Year: 1877

nal county, to produce the papers an thorizing the publication of a Mass Meeting held in the town of Florence on the 18th instant, and it seems tbs, he has failed to produce them. Now I ask for an honorable defense"

 Mir. Speaker and Gentlemen of the Assembly: l, as a member of your hon. orable body, ask the privilege to defend myself against certain allegations set forth in preamble of a mass meetipo held in the town of Florence, PinaI county, on the 18th instant, as set forth m the Journal of the Legislature of the 22d instant The House is we'll aware what the nature of those charges are.

 I say in duty to myself and the better portion of my constituency of the coun. 'ty I represent, that the charges are untrue, and founded upon selfish mo. tives, simply a matter of jealousy exist. ing between the two different populated portions of said county, which two set dement's are about eighty-five miles distant from each other, and of about equal strength; and as regards prom. ises that they say made to them pre. vious to my election, 1 can say, ID ius. tice to myself and the people of Globe District, that 1 never made any, forI never had the opportunity to do it: I never allowed my name to go before the people until about ten days before the election; 1 never went to see the people of Florence to tell them my views nor to make them promises in IOrder to secure their votes. 1 only knew six or seven men in the town of Flor. lence previous to the election: never

 was in the town but one day in my life

 until I passed through there on my way

 to Tucson to attend 10 my official duties | In regard to what they term the Scott

 Bill, assure them that my action in

 the premises was backed up by a bal

 ance of power, mean the people of Globe mining district. Here is their petition for a new county with 17O names attached to it in one day. upon.

 which 1 based my mode of operations | I have never introduced the Scott bill

 that 1 am charged with, and l told Col

 Ruggles, a member from the same

 county, previous to the announcement

 of the mass meeting in Florence, that

 would give up the struggle for a new

 county and wait two years longer

 | And in regard to the District Attorney

 bill, l believe 5000 per aunum for 8

 salary without fees is little enough, and

 believe 1 did my duty in introducing the blll and trying to put it through. And in regard 10 the Parker bill, 1 fought that from the beginning until

 Its final passage.

 l In order tO be brief, 1 ask in the name of common humanity, could not those people of the Florence portion of

 ;he county l represent, send up a re imonstrance setting forth their wishes,

 a and that my legislation was not in ac- corIauce with their ylews without

 assailing my integrity and personal | character

 Now NIT. Speaker and fellow mem ibers of the House of Representatives, 1t

 IS for you to say whether l merit the charges made against me or not: believ-

 ing that I have done my duty, and nothing l wish to retract, and that the

 better Judgment and a majority of my constituency will stand by me in my past acts. GEORGE SCOTT. 1 MT Darlington introduced II. B. No. 5, An act to amend an act authorizing loan on the faith and credit of the Territory, and to provide for the erec-

 tion of Territorial Prison and for the confinement of prisoners therein. B. No. 5, read first time, rules suspended, Bill read second time by title and referred to Committee on Ways and Means.