The copper era., 1903-02-05
WHAT THE SOLONS
 ARE DOING.
Many Bills Introduced Eight Hour Bill for Miners Passed House.

A hy Cowan to transfer the business Of corporations from the office Of the secretary Of the territory tO that Of the auditor. The bill fixes the fees for the extra force required in the audit or'5 office, and prohibits any territorial official from acting a. resident agent for any foreign corporation. The fees provided for are practically the same as those of the present law. Filing Is made BIO instead of 8 as now, but the fee of g. now charged for recording is cut out.
 An important bill Is that establish f.. s.- orvisoral districts, introduced by Marian, Of Maricopa. It provides that counties of the first class shall be divided into five districts; all other counties three districts. Supervisors shall be elected by districts. Salaries of supervisors shall be B. per day, with mileage allowance of ten cents, and the total salary and mileage shall not exceed $500 per year. Road districts and the office of road supervisor are abolished by this bill, and supervisors are tO act as road Oversccrs in their respective districts; they to receive, in addition to their pay as supervisors. mileage of twenty cents while acting as Ovcrseers.
 Webb, of Graham, introduced poll tax law. IL provides that assessors shall collect poll tax from persons who own no real property. The tax must be paid at the beginning of the tax collecting season, or else SC curity must be furnished assessor. In other cases the tax becomes lien upon real property. The cOmpensa- tion allowed the assessor is five per cent of the amount collected.
 A bill was introduced by Cowan to create the office of boiler inspector, and by Bernard to authorize boards of supervisors to transfer from the gem cral fund.
 Barrow, of Yavapai, gave notice of tho introduction of a bill to repeal the law cxCmpting railroads from taxation.
 In the council Ashurst Of COconinO introduced bill for the taxing oi rail roads by means of yearly license, as follows: roads of moro than loo miles in length, Sl1j per mile; roads Of less than loo miles and more than - miles, $50; roads between 75 and 50 miles, $l21; roads less than 9 miles in length, Sl00 per mile.
 Morchead of Gila introduced q bill to fix the compensation of sanitary Of- ficcrs.
 A bill by Rowe of Iavapai created surprise. The main features of the bill are that stock holders in q corpora tion arc made responsible for the cor porato debts, and all meetings Of the stock khodcrs must be held in the territory. The bill makes the secre- tary of the territory the agent of for cign corporations, with q fee of S20. It is vicious bill and should not be allowed to leave the committee room. Should it pass eastern people would not touch Arizona mining stock, or any other kind of Arizona stock, with ten foot pole. People who buy stocks are often very heavy losers without being personally responsible for the debts of the concern. The ERA hopes that this will be tho last that will be heard of the bill.
 Barrow of Navapai introduced in the house railroad tax bill similar to the one introduced in the council by Ashurst.
 Gonzales, representative from Apache introduced a bill regulating the com pcnsation of officers in counties of the fourth, fifth and sixth cla,s-treasur- CTS, district attorneys and recorders to receive SIO0O each.
 Another bill relating to railroad em- ploycs provides that an employc who has been on duty sixteen hours could not be called out within ten hours.
 The ERA has not been favored with Il copy of the eight hour bill which passed the house (neither has it been favored with a copy of any Of the bills) therefore it is not in position to dis cuss this important matter intelli- gently, but from newspaper accounts 1t provides for an eight hour day for workers under ground. except in se- rious emergencies, and provides pen- alty for its violation by fine of not less than Sl00 nor more than $500. This law is counterpart of the Utah eight hour law and is very conservative. However, the measure does not appear to be popular in the council, which will investigate the matter thoroughly before voting on it. Judge kibbey,