The Arizona sentinel., 1901-02-13
TWEkTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE
An Interesting Resume Of Arizona Legislative Proceedings During
 the Past Week.
pondence Arizona Sentinel.
PHOENIX, Feb. II. 1901.

If enc were asked what noticeable CT
 important thing the legislature had dCne during the past week he would in
 all probability answer, 'NCthing."
 Three weeks have gone by and really nothing has been done more than should
 have been accomplished during the first week CT ten days. The commit
 tees on judiciary have had the revised code in charge and have introduced
 portions of it from day to day. It is
 said the various code bills that have
 been introduced have been largely
 changed from the work of the code
 commission, which really should have
 been ready with sufficient duplicate
 copies to have permitted the legislature
 to go to work upon the code at once.
 As it appears the work of the judiciary
 committees has been eXtra-legislative:
 the code bills on being introduced have very generally been referred back to
 those committees, and it is presumed that after sufficient time to give the matter dignity these bills will come
 back to the houses recommended for a third reading and passage.
 But the answer that the legislature has done nothing noticeable would not
 be true. It has done something notice be. It has done something that will be more noticeable in the course of time. The appropriations that have been made, are being made and will be made, by reason oi the necessities that have been created fer appropriations, will easily double those of any previous legislature fer a good many years: and this outside the necessity the code will create for between $l5,000 and $20,000 to finally put into book form. However, nobody should kick at the final print ing of, say, 5000 copies Of the revised code: they will be needed, and should sell for mere than cOSt-fOr a few years, till they begin to be antiquated, in or der to cover the number of copies that will be furnished gratis to officers Of the law. However, in providing fer the distribution of the revised code, counties should be required to pay for the copies they provide for their off, cialS: that may be done.
 It has indeed been rare, if ever, in any legislature of ArizCna that parti- sanshlp has become arrogant and reck- less of the interests of the people when it found itself dominating in either or both houses. The lower branch of the Twentyfrst, however, has produced case of partisan arrogance, not to say insOlence, to make taxpayers weep and feel for their pocketbooks when visit ing the legislature, and it all came about this way: After all the clerks and things that anybody could think of had been appointed and there seemed to be a waiting fer more worlds to conquer in that line, somebody hap pened to think of stationery clerk" Some minority man arose and remarked that if they "gOt another clerk in he would necessarily be stationary, as clerks would be tco thick to move about much," and he inquired, "What do we need stationery clerk fOr:" "We need him because we want him, and we want him because we can get him, was the reply of the constant wind jammer of the body. The incident is because it so truly charac- terizes the attitude of the majority in the Twenty-first. Talk about political hunger, some partisans there are who would swallow a dead whale if he happened to have a small "Office" in him.
 That house is like box of monk eys- always cutting some new new caper," said an experienced third house to your correspondent the other day, and he just about described at least a portion of the house. The anxiety of some of it's members to make 8 speech would indicate that they had been dramatically corked up all their previous lives, and held 8 mighty poor opinion of the common sense of their fellow members. As a consequence of all this the practical j0kers get their work in: they touch one ranter by qui- etly alluding to the board of equaliza tiOn: they set another one blowing by some allusion to silver: another mem Der gees wild at the mention of Clark and taking the entertainment altogether, that third house mans de- scriptiCn is not so inapplicable as one night suppose.
 The "buIlion tax bill and the bill to create a commission to select a site for 3 new prison, also one to abolish the | beard of equalization seem quietly await ing an opportunity for usefulness, while | he Clark county" proposition and a to retire the board of con- rOl await the adjustment of events to | make their debut. which may be looked | or within the week, and then the fun will begin.
 "There is evident hesitancy in the natter of the extirpation of the board )f equalization, though there is 8 mem- per or two in the house who seem to hink that if the board of equalization were out of the way the salvation of he national democratic party would ,e accomplished and personal passes )e issued to the promoters of the cheme, which would enable them to