Weekly journal-miner., 1909-02-03

men united yesterday m extending the hospitality of Prescott to the wis iting legislators who tarried here for the day on their return trip from Flagstaff, where they had inspected the Territorial normal school. It had been planned to take them on a drive during the day and show them the beauties of the city and its environs, but the storm prevented this part of the program being carried out, and the entertainment was confined to the banquet which was tendered at the Hotel St. Michael at o'clock.
 The legislative committee, when it arrived Tuesday night, consisted of five members, but three of them, Hunt, Merrill and Duffy were summoned by telegram to return to the capitol on account of the labor troubles at Globe. Hence only two of the visitors, Coun- cilman O'Neill and Representative Sutter of Cochise county, were enabled to partake of the hospitality of the Mile High City, and that they both fully appreciated it, was manifested in their expressions of praise for Prescott and her citizens, during the course of their post-prandial remarks.
 It was an excellent and appetizing menu of seven courses that was pro- vided for the gathering and it was keenly enjoyed by the forty or more who had assembled to pay their re- spects to the visiting solons. Geo. D. Morris, one of Yavapai's representa- tives, was present, having come up from Phoenix in order to espouse the cause of his bill establishing Pion- eers' Home at Prescott. He occupied a seat of honor at the right of Mayor Goldwater. wnO in turn was at the south elbow of Attorney Reese NJ. Ling, who presided gracefully over the affair. At his left were Council man O'NeiH, Representative Suter and the latter's brother, Charles Sutter of Jerome. Altogether it was a highly respectable and high-browed assem- blaze that filled the eye of Toastmast- CT Ling when he arose after the coffee was served, and in well-turned phrases commented upon the purpose of the gathering which he incidentally re- marked comprised some politicians who  would be known Gas statesmen when dead"
 The formal address Of welcome was delivered by Mayor Goldwater, who ia cetiously remarked that he hoped there was no truth in the report that recall bill was anticipated in order to get the visiting legislators to vote for something to which sister counties might think they were rightfully enti- tied. Continuing, he said: "We are here to snow our respect to you and there will be no politics allowed. It is customary to present the keys of a city to distinguished guests, but as the last legislature abolished gambling, I may truthfully say that this city IS now wide open and you are free to go where you will, and you will receive a cordial welcome from all in the city of Prescott. I bid you welcome"
 In introducing Councilman O'Neill, the toastmaster said every legislature had been classified with some nick name and he asked the member from Maricopa to respond to the toast of @'The Honest Twenty-ffth." ;" Either by design or through excessive mod .esty, MT. O'Neill in responding failed to touch upon the subject but devoted himself to expressing his admiration the people of which he declared to be the most hospitable in all the world not even excepting those of his na- tive state, Virginia. He vouched foI similar appreciation from those gen tlemen who had been called away, and as for himself, promised that he would QO eNefyGnlHB bhdt ne cOulu loh th' city of Prescott There are territoria institutions that should have been To cated here, and there was no better fted place for the Pioneers Home for this was the birthplace of thu civilization of the territory.
 "The Friendship of the South fO the North" was the subject tha evoked a clever speech from Free Sutter, the representative of COchis' county. Reference had been made b,
 the toastmaster to "the frozel north" but MT. Sutter enthusiastical ly rebuked that appeilatiOn, sayin; that regardless of climate, the citi zens of Prescott were the warmes people whom he had ever met in al