The Nevada journal., 1857-03-27
SACRAMENTO CORRESPONDENCE.
SACRAMENTO,
Tuesday, March gath, '57.

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MEssRs. EDrToRs:-I take up the
pen with more satisfaction than has
been my wont, to write you, for really
the Legislature has passed an important
measure or two at last besides. an
earnest has been given that other acts
of retrcnchment are likely to be con-
summated soon. am sorry to inform
you that Sweazy's fee bill has been
killed in the House, or, what is almost
equivalent, made applicable to Yuba
county only. The people of Nevada
will regret that to obtain their rights
they must contribute at leost 100000
per annum to feed set of officials whose
services are not worth the quarter of
that sum. Nevada has more litigation
than Yuba, and if Sweazy's bill is good
for Yuba, it cannot be otherwise than
" bueno for us.
The Constitutional Convention Bill
went through the Senate by close
constitutional vote; in the House it
Jared better. Men will differ as to the
propriety of this measure, but there can
be no harm result in suffering the ques-
ton to go to the people for their appro-
val or rejection. If the merits and de-
merits of it are properly presented to
them, their verdict will doubtless be
just - at least can they only be unjust
to themselves.
The State Printing Bill is pending
between the two houses, but will cer-
tainly become a law in some shape more
palatable to tax payers than the pres
ent act on that subject.
Strenuous efforts were made, and are
now being made, by scores of men eli
ther interested in State Printing, or
itching to be so next year, TO defeat
this BILL 1t has been remarked that if
a handful of peanuts were scattered
broadcast about the Capital, anywhere,
at least dozen candidates for State
Printer would be hit. Of course these
men, reform democrats though they are,
are interested in keeping up the prices
of printing.
Another bill of considerable impor-
tance is now pending in the Senate. 1t
once passed, but has been re-considered
and referred to a special committee. /
allude to the one giving only $3.50 a
session to members of the Legislature.
The sum is perhaps too small to remain
a permanent thing on the statute books,
but if the people decide in favor of a
Constitutional Convention, short ses-
sion only will be required next winter,
and the sum will be sufficient. There
are provisions in the bill concerning
mileage, which should not be lost
There is no reason why member from
San Diego should receive five hundred
dollars for merely stepping aboard a
steamer paying fifty dollars, and in FIVE
or six days sitting down in the Capital,
rather recruited than otherwise by the
trip.
The long looked for Revenue Bill,
which is supposed to be panacea for
our every i'll, has at length made its ap-
pearance. One press pronounces it
splendid thing, and reckons its introdu-
Ger as next thing to Necker, or Robert
Morris at least. Another declares it
scorcher. But neither attempts to show
up its crudities and absurdities. 1t is
to be hoped, however, that some of its
stringent provisions will be enacted into
law. Delinquencies are getting too
common.
The State Debt question is still in
statu quo, and it is really impossible to
say what will be done with this impor-
tant matter.
Col. Whitman's trial commenced on
Monday, and is progressing slowly
Two witnesses were examined to-day.
Nothing particularly new was elected
in their evidence, from that taken be-
fore the Assembly Committee, already
published. 1t is confidently reported
that the trial will not last more than
five or six days at the most Able
counsel are employed by the defendant,
and in nothing have they as yet shown
other than a disposition to meet every
thing fairly and without taking up the
time of the Senate unnecessarily.
No great interest is excited by the
trial, the lobbies being comparatively
clear.
The Sacramento Bridge Bill is still
before the Governor. Long petitions
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