Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-03-22
A PARTIAL REVIEW OF THE
 TWENTIETH"

"TWENTlETH,"
 It is little early yet to pass un-
 biased judgment on the acts Of tine
 twentieth legislature as the list and
 full scope of the bills passed is not
 yet before us. The campaign, re-
 sulting in the election of a large
 democratic majority in both houses,
 was made on the free silver issue,
 the repeal of all public commissions
 and boards. economy in govern
 mental affairs, and incidentally as a
 friend of the workingmen.
 The campaigners knew that noth-
 ing conld be done to further the
 cause of free silver, hence nothing
 was expected of that plank and nc
 thing was done.
 As to repeal of commissions tie
 loan commissions and the immigre-
 tion commission acts were repealed.
 The former was created by congress
 ional enactment and its existence
 can only be ended in the same man
 ner. In place of an immigration
 commission on the lines of the old
 one a new one was created.
 The repeal of the board of equal
 ization, and the board of control,
 about which so much was heard during the campaign, was not even attempted, directly. A bill was passed to create a new board to take the place of these and another com mission or two. Although the democratic majority had sixty days to draft and pass the bill, and agreed on it in caucus early in the session, it never reached the gover- nor until the closing hours of the session, if in fact it reached him at all. or course bill making such radical change in governmental af- fairs, and so far reaching as that, could not be considered intelligently in the brief space of time given to the chief executive to do so. if he re- ceived the bill at all. At all events 1t did not meet his approval, while the democratic majority, having early in the session agreed to the bill in caucus, had ample time to pass it, send it to the governor and if dis approved by him pass it over his veto.
 As to economy, the list of attaches of the legislature was larger, it is stated, than any previous legislative bodies for years. And yet in spite of the large army of clerks which was employed, and the superintend- ence of their work by the enrolling and expressing committee it IS stat ed on absolutely good authority that l not . single bill was sent to the governor without some error more or less fragrant.
 While so far as is apparent now there has been DO laws passed | the expenses of the county | can be reduced, there . are several instances where an addi- ton has been made to them. by pro viding in some cases for additional fees to officers and in others by pro- viding for additional officers, all of which will be touched on later.
 Now, as to the beneficial legisla- ton for the workingman. CoDsid- erable has been said about the de- | feat of the "boleta" bill. This meas ure applied to only one camp in the and it is stated that the 1 working men of that camp desire the present system to be maintain ed. The benefits to be derived from it were not intended for the class it to benefit but to outsid- CTS. Then as to the numerous other bills, of a similar class, for the bene- fit of the workingmen, so far as we have been able to familiarize our selves, they were all class legislation 1 although that has been species of legislation specially decried. Who Imagines for an instant that any court would sustain a law saying hat one class of litigants should nave their expenses paid while mother should pay their own, or hat to write a letter adversely about ! former employee was crime while O write the opposite would be the highest virtue known to the law. Such legislation as this Is but the let of demagOgues, who know that t would be imperative if enact ,d, but who want to deceive the peo- 'le by pretending to try to do some hing apparently of benefit to them, put in reality of no benefit.
 No tax exemption,' was another avorite campaign hobby of demo- .ratic candidates and democratic ,rators during the campaign, if not plank in the platform of the party. let before closing its labors the egislature passed another ''tax ex- mption" law for the next two years.
 This is only a partial review of the Ioings of the twentieth" and if the ,eople can see any similarity be- ween them and the snte-election promises. it is because they can see othing wrong where they do not Tant to.
 The compromise effected recently