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Show Arizona Deep in Debt. Washington, January 4. In response to a request from Senator Harrison, chairman of the Senate committee on Territories, Governor Gov-ernor Zulick of Arizona has' published a statement of the Territorial debt, how in- 1 enrred, etc. The statement shows the Territory Ter-ritory has outstanding warrants amounting to $120,948, upon which it pays interest at the rate of 10 per cent, per annum. In the tabulated statement of the bonded and float- ': - " t v. I ing indebtedness, appears the following items : Insane, asylum bonds, $103,030; Gila river bridge, $15,000; Apache wagon road, 12,000; Territorial university $25,000; the expenses of the last Legislative Assembly, Assem-bly, in excess of the Congressional appropriations ap-propriations are shown to have been 51,152. The indebtedness of the several counties of the Territory oggregates $1,101,625. In concluding con-cluding his report, Zulick says: "The enormous increase of the debt by bonds and appropriations may be properly characterized character-ized as useless and extravagant legislation, a wanton misappropriation of public funds to the purposes from which the people receive re-ceive no corresponding benefit. The insane of the Territory are cared tor at the asylum at Stockton, California, for 6 per week for each patient, which is much less than we could keep them ourselves, had we the asylum built. We require neither a university univer-sity nor a normal school. The wagon road and bridge bonds are properly county and Territorial charges. The appropriations for expenses for the last Territorial Assembly in excess of the Congressional appropriations appropria-tions for that purpose are, in my judgment, in clear violation of the Federal statutes. We have a debt, when all appropriations of the last Assembly are provided for, of nearly $700,000, upon which the Territory must pay an annual interest of over $50,000, a result of the recklessness and extravagance of the legislative government." |