Arizona republican., 1909-03-04

S2.G00 a year. The sum was reduced without opposition to $1.200 a year and then, by unanimous consent, it was decided that the superintendent should be a pioneer within the meaning of the bill, though not an inmate of the home.
 As soon as the committee rose the | bill was passed under a suspension of the rules. Mir Morris lost no time in 1 having the bill enrolled and prepared for the signature of the governor. The District Examiners. The bill providing for two district examiners to take the place of the public examiner was introduced according to the announcement of The Republican of yesterday. No one man is responsible for the meas ure. It was brought in by the com mittee on territorial affairs as a sub stitute for council bih No 24, Mir. Weedin's bill providing for county ex- aminers.
 The bill divides the territory into two districts. No. 1 embracing the northern teir of counties and Maricopa, Pinal and Yuma. No. takes in all the other NOuAAAitSs III tetNil ulSlIlCl Sndll be what is called an auditing board composed of all the boards of super visors in the district. The board of the northern district shall meet at Prescott on the second Tuesday of May. and on the same date the south ern board shall meet at Tucson.
 Each board shall then proceed to the election or appointment of an exam finer for its district, whose duties shall be the same as those formerly performed by the public examiner ex- cept that he shall not conduct examin- ations of the territorial offices or af- fairs
 Each examiner shall receive a sal ary of S2,5OO and shall be allowed a contingent fund of s1.20O Each ex- at s75 a month. This expense is to be borne by the counties in the ratio of their assessed valuation. The bill minutely describes how the examiners may be removed if their duties are not satisfactorily performed. The exam iners may not be connected with any railroad or any banking institution
 The bill was considered in the com mittee of the whole and was favorabIy recommended by the democratic mem bers. No time will be lost in hurry ing it through, as it is regarded as absolutely essential that it reach the governor before the beginning of the final ten-day period.
 The whole committee also consid- cred and recommended the bills for the protection of underground workers in mines and for the creation of district by the same boards which shal select the district examiners.
 An Aftermath.
 The after adjournment was followed by an episode which was not on the regular order of business. a clash be- tween the president of the council and R. NJ. Dawson, a reporter, who repre- sents among others the Globe Silver Belt. Some time ago while members of the council and the railroad repre- sentatives were conferring. MT. Daw- son informed his paper that members of the council, or some of them. among them MT. Hunt, had held a secret meeting with the railroad men at the offices of Frank Cox. Southern Pacific attorney. in the Fleming build ing. Some stress was laid upon the fact that MT. Cox was in the employ of the railroads, and the readers of the Silver Belt were almost invited to in fer that something unholy had been going on.
 As a matter of fact the conference attended by MT. Hunt had not taken place in the offices of Mir Cox, but in those of MT. Goodrich, a member of the council, on the floor below.
 None of the other members of the council took exception to this archi- tectural discrepancy of one flight of stairs. Their meetings were no secret in the sense that they were trying to conceal them. for there had been an announcement of them in the news papers as well as on the floor of the council. Besides, Mir Cox is not a disreputable character. He had never been convicted of a felony.
 But MT Hunt did not like the in ference conveyed in the dispatch to the Silver Belt spread before his towns men, and some time after that he pre- pared a statement of his position with respect to railroad legislation, and he described the conferences with the rail- road men and especially denied that he had been present at any meeting in the chambers of MT. Cox. This was published in one of the local afternoon papers, and a copy of it was given MT. Dawson to be forwarded to the Silver Belt.
 He sent it, but it has not appeared to this date. Yesterday Mir. Hunt re- ceived a telegram from a friend in Globe saying that on account of the absence of the editor of the paper, nobody in charge felt at liberty to use the publication. It was also stated that the Belt people said that they had a legislative reporter on the ground.
 Mir. Hunt. on the receipt of the tele- gram, decided to have a talk with Mir
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