Arizona republican., 1899-01-24
DEAD PRECEDENT OF OLD DAYS
By Concurrent Resolution the Law Mak- CTS Decide That the People Should Not Pay for Newspapers Sent the
 Members During the Session.

land, and the bill will be drawn on the | lines of the South Dakota law. l Mr Olney will present bill increas- 1 ing the license fee of pack and wagon i peddlers from the present fee of $5 per month to $250 year for pack peddlers, ! and $500 for wagon peddlers. These i are the prices of peddlers' fees in New Mexico, and the result of the law has been to drive this class of merchants f into the less expensive field of Arizona.
 Mir. Bunch presented bill for the protection of settlers and MT. Finley
 presented one authorizing the town of
 Nogales to pay debt of $3,500 con- f tracted on account of road making. l The ladies can attend the house ses- sions hereafter in comfort, as smoking tobacco in the house chamber is now prohibited by resolution of MT. Scott. | There was no negative vote on the res
 olution, but the ayes were few and feeble. The councilmen still smoke cigars, in the absence of any prohibit tory law, but MT. Carpenter will soon move against it.
 Mr. Etz, of the house, will not go a-visiting this week He has with drawn from the committee which will visit the reform school building, and Mr Donau will go in his stead.
 By resolution of MT. Moore, all bills making appropriations shall be intr,- duced by March 1, otherwise they can be considered only by two thirds vote of the house.
 The ergeant-at-arms of the council performed his first act of violence yes terday in bringing in members. When the roll was called at the afternoon session Messrs. Goldwater, Bunch and Carpenter alone answered to their names. The others were officially ab- sent and the president ordered the ser geant-at-armse to hunt them up and bring them in, which he did, no clothes being torn in the process
 As a new broom sweeps clean, all of the fifteen clerks of the council re- sponded to their names whan the roll was called yesterday morning. This is in obedience to MT. Murphy's resolu- tion of Saturday, ordering all clerks to be present at each session.
 Hereafter all bills introduced will go to the printing committee after second reading, and 150 copies of each bill will be printed.
 The resolution and accom- panying appropriation bill, providing for the visit to the territorial institutions came back officially, signed by the gov ,eInor. It is understood the members will start on their journey tomorrow. Both houses will SIt today.
 The following bit of satire was picked up from the floor of the council near the presidents rostrum AFest erday. It was endorsed as being House Bill No. g. Introduced by Will Jones' Read first time, rules suspended; read sec Ond time by title and referred, to ju- dietary committee; referred back, do pass; read third time and passed-23 ayes, one absent. Sent to council and found by reporter and printed, no one claiming it:''
 An act entitled An Act to Provide for the Better Government of the Ter ritory of Arizona
 Section One-An boards of whatso- ever kind or nature now existing by virtue of law are hereby abolished
 ''SectiCn Two-After the passage of this act the legislature shall cease to exist and the governor shall convene a session composed of the editors of ali the newspapers published in the terri tory. Any editor refusing to servG shall have the double cross cut on his forehead
 Section 1hree-The territorial treasurer shall give the new legislature all it asks for, the residue or remain der to go to the county poor. Eacn printer shall be on the printing com nIittee and on 2H measures introduced each member shall vote as requested by the other members, 9s indica: cd ;n the several editorials presented each morn ing. On all different questions each member shall have as many votes as there are different editorials.
 Section FouT-The Editor of Our Mineral Wealth is hereby made pre- siding officer of both houses.
 Section FiVe-This Act shall take off naf T T anything there may be in the Organic Act or Revised Statutes or Constitution of the United States to the contrary"