Arizona republican., 1909-02-04
A BLOODY DAY IN THE HOUSE WipingOut Of Ranger and K
 aminer Laws TWAS DONE MERC|FULLY
In Silence and With an Apol- .ogetic Air--Caucus Delivers Its Second Attack Upon the Secretary's Office. Other New Legislation.

. The blow has fallen, two or them, III fact, and the laws creating the office of public examiner and the Arizona Rangers are extinct, that is so far 'as an overwhelming democratic majority can make them. In voting aye" for the destruction of the two institutions which a majority of the people of the territory believe to have been useful, the voices of some of the caucus fol- lowers. quavered a little. They acted as if they wished that the record might be expunged at this point.
 The ranger bill was taken up first in the house. Not a great deal of in- terest was manifested for the result had long been discounted. When the call was ordered on the final passage, the order was withdrawn that MT. Shaw of Pinal might record his senti- ments and those of the minority against the proposed legislation. He did it effectively and Automatically, with the sarcastic assumption that the majority was honestly legislating in the interest of the territory. He took occasion also to pay tribute to the effectiveness and self sacrificing cour- age of the rangers who had made life and property safe along the border sometimes at the expense of their own lives.
 The only address on the other side was made by MT. Pace of Graham. His manner was apologetic. He believed that the rangers had served a useful purpose but he also believed that the conditions which called this mobile force into being no longer existed. The vote on final passage was:
 Ayes, Bailey, Bourne, re Souza Duffy. Hall, Hightower, Hcgwood Merrill, Morris, Mccormick. Pace. Pe- terson, Roberts. Sutter, Tobey, Woolf the speaker,-17.
 Nays, Bray, Coalter, Doan, Gibbons Reed, Shaw.
 The Second Execution.
 Without Stopping to wipe up th' blood of the ranger law or remove thu ghastly head from the basket, house bill IT, for the repeal of the public examiner law was called up. AgaiI Mir. Shaw rose and in a more bittel vein he assumed that this was anoth CT bill in the interest of public econ omy: that its purpose was to keep tn | money of the tax payers out Of tn pockets of dishonest and careless ter ritorial and county officials by remov ing any check upon them but in tha respect he believed it would be a gran' failure. He then proceeded to de nounce 1t as an out rage which hai its origin in personal enmity.
 l Not a word was uttered in behalf O | the bill but it passed as its predecesso 1 had done by party vote.
 Mir. Doan presented a joint resolu ton on the passing of the rangers" i which were elOquently recited thei services to the territory, the greate security they had afforded life an | property There was no criticism c the action of the majority. MT. Doa moved the adoption of the resolution but it was sent to the committee O memorials and petitions where it wi probably remain, as dead as the bi which created the ranger force.
 The Third Victim.
 The next of the repeating measure
 made its appearance in the counci
 from that perennial font of destruC
 tion, MT. Weedin. It provided for u
 abolition of the office of assistant seC
 retary.
 An incident of the house proceed ings was the presentation of a pet
 tion signed by members of various o
 ganizations connected with the raj road service on the Southern Pacif protesting against the proposed legi
 lation regarding the rates and reguli | af ha railroads The npfifif pointed out the Appropriateness
 such legislation and the disastrous e
 feet it would have upon railroad CT
 pIoyes. This petition was headed F R. M'Daniel of Tucson of t Brotherhood of Railway Trainme F The petition was committed. Other Legislation.
 Some constructive legislation foui {. its way into the council, in a bill i troduced by MT Hampton providi | for the appointment of commissi {. for the codifying of laws regulati | metalliferous mining and for provi <. ing for inspection of mines. The b < contemplates a commission of ii ( members, two to be practical mine . two to be owners of mines in whi , at least 1000 men are employed, a one a justice of the territorial supreI
 court. By mine owner, may be mea
 also a general manager or superinte
 dent of a mine These appointmeI ,. are to be made by the governor. T
 pay of the members of the commissi
 shall be SlO and there shall be a SC r retary who shall be allowed s100
 l;. .ar,,icac and S50 for incidental c