Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-04-19
NEVADA AT THE PARIS ExPosI-
rrTnN

On April sth, Col. David E. Buel left
Austin on his way to the great EXPOSE
ton. He will remain in New York for q
short time, to receive and ship his grand
cabinet, now on its way to Gotham.
Noticing his departure, the Reese
River Repsilie says that "Mr. Buel goes
hence accredited to the Commissioner of
the United States at Paris as the repre-
sentative of Central Nevada, and he car
ries with him a superb collection Of its
~unriyalled mineral, and the broad seal
of the committee of its citizens. This
will suffice to give our cabinet place in
the Exposition and its representative
proper status. Our citizens had sought
q more formal introduction for their rep
resentative, and preferred an early re-
quest to the Governor Of the State to
commission Colonel Buel to the EXPOSE
ton. Subsequently the Legislature
passed IN act designating three special
commissioners to Paris. This did not
suit the cherished plan Of the Governor,
and he %interposed his veto. The veto
suited the legislature still less, and they
passed the act over the veto, and it be-
came a law. The act does not contain
q specific provision, in so many words,
requiring the Governor to issue commits
sions to the persons named therein, and
he has failed to issue them, at least he
failed to cause one to be issued to Col.
Buel. There are apparently no "~consti-
tutionsl objections" in the way Of car
ryiug out the plainly implied intent of
the act, and it would be quite andigni-
fed to suppose that private pique had
anything to do with it. But, neverthe-
less the commission had not been for
warded to Colonel Buel at the hour Of
his departure, and in his case the veto
has practical efficacy. Well, we will
endeavor to 60 it alone, in the perhaps
not vain hope that our collection Of
mineral and the certificate Of our citi-
zens may prove nearly as serviceable to
our representative as would the auto
graph Of the Governor of the State. At
least, the residents Of this region, as
we'll as Colonel Buel, have the temerity
to make the attempt. We feel proud of
our representative to the Great EXPOSE
ton, and deem the selection peculiarly
happy. Colonel Buel is a representa-
tive man of the great West. He will 60 to
Paris plain and ~unvarnished, and though
he possesses few"native graces''his char
acter is certainly married by no "foreign
airs" He is a splendid type Of the
American pioneer-restless, energetic,
fearless, and with IN Unsuitable love of
adventure"
So it will be seen that the Governor
has failed to carry out the ''plainly
implied intent" of a statute of
this State, which designates three
Exposition Commissioners from Nevada,
and appsopriates money toward their
expenses. The quietly contemptuous
manner in which the Repeille alludes to
the Governors action, or n%on-action, in
this case, is fifty expressive Of the senti-
ment which the people ought to enter
tain toward an Executive who would be
guilty of SO mean a neglect of prescribed
duty-a neglect, too, calculated to de-
prive Nevada of that accredited repre-
sentation which she ought to have-as
all agree-st the great Worlds Fair of
1867.
In this connection we would urge
upon all persons who have, and can
spare, fine specimens from any Of our
mines, to leave them at the Bullion
office, for Commissioner Brooks.