Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1863-12-23
Our State Constitution.

1t seems that there is 10 be an organized
opposition to the adoption OF our State
Constitution, having its headquarters at
Virginia.
Our limited space will not permit tls, i'll
this issue, to enter into any extended ar
gumcnt OH this subject, but we think that
such opposition, if successful, would prove
materially injurious to the interests of our
Territory. Everything indicates tfat
Congress is about to take some action i'll
regard to taxing the mines OH the Pacific
coatst. IL there is ever likely to be Il time
when there is urgent necessity for Nevada
being fully and ably represented in Con-
Cress it is daring the present session, as
the mining interests are now represented
by the delegation from only one Statc--
California. We need meh there whose
energy. ability, and eloquehce can intiu-
cnce Congress to adopt measures, which,
instead of rctarding, will assist and ad.
vance the development of the vast mineral
resources of this Territory.
Litigation is increasing, too, and grow
ing in Importance, and it is necessary that
our Judiciary system should be so cX-
tended and organized as to meet the wants
of our rapidly growing Territory, and this
can only be done under State organiza-
ton.
The objection that the Convention have
Incorporated into the Constitution clause,
which provides that all mines shall be
taxed, prospecting holes as well az bullion
producing ones, is totally without force,
as any one who reads the clause will see
that the matter is left almost wholly to the
discretion of the Legislature. The Legis-
lature may say that no mine shall be taxed
unless it pays dividend of fifty or one
hundred thousand dollars per month.
Some portions of the Constitution may be
objectionable, but we venture that n second
attempt will prove exceedingly lucky 1t
succeeds as well, and, i'll our opinion, the
people of the Territory will do themselves
gross wrong by suffering these trivial
objections to defer our admission as u
State for two more years.
Tic argument that Il State organization
would be so expensive, that We would be
unable to bear its burdens, Is too silly to-
need a rcfutation. The large amount of
bullion that is daily shipped from the
leGIllOIN, dhu lic lNII uL>'o'SihSS thiS
have been recently made in various por-
tons of the country conclusivcly prove
the contrary. Why was this objection
not urged at the election last September
\ country which pays out annually over
twenty millions of dollars for freight alone.
too poor to bear the burdens of 4 State
Government! 1t is absurd. Did any OF
the States which have been admitted with
in the last twenty years possess, at the
time of their admission, the wealth of
Nevada: This objection is mere cloak
to conceal the clovcn foot of disappointed
politicians, pcnurious capitalists, and
grasping monopolics.
Nevada, rich in uncquallcd mineral re-
sources, and rich in a population unsur-
passed in industry, enterprise, activity and
intelligence, should no longer suffer her
expanding energies to BE- contracted, and
her growth retarded by being bound up in
Territorial swaddling clothes. let the
people send their fiat forth on III" third
Tuesday of January that the Constitution
shall be adopted, and Nevada can then
rear her head by the side Of the proudcst
of our Statcs.-Recsc Rirer RcreiNc.