Arizona republican., 1899-03-18
Twentieth Legislature Has Passed
 Into History.
DID NOTHING REMARKABLE.
Owing 10 inc Deadlock Over inc Gen. eraI Appropriations Adjourn menf Was Not Reached UnfiI
 Nearly 5 O'clock Friday rfornIna.
 Governor Signed Twenf-fhree Bills the Last Day of inc Session.

The legislature adjourned on Pat
 rick's day in the mornin'. Theo-
 retically and legally it adjourned at 12
 o'clock midnight, March Is, but
 in truth, the assembly expired
 at 4:40 o'clock m., March
 IF. The passage and the en-
 rollment of the general appropriation
 bill did it. It was passed shortly after
 l o'clock and sent to the enrolling
 clerks. It was returned to the house and signed by the speaker about 3:3O
 o'clock. It was then sent to the coun-
 cii, where President Goldwater read it
 aloud, and everybody listened. Every body was interested in either subdi- vision 23 or subdivision 29, and every
 body wanted to be sure that neither was in the enrolled bill The first struck out the appropriation to pay tie printers bills, and the ether took cut the O'Neill monument fund. The compromise that passed the bill wiped out these two items
 The reading of the bill by Mir. Gold water saved the territory $1OO and de- prived Secretary Akers of that much more pay for indexing the laws and journals. The bill appropriated $50 f01 that purpose, and the enrolling clerk made it $50. This sheet of the bill was again written and it then went to the governor for signature The house was then called to order to re- ceive the governors message cn the bill, which was as follows:
 'I have the honor to inform you that 1 have approved and signed house bill No. 165, the general appropriation bill
 ''I take this occasion to congratulate the members of the house of repre- sentatives of the Twentieth legislature upon the successful conclusion of their labors, and for that portion of their work which has been beneficial to the territory
 The members were too sleepy to see the joke in this message at the time it was read to them, but nights rest will probably disclose it to them.
 At the same time the governor sent th1S message to the council:
 ''I have the honor to inform you that I have approved and signed council bill No GA, an act exempting railroads from taxation; also house bill No. 165, the general appropriation bill.
 ''In this final communication to your honorable body, desire to express my appreciation of the labors you have performed in the interests of the ter ritory, and to congratulate ycm upon the successful conclusion of your leg islative duties.'
 With the appropriation bill signed there was nothing imperative on hand but to adjourn, and that was impera- tive. Both bodies convened in the house chamber, and President Gold water killed off his crowd first, they being in the worst condition physically, and easily disposed of. He forgave everybody their manifold sins and asked that his might be forgiven, for if he had done anything he was sorry for he didn't know it, but perhaps the other fellows did He then pulled out his watch and said, 'TThe hour of F having arHved." He didn't go into de- tail as to the tense-whether it was rast or present. With the statement, which was almost a boast, that there was vested in him sufficient authority to adjourn the council forever and a day, he hit the desk a crack with the yavel, and the republican minority woke up. It had instinctively herded ogether away from the plebian demo- ,ratlc crowd, and had individually and gone to sleep. MT. Udall lowered his whiskers. That is the only way to express it. He had the base 1f his brain hooked ever the back of chair, and his beard was pointed at he ceiling. MT. Carpenter, like the eviathan of the deep, but with less water about him. heaved up and dis ,losed his desk. MT Warner picked up lis watch chain which dragged on the ioor, and buttoned his vest. MT. Wright reused himself, pulled cigar tump off his lower lip, and said: Mi. President, I think there is some merit + this bill. I move you it be sent to he education committee for couple If Cays.''
 Speaker Ashurst picked up the gavel, nd with the mornings resolution in lis mind, he didn't ask to be forgiven nd he didn't forgive anybody. He ust said that by the authority in him estcJ he declared the house adjourned Tithout day.
 Then the Twentieth legislative as- embly struggled out, leaving the floor,