Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-01-25
ADAMS ECONONi.
HE WANTED siooo FOR TaE CON MiTTEE TO VISIT TERRi~
 TORiAL INSTITUTIONS.
The Council Would Not Have 1.-The First RefornatorY Measure of she SsssiOu Sho,ss Up.

Pheni1, Jan. 20-(Special Corres- ! PondeDce IA little bit of ecoaomie Legislation cropped out ia today s session of the legislature when tsz house with only eight dissenting votes voted an appEopFiaiiuu oi sl1oeO to pay the expenses ni the committees appointed to y}sil lhe territorial institutions Adams, of Jerome. was the foster father Of the bill He was also the mover of tbe resolution to accept the invitation to attend lhe Live Stock meeting in Denver. A legislative invesgigali ing committee Is simply a fiftb aheei Co the territorial guVernm=uf wagon
 It's visits to the territorial inztigu- tons are simply htile juBkeiiBg tours Tor the members and fruitful of DO good results whatever Co fhe terntory. The limited tune taken to make the nvestigsilnn precludes all possibility of their AcconpiIshinx anything beneficial to tbe territory, and their reports are unifOruh 6f the most complimentary nature. Nearly all, if not quite al. of tae members travel on passes, tbe tiHa taken does not exceed tWo oI three days, unless, as has been be ease. Itt. committee to visit the teFFiforlai prison simply stop ih Yuma for s meal or two and then continue their journey to Los Aneers ts make their investigation. ltuaY be perhaps that the latter is ia c1u- temptation by the comuiftsr ths year. and If so. of course the SlIo0 appropriation can bv easily used uIs. and tbe territory wlii ress-.re A- benefits of the visitinz nl ml.ers' trip to the Southern Ca.iiotaia me- tropolis.
 The lower hOuss without a dis seating vote ps.ssd fhs po-isE. hill tor members, but he esuucl. bsca contains many sxper-nesat iegls8s- lUTs who oted to ti,fesi similar bills in prgceiing l-gislaiures. rostd ii doRn. The bill earned au appro- pria,ion of SlO for each member and chief clerk. or a to.ai of S}S0, and il received twelve negative votes Ia tie council.
 The hrsl FeformatoFy measure of The sesslun cropped Out today by notice from Senator Muruhy of the proposed early iaiTodnelion of 6iil to prohibit the employment of women 10 saloons.
 An attempt vas made to railroad Adams Sloo0 appropriation bili for the picnic Tor the territorial iuxsiiu- tIoEs visiting committee through the council but Hunt, who is slways on the lookout Tor the peoples ia- tefests, threw the switch snd tried to side track it to the committee on education He failed. but Bunch succeeded in getting it switched to the committee on territorial af- fairs When 1t came out of that committee Adams little legislative kid had shrunk SO that its own spa pa" did not know it. The commit tee cut it square in two Id the mid die, making the appropriation Sd0o Members will be compelled To ecOnomize on this amount fl they follow previous preoedents by in- vestigsting in Los Angeles. The council fAysrs using a small portion of the remaining $500 in doing some printing that might be beneficial to the territory, so they amended the house bill to have lO0O copies of the governors message printed to make It 2O00 instead.
 Hunt introduced his compulsory education bull in the council and DO copies of 1t were ordered printed
 Pusch of Pima was excused till January 90, on his expressing a de sire to attend the Live Stock meet sng in Denver.
 Murphy's bill legalizing the ~ig> nOTaRce acts of notaris,s, passed the council