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Show NEW JUDGE IN POLICE COURT Attorney R. S Farnsworth, appointed appoint-ed municipal Judge pro tern by the mayor and city council last night, presided pre-sided over the police court this morn-I morn-I Ing and disposed of a number of police po-lice casos. J E McMlllen, charged with petit-" larceny, pleaded guilty and was fined 530 or thirty days. McMlllen stole a suit case belonging to N. S. Gray, valued at $40. The grip was recovered by the police and returned to the owner own-er Nick Hoffman and William Cools pleaded guilty to having) been unlawfully unlaw-fully drunk and wero fined $5 each. William Hansen was sentenced to serve five days In prison for mendicancy. mendi-cancy. Ho pleaded guilty to the charge C E. Smith, charged with allowing j his horse to stand In the strcot without with-out hitching, was discharged, as he proved to the satisfaction of the court that tho animal could not possibly have run away. Tom DonaldBon, Pearl Leonard and Viola Golden., who were arrested for smoking onium, did not appear for trial and forfeited bonds of $25 each. B S. Johnson and Mamie Woodson, charged with lewd and lascivious conduct, con-duct, forfeited bonds of ?20 each by not appearing for trial. Miss Cody Alton forfeited a bond of $26 for vagrancy and Edna Brooks for t; bond of $10 for a similar of-fen'e. of-fen'e. -Mike Nicholas did not appear to an-swor an-swor to the charge of petit larceny and forfeited a bond of $5. Nicholas was arrested for stealing a sack of coal. Tony Pookwlck, Tom Crook and Louis Daisowich forfeited bonds of $5 each for disturbing th peace. John McGrath and H C Davis wero not present whon their names were called to answer to the charge of allowing al-lowing their horses to stand without hitching and forfeited bonds of $5 each. me constitution gives the house practical control of the purse-strings of the country and the house Insists, resolutely and firmly, on exercising that control to the end that the appropriation ap-propriation bills may be reduced to the needs of the government, economically econom-ically and effectively administered It Is our duty to prpvlde every dollar needed for tho proper and economical conduct of the government, but it is equally our duty to prevent waste and extravagance In public expenditures, for we should never forgot that It is a difficult task for millions of families to live now In decency and comfort. "Suroly It Is tho part of wisdom, statesmanship, humanitarlanism and patriotism to legislate so as to reduce re-duce their burdens to the minimum. ' Tho resuscitation of the Holman rule will help along in this matter. No good citizen desires to cripple the government in any legitimate function, func-tion, but no good citizen desires that the people bo loaded down with unnecessary un-necessary taxes. "Fifth The publication of campaign contributions and disbursements before be-fore tho election. Tho bill to accomplish accom-plish that desired reform has been prepared and Introduced It will bo speedily passed by the house Tho average citizen, whatever his political politi-cal faith. Is absolutely honest. Ho demands honesty and clean lines in politics: he believes that too much money is spent in election matters; and he proposes to put an end to it. "As the representatives of the average aver-age man, it is our duty to .carry out his patriotic wishes in that regard to the end, that all men desirous of serving serv-ing the public may have a fair chance in politics and to the end that this mighty ropubllc, tho political hope of tho world, may not be destroyed by corruption In elections. "Sixth Tho Admission of both Arizona Ari-zona and New Mexico as states. I violate no confidence In saying that so far as the house is concerned thev will be speedily admitted and thoy will be admitted together. "Theso are a few of the things which we promised. v We are not only going to fulfill them, we have alreadv begun the great task. What we have done is only an earnest of what we will do. We, this day report progress to the American people The right will follow. "No man is fit to be a law-giver for a great people who yields to the demands de-mands and solicitations of tho few having access to his ear, but is forgetful for-getful of that vast multitude, who may never hear his voice or look Into his face. "I suggest to my fellow members on both sides of the bg aisle which Is tho line of demarkation betwixt us as political partisans, but not as American Amer-ican citizens or American representativesthat representa-tivesthat he serves his party best who serves his country best. "I am now ready to take the oath, and ask that it be administered bv Mr. Talbott of Maryland." nit- |