Arizona republican., 1899-01-29
Changes Suggested by COnYen-
 tiOn of Supervisors.
RAILROADS OUT OF REACH
Wanted, Last Extension of fine Fund ing Act Repealed, Bullion Tax Law, Admission of Sheep 10 inc Forest Reserves and an Increase of Salaries of District Attorneys and Boards of Supervisors.


 The cen e-ence of~supervisors con cluded it's deliberations late yesterday f ern oon and adjourned until Janu- a,y E6, 19-0 Much important busi- ness was disposed of. but whethsr CT rot the results will be important will depend wholly upon the view the leg i:latuIe may take of the work that hs s ju:t been finished. If the legis1a- tu shzuld act favorab.y upon, even Ia ef the recommendations of the con erance, the government Of county if lirs will be greatly changed.
 Almost t e last thing the confer ence cid was U adopt a resolution to petition the legislature to memoralize congress on the subject of repeating the last extension of the provisions of he nding act whereby the bonds of certain counties were validated. The act was procured, by the way, by a. memo ia1 of the Eighteenth legisla- ture. This resolution was prasentel by. the Pima county rep. esentative, wh5 was inspired by the late decision of the United States supreme court decla ing tie Arizona Narrow Gauge ra l oad bonds to be legal. Another resolution by the confer recom- mends the re-ensctment of the old bullion tax law.
 The first thing d.ne in the morning was an agreement at the s1ggesti n Of the n rthern members, to petition fer a mem orial to the president, praying for the admission of sheep to the forest reserves on equal terms with horses ar d catt'e.
 The secretary of the conference was ec ed to have prepared for in re- duction into the legislature a bill pro vid ng that the salaries of assesso in the lower class counties shall be fixed by the boards of supervisors.
 Su-ervisor Schuermsn n moved the preparat on of a bi'1 providing for board of equalization with five mem bers ir stead Of four. Supervisor Nor ton d esi ed to amend by making the number of members seven. The amendment was lost ty tie vote and the orig nal motion was carried.
 The committse appointed to confer w.th AttoIney Genera Ainswo1th re- glrding the possibility of evading
  ticn by imposing a license Cn such reads. reported it to be the attorney generals opinion that this could not ba done. Instructions were given for the D -eraration of bills for various purpos es. That no land te assessed at le S than tEe government price Tor It, tt at boards of S1p arvisors in nrstc ass coun ies may be allowed to contract for the preparation Of the dupllcdle
 orc- nf o1s in fiIstclass counties may allow the, a -ssor for lch time as he needs one, an assistant at $75 a month.
 Resolutions were adopted request ing that the laws affecting road tax and the recorders office be left unchanged The latter resolution was precautlon against the biennial efforts of the re- corders to make their offices more ra- muneratiVe.
 The legislature was recommended to increase the salaries of district at torneys in first-class counties from S2,O00 to $3,0O0 per annuyn anu this reminded the supervisors tJ suggest to the legislature a bill providing for the quarterly payment to members or boards of supervisors in counties or the f1rst-class a yearly salary Of Sl,00O. All the motions passed and all the res o1utions adopted were preceded by long discussions. Regardlng the rec concentrations increasing the expense of county government, those affecting the offices of the assessor, the district attorney and the supervisors, the con ferees. said they were willing to face the music It was impossible, they said, for a county assessor in first class county to do the work of his of flee alone, and his msager salary would not allow him to hire an assistant Nor could a clerk of the board in such a county get up the assessment roll and at the same time attend to his regular duties. Competent lawyers had ceased aspiring to be district attorneys at the wages now paid and incompetent lawyers were likely to cost the coun- ties more than the proposed annual in crease of salary.
 As to the supervisors, no nan quail fled to transact the business of the county could afford to do it a. the pre- vailing per diem.
 The next conference falling midway between two legislative sessions will naturally be less important than the one just ended. It will onl3 look to an exchange of views calculated to secure a just and uniform system of assess ment and taxation.