Arizona republican., 1899-03-11
SET DOWN ON FINLEY
Continued From First Page.)

him to vote for the bill, and that he promised to have it amended in the house so that 3 comm ;ssiOner would be appointed only on petition of 800 vot- CTS of the county. In this form Mr GOldwater said, he had promised to vote for it, but it had not been so amended.
 When the bill came up in\the whole cCmmitte MT Finley offered an amend ment which was adopted, permitting the expenditure of S1,500 yearly in stead of $3,OO0 as provided in the bill In this form it was recommended to pass.
 The wemocratic caucus measure known as council bill 40. creating a board of public affairs to take the place of the board Of control, passed the house yesterday, amended. It was returned to the council, and the concurrence in the amendments by the house Twill be the first business Of the council this morning. The effect of the house amendment is to strike out that section of the original bill pro viding that if members Of the board shall travel by railroad passes they shall not render accounts against the territory for mileage. such action be ing declared misdemeanOr.
 Mr Finley offered an amendment to this effect when the bill was in the council and it was voted down. If the gentleman from Mohave" had him in the house yesterday he would no doubt have arisen and declared that the hand of the corporation is strong CT in the house than the hand of the democratic caucus.
 Consideration of MT. Finley's council bill SS was indefinitely postponed in the council yesterday. It sought to organize a anger band. to protect the territory against outlaws. When it was under consideration in the whole committee Mir. Gold'water offered an amendment to the title of the bill, changing it to "an act to protect the Southern Pacific Railroad company, and to prevent the outraged taxpayers from carrying away the road" The amendment was adopted by a rising vote of 6 to 3.
 A special committee of the council, constituted in Messrs. Finley, Car penter and Hunt, was appointed yes terday to investigate the P-inting of the legislative bills. Suspicion was directed against the printer by a re- port of MT. Hunt chairman of the council printing committee, He re- ported that he had received from the printer printed copies Of council DlllS Nos. III 112, 1f3, 114 and 118, and while 200 copies of each had been or dered printed, he had received but few more than 100 copies of each.
 Another peculiar phase of the mat ter was that while the journal showed 200 copies of each bN ordered printed, the printed bill recorded 400 copies of each ordered printed. The report gave rise to discussion as to the method to be employed in determining what was due the printer-whether from the journal record, tho receipt of the chair man of the printing committee, or from the figures on the printed bill
 MT. Bunch explained that the print CTS bill would be made out by the territorial secretary, and that the amount due would be determined from the number of bills shown to be or dered by the journals of the house and council. Printer Dunbar was given the floor, and explained that while the number of bills delivered to the council was short of the full amount. the bal ance was probably in the printing of fee; that what was due him would be