Arizona silver belt., 1897-03-18
THE hEGIShATUsE. Eighth Week of the SGsiOn
 a Lively One. Interesting Tilts in the Coucil- Report of Investigationtom- mittee, Prison Remova and Appropriation Bills Tals Up Most of the Time.
Special Correspondence of rnx smvp BELT,

| Special alCorrespondcnce of TIE SuvnBEiT)
 PHoENIx, March 3.-The pas weeb
 was marked by an unusual diaaay oi
 energy, especially by the house,
 which made strong effort toteduce
 the calendar, but was only lirtially
 successful, although several niht ses- sions were held. The proceedings in
 the council revealed goodDeal of
 friction at times, and fear of a open rupture was entertained.
 One of the first bills to bass the house was Hunts compulsory school law, which requires that all shildren above the age of eight years u sent to school. The bill was ame4led by striking out the clause which provided for a truant officer, and ten went through ny vote of 14 to 2.
 c. B. 80, defining the crime of homicide and leaving the question of capital punishment to be ttcided by the jury was agreed to by te house, l2 to 9.
 The council. on Monday, in exec utive session, confirmed gulsrnatorial appointments as follows:
 Dr. T. H. Sabin, resident physician at the territorial prison.
 H. w. McKean, secretary at the prison.
 James Coyle, assistant sPerintend- ent of the prison.
 Hunt succeeded in getting recon sideration of the vote by which c B. 96. relating to personal property tax, was passed, and the bill vas then in- definitely postponed.
 Substitute for H. B. l5 deficiency bill, after slight amendment passed 
 Hunts bill Fl, requiring all terri torial officials to furnish budgets of ex- penditures, past and future, at the be- ginning of the legislative iessions was passed.
 Quite little furry was occasioned in the council by Aspinwall charging that Ming, chairman of ths Enrolling and Progressing committee, was holding back enrolled and engros,ed bills for the purpose of coercing certain mem bers into voting for the Chiricahua county bill. After today (March 8, the pocket veto would be the joker through which the Governor could dispose of all bills not to his liking, and that fact explained the uueasiness of Aspinwall and some others in regard to the bill exempting new railroads from taxation, which had been held back an unnecessary length of time. After considerable sparring and dila- tory action the matter was amicably settled, and after recess the Enrolling reported that c. B. 10, to encourage the construction of new rail roads, had been transmitted to the governor.
 On Tuesday a number of new bills were introduced. In the house the troublesome question of circuit courts came again to the front through the introduction by Ashurst of bill 1S6, practically the same AS the bill pending in the council. Bill 189 repeating the net which prescribes the maximum prices for legal printing, was intro duced by Patterson, by request. The principle of tax exemption was little by Mulvenon introducing a bill to encourage the construction of reduction work by exempting them from taxation for ten years.
 On Tuesday afternoon the joint secret session convened to consider the re- port of the joint committee appointed to investigate the board of control. Everybody but members were excluded even the newspaper men, despite the protests of Riggs and Patterson. The session lasted till 10 o'clock p. m., with recess for supper. From what could be learned the efforts of the friends of the late board of control were directed toward tiring out the joint session and by dilatory and other tactics this was accomplished; SO that neither censure or whitewash had c chance for use.
 Mir. McCord's friends are loudly pro. claiming that the legislature has exon erated him, but they certainly can find no grounds for such an assertion in the report of the investigating committed which is anything but complimentary of the board of control, and places Mir McCord in very bad light.
 In the council Hunts bill relating tt fees of clerks of district courts passed The council evidently believed in ac cording females the same privilege q men to frequent saloons, as the bill t. exclude them was indefinitely post poned.
 The general appropriation bill cam up for consideration in the house ol Wednesday and was stripped down t bare poles from the start. A numbe of amendments were offered, some Q
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