Arizona republican., 1905-03-17
THE CLOSING COUNCIL.
The End Approached With Leisure
 and Equanimity. H

The council entered upon its last day in a Ieisurely fashion as 1t could afford to do. having disposed of pretty much all the business it cared to dis pose of True. it's committees were laden with unreported bills, mostly house bills predestined to failure. It proceeded to work out the destiny of some of them.
 The circuit court bill. whose passage had been predicted, was defeated by a tie vote. MT. Bark gave notice of. motion to reconsider and later in the day he made the motion but the re- suit was unchanged. MT. Barker's bill for exempting irrigation plants from taxation for a period of ten years was given a. second trial and was the sec ond time defeated, mainly through the : efforts of Mir Ruiz. who had sworn eternal enmity to tax exemption laws. A house bill amending the charter of the city of Phoenix so as to make the office of city attorney elective was passed. So was the house bill for the relief of Scott. while former sheriff of Cochise county.
 Several measures of comparative un- importance were disposed of in one way or another. but were gotten off the calendar
 The house memorials, petitioning congress to set aside $15O,0O0 for the completion of the capitol building; to increase the salary of the governor to S6,OOO; to appropriate $1O.OOO for the preservation of the San Xavier Mis- sion; to raise the salary of members of the legislature to S10 a day, were brought up.
 The first three were acted upon fav- orably over the objection of MT. Roe mer, made against the first one pre- sented. He said it would be overload ing Mark Smith, who had enough to do preventing joint statehood with New Mexico. MT. Roemer made a louder objection as the third of the memorials was offered. which he de- clared would be the last straw on the camers back.
 The last memorial was rejected. None of the members seriously favored it, but it opened the way to a discus sion of the comparative expenses of married and single men. A married member suggested in reply to an objec- ton by MT. Roemer, that perhaps S4 a day was enough for him, but insult ficient for q man with a wife. Mir. Roemer retorted that there was never a greater error than the supposttion that a single man could live more CIS&plN IH1Il d married man. A mar : ried man. he said, would not spend so much outside.
 THE COUNCIL THROWS A BOMB. . The general appropriation bill was received after noon. The house. as The Republican had predicted it would do, - held the bill back in order that the council might not have time to amend it by reducing it; it was never contemplated that the council might let : the session close without the bill.
 The bill was taken up and several changes were made. Some items were stricken out, some were reduced. and several increased. One of the rejected items was the appropriation of $2O. .OOO for the reform school The salary of the attorney general was raised from
 $1Z00 to S24O0.
 The rejection of the reform school item developed i'll feeling and the ex- istence of a combination of seven. con- ststing of the president and Messrs
 Bark, Ruiz, Looney, Downs, Cutting and Perry. The members grew wider
 apart and finally the schism became
 so definite that by a majority of to
 ' the bill was defeated. A recess was
 taken until eight o'clock with an un-
 derstanding that action on the appro-
 priation bill had been final.
 1EOON ANU AMAZEM EN1
 When the chief clerk of the council
 bearing a message to the house an-
 nounced that the bill had failed the
 members were perceptibly startled
 They looked at each other in a scared
 sort of way and then resumed the bus mess Of the session.
 One going into the corridors would have thought that he was attending . z funeral The faces of the clerks anC x attaches everywhere lent additiona Fl sadness to an already gloomy after q noon.
 n When the cOuncilmen began to gath 9 CT at night conferences were held witt 4 the result that shortly before eigh' H o'clock it was stated that an agreement Fl to reconsider had been reached The & condition on which the council would 4 finally pass the bill was the elimination A of items amounting to about $30, ,O00 9 the greater part of it to consist of tho a appropriation for the reform school 4 The council at eight o'clock took LII 2 some other matters and then reconsid. 4 cred the vote by which house bill 20; E had been defeated. recess was ther '% taken which lasted the greater par A of the night. About ten o'clock worC < came that the council committee haC sA a agreed among themselves upon a pIar @ for passing the bill. The body Wa. .A called to order and the bill with tn, & council amendments were gone over q The reform school was given $7,5O0 T looping off of S14,500. Reductions wer, :N made in a great many other items, sS0t lA from the salary of the citizen mem a Der of the board of control; $495 iron I1 the amount allowed the Enterprise fO A printing the legislative proceedings A S5,000, the amount for the building o .& the Cave Creek dyke. and enough oth 1 CTS to amount to about O,OOO Ther, l was added $500 to tne salary of tn, # attorney general and something owe z S6,000 for the new office of public ex % aminer.
 z The bill was then sent to the house . which promptly rejected the amend # ments, and conference committees wer,