The Nevada journal., 1856-04-11
Editorial Correspondence.
SACRAMENTO.

drum has been gone through with since
my last. So far as the most importan
Bills are concerned, the legislature is littl
nearer adjournment than week since
Long sessions are persevered in, but with
few exceptions the Bills passed have no
absorbed much of public interest.
The criminal laws have been amended
in some very important particulars, some
relief Bills passed, of good, bad or indif
ferent natures, and veto or two thrown
in occasionally to spice the whole.
The Governor was not so successful il
his veto of the Sacramento Firemen's Bill
as the preceding ones might have led him
to expect. Both Houses passed it by q
constitutional vote of two thirds over hi:
head. A majority of the voters of the
city may sympathize in the action of the
Legislature, but large and very respect
able portion of the Taxpayers sustain the
Governor.
The deficiency Bill has become law.
A few thousand dollars of not very meri-
torious accounts crept into the Bill and
created some opposition to the whole, but
it reluctantly received at last the assent OF
the majority, on account of the urgent ne
cessity which existed that the claims hon
estly due should be speedily paid. The
claims were all created by previous ad-
ministration and it was incumbent on the
present Legislature to provide for their
payment.
An Act to provide for funding the in
debtedness of the State outstanding in
Controllers Warrants, and accruing prior
to January 1857, to the amount of ST.
100000, is awaiting the approval of the
Governor. The heretofore extravagant
expenditures to support the government
must be persisted in so long as the scrip
system is retained The only way to ar
rive at a cash basis is to sweep all scrip
out of existence, and gather some money
in the Treasury with which to pay all ex-
penses of the State in cash. Salaries and
pay of officials may thereby be reduced
and kept at lower rate without the least
detriment to those who perform services,
and be a great saving to the State. Sixty
or seventy dollars in coin would 90 as far
as one hundred in the present deprecated
evidences of the States Indebtedness which
fatten the Shylocks but impoyerish the
people. In all efforts heretofore to get
the cash system introduced, the scrip spec
ulators have had their own way. Fund
ing Bills have been limited to a few hun
dred thousand dollars, by men acting uu-
der their dictation, so as to leave enough
scrip outstanding and unfunded to take
every dollar from the Treasury, compell-
ing the succeeding Legislature to repeat
the funding process with the same result,
or pay the expenses of the State in depre-
ciated warrants the same as ever. The
Funding Bill of this session contemplates
the annihilation of the scrip system and
the payment of all dues in cash.
For years the Revenue of the govern
ment has been insufficient to meet its cur
rent expenses and thus an enormous debt
is rapidly being created.
A desperate effort must be made to live
within our income. If the necessary ex-
penses of government cannot be suffi-
ciently retrenched, a higher rate of taxa
tion must be resorted to, which, although
unpopular with the people who do moi
care to see to whom the blame properly
belongs for the financial condition of the
country, will be resorted to by the pres.
ent Legislature.
An act to compel stores and places oi
business to close on the Sabbath has pass
ed the Assembly.
The charter election of the city of Sac
ramento passed off yesterday with the
usual excitement Everything that look
ed as if it had a right to vote, except the
sewing machine on j street and the Chi
naman's steam engine, exercised the pre-
rogative of intelligent freemen on the oc-
casion. Betting and bad whisky were
freely INDUCED in, and several things were
trotted off to the Calaboose for double vo-
ting: early in tbe morning, protesting all
the way they were good Democrats.
This election has decided the cry of
Abolition against the American party
which has been SO loudly howled by the
State Journal, to be bypocritical to the las.
degree. Redding, the proprietor Of that
paper, and the Democratic candidate for
Mayor, as we'll as all his colleagues on the