[4] A recently passed national law limited the amount of free travel that legislators and their friends could obtain.
[1] Toward this end, Kibbey asked that women and girls be prohibited from employment in establishments that served alcoholic beverages and that legislation allowing for licensing of gambling halls be repealed.
Toward this end, he said, Farms, city and town lots, houses, shops and stores, banks, railroads, cattle, sheep, and horses, and all other smaller items of property are assessed at figures which at least approximate equality, and probably at least one-half their value.
But the great mines, which produce more wealth and yield greater profits, many times over, than all other classes of property in the territory combined, pay but a small proportion of the taxes – in no event exceeding 8 or 10 per cent of their proper share.
[8] In response to questions about the expense of continuing to operate the Arizona Rangers, Kibbey said the organization "have proved so often their usefulness that it seems impossible to recommend the repeal of the law authorizing the force".
[5] The governor instead signed the bill into law, noting that it increased tax revenues to the territory and was an improvement over the previous situation.
The request included a note stating that the US$4/day currently received barely covered the cost of the member's hotel expenses.
[15] A second memorandum requested US$1 million for construction of a dam near San Carlos, Arizona, to provide water storage and flood control along the Gila River.