Arizona republican., 1909-03-20
ADJOURNED
 IN SUNSHINE It Was Day When the GaVe|
 Struck the Last Time IN SPITE OF THE CLOCK
The Long Wrangle Over the Last Appropriation BiA Brought to an End--The Departure of Members and Clerks For Their Homes.

The sun shone on the closing leg islature. though the legislative clock still pointed at ten minutes to eleven of the night before. IL was 6:35 on the morning of March 19 when the twenty-fifth adjourned sine die Shortly before that hour the confer ence committee on the improvements appropriation bill came to an agree ment and the weary house acqulesced in it much more readily than they would have done if they had not been so tired.
 The agreement was for the most part a recession of the, council from it's purpose to slaughter and the fig ures were generally restored though enough of the cut was still left to affect materially the tax levy.
 While the conference was in pro- gress. the governor signed one more bill which had been rushed at him at the eleventh hour. the measure for the relief of E. A. Packard. member of the territorial fair commission tO reimburse him for about $4.000 he had expended in improvements on tine grounds.
 In this connection it may be said that MT. Packard is still a member of the commission though his name did not appear in the list sent in by the governor on Thursday night. The fact is. Mir. Packard's time had not expired.
 Among the bills which failed of the gfU hs~ Mir Weedin. one for the adoption of the provisions of the Carey act and the other a companion bill designed to set the act in operation. Early in the morning. after the fate of these bills was evident. Mir. Weedin bitterly addressed the council against the governor and in the course of his re- marks he said that the subject would be further discussed in his newspa- per. the Florence Blade. He offered a resolution condemnatory of the gov ernor and it was adopted by a. vote of four to five. This proceeding was subsequently eXpunged from the rec ord and another resolution commend ing the governor generally was of fered and passed. but it. too. was ex- punged. so that the matter all around was left where it had been before
 There was a multitude o' bills which only lacked the signature of the governor to become laws. Some were important, in that they had aroused a great deal of interest. while others were Of little interest. Among them was the Merrill bill linn iting the compensation of justices of the peace and constables. That was as near a law as any bill ever was that did not become a law.
 At the urgent request of Messrs. Merrill and Pace about four o'clock in the morning. the governor picked up his pen and reached for the bill; he withdrew his hand and laid the pen down again.
 The excitement which had borne up the members and spectators through the fore part of the night began to lose it's influence after midnight and there would have been a collapse but for the sustaining force of a banquet of sandwiches. cake, ice cream and beer which was generously served by Jack Turner
 IL was a tired lot of law makers. clerks and spectators who filed out Of the capitol at seven o'clock Tn the morning Most of them were not afterward seen on the street until late in the afternoon.
 Then many began preparations for return to their homes and a large delegation left for the south last night In it were Mir. Finley and wife: Mir. Hogwood and Miss Fish of Pima; Messrs. Merrill and Pace of Graham; MT. and Mrs. Bailey of Co., chise. accompanied by Miss Georgia Bailey; Mir. Roberts of Cochise and Mrs. Roberts; Mir. Shaw of Pinal; George P. Blair and wife, the Misses Earth; Steve Roemer and M. J. Gun ningham of Cochise.
 Mir. Breen or COconino will leave today and Mir. and Mrs. Day of Apache, tomorrow morning.