The Arizona sentinel., 1901-03-06

to the SENTINEL had not got out
 of town before the bill was pass
 ed by both houses, and in due
 time went to the governor, who
 promptly affixed his disapproval
 of it, when both houses prompt
 ly passed it over the veto, and
 the bill is an act of the Twenty
 First legislative assembly of Arizona; in other words, the law of the land. There are those of it's opponents, however, who now declare that they pin their hopes that the law will be imperative on the board of control. Whether that part of the contest will be pursued remains to be seen- Probably when the smoke and heat of battle have been disSi- pated by a little rest other senti- ment will prevail; at any rate the prison people are on top, and if the contest is pushed further they will have that advantage.
 The prison location commits sion bill is another thing that has not failed to stir the silt at the bottom of legislative waters like a spring flood in the Colo rado. The house very promptly gave it a black eye the other day by failing to make it into law: that this will be the last of it, however, is not at all certain. Bills in the Twenty-FirSt seem to have more lives than black cat, and though they be killed very dead, skinned and buried, their ghosts walk, and they are not thin, shadowy ghosts, either.
 The bullion tax bill was SUD- posed to have gone down in the house with twenty votes against it and but four for it, yet that bill came to life suddenly yester- day in a little different form when it heard the tramp of the county division legions over its grave. This time it is proposed to tax the gross proceeds of mines. When the member from Mohave county heard the bill announced by the clerk he sat up straight in his chair and his hair and white mustache fairly bristled with indignation, and possibly surprise. At the sec ond reading he wanted to amend the bill so as to "include beans and pumpkins" The bill went to the committee on mines and mining, and if it does not pro- duce a bullion tax law in the ter ritOry there will be some very definite compromises all along the line. It is very generally thought that it will meet county division measures half way And that leads me to say that county division has become the red-hot question in the house.; yesterday a bill was introduced to create the county of Verde" out of the eastern side of old another rib threatened if you please. What a lot of ex- tra ribs the old girl has had! But if this thing keeps up much longer she will have nothing left but breast bone and wings. The county of Verde got into hot water the first step it took, but it was fshed out by it's guardian and finally landed among it's friends in the committee on ter ritOrial affairs, instead of the committee on county boundaries especially created to diagnose such cases and reputed to be ad- dicted to the prevailing craze of the pill profession-the use of the scalpel on anything that can be scalped. That committee is supposed to have been coached by a Phoenician son of Escula- plus who performed a surgical operation on a case of measles. The infant Verde county is not
 likely to be the only child of the kind in the family. The south eastern portion of the territory is yearning to support another county government, and there is a whole lot of fellows down there who see in themselves material for tirst-class county officials, by the grace of the governor, in case another county can be cut