The Arizona sentinel., 1901-03-13

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 and it's failure in the house al
 most unanimously. The bill is
 a far reaching one calculated to
 cover cities of good size in all
 portions of our very diversified
 Territory; it had been prepared
 by a committee of men expert
 enced in the matter of municipal
 government who had spent sev-
 eral months in the examination
 of city charters, in selecting the +best from them and in the prep
 aration of this bill calculated to
 cover all possible conditions
 that might present themselves
 for a good many years to come;
 and yet it was characterized by
 a prominent member of the house as "the SiliieSt thing 1 ever heard of" The trouble
 with the thing was that in the
 council it's provisions were care fully explained by Dr. Ford who had the bill in charge and it was pointed out that the bill provid
 ed that 1t might become the charter Of 8 city by it's being adopted by vote of the people; in the house that body took it up section by section, and it was necessarily a long bill, waded through it all till everybody was tired and worn out and perhaps not five men knew anything more about it when the reading was finished than when it began, and those who cared nothing about it and were wearied out with it knew nothing about it, really, thought it's numerous provisions useless and the bill impracticable and silly" and so they jumped" on it without mercy. It was a case of a good measure going to the wall for want of proper handling. The militia bill which is up now in the legislature bids fair to go in exactly the same way as the city charter bill though it also is a bill of many desirable fea- lures; however the Territory can get along better without the militia bill than it can without the city charter bill. A bill reg ulating freights has made its ap pearance in the council and it seems to he rigged like the busi ness end of a hornet. It is in tended to make exempt roads and roads assessed at less than $6, 1000 per mile serve the cOun- try in some other way. It is likely to become law but it is also likely to be entirely useless when it does for the reason that enough charges can be made on outside goods to cover the detic- it it will make in the rates of roads affected. The bill is a party measure.
 Another bill that is partisan measure is one that went through both houses on the run and calculated to curtail the power of the Governor in the matter of the removal of ap- pointed officers. It covers the same ground that a similar bill did in Zulick's time and runs up against the organic act as that bill did and in the end must fail as that bill did if it is passed over the governors veto, for there is no doubt it will be ve- tOed.
 The investigation of the audit OTIS books and accounts took a more definite and accurate form | during the week by the employ 1 ment of an expert accountant, and the impression was given out toward the close of the week !, that a mares nest was being un- covered in the issuance of cer- tain warrants for the expenses of the governors office. When l the matter came to a showdown i in the committee, however, the various acts of the legislature i from time to time were found to provide for each warrant issued, l and the presumption failed to materialize-as presumptions usually do that are built on hopes rather than on facts.