ARIZONA. 



the banks brought down the premium on gold 

 from 315 to less than 200. All the officers impli- 

 l in the revolution were restored to their 

 former ranks, against the judgment of Gen. 

 Leviillf, who retired from the ministry on Aug. 

 21, to*ether with the Minister of Finance, whose 

 treatment of the men that were responsible for 



.-ulurities in the banks was considered too 

 stringent. 



V III /ON A, a Territory of the United States, 



miaed Feb. ',H, 1863; area, 113,020 square 

 miles. The population, according to each de- 

 cennial census, was <J,<;r>S in 1870; 40,440 in 1880; 

 and -V.Mi'.H in 18^0. Capital, Phenix. 



(iovenuiMMit. The following were the Terri- 

 i.ili. -.-rs during the year: Governor, Lewis 

 Wolfley, Republican, who resigned early in 

 September, and was succeeded by Secretary 

 Murphy as acting Governor until the confirma- 

 tion of John M. Irwin, of Iowa, Republican, in 

 October; Secretary, Nathan 0. Murphy ; Treas- 

 urer, John Y. T. Smith; Auditor, Thomas 



.nes; Attorney-General, Clark Churchill ; Su- 

 perintendent of Public Instruction, George W. 

 Cheyney; Commissioner of Immigration, John 

 A. Black; Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, 

 James II. Wright, succeeded by Henry C. Good- 

 iuu r : Associate Justices, Joseph H. Kibbey and 

 Uii-har.1 K. Sloan (who, in October, 1889, suc- 

 ( led Justice William H. Barnes). A bill pro- 

 viding for the appointment of a fourth justice 



.rued by President Harrison on Oct. 1. 

 \Vh"ii the year began, the contest over the 

 leading Territorial offices between the Demo- 

 cratic appointees of the late Gov. Zulick and the 

 Republican appointees of Gov. Wolfley was still 

 undecided. Treasurer Foster had yielded his 

 oilice. to the Republican claimant, John Y. T. 

 Smith, pursuant to a decision of the court; but 

 the Democratic Auditor, Attorney-General, 'Su- 

 perinte.ndent of Public Instruction, Commis- 

 sioner of Immigration, Insane Asylum commis- 

 sioners, prison commissioners, and directors of 

 the normal school were still in possession of 

 their offices, having refused the formal demands 

 of the Republican claimants. The case of these 

 officials differed from that of the Treasurer, in- 

 asmuch as the Territorial law provided that the 

 Treasurer should be commissioned by the Gov- 

 ernor alone and fixed no term for his office (the 

 court decided that by implication his term was 

 daring the pleasure of the Governor); while in 

 case of the other officials the law required the con- 

 sent of t he Legislative Council to their appoint- 

 ment, mill limited their terms to two years, the 



nor having power to fill vacancies. It was 

 claimed by the Democratic incumbents that the 

 law of Congress limiting the legislative sessions 

 to sixty days should be construed to mean sixty 

 utive days from the opening of the ses- 

 si'n ; that the session of 1889 had expired by this 

 limitation before Gov. Wolfley was appointed; 

 that the latter when he assumed office had no 

 auihority to make appointments, as the vacancies 

 in the Territorial offices had already been filled 

 by <'<>v. Zuliok after the sixty-day limit had ex- 

 pired ; that, the appointees of the latter, there- 

 fore, had a right to t heir ollices 1 ill the nextLegis- 

 I.-iture should assemble; and that the action of 

 the Republican members of the Legislature of 

 l ss '. in prolonging the session beyond the sixty- 



day limit and confirming Gov. Wolfley's appoint- 

 ments was null and void. The Republican claim, 

 was that " sixty days " meant the sixty days on 

 which the Legislature was actually in session, or 

 legislative days ; and that when the appointees 

 of Gov. Wolfley were confirmed the sixty legis- 

 lative days had not expired. Early in 1889 

 the opinion of United States Attorney-General 

 Miller was sought upon the question, and by a 

 decision rendered on March 16 and renewed on 

 July 16 of that year he declared that the law 

 meant sixty consecutive days, and that all legis- 

 lative action thereafter taken was void, This 

 opinion, sustaining the course of the Democratic 

 officials, greatly hampered the Governor, for un- 

 der the new Territorial code, adopted at the ses- 

 sion of 1887, he had not even the power of re- 

 moval for cause. The question could not be defi- 

 nitely decided until the courts had been appealed 

 to, and the Governor was not disposed to recog- 

 nize the " hold-overs " before that time. Early 

 in January George W. Cheyney, the Republican 

 appointee for Superintendent of Public Instruc- 

 tion, began a suit against Treasurer Smith which 

 indirectly involved the determination of the dis- 

 pute. He petitioned the Supreme Court for a 

 mandamus directing the Treasurer to pay him 

 the amount of his salary as Superintendent, the 

 appropriation bill therefor having been passed 

 by the last Legislature after the sixty consecutive 

 days had elapsed. The opinion of the court was 

 delivered in March, two of the three judges de- 

 ciding that " sixty days " meant sixty legislative 

 days, and that the appropriation bill was there- 

 fore passed legally. This decision, which was 

 directly contrary to the opinion of Attorney-Gen- 

 eral Miller, disposed of the claim of the " hold- 

 overs." The same court had already decided to 

 recognize Hon. Clark Churchill as the de facto 

 Attorney-General, and the Democratic Auditor 

 and Superintendent of Public Instruction also 

 soon relinquished their claims. But Immigration 

 Commissioner Farish and the Democratic com- 

 missioners of the Territorial institutions still re- 

 fused to yield, and late in April Attorney-Gen- 

 eral Churchill began suits against them for ille- 

 gally usurping their offices. All these suits 

 were decided against the defendants, and before 

 the end of July Gov. Wolfley's appointees were 

 everywhere established in control. 



Finances. The total bonded debt of the Ter- 

 ritory is $633,000, on which the annual interest 

 is $45,780, an average rate of about 7'25 per cent. 

 There is also a floating debt bearing 10 per cent, 

 interest, represented by unpaid warrants, which 

 on Sept. 1 amounted to $124,158.95, making the 

 total Territorial debt $757,158.95. The aggre- 

 gate of the county debt is $2,221,010. The fol- 

 lowing table shows the indebtedness of the 

 cities : 



To these figures the interest on county in- 

 debtedness for the present year should be added, 

 also a school debt, which for the whole Territory 



