Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-03-23
RoLLN N. DA9aETT AND THE
sWINDLING P~ENITENTIARy
PURcHAsE-H1s own LEGIsLA-
TIVE RECORD.


the San Francisco Chronicle says his
real name is Dogget)-and he it is that
during the past two mouths-since the
defeat of the Enterprise printing bill
has been indulging in wholesale de-
nunciations of the Legislature. He has
denounced such a man as Colonel John
A. Collins in the most %opprobrious
terms, because the Colonel has been his
successful competitor for the office OF
County Superintendent Of Public Schools
AN Office for which Doggett, to-day,
known here as he now is, could not OBJ
tain a hundred votes. He has stigma
tized the Legislature with the foulest
epithets he could lay his tongue to; and
has affected the airs of honesty to an
appalling extent!
Now, legislators, we will show you
who this creature is, aud how much
''moral standpoint he occupies, from
whence to let loose hurricanes Of
wrath" "avalanches Of invective,"
cargoes of bilge water, etc., on ycur
devoted heads. And we beg leave to
assure you, tina. his fussy. frothy full
limitations are regarded with as much
Indifference in this county, or, at times,
create as much quiet amusement, as in
Carson. He, Of all chaps, is peculiarly
entitled to charge you with peculation,
and hssty, eItravagant legislation!
See:-
In 1864, Daggett, or Dogget, was a
member of the Nevada Territorial Coun-
Gil. On the 18th of February, 1864,
the following entry is found in the
Council Journal. IL is all in one para
graph, as quoted; as we are assured by
General C~rsdlebsugh, who supplies us
with the copied extract:
"Mr. Dagges on rare [no notice
even, mark you, introduced a bill en-
titled An Act to provide for a Terri
torial Prison Read first and second
time, rules suspended, considered engros'ed,
read a third time and passed. Ayes,
nine. Mr.. Curry declined voting. Alb
sent, Baldwin, Ford and Negus."
Here's the record Of the rose-watered
chap, that squalls about hasty legisla-
ton" An Act providing for and
comp cling the purchase of property for
the Territory, that never was worth
$40. 900, on no less a figure than
$50, COO, is introduced by Doggett, with
out previous notice, rules suspended,
considered ~eugrossed, passed-"presto''
all same day, John. And so was Ne
vada made to pay $4,000 for property,
not now worth SEC, oO0-'never worth
$50, OOo," as General Cradlebaugh says.
So was Nevada swindled out of more
money than is required to pay the ex-
peusss of an entire regular Legislative
session. Nice man, is Doggett, to talk
about ECONOMY on the one hand, and
''wasteful legislation on the other.
This swindling bill being followed
into the Nevada Territorial House of
Representatives, is found recorded on
House Journal, as follows:
Council Bill, No. 1874 Mr.. Clagget
moved to indefinitely postpone. Lost.
Mr.. Clagget moved to lay on the table.
Lost. The Bill was then read a third
time and passed"
The "uoes" were Messrs. Clagget,
Nelson. Tenant.
NJ. Tenant is a member of the pres
ent Assembly against the members Of
which body Doggett now employs him
self in writing Lissak-letters.
But for this same Penitentiary pur-
chase swindle, the State of Nevada
would have her loan at IL per cent. per
aanpm to-day, instead Of IS per cent.
We know that we ought to apologize
to our home readers who need no in
formation as to Doggett, for taking up so
much space At this time, in noticing
| Doggett; but we desire to inform Leg
isIators, in particular, Of the character
of the creature who has ''spread him
SELF in their interests, by editorial
abuse, during the past two months.
When he gables Of ~'honesty" and as
sumes holy emotions Of horror at an al
legged corruption" the people Of Sto-
rey, who know him, his record, and
read or heard his virtue-speech, smile
from alternating emotions of pity and
contempt.
We ope $50, 900 Of our Territorial in
dsbtedness to the clear imposition of
Doggett's crushed" Prison Purchase
Bill. The State is paying SIS, 900
interest, yearly, than would have been
required had not Doggett been a mem
Der Of the Council of 1864, and so in a
position to secure the passage offs bill
that constitutes the most gigantic fraud
ever perpetrated on this coast, not ex-
ceptins, probably, the "Estell contract"
in California. Nice man is Doggett, to
hurricane" about "honestyl' Ye
Gods and little fshesl
A few days ago he was denouucing
the Legislature, wholesale, IS "a pack
of thieves" etc., on c street, Virginia
City, when be was invited by Senator
Frank Proctor to consider himself a
liar. There are undoubtedly to-day, in
the Penitentiary he purchased, likelier
chaps than Rollin N. Doggett.
PASSED. - The Carson Appeal says
that the Assembly yesterday passed the
Storey County School Bill over the Gov
ernor's veto. If such is the fact, the
friends Of our Public Schools will be
pleased to hear it and hope that the
Senate will do likewise. If it is not
made a law in that way, our public
schools will have to suspend during the
summer season-the best in the whole