The Arizona sentinel., 1901-03-27

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 hundred dollars in election cam
 paiSns to get the benefit Of those
 salaries for two years. The flu
 ture of the business of those off
 ces does not justify what was
 done. h short, wherever the
 2Ist touched money itwent wild;
 in providing for salaries, in ap-
 propriations for everything; in
 relieving everybody it could find to claim relief" it overdid the
 thing in a most unwarrantable and reprehersible manner that will be heard from in the near future when the taxpayer gets down to the business of ''Pung Ing" taxes next fall, and for many falls thereafter.
 Yumais particularly interested in the bill providing for the re pair and maintenance of the ter ritorial prison; relief of Modesti; relief of Halleck, etc., etc.
 The closing hours of the 21st were thing sui generis. Bills were introduced up to the last minute; several bills got through during the last evening. The general appropriation bill was pretty well along in the house on consideration of council during the last afternoon; it was cleared up at the evening session, amid much tribulation and maudlin debate that wore Mir. Speaker out com pletely, and he was relieved for @ time by a robust member from Pima.
 It was notable that the riders all got on to the appropriation bill in the council, were almost all swept off in the house, and finally agreed to in the confer ence committee of the two hous- es; the only one that got left was an appropriation of $50 for the payment of a Mexican copy ing clerk.
 Toward the closing moments, when the galleries were clear, champagne appeared in the council by the baskctful. while the reliable and good old Irish beverage, whisky straight, afforded surccase from many a legislative care in the other end of the capital. The legislative halls were fairly well baptized, if a member here and there did become paralyzed in the opera ton.
 Taking the legislature all in III, it had more good men in it than most of it's predecessors; put from one cause or another he work it turned out is barely average. The code bills were argely perfunctory; the ground lad been threshed over in former egislatures, in the courts and y the code commission, and the 'ew changes that were made by he 21st were not, upon the in the line of Improvement. )f the ninety other bills wrought nto law, but very few Of them not perhaps more than ten per of any general impor- ance to the welfare of the terri cry.
 Yuma county should have but .laurcls for her two representatives in the legislature. | They held their own and more han their own in every matter hat concerned their constituent y, and in somo things that did i lot concern them.
 1 should not close without al- ! usion to the only real scandal of | he sessiOu-the attempt to alter code bill that had been passed y both houses in relation to the | OntrOl of insurance companies | Il the territory. The change | vas discovered before it was too ate, and an Investigation ensued i 'ehind closed doors, a commit ee appointed to follow it up, and | n appropriation of $500 made or the purpose of defraying the of that committee. It 1 las been given out that the com nittee is on a hot trail, but more
 bse1vant and less excitabla on OOlIp3-S anfici7Iata that inc G5OO !