Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-01-15

CATION in putting through n local legis-
lation when determined-especially when
they seem to have the good will and CO.
operation of a majority Of their body.
Let them be discreet. and use their for
midable vote with wisdom and candor,
and they will be able to compass all the
benefits we desire or deserve on our
account. Crhis advice is purely gratuit-
ous.)
The Assembly, taken altogether, is said
to be a remarkable body. 1t appeareth-
from the reports given us by members
tina, body has done many remarkable
things inside and outside, in a wonderful
manner. There WAS q great stir at the
outset abou, a certain constitutional pro-
vision. concerning emergency" The
Constitution provides that each bill must
be read at length on every reading
that is. three times read, in full unless
there has arisen. in the opinion of the
legislators. an emergency" Of such force
as to call for dispatch by IN omission Of
frs, and second reading entire. Now if
every bill were read three times at length,
it would consume u vast amount Of time.
And a bill cannot be referred or ordered
printed until it has been read a second
time. I, has been the custom, from time
immemorial. in all parliamentary bodies,
for the bills to be read first and second
time on the day they are introduced, and
referred and ordered printed. Ordinary
celebrity in the transaction of Legislative
business requires that this should be done
"A fact any experienced legislator will at
once recognize. OF course, this detail Of
action is incompatible with two full read
ings Of all bills introduced, on the day Of
their presentation. Hence the "emer-
gency" continually, p~erennially existing.
But on the first few days Of the session,
certain new but truly conscientious mem
bers insisted on the constitutional neces-
sity for a thorough train OF reading at
each prescribed number /; and 10 accep-
lance Of emergency unless special and
pressing cause could be shown. This de-
termlnation--for so it was voted-lasted
precisely one day when the Assembly
cared on the practice. and only the unal-
terably tenacious s,icklers for the Consti-
tuition as il is and the Assembly as it
might be. remained Of opinion that the
Clerk should read a volume every day,
and the same twice thereafter! This mat
ter being disposed of. the House did in
deed proceed to business.
We are told that the amount of work
performed by that honorable body, is
really enormous-lf it could be estimated.
But nos w~iths,anding Gillesp. Gas he is
aFcctionately called) is Official Reporter,
the published proceedings-we are assured
but family outline the quantity Of labor
performed by the numerous House. Nor
will the journals adequately indicate work
done as much OF it is carried IN in Com
mittee of the whole House, when the Clerk
makes no minute Of amendments offered,
etc. Il is said to US that a complete short
hand, verbatim report of last Fridays ser
vice would show TO the people a tremen-
dous batch Of business, and talking. Also,
some salt and saw dust speeches, Of tooth
some quality. For instance, we are in-
formed that n Of our delegation said
that the Senate did nothing but adjourn,
and therefore could afford to 60 without
so many Clerks as the House had or
hankered after. for friends, you know, etc.
A member from Lander, shortly thereafter,
had occasion to say that he hoped he
would never follow the majority Of the
Storey county delegation-never "creep
and crawl" after the individual who had
so reflected on the Senate; in short, never
follow the blind and the blindest Of the
blind, which that-as Pip's patron would
say-was the aforesaid majority Of the
Storey county delegation. A call
wa made for the Chaplain, that
prayer might be made. This is what
we have been told; and what it signifies
we are not responsible for. Then the
Speaker pu. a protest on the minutes,
against appointing Committee Clerks
after having voted for what proved to be
a palpably unconstitutional ten dollar per
day appropriation for " Official Reporter"
alas, the irrepressible extra" Gillespie.
The Clerk could not read the protest, and
the Speaker-so we are told-camc down
from his high seat and read it himself, in
s~tentorian and startling tones, and then,
in an eloquent effort, announced that the
day nigh, come when some Of the mem
bers who seemed to treat his solemn OBJ
~jections with levisy and unconcern would
rue the hour Of their tittering sport. The
impressiveness Of his manner was sufficient
to check giggling for a space. 1t was evil
dent that the Speaker was not 4 man to
be sneered at without making the Assem-
bly, suffer for their trifing deal with his
economical efforts. And they suffered
SO we are told. Beck and Crawford con.
CURED, but kept but Of the record. Glover
moved that the protest be furnished the
/" official reporter"
The Assembly then considered Q bill
providing that no woman should change
her NAME, unless she married. An addi-
,ional section providing that every woman
should be compelled, before arriving at q
certain age, to change her name, was voted
down.
The Assembly then debated for IN hour
and a half, whether 'or" should be "and'
or and" ought to be "or," and finally
decided in the affirmative or both propo-
sitions. Here the Committee Of the Whole
rose, and reported considerable progress,
and asked leave to sit again; which re-
quest 10 still on tho journals unanswered,