Arizona republican., 1905-01-24

The legislature yesterday appointed it's second complement of clerks and
 other attaches. It was decided by the
 democratic majority in the morning
 that the vexing matter might as we'll
 be got out of the way at once, and no
 time could be more propitious than
 the present, when MT. Wilson of Pima
 was absent. If he were in his seat
 there would be danger of the blocking
 of the wheels of progress.
 Accordingly, resolutions were intro duced in each house prescribing the
 number of clerks to be employed. The
 lower house consented to the elimina-
 tion of eight committee clerks and the 1 council to a loss of six. This stroke of
 economy will result in a saving of S7O
 a day in the single item of committee clerks over the purpose of the Iegis- lature a week ago. For the house, Mr. Bailey who introduced the resolution, said in substance that the legislature
 in the hurry and hustle incident to the 1 opening of the session had rather over estimated the volume of business to be transacted. A second survey of the sit uatiOn had led to the belief that so much help was not actually needed, and he added that whenever the dem Ocratic party found it convenient to fla vOr the taxpayer it never hesitated to do so.
 This reduction in the clerical force is practically what the caucus decided upon at the meeting of last Thursday
 but that decision had afterward been abandoned, and it was the belief of most of the member that a still deeper cut ought to be made. But there was '
 Oned with. MT. ROemer represented that he was being robbed of his pa 1 tronage, for which he had flung away ambition and resigned the presidency of the council to MT Hunt Finally a resolution was framed which met his views in a general way. It gave him almost, but not quite as much, pa trOnage as he had bargained for in the caucus of last Monday morning. The house resolution was drawn to cOrre- spOnd with the ROemer resolution, ex- cept that it provided for only nine committee clerks instead of eleven. The following appointments were thereupon made in the house:
 Assistant chief clerk, Mulford Win sor; first assistant enrolling and en- i crossing clerk, Laura WaIlahan; sec Ond assistant enrolling and expressing clerk, Mrs. Hattie Byler; journal clerk, Harriet Oliver; first assistant journal | clerk Lou Evans; second assistant ! journar clerk. Grace Downs; postmast- CT, George Peck; dOorkeeper, Major ! BurtOn2 assistant ergeant-at-arms, sam Garrett; page, L. Barker; com
 mittee clerks, Eva GoodaIe, Nellie i Trott, Joy B. Patterson. Lulu Tim mons. R. H. Jones, E. L. Perham. O. D. nd A l It should have been mentioned that i both the speaker and the president were robbed of their clerks. An as sistant page was sacrificed in each house, two messengers walked the | plank and two janitors are no more. | When the resolution for the appoint ment of the foregoing was presented MT. Kennedy moved for the appoint ment of a committee to determine as | to the competency of the proposed ap- i pointees. The motion was opposed in l a most vigorous fashion, and when it was finally put to a vote it was drowned in a storm of nays. MT. Ken nedy demanded a roll call but the chair refused to order it. The clerks were not appointed for competency. l Several of the clerks who had been eliminated by the new resolution, it was ] lOullN Oll lOOAtAl5 up IllcAI StEAGdlt5 records, were really natives of the county of Cochise, and so they came
 under the protecting wing of MT. Roe
 mer of the council, who straightway saw that they were provided with | clerkships. It was charged that none | of them were actually residents of Co., chise, but that charge is without fOun- ] dation, for it is shown by the ancient archives that their ancestors were liv- ing in Cochise county when Coronado passed through there looking for the Seven Cities of Cibola. He stayed over night with the fathers of these girls.
 Before the council resolution for the appointment of the clerks went to a vote, MT. Bark inquired how many the number would be above the number provided for by the organic act. When he was informed, he replied that he hoped
 in the interests of the contents of the territorial treasury the council would not see fit to rescind any more resO- Iutions. MT. ROemer replied, saying