Arizona republican., 1907-02-13
THE SUPERVISORS
 OF THE TERRITORY
Several Suggestions for the Improve ment of County Government Dis cussed and Adopted.

The first of series of meetings of
 the supervisors of the territory. who
 will be in session here the rest of the
 week. considering legislation relating
 to county government was held at the court house yesterday morning
 Most of the counties were represented ana word was received from Santa | Cruz. Pima. Pinal and Yavapai. that ! their representatives would probably arrive in Phoenix today
 An organization was effected in the morning by the election of Ralph Cam eron of COconino as chairman and Neri | Osborn as secretary. The first meas ure taken up was the so-called Hunt bill regarding road management. IL provides that county supervisors may appoint a general road superintendent and at the same time suspend al their pleasure road Overseers and so save 10 the county the $3 a day allowed each of these functiOnaries whose services would naturally not be required during 1 the service of the road superintendent Such an arrangement would be of no advantage to this county. but it was shown that it might be of great ] advantage to many of the outside counties. The supervisors for Maricopa therefore agreed to support 1t iras- much as the application of it is left to the discretion of the boards.
 In the afternoon a bill changing the election arrangements of this terri tory was taken up. It provides that all county officers shall be elected for four years, the tenure of office being lfrUnfH Ha.I that the first election under the pro- posed law shall be held in 1908 when all the county offices shall be filled except that of one place on the board of supervisors. Two years later there shall be elected one supervisor for a term of four years. The election of delegates to congress must of course occur every two years and the election of precinct officers must also be held every two years. So that in "off' years there will be elected only a del- egate to congress. one supervisor and the precinct officers. The bill is si- lent regarding the election of mem bers of the legislature. perhaps on the theory that they are county officers. The adoption of the bill was unani- nous.
 Several matters. not in the form of bills. One came up in tLe shape of a motion for the repeal of the ranger law. IL was adopted with a single dis seniing vote. that of Supervisor Stew ard of this county. There was a dis cussion of the question of the trans portation of paupers and he removal of the dead from one county to be bur icI al the SF H,,t remedies for the things complained of did not take a definite shape.
 One member proposed an expression in favor of lower and less discrimin- ating freight rates. but this went over at the suggestion of District Attorney Rullard. the legal adviser of the meet ins. on the ground that that was not properly a matter belonging to county government and he believed that the proceedings of the meeting would be more effective upon the legislature if the scope of the deliberations was con- fined
 Another matter which has had some discussion k a bill by MT Bullard reg ulating the fees of justices of the peace and constables. He is the author of the bills for that purpose now before the legislature. Some fault has been found with them on the ground that they are too sweeping and not quite applicable to some of the precincts. Accordingly substitute has been pre- pared which meets all objections. It fixes the salaries of justices of the peace in precincts having a popula- tion of 5000 at $500 a year and pro- vides that the fees of cOnstables from criminal cases shall not in any month exceed S75.
 The supervisors invited Governor Kibbey to address them al the session this morning and he replied that he would be present.