The copper era., 1909-02-04
THE LEGISLATURE.
Some Of The Business That is Being
 Transacted,


 | The Arizona Rangers are doomed With the passage in the council last friday of Weedin's bill repeating the
 ct creating the ranger force, by ar | unexpectedly decisive ma jOritv, the l influence of the democratic caucus ] )y which legislation practically al is being enacted, became more ap | parent than ever and left little loubt of the passage of the bill in che house. The majority for it in council Is barely sufficient to over ride any veto the governor may in- | Lerpose. It is estimated that the oil will receive more than a two thirds ajority in the assembly. The vote in the council on the repeating act was as follows: Ayes, Burns, Finley, Morgan, Norton, O'Neill, St. Charles, Weedin, Hunt. Nays. Breen, Day, Hampton and Goodrich. It is commonly believed that the bill for the abolition of the office of public examiner will take about the
 
 notwithstanding the recommends tion of the council of supervisors to to the contrary.
 Another threat made by the demo- crats in the heat following the de- feat of. Mark Smith began to be car ried into effect last Friday with the introduction in the house by Mir. Sut- ter of q bill regulating. the remuner- ation of clerks of the district courts, nearly all of whom are republicans. The bill abOlishes the fee system but sets forth d schedule of fees, about the same as that in force now but provides that all fees shall be turned over by the clerks to the county treasuries. Tn lieu of the fee the following system of salaries is pro- vided: for clerk of the district court in counties of the first-class, S2200: second-class counties, slSO0; third class counties, $500; fourth, fifth and SiXth-class counties, Sl200.
 The long threatened attack upon the contract between the agents ot the reclamation service and the Pa cilic Gas and Electric company was begun with the introduction in the house by Mir. De Souza, of memorial praying congress 10 investigate the contract, part of which is made an exhibit of the document. The con- gress is also asked to call for all papers and correspondence in rela- tion to the contract. The memorial charges that the contract has result ed in the setting up of a trust. The memorial was adopted in the house and at once went to the council where it was put through promptly by the following vote: Burns, Goodrich, Hampton, Morgan, Norton, O'Neill, St. Charles, Weedin, the president 9. Nays, Breen, Day, Finley-3. On a subsequent motion to let the mat ter go over, the vote being. a tie, Mir. Goodrich voted in the afiirma- tive. The bringing in of this me morial gave MT. Weedin an oppor- tunity to reiterate his views regard ing the reclamation service and the cause of complaint set forth in the document he believed was d vindica- tion of the course he had pursued al most single handed and alone.
 The following bill was passed, which provides bounties on wild animals as follows:
 Lobos or timber wolves, mountain lions, pumas, partners and bears, SlO each; lynXs, wild cats, coyotes, skunks, Sl each; jack rabbits, prairie dogs and gophers, five cents each and raccOons, twenty-five cents each.
 The following bills were introduced into the council:
 By Hampton, in relation to the de- velopment of water and the estab- lishment of prior rights.
 By Finley, a bill providing for the regulation of the sale of merchan- disc in bulk. This is the same as the bill introduced in the house to pre- vent the defrauding of creditors of 1 merchants.
 By Morgan, a bill providing that road taxes shall be payable as per sonal taxes are now paid and shall constitute a lien on personal prop erty.
 By Morgan, d bill providing for the election of supervisors by dis tricts.
 Norton introduced bill providing that corporations, owning property outside of the territory might re tain offices in territory without being subject to same regulations as those imposed upon compdnIcS whose bust ness was conducted within the terri tory. This bill is supposed to be iu the interest of the Randolph railroad lines in Mexico, though the general offices are m1intdined ut Tucson.
 The following bills were introduced into the house:
 By Duffy, bill segregating the officers of probate judge and county school superintendent in cOuntit: about the size of Santa Cruz, towit in counties of the fourth, fifth ant sixth classes.
 Rev. Woolf by request, a bill fol | the regulation of barber shops by munici palitie=.
 For That Terr ible Itching. Eczema, letter and salt rheu m keCI 1 their victims in perpetual torment. | The application of Chamberlain :