The St. Johns herald., 1899-03-04
THE LOGIC
 OF LEGISLATORS.
The Twentieth Legislator Kept Busy on Freight
 and Fare Bills.

1
 troubles of her own before thIs legis-
 lature adjourns. Charlie Bayless and
 Supt. Blair of Final county are in
 Phoenix this week with a petition rep
 resentlng taxpayers of Pinal county
 amounting to the enormous sum of $8-
 900. These men ara here representing
 majority of the heaviest taxpayers
 of that county asking that the conuty
 be divided and one portion given to Maricopa county and the remainder to
 Pima. After this Wright will probably
 not be able to pay so much attention
 to.Bowie county. When the bill is in-
 troduced Wright certainly will not be
 in position to ask many favors from
 either the Graham or Cochlse county
 delegation.
 Hunt and Wright never loose an op-
 portunity to throw political bombs at
 each other. About the first day of the
 session Wright gave notice that at an
 early day he would introduce an Initi-
 stive and Referendum Bill in accord
 snce with the declaration ofthe Repub-
 Ecan platform in the last campaign
 The session moved along for five weeks
 and still no Initiative and Referendum
 from the gen tleman from Pinal. The
 fact of the matter is ths Republicans in both houses induced Wright not to ntrduce the bill as some of them did not wish to go on record on this subject. Now all this came to the ears of Hunt of Gila county who is ever on the watch for a chance to put the Republicans in tho hole. He immediately prepared an Initiative and Referendum Bill and introduced the same himself. When the bill made it's appearance in the Council Wright assumed an in injured air and accused Hunt of stealing the Republican campaign Thunder. Hunt got the floor and very pretty passage of words ensued in which Hunt accused Wright ofnever intending to introduce the bill since the day he first gave notice. He dared the Republicans to go on record on this bill and said he had introduced the bill himself so they might have the opportunity of proving their sinceity in the matter of the In itiative and Referendum,
 Udall ofApache county has intro duced bill creating the office of Ter. ritorial Engineer to be appointed by the Governor and receive salary of $2- 800 year. The bill prescribes his du. ties which are numerous. Among other things he must survey and make maps af all feasible irrigation schemes, such as new canals, sites for reserVoisr, ect., and report on the sameto the Governor In hls annual report. He must also the number of miners inches in all irrigating streams in the terri. tory. A bill exempting all irrigation enterprise has also passed the house ind made its appearance in the council where it undoubtedly will becomea law.
 The council has passed bill repeating he Loan commission by strict party yote. By the repeal of this bill 1t is hoped that the fraudulent Pima county ponds may be headed of. This bill las been strongly recommended by ,iominent members of the bar of Ari. ona.
 The woman's suffrage bill made it's appearance in the Council again on Tuesday. The lobby was crowded with 'nlookers who had come te see it's final passage. But a rather, unexpected hing happened when instead of con- idering the bill Murphy, of Mohave, moved that the further consideration if the bill be postponed until February 8th which motion carried almost un- nimously. GoIdwater voting no. This ' terminates the woman suf- I rage qu 'stion. It cannot pass. Mur- 'hy knew this and made this motion o postpone until the 18th to sustain IS life as long as possible. F
 Evans blll "to Protect the working nen of the Territory of Arizona" was I ID for consideration in the Council and be Committee of the Whole recom- 1ended that the bill do pass. After t he Council resumed session Hunt tried 6 0 suspend the rules and place it on it's . nal passage, but the motion was lost nd the bill went over until Thursday 3rd.
 Bunch has introduced a bill to put U Il the sheriffs on 8 salary. Sherifs t f the frst-class counties are to receive | salary of $6 900 year. Second-class f 5 900, third class S4,OOO, fourth class 8 ,OOO, fifth class $2, 800 sixth clasr $2,. %. In addition to the above salaries D he sheriff in 1st, 2nd and 3rd class ounties shall retain 50 per cent of all ses in civil cases, and in 4th, 5th ann . tn class counties the sheriff shall re ain all fee in civil cases. Bunch has introduced bill by re- c