Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-02-20
Legislative Notes.

I SulAo IOA a bNO anu Ouc 4dll CCut 10 on all taxable property in the ter [ tory.
 It is a very dull legislative ds when some personal relief bill do not show up in one of the houses. IT
 latest is for the relief of James Go
 well.
 The penitentiary improvement bi
 providing for spending S25,0O0 on u
 penitentiary, to be raised by a fol
 cent levy of taxes, was made sp'
 cial order in the house for Tuesda,
 February 19. The adobe walls al
 crumbling and the object of the bi
 is to patch them up.
 The attorney generals report
 answer to a resolution of inqury It
 specting the authority and appropris
 tions for the printing of the reports C
 territorial officers was read and was
 the effect that under the law of 1S9
 each official was authorized to mak
 his report to the governor and to hay
 the same printed at his discretion an,
 that all territorial officers had ha,
 their reports printed and had paid fo
 the same.
 In the council Andrews submitted report of Normal school committee
 They found the buildings an( grounds in good condition and the re port was received.
 Baker of Pinal offered a petition il the house from the board of supervi visors of Pinal asking for the reten tion of the law providing bounty o1 scalps of wild animals.
 Walsh introduced a bill to amend section 2, Act 57 of the 18th legisla tive assembly. It provides tha the salary of county recorders ir counties of the first class shall be S2, 900, in second class counties, S12OO in counties of the 9th and 9th classes SlOO0, and in such counties they shall also act as clerks of the boards oi supervisors without additional com. pensation.
 In counties of the first class, county recorders are authorized toappoint all deputies necessary for the proper dis charge of the duties of the office at S75 per month, such appointments to be subject to the approval of the board of supervisors. The bill was read first time and second time and referred to the committee on counties and county boundaries.
 Ivy introduced a bill providing a penalty for the unlawful discharge of firearms in the public highways and it trespass to enter upon the premises of another for the purposes of hunting without leave. Penalty is for term of six months or fine at the rate of one dollar per day for same or less time. Bill read first and second times, ordered printed and referred to the committee on ag- riculture.
 Fowler introduced bill to amend Act P of the 10th legislature, provid- ing for tax for the maintenance of tree public libraries and reading rooms n incorporated cities and towns of 5000 inhabitants and over. The bill provides for the levying of a munich pal tax of not more than one half a mill on the dollar. It was read first md second times and referred to the judiciary committee.
 Mir. Ward wants to regulate foreign insurance companies and for this pur- bose has introduced bill which pro- 7ides that no foreign insurance com 1any may do business in Arizona that las not paid up capital of S3OO,OO0 md such companies must deposit guaranty with the territorial treasurer n the sum of S100,000, make an an- annual statement of business to the territorial auditor and publish the same within sixty days after it has been rendered. It then enumerates he amount of business they severally 10 in the territory. If MT. Wards pill becomes a law it will effectually 'egulate these companies by driving hem from the territory.
 The regular daily relief bills ap- Oeared in the house. One provides ,or an appropriation of S950 for H. F. Robinson for services as adjutant gen. sral, and the other is to give J. H. Behan S598.50 for services as of the prison commission.
 Gray introduced a bill authorizing apards of supervisors of counties to divide counties into supervisors dis jriRts and to cause supervisors to be elected from such districts in 1902, md every two years thereafter. This pill has come up before a number of but has never met with sufficient favor to become enacted into ! law.
 A memorial to congress was passed n the house asking for congressional lid to build water storage reservoirs n the territory. It is an exact copy of the resolution passed by the irriga- tion congress at its last session.
 Perkins offered a joint resolution to appropriate $40 as premium to a 1uartette of girls of Morris Dugan of Apache county, but it failed to receive a second.
 In the house the speaker presented a letter from Delegate Wilson an that the request for the ex- tension of the time of the session of the legislature had been received and would be immediately presented but that there is but little chance of its 
 Barker, of the committe on counties and county boundaries reported that the joint committee on counties and county boundaries had agreed that the salaries of county officers should remain as at present and that the fees of clerks of district courts should be increased to the same fees that pre- vailed before reduced by former leg islature.
 The committee on agriculture, to which the prison chaplain bill was re- ferred, reported that it had been by the committee by taking out the words Protestant and Catholic" and that as amended the bill do pass. The bill provides for two chaplains for the prison.
 The committee which examined the Flagstaff normal school found debt of Sl,300 existing. They recom- mended an appropriation for another teacher.
 A telegram from Colonel Wilson was read in the council announcing in effect that he had succeeded in mug zling Jones of "Arkansaw," and that the latter would no longer oppose the