Arizona republican., 1905-01-21
DECAPITATION
Legislature Runs Blue Pen Gil Through Attaches List
THE TAXPAYERS ROAR
Shook the Third Floor of the Capitol Building - Resolutions of Appoint ments Rescinded by Both Houses Without a Dissenting Vote.

With the legislature it is either a
 feast or a famine in the matter of | clerks. Night before last there were so many clerks that there was one for | each member and then some. The sun 1 cast his setting beams last night on an almost clerl1less house.
 The council on Thursday night had a tolerably full complement of attaches i and had list containing as many as the house already had. It was sur
 missed that the list would be made pub lie yesterday.
 But, as The Republican announced yesterday morning, preparations began
 to be made for the setting up of a
 guillotine and selections were going to be made for victims destined to de- expiration. Early in the council ses-
 sion a resolution was introduced by MT Roemer for the resembling Of a
 resolution adopted on the second day of the session, providing for the ap- pointment of seventeen committee clerks and great many other assist | ants and other attaches. The purpose of the resolution of Mir. Roemer was to cancel everything that had been done
 in the business of the cIerkships and . leave it all to be gone over again. | What had been regarded at first by the general public as a huge joke had been l taken by some kicking taxpayers seri-
 ously, and the roar they set up was alarming.
 The Roemer resolution was pessed unanimously and sent to the house. The subject was at once taken up by the house in caucus. and before noon the whole matter had been gone over. While the proceedings of the caucus
 have not been divulged. it was learned that it was agreed that nine of the committee clerks would have to walk
 the plank, and that vacancies never to be filled would be made elsewhere in the list of attaches.
 The caucus was resumed at ? o'clock , in the afternoon, but the full result of it was not made known. and there is in consequence 9 great feeling of sUspen- sion in the air among the clerks and other holders of appointive positions. from the pages and assistant pages
 upward.
 In the meantime the council had been doing some caucusing in an in i formal sort of way. It had, however. come to no other conclusion than to start over again. Its future course
 would be determined in a large meas ure by the action of the house. When the house was reconvened at o'clock MT. Bailey introduced a resolu-
 tion resembling all action taken by the house in the matter of the appointment of clerks. The attention of the house was called to the circumstance that there was at that time before the house a council concurrent resolution of pre- cisely the same tenor. The council res OlutiOn was taken up and adopted without dissent, after which the resO- : lution of MT. Bailey was adopted. Mir Bailey then introduced another resOlu-
 tion cancelling the appointment of all
 the clerks who had been appointed un-
 der the resolution which had just been
 rescinded. That resolution was adopt ed, and the house found itself without
 clerks or other attaches. But this
 state of things could not be permitted. and Mir. Bailey came forward with an
 other resolution for the appointment or
 four of the attaches who had just been
 deposed: Joe P. Dillon. chief clerk; F.
 L. Burns, sergeant-at-arms; George
 Hunt, watchman. and M. Greenleaf.
 messenger. This resolution was adopt
 ed and the appOintees were brought
 forward and sworn ln- They will no
 doubt be left now in undisturbed pos
 session of their offices.
 Mr. Bailey's stock of resolutions,
 however, was not yet exhausted. He
 brought forward another, providing for a messenger and clerk for the gover- nor each at S5 a day. Mir Wilson of fered an amendment placing the salary at not more than $4 a day, and then
 MT. Wilson proceeded to say what he thought of the extravaganza which he had been witnessing, and which he characterized as an outrage. No clerk or messenger that the governor could selecr would be worth so much money. MT. Wilson did not believe that any clerk ought to draw a bigger salary than the members. The members had left their occupations at home and were attending to their legislative du- ties at loss and inconvenience. Tho clerks and candidates for clerks had left nothing behind them; they had not been invited to come to the capital, and none of them could earn nearly so much in any other occupation as it was proposed to pay them now.
 A vote was taken on Mir. Wilson's amendment, which was lost by 16 to :.
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