Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-12-30

municipal corporation laws ever passed.
We hesitatsynot to say chat. 1t was
framed and enacted amid thunder and
lightning, or after its authors had passed
through such a storm of unjust abuse as
was never before visited on Q delegation
for their honest endeavor to do the worth
lest legislative deed they could perform
for the tax-ridden citizens Of their par
ticular locality. Though the original
Charter bill. that brewed the Washoe
Zephyr of popular wrath, failed to pass
over the Governors veto ; this law, only q
little less advantageous in itS provisions,
sailed into the Statute Printers Office with
the easy grace which was purchased BY
the tribulations that arose from the pro-
posing of its predecessor. This admirable
statute has cost too much. is too precious,
in its battle bought economy terms, to be
treated as u series of dead or imperative
DEGREES. If this Charter is lived up to,
Virginia city may clear itself Of debt,
eventually; II this precedent Of trespaSs is
to go UNPUBLISHED. what reliance have we
on the saving text Of the city's organic
law? None whatever.
Even now, look at the indications Of
groser violations, of more outrageous
propositions: Reading down tho local
column of the Enterprise, we find that its
reporter, Mr.. Gillespie, himself, announces
that
On motion OF Alderman Eddy, VIM. NJ.
Gillespie, City Clerk, was authorized to APP
point a deputy, for whose actions he shall be
responsible
Here we have Mr.. G~illespie's assistant"
in "extra services" making a motion for
which there IS no sign Of warrant in the
Charter. Mr.. Gillespie is to appoint u
City Clerk, who is to be his deputy"
and "for whose actions he shall be respop-
sible." The Charter says that the Board
of Aldermen shall, appoint q City Clerk.
Here Mr.. g. is made the commissioning
power. But we do not care for this, so
far as i. signifies an illegal transfer of ap-
pointing authority. And we will concede
for a moment that the City Clerk Chief
has a right to name a City Clerk Deputy.
What are the circumstances Of this case ;
Mr.. G. goes to Carson City to correspond
with the Enterprise, and give the readers
of that journal such ideas Of Legislative
proceedings as shall suit that delectable
sheet. Under the existing arrangement,
he is to receive 1925 a month as City Clerk,
while away at the State Capital, and
claiming to be under pay of a daily jour
nal. He is also pushing q request for q
committee clerkship, where the pay is s.
or SO a day. Still the city of Virginia is
to continue. under this " assistants" mo-
ton, to pay the Enterprise reporter 1925
a month. Is not this a beautiful condi-
ton Of affairs
II II uOL W. NllleeplSt o6oiuoS "hOuA
we have nothing to say at present, but
the City Fathers that we hold accountable
for this entire catalogue of wrong, of i'm
position upon the city treasury. How
comes it that Mayor Jones, usually so
exact and even close in his administrative
adherence to the Charters provisions, has
suffered himself to approve of such trans
actions: We thought his interests such
that he could i'll afford, as a private citizen
even, to look complacently and without
protest on this style of city legislation
Before another issue of this paper, we
expect to hear Of the proper steps being
taken to recover the amount illegally dis
bursed by the resolutions of the Alder
men which may be done through the
apprehension and trial Of Alderman Eddy.
And if Mr.. Gillespie receives any stipend
from the Enterprise as reporter, the people
will soy that he ought to live upon that,
as neither he nor his present nominal en-
ployers have any such running claim upon
the city treasury as he now represents.