Arizona republican., 1899-03-16
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 1 lature. Leastwise, there was a lull, and, of course, there will be a storm today. There was a little black cloud a-risin' last night and mutterings of | thunder from the house. Both branches did nothing, practically, but kill time The council killed it by requiring the short Durham reading clerk to recite section 2 of a bill concerning court stenographers, which section pro- Vides that Arizona court reporters must be of good moral character and able to perform on the typeWriter-a practically impossible combination Incidentally, the council passed the capitol building and university aprro- priation bills
 The house tOyed with time, and af- ter lulling it into feeling of security the minority suddenly swooped upon it and cut it's throat, leaving the ma jcrity, who had business on hand, aghast and furious.
 The sequence of events in the house yesterday afternoon gives color to tae suspicion that the speaker of the lobby
 
 action on some important legislation.
 The house had got in shape to, do something during the afternoon ses- sion, and of late this requires much talk and many motions and calls and rulings by the speaker. On motion of MT. Petersen, house bill IS, to tax mines, was before the house for con sideratfan, as was house bill 1S1, fo tax the net proceeds of mines sThe@ special order for 3: 90 o'clock was Mir Udal1s council bill, through which railroad lands may be taxed above three times what they now pay in the northern counties. The bill involves large revenue to the north, as it de- signs to tax, at valuation of not less than @ cents per acre, railroad lands that are now assessed at 20 cents per acre.
 It was nearing the time when ;he railroad and mining tax bills would De under consideration, when MT. Adams walked over to the speakers rostrum and whispered to MT. Ashurst. A lit tic later MT. Ashurst called MT. Adams to the chair. A little later MT. Dcan moved to adjourn and MT Ashurst seconded the motion. Mr. Adams put the motion. There were a few de- cided Ayes and a volume of Nays" MT. Adams declared the house ad- journed and left the chair. MT. Peter son threw his copy of the session laws down with bang. It carromed into il spittoon and MT. Peterson said, Be damned!" Several other gentlemen uttered words to the same purport, but they did nothing but "cuss." The house continued to stay adjourned, and the inference is that everybody was willing. Adjournment had been effected by practically three men, and if the balance didn't know how to reorganize and proceed and make their journal fit their action, they had no valid kick coming" The way Mr. Adams has been driving the house herd lately is so violently effective that it is first class comedy and lobby seats in the house Thursday night were we'll worth grand opera prices. On that occasion Adams defied the whole body and car ried his point with as palpable a bluff" as was ever put up.'' He kept the floor after being repeatedly ordered to take his seat. He invited the body to put him in jail, after the speaker pro tenn had ordered the sergeant-at- arms to arrest him, which action was sustained by the majority, He had a motion put twice after the chair re- fused to entertain it, and while he was presumably under arrest, and the mo- tion finally prevailed by the votes of members who had sustained the order for his arrest. It was beautiful' Spartacus, addressing the Romans at Capua, was living skeleton mouthing nursery rhymes compared to Adams laying down the law of right to the Arizona house.
 And the '"other fellows protested. They shook their heads and looked shocked, and said "high-handed," and courageous" and ''unheard off, but they did nothing else Yesterday Mir. again poured ice water down their backs and made them believe it was sweat. He adjourned the house to defeat legislation to which he IS op- posed, and the majority which favored that legislation is entirely to blame They sat like stoughton bottles and gave him entire cCntro! over the motion to adjourn,
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