Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-01-10
CONSOLIDATION.


swelling into proportions which give rea-
sonable ground for apprehension that the
measure will be defeated BY the people
even il the present bill should pass the
citizens meeting tonight, and the Legs
lature afterwards. The opposition is COM
posed of various elements. \ very tof-
midable party against the BILL Is that class
e Of tbe cirixens of Gold Hill who regard
the neighbor,ng and larger town OF VIZ
g;nis. with its metropolitan wants and Its
altogether too metropolitan voting element,
As dangerous and undesirable partner In
SHANGHAI transactions, for the smaller and
less pretentious town of Gold Hill. This
class of our citizens doubt the possibility
, of framing law for consolidated gov
eminent of the county which could be so
free from flaws as to prevent Virginia
from finally getting the upper hand in the
county government, and involving Gold
Hill in the meSheS OF extravaganza and
rascallty which have distinguished the
administration of the municipal affairs OF
Virginia City. They see, IN every Granny
of the woodpile, a niger of immense
magnitude and the blacklist dye. These
fears have not been entirely without foun-
dation. Before the present bill was
drawn, zee saw the niger in the fence
as plainly as any of our fellew-citizens,
and stirred the matter cautiously and with
very long pole. Those gentlemen who
represented Gold Hill upon the committee
entertained, at the outset, the same pre-
possessions against the consolidation
measure. After long and patient investI-
CATION of the matter, end throug h mutual
concessions on the part of those repre-
senting the different sections the county,
q bill was drawn which seemed to its
trainers, and seems 10 Us, 10 be free from
objection. That bill has been published,
and been read by those who have felt in
terest enough in the matter to take the
trouble. Those who have not taken that
pains, have no reasonable right to growl
about it. Yet that class of our citizens
oppose the measure as vehemently as
those who have read the bill with disap-
proyal-perhaps rather more so. Another
element of opposition has sprung up since
the drafting Of the bill. This opposition
is from those citizens Of Virginia who
desire to have Virginia the controlling
power of the county, and reduce the other
districts to the condition of mere tax
paying appanages of that metropolis.
This opposition is represented by the Viz.
ginia Union. Its ground of complaint Is
the basis of representation in the Board
of County Commissioners as proposed by
the bill. 1t says:
"The representation is unjust to Virginia,
and impracticable, for the sentiment Of the
people is that this provision giving Gold Hill
equal representation with Virginia must be
modified. The least that this city could ex-
act would be that the Commissioner for the
be assigned 10 Virginia. That would still
leave us in the minority in the County
Board"
The reasons why this equality of repre-
sentation was agreed upon, were, after
weeks of elaboration by the Committee,
plainly enough apparent to that body. 1t
is lhe sole fcanre Of the bill which makes
it at all toiera5la 10 the Gold Hill people.
With that pro.i len asa iHel and unai-
terable condition. it Is doubtful wheth=.
the bill would be accepted BY Gold Hill
without It, the measure will be rejected by
an almost unanimous vote. In the dispo-
sition which IS evinced in Virginia, and
advocated in the Union, to change the ba-
sis of representation, the Niger reveals
himself once more in the wood ple-huge,
black and terrible. We can see him with
the naked eye. Ii, at the meeting tonight,
that representation IS changed, we shall
most positively decline to have anything
10 do with the consolidation measure, and
shall 90 over to the side Of the already
heavy opposition. To give Virginia City,
town which is confessedly ruled by a
horde of "roughs" and FOUNDERS" the
control of the affairs of Storey county
would be state of things which we can
pass our opinion on in three words-IT
WON'T DO! The Union of this morning
shows Cor thinks it does) that the present
bill violates three different sections of the
constitution. If the CnioB is correct in
its propositions, it is impossible to frame
consolidation bill which would be any
thing else than a blood-sucking swindle
on the balance of the county for the bene-
fl Of Virginia. We have begun to lose
faith in the prospect Of carrying the bill as
It now stands. We believe, however, that
1t IS the only one likely to be drawn which
would be al all fair toward Gold Hill, and
that if carried would be of decided ad-
vantage to the county and to all the dis
tricts. II, at the meeting tonight, the bill
is adopted by the citizens, and is submit
ted by the people to the Legislature, we
shall support it. Ii, on the contrary, such
a bill as is proposed by the opposition in
Virginia is rendered US, we shall vote
"So FIRST, last, and all the time-and
in so doing will vote with nine-tenths o.
the citizens Of Gold Hill.
GAzLAY's PACIFIC MoNTHLY.-We have
received the first copy of this new maya
zine, but have not had leisure to review
its contents. 1t is nearly the size of Har,
ner's and Numbers among its contribu.