The Nevada journal., 1860-01-27
Ffem Our Own Correspondent.
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at the Capitol to furnish one with suf.
ficient items of interest to enable him
to write letter of any Importance.
In fact everything is dull. and were
it not that Saturday or pay day,comes
once week, we would scarcely know
that the Legislature was in session in
our city. But Saturday rolls around
with its usual regularity. and the smi-
ling faces tina: one meets, as the "sa-
ges" come down from the Capitol to
make glad the keepers OF the various
drinking and billiard saloons, is full
evidence that they have drawn their
"pewter" and are mostly bent on hav-
ing a good time, until it is gone. The
Legislature having adjourned on Sat-
urday it was reasonable to expect that
its members would be ready to go to
work on Monday morning, but such
was not the case. Jn the Senate there
was no quorum, and that body ad-
journed without doing anything and
the House accomplished as little.-
TLis morning they met and the Sen
ate was in session three quarters of
an hour, and that time passed with
out an attempt to do anything. In
the House,the resolution providingifor
the payment of seven hundred and
odd dollars. to defray the expense of
Gov. Latham's Inauguration, was ta-
ken up and discussed at considerable
length.pending which they adjourned.
The permanent location of the Cap
ital is again exciting the public mind
and occupying the time of the Legis-
lature. Mr.. Merritt has introduced
bill authorizing the building of a
State Capitoiin Sacramento, at a cost
not to exceed S25O,0OO, $4,000 to be
appropriated for beginning. San
Francisco and Oakland arc exerting
their might to have it removed to their
respective towns: The former has
offered TO donate square of ground
for the building, and the latter offers
still more liberal inducements. What
effect their efforts will have towards
a removal, it is hard to say, but it is
to be hoped that wherever it goes,
there it will remain permanently
and no longer be a source of so
much annoyance and peculation.-
That Sacramento is decidedly the
most eligible place in the State at
present, there is no dottbt ). but there
Is a desire on the part of few spec
ulators to remove it, and suppose it
will depend upon the amount of mon-
ey they spend, or the influence they
can bring to bear, whether they suc-
ceed or not.
Mr. Johnson. Of Sierra, has intro
duced his bill, providing for the for
nation of new county. to be called
Alturas, from portions of Sierra, Plu-
mas and Butte. He will without
doubt pass it as it is asserted that he
was elected upon that issue. Of the
merits of the bill l am unacquainted.
but there appears to be good deal
of feeling as to the result of the pro-
posed measure, both his colleagues in
the Senate and House being strongly
opposed to the passage of the bill.
The joint committee of the Senate
and House. on State Prison affairs.
have gone to San Qitentin, to invests
gate affairs there. They have the
power to'send for all persons nee
essary to a thorough examination
into all affairs connected with our Pc
culiar penal institution.
The bill to pay Messrs Thompson
and Foreman seme three or four thou
sand dollars, for going to Washing
toni to seek aid from the Federal Gov
iernmentto' suppress the Vigilance
Committee in 1885, has again come
before the Legislature. and every ef-
fort is being made to get it thr ,ugh.
These men must have known when
they went to Washington for such a
purpose, that they could not establish
any just claim for -recompense in the
matter. Both the constitution and
laws of Congress forbid the interfer-
ence of Federal power unless the
State Government has exhausted ev-
cry means to anell the disturbance
then they can demand aid from the
general government, by convening
the Legislature and such demand COM
ing from thsm or-incas the Legis-
lature cannot be convened, then the
Governor has the mower to act
These restrictions Gov. johnson fall
ed to comply with, consequently these
gentlemen cannot justly claim any
thing from the State, and their asking
aid, with the expectation of getting
any, appears to me- to be absurd in
the extreme, But':here is no know
ing however. what a legislature, COM
posed of such material as the present,
wont do. When we take into con-
sideration that nearly all of them are
dissoluie in their habits, frequenters
of brotLels and gambling hells,whefe
,hey squanderthe money, filched. as