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ARIZONA sOLOnS.
 
The Nineteenth Legislative
 Assembly in Session.
K. G. Hughes, President of the Council, and D. l. Chalmers
 Speaker of the House.


 PHOENIX, Ariz., Jan. 19 9--After q number of caucuses, which had for their purpose the satisfactory appor tionmeut of the lucrative offices in the gift of the Arizona legislature, the members of the Nineteenth gathered at the council chambers Monday and opened for public business promptly at l2 o'clock noon.
 The legislative halls had been nicely frescoed aud carpeted and there was an air of cheeriplness and comfort about them that made the statesmen, office. seekers and lobbyists feel right at home. There was free-forall selec- ton of desks in both houses.
 In the conncil P. k Brady, of Flor ence, Was selected as temporary chair- man, and Frank Baxter, of Phoenix, as temporary chief clerk. The election of officers, for whose salary Uncle Sam himself vouches, resulted in the choice of Fred G. Hughes. of Pima, as speaker; Frank Baxter, of Mnricopa, as chief clerk; Louis St. James, of I Yavapai, as sergeant-at-erms; Tom Dunbar, of Cochise, as page, and Mir. Kirkpatrick, of Mobave, as watebman. After the organization the council adjourned to Tuesday at o'clock p. m. Mir. Packard, of Cochise. was the only absentee on the first day. The selection of tue assistant and com mittee clerks was deferred to Tuesday, as those offices must first be established
 Mir. Hull, of Yavapai, filled the office of temporary speaker in the assembly, aud MT. Ashurst, of Coconino, was temporary chief clerk, J. N. Smith, of Navajo, and Murat Masterson, of Yuma, were absent Mir. Mus,erson has resigned from the legislature be- cause of a change of residence to North Sa'' HID tiuSS VIII uot tb Hlitb nutil the governor is able to order special election for that purpose in Yuma county. The election of perma- neut officers moved with machine. like precision. D. G. Chalmers, of Pima, is the speaker; w. s Adams, of Yav. ap,i, chief clerk; Charles E. Perkins, of Pinal, enrolling and expressing clerk; Charles Canal, of Coconino, sergeaht-Ht arms; Ben Franklin, of Maficopa, age, and G. H. Hunt, of Gils, watchmap. The officers in both houses were sworn in by Chief Justice Baker. Attorney General Wilson made formal announcement of the serions illness of Governor Franklin, and extended congratulations to the legislature on Lis behalf. The gover nor had not completed his message but hopes to have it in readiness iu timely season. Tbe assembly adjourned to 10 o'clock Tuesday morning.
 The completed list of officers indi- cates that a cog slipped somewhere in she Maricopa machine That county had come to regard.it as an undeniable privilege to parcel out the ,,lnms to political pets, so when it became whis. pered abroad Saturday afternoon that number of the nssemblymen from the interior" had stolen off to hold secret caucus there was consternntiou in the Tunnmany camp. The ''secret" operations of the caucus soon leaked out. It was composed of Bernard, Finley and Preston, of Pima; Reppy and Mason, of Pinal; Riggs and Jones, of Cochise; Ashurst, of Coconino; ken berry, of Gila, and Mulvenun, Warren and Hull, of Yavapai. There was nice working majority here, and as Chalmers, of Tucson, (who had not yet 1 arriyed,) was pledged on behalf of Pima, the combination was sized up generally as pretty formidable one Their official slate was as follows
 For speaker, D. Chalmers, of Pima; chief clerk, w. $. Adams, of Yavapai; assistant chief clerk, Mir Moore, of Yavapai; sergeant at arms, Charles Canal, of Coconino; enrolling and en- crossing clerk, Charles E. Perkins, of Pinal; assistant enrolling aud epgross. ing clerk, Charles N. Stark, of Mari copa; journal clerk. W. B. Kelly, of Graham; watchman, G. II. Hunt, of Gila.
 There was roar, of course, and though the combination had been kind enough to yield clerkship to Mari copa, with the promse of the chaplain and page, the politicians were ungrate- ful, going so far in their chagrin and rage as to disown .he clerk, who, they said, had only been in this county three months and was not there fore entitled to residence. All day Sunday the politicians who had die tated to conventions and caucuses in- | nnmerable, used their most persuasive and eloquent arguments to reach a vul- nerable spot in the combination, but
 
 along in the evening, after much but tonholing and some blufing, they re- tired, batfied and vengeful
 The members of the legislature from Maricopa accepted the turn of events great deal more gracefully than did