Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-02-20
The committee appointed to inves

| aO W III V tigate the territorial penitentiary sub mitted its report. It finds that tn, place is we'll conducted and as econ omically managed as possible. Th'
 committee found part of the build ! ings of the institution were outside ] the prison reservation and that there
 was no room for additional buildings
 The prisoners are necessarily herded
 together and in the absence of any
 employment are made worse rather
 than better. It also finds that it can
 not recommend the appropriation
 asked for the improvement 'sug-
 gested by the board of control. The
 report just stopped short of actually
 recommending change of location
 A large section of the code was re-
 ported from the committee in the council and that body resolved itself into committee of the whole to con- sider it. They started out by reading it a section at time but soon discov- cred that process would take up all the session, so they modified it by reading only amendments. This was found too tedious also, and they set ! tied down to reading the headings. An amendment to the code pro- vides that kidnapping in the territory shall be punished by five months i'm prisonment. The age of consent formerly fixed at eighteen years was fixed at sixteen years.
 Ives introduced bill providing for four cent levy for the territo- rial prison, also a bill providing for tax exemption for new railroads for fifteen years.
 Another relief bill bobbed up in the house being for the relief of Frank Meador for services as auditor during the period of dual government in the territory. The sum of Sl.146.00 is asked by the bill.
 St. Charles bill, providing for abolishing the board of equalization, was unfavorably recommended by the committee and the probability is that the board will not be abolished.
 Another reminder of the days of dual government in Arizona, when democratic officials refused to vacate their offices when republican gover- nor had named their successors, bob bed up in the council on Wednesday in the way of a relief bill for T. E. Parish, who claims remuneration for services in the ursupation of the of flee of commissioner of migration. Shannon introduced the bill and the appropriation ask for is S1,S00.
 Shannon also introduced a bill pro- viding for two chaplains for the peni- tentiary one to be a catholic and the other protestant. They are to hold services twice a month and receive $50 per year, each.
 The bill providing for a four cent tax for the relief of the penitentiary passed by the following vote: Ayes Blair, Burns, Finley, Shannon, War ner, Campbell, Mir. President; nays, Perkins; absent and excused, An | drews. Claypool, Ford, Riordan.
 A sewer bill was passed by 10 ayes and two nays, as was also the bill the wages to employees.
 The asylum committee submitted it's report in the house. They found the asylum over crowded and in need of repairs.
 A code provission to encourage the of volunteer fire depart ments was passed with 16 ayes; 6 nays; one absent and one excused.
 St. Charles introduced bill to re- peal the act creating the code con- mission and it was read twice when ts owner changed his mind and moved its indefinite postponement which was carried and all reference to t was ordered expunged from the ,ecords.