Arizona republican., 1901-01-23

to have developed, opposed the reso-
 lution. Joint resolution No l. it will
 be remembered provides for the crea-
 tion in each house. of great many
 clerkships. among which were seven committee clerkships whose salaries
 were to be A. MT. St. Charles saw ln
 the framing of the resolution the hand of Maricopa. Maricopa now had he
 said, all 1t had the nerve to
 ask for directly and now proposed to reduce the salaries and throw the clerkships at outside coun-
 ties. whose sons and daughters, by
 reason of travelling expenses and the
 cost of living at the capital could not
 accept them. Thus they would revert
 to the Maricopians. This theory was logical and ingenious, if not true, and
 MT. St. Charles moved since the
 assembly had already four clerks that
 the joint resolution be amended by l changing to 4 and $4 to $5.
 I A great deal of discussion about | wages ensued and the members worked themselves into white heat. The air was filled with motions and amend ments, none of which reached vote. Many of the propositions related to irrelevant matters, though a relation between them and joint resolution No. could be dimly traced.
 MT. St. Charles proposition to cut down the number of clerks aroused n- terest, If it did not inspire conviction, until Mir Kimball of Graham inquired for his own information if there would be enough for this army of clerks to do to ward off ennui. Speaker Parker replied that there would undoubtedly be great deal for them to do in the course of the consideration of the code commission report and he explained that that was why so many commit tee clerks were desired now.
 There was nothing more said about reducing the number. Dr. Noon on the other hand proposed to increase it by the retention of the services during the legislature of the clerk of the code commission.
 A curious and unexpected thing hap pened then to the joint resolution. IL was laid on the table with two dissent ing votes. an uncourteous disposition of the measure, seeing that it was the councils property.
 Messdrs. Gray, Hams and Houston were appointed committee on mileage and the questions of rules was taken up. The speaker said that the commit tee on rules had decided to adopt those of the Twentieth legislature. Mir. Pet erson desired to offer an objection to Rule No. 22. and that was made spec la. order for 3 o'clock.
 A message was received from the governor that his message would be ready for presentation at 2 o'clock
 Mir. Barkley of Pima county before ! recess called caucus at 1:3O to be 1 held at the Pima county headquarters at the Occidental hotel. It was under stood that the subject of consideration | was the appointment of a watchman.
 Mir. kimball observed the rectangular | sternness of the arrangement of the | desks in th2 chamber He offered a | resolution to request Secretary Akers | to have then arranged in the arc of | a circle in front of the speakers stand. | The resolution was adopted and the as- sembly was adjourned to o'clock.
 THE AFTERNOON.
 After the, reading of the message and the departure of the council the consideration of house rule No. 22 of the last legislature was taken up Mir, Peterson of Marlcopa county ob- ,ected to this on account of it's dilatori- ness. He moved to amend it by cut ting down the time which measures might be held in committee.
 Another objection by Mir. Peterson was that bills could not be ordered to the printer until after they had been back to the house. He desired to amend the rule so that bills upon their introduction might be ord red printed. The amendment was adopted
 Council joint resolution No. was lhen taken off the table with the same facility with which it had been de- posited. It was amended by substitut- ng s5 for s4 as the pay of committee Jerks and was then concurred in and ,ent back to the council.
 The report of the mileage committee vas received and curiously the only objections to 1t were raised by two Mir. Ivy of Maricopa, and , dr. Ward of Yavapai, who said they ,ad been allowed too much. The least , ni,eage allowed was two miles: the , most was 9S6 both ways. at fifteen ents a mile. f A message was received frc.n the I ouncil informing the assembly of the , adoption of joint resolution No. 2. to ( ppoint a council committee on joint r ules to act with an assembly commit T ee of three. Council concurrent reso- ution providing for a joint committee | f five to arrange for the dedication of 2 he capitol. was also received. Both f esolutlons were concurred in and re- , turned. , The only other business transacted I 'as the swearing in of the age. C,arenvce Dunbar. a bright p Joking youth. who had just ar ived from Kingman. The assembly iill reconvene at 10 o'clock this 2 
 THE COUNCIL. The council sessions wsre brief. but 2 s on the day before. business was con-