The San Francisco call., 1897-04-25

EINS ArlZOnaS nineteenth legislative
NgS assembly have been the man from
Yuma and the dog from Yuma. Both
have attended every session promptly and
regularly. Both are peculiar and distinc-
tive characters in their way.
The man is the best parliamentarian in
the Treasure Territory. The aog is the
only one in the Territory who may boast
of having on numerous occasions occu-
pied berth in Pullman palace car. The
mans name is J. H. Carpenter familIarly
known and famous all over the Territory
as just plain Carp" The dogs name is
Carlo, but he has been dubbed the "Legis-
lative Brown Pup"
Carpenter represents Yuma County in
the Senate, and Carlo represents Carpen-
ter anywhere and everywhere. If you see
the dog in the street you know at once
and infallibly that Carpenter is not more
than twenty feet away. And the memory
OF the oldest inhabitant scarcely reaches
to the time when Carpenter went abroad
unattended by Carlo.
Carlo is we'll bred, digniied beast.
whose father was water spaniel and
whose mother had the unaduIterated
blood of the Scotch collie in her veins.
The mixture makes almost q distinctive
breed, and altogether a fine-looking, in
telligent dog.
Either the man or the dog separately
are interesting characters. Carpenter has
served in five of Arizona's nineteen legis-
lative Assem- blies. He was chief clerK of
the Senate in the twelfth, assistant chief
clerk OF the House in the thirteenth, chief
clerk of the Senate of the fifteenth,
Speaker of the House of the eighteenth,
and member OF the Senate of the nine
teenth, the one that has Just adjourned.
Out of all this wealth of legislative ex-
perience Carpenter has profited immense
ly. He Is keen-witted in debate, quick as
lightning in his parliamentary rulings
when In the chair, and on the floor a
most dangerous foe to any measure, no
matter how strong the vote against him
may be. His successful battles against
the removal of the Territorial penitentiary
from Yuma measure that all the coun-
ties except two and nine tenths of all the
taxpayers most heartily desire-have been
lasting monuments to his fame as a par
liamentarian.
During the eighteenth, while Speaker
OF the House, he adjourned the Assem- bly,
sine die, though the appropriation bill
had not been passed in order to defeat
the prison-removal bill in the interests of
his own constituency. Only a few days
before the nineteenth adjourned he again
defeated prison removal by his parlia-
mentary keenness. AT one point the
battle was almost lost, for the prison
removal men had the necessary votes to
carry the day. Only delay could save the
cause CT Yuma. The bill was before the
House, lying on tho clerks desk, with
only one or TWO minor measures ahead OF
it. This was early in the mornln., and
had things gone in their regular order the
| before the afternoon ad iournment
Suddenly Carpenter moved to take up
the regular order of business. The motion
was redundant, superhuous and unneces-
sary, yet technically correct. The prison
removal men looked at each other ques-
tioningiy. What did it mean-this new
move of Carpenters?
He gave them no time for reflection
however, and insisted upon his motion
being put. President Hughes, who is a
Tucson man and therefore friend indeed
of Yuma, was quick 10 see the gist oi
things.
| The prison-removal men voted mo-
solidly, just because the motion was made
by Carpenter and they were afraid OF it.
Result: They had voted not to onsider
their own measure, and now it must lie
over till afternoon. In very chagrin the
Navajo man moved 10 adjourn sine die,
and only the fact that the appropriation
bill had not yet been passed prevented
the measure from carrying.
1t was openly conceded that Carpenter
had "tiimha hammed' them. But Carpen-
ter is always right in his parliamentary
tactics. always safe within the rules, and
his own foes do not accuse him OF more
ceverness than the minority always has
the right 10 eXercise-if it has the knowl-
edge and the wit to do it,
Carpenter was once secretary OF the
Merchants Exchange in San Francisco.
He has studied law, but is not a lawyer,
and is now the superintendent of the Col
orado River irrigation Company. Sc
much for the man.
! Now about the dog. Carlo is years
old and has attended three sessions of the
Legislature. The most wonderful thing
about him is his ponGerous and pompous
dignity. Most dogs act like dogs when
out Of doors, if at no other time. but Carlo
| is always a fastidious and circums pect in.
dividual. He does not make frie nds with
other dogs readily, and you must be