Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-03-02
ORPHAN = BILL.

A Geographic dispatch TO one OF GU
prominent citizens, last night, has been
shown US, from which We learn that
after a most determined and purely fac
tious opposition, the Asylum Bill passed
the Assembly by a vote of % ayes
only three less than a two-third vote Of
all the Assemblymen elect. Three
known friends Of the measure were alb
sent. We hope that a full report of the
debate will be published, that the oppo-
sers Of this pre-eminently just and HUI
name measure may have and enjoy and
profit by the ~notoriety they covet. The
bill is still retained in the House, under
q motion to reconsider ; and, probably,
to-day the whole fight will have to be
gone over again. The tactics Of the
opposition were, as we infer, conferred
in an effort to strike out the word
"white" from before the words "orphan
children :" and then force a vote upon
the bill when so altered. This "amend-
ment," if amendment it must be called,
would compel the Sisters to receive ne
gro, Chinese and Indian children, the
same as white, or else fail to receive the
benefits Of the bill. Of course the bill
could not pass with the word "white'
out. Or if in the law, when the bill be-
came such, would prove a nudity; for
the enemies of the measure Dragged
about their intention to crowd the Asy-
lum with "niggers and Diggers." The
Assembly must have had great patience
to have endured for two days, pulling
and hauling from such character OF
opposition. Had the bill gone to the
Governor, on yesterday, he would have
been compelled to return it to the Legis-
lature before adjournment. The enc
mics of the measure have now succeed
ed in placing tin the Governors
pocket. From the dispatch referred to,
we understand that there is some reason
to hope that the Governor will return
the bill before adjournment. With full
Houses, there is a two-third vote for it
in both branches Of the Legislature.
The only members Of u delegation
opposing it are Lissack. and Huse; the
former being willing to vote for it with
the word "white" struck out. We con-
TESS our utter inability to understand
why legislators should lug the negro
question into such . measure as this;
and that too, immediately after they
have refused to force the negro into our
common schools. We understand how
mean and malignant opponents Of this
measure contrive and push such a ques-
ton for a similar object; but how their
motions get sincere support from real
friends of the Orphan Bill is incompre-
hensible. Mr.. Horton opposed the bill
openly, squarely, on the ground Of re-
ligious prejudice. However much in er-
ror, however bigoted, we deem him
to be, his conduct was manly in its can
dor and consistency, and his position
can command a respect to which the
other class of opponents described have
no sort of claim. As was truly said in
one of the reports submitted to the
House on yesterday, if the Bill becomes
a law Storey County will necessarily,
by voluntary subscriptions, bear the
great burden of the support Of this in
~stitution. We happened, on yesterday,
to come across the last appropriation
report of New York State =; and we find
that New York contributed from the
State Treasury S29, 7sO to charitable
institutions that are under the auspices
of the Sisters of Charity and Sisters of
Mercy. And this in addition to appro-
priations for the support Of her State
benevolent associations. And old Mas
sachusetts, at the last session Of her
last Legislature, contributed from the
public treasury $4,000 toward the sup
port of a Magdalen Asylum, opened
near Boston by the Sisters of Mercy.
The world is moving against sectarian
prejudice, and not down the incline that
prejudice would push us.