The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1869-01-09
A MOVEMENT TOWARD THE REMOVAL
OF THE CAPITOL.

'. that day introduced resolution TO tn
following effect:
5 Resolved BY the Senate and Assembly
of Nevada: That Section l, Of Article
, Is, of the Constitution of this State bt
amended so as to read as follows:
Sec. l. The seat of Government
shall be at Carson, in the County Of
Ormsby, until otherwise provided by
, law.
This resolution was, by motion OF
Senator Hall, referred to the Special
Committee on Constitutional Amend
ments.
The section of the Constitution which
Senator Welty wants amended reads as
follows:
Sec. l. The seat of Government
shall be at Carson City but no appro-
priation for the erection or purchase of
Capitol buildings shall be made during
the next three years.
Thus it will be seen that until the
Constitution is amended, the Capital is
fixed in Carson City and, inasmuch as
the Constitution was adopted in 1864,
the three years have expired during
which an appro priation for public bull
dings was forbidden to be made. Of
course this movement by the gentleman
from Lander is made with view to pre-
venting such an appropriation by the
present Legislature, aud to make it pos
sible for the Legislature which will sit
two years hence; or, more likely, that
of four years hence, to remove the seat
of Government to some point in the
~ Great East This movement has |
been anticipated, and we are not sur
prised that it should have been made |
thus early in the session for. if our
friends of Eastern Nevada have got any
particular weakness it is to get the |
Capital removed from here and located
somewhere in the near or remote neigh
borhood of Austin-or perhaps White
Pine. Indeed, they would fain reverse
the eternal fitness OF things BIZ
making Bishop Berk!y's old motto
read: " Eastward the course Of En-
pire takes its way"
Now while we cannot find it in our
heart to blame the jewellers in the
~ Great East" for wanting to have the .
seat af Government located among their I
far of mountains and deserts, we should
suppose the representatives from thence,
f they expect to continue to hold their
;ea's in the Senate and Assembly,
would prefer that the Capital should 7
tay where it is, if mileage is any object
We find by reference to the report from
he Committee on Mileage published in
'ur report Of yesterday morning, that !
he amount due frem the State, for b
raveling expenses to eight members "
# the Assembly who hail from the v
foresaid "Great East " amounts, in the
ggregate to S2,766 40: aud the sum d
otal for all the members mileage I,
eing only S4,l55 90, it seems that it "
osts more to settle with the said eight Il
han it does to pay off the other thirty ii
ne members, all pat together. This ri
'ould appear to offer something of an f.
rgument against removing the Capital, OF
we would look to the saving Of ex- :,
enses to the State.
o,
There are many and various reasons
by the seat of government should
main where it is; and there are
Iually numerous and good reasons
by an appropriation should be passed
: the present Legislature providing for
e erection Of suitabi buildings within
hich the business of the State could u"
. transacted. We presume nobody
i'll offer to dispute the fact that Carson :
of all the towns Of Nevada, the most Or
easan,ly situated, in point of location WI
I'd pleasant surroundings. IN the very tn
inter- of this pleasant little city is it
m modious public square, admirably Je
Iap;ed to the erection of a State we
ouse; and that square is susceptible of nI,
ing converted into \ beautiful park. ca
,;s piece of ground already belongs to na