Arizona republican., 1905-02-04
THE CALIFORNIA COMMITTEE
Outline of the Report to Be Submitted
 to the Legislature.

Several members of the legislative i committee appointed for the investiga- | tion of the territorial institutions oi southern California returned to the 1 city yesterday. Some of them not yet | satisfied with the casual inspection made by these who have come back | are conducting a supplemental inves- i tigatiOn. They may be expected in 1 Phoenix on Sunday or on Monday morning at the farthest.
 | Among those who returned yesterday was B. J. Whitesides, who, though not a member of the legislature is an at 1 tache of the council and a man of great | legislative experience. He was there 1 fore called upon to act in a general ad- visory capacity for the southern Cali fornia committee and reduce it's find l ing to writing.
 Mr. Whiteside was asked yesterday concerning the result of the nvestiga- tion. He said he doubted the pro- priety of giving it to the public before the formal submission of the report to
 the legislature and he would in any event prefer that any advance infor- nation should come from one of the regularly appointed members Of the committee. But upon being pressed
 Mir Whiteside said that inasmuch as the report would contain no scandal or any other matter of a startling or sen sational nature. there might after all ] be really no harm in outlining sub
 stantially the character of the findings
 of the committee along with some of
 the committee recommendations.
 The oyster beds along the coast were
 found to be in good condition and well
 occupied The lairs of the barracuda
 q Ha +-1f ir,x-aTa1 IIrt "a
 committee with the most satisfactory results. leading the committee to the conclusion that the taxpayers of the
 territory may next year obtain plenty
 of fish at reasonable prices.
 Those semi public institutions, the Angelus, The Houenbeck The Van
 Nuys and many others of like charac- ter were generally found to be well kept; in fact the committee will re- port a great improvement in the man agement of all of them within the last biennial period and it will -recommend a lowering of the territorial rate of tax ation in order that the taxpayers of Arizona may be able to spend more time there during the heated term.
 Regarding the expression. 'the heat ed term" the members of the com mittee find that it is indefinite and lDQeIEIlllldLe. u means one lIllil5 IO one man and another to another. It is popularly but enormously supposed to refer to a climatic condition, while it has reference to an entirely differ ent thing. By the heated term" is meant the period during which one has plenty of money in his pocket. When his money is exhausted the heated term is over for that one while another may be in the midst of it. For the one the winter of disconteut has set in and yet the other is in the midsummer of enjoyment. The committee on south ern California institutions at the re- quest of the proprietOrs of the hotels of that region will recommend to the legislature that definite metes and bounds may be given the Arizona heated term" and that it may be made a little longer than the present aver age to the end that these worthy insti- tUtions may be able to further improve and justify the pride which all Ari- zouians now take in them.