and ban
Quoted at the Adams hotel Wednesday
evening. The lucky man Is Colonel
Myron II. McCord, who saved the state
of Wisconsin for two terms in the ma
tional congress once upon time, and
is now rancher and "a politician and
an Office holder in the Salt River val
ley. Colonel McCord has resided here
about five years, and is a member Of
the territorial board of control. 1t Is
needless to remark that he Is popular
and solid with the press, for l have
already mentioned the latter's indorse-
| ment.
Burt Dunlap is also one Of the others.
Mr.. Dunlap Is Graham county cow
man, a relative of somebody or other,
and capable man and good fellow
Being a tenderfoot in Arizona myself
| was moved to inquire, who is DR..
Goodrich that is making such a strong
canvass for the executive chair?" Where
upon l argued myself unknown and lost
utterly whatever immunity from sus-
picion 1 may have gained in this terri
tory in a siX-weeks' residence. DR..
Goodrich indeed Is a very strong can
didate. He owns more rentable real
estate in the city of Phoenix than any
other one man. is a dentist of distinction,
and friend Of General Alger of Michi-
gan.
Some weeks or months ago DR.. Good
rich was at Del Coronado, being intro
duced by Oakes Murphy and others as
one Of the great men of Arizona-which
he Is. The late Mr.. Bilicke of Los An
geles was among those who were for
tunate enough to grasp the hand of the
great man from Phoenix. Oakes Muir
ply did the introducing in this wise:
"Mr. Bilcke, l want to make you ac-
uuainted with Dr. Goodrich, who is one
of our most prominent men in Phoenix.
DR.. Goodrich's rent roll in Phoenix alone
is a thousand dollars month"
"Ahem, ahem a thousand and eighty,
Mr. Murphy, thousand and eighty.
ahem," corrected the great ma /sf Phoe-
nix, as he shook hands with the genial
hotel keeper
UP to the hour Of mailing this there
have been no further gubernatorial can
didates heard from seriously.
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