The new daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1872-1873, 1873-02-22
INTRODUCTION OF BILLS

| INTRODUCTION OF BILLS.
| By Mr. Adams, to regulate the manu-
| facture and tax upon beer and malt
liquors Referred to Committee on
Ways and Means.
Senate bill to apportion salary OF Judge
of Fifth District between Nye anu
| Churchill counties. deferred to deleSa-
| ton of those counties.
| GENERAL FILE.
| Assembly bill to more etfectually pre-
vent cruelty to animals. Ordered en-
| crossed.
| Act TO prevent the sale Of liquors to
| minors. Some slight amendments as to
| punishments for violation of the law
| adopted and the bill ordered engrossed.
! Assembly bill No 2 to abolish capital
! punishment, made the specia! ORDER OF
| tho 10Th instant at 2 Pm.
Assembly bill IS to amend Revenue
| Act. clerical errors corrected and the bill
| ordered cngcossed.
| Assembly bill 10 TO provide for the en-
forccmcrt Of the Revenue laws, commit
| tee substitute adopted and bill ordered
| engrOsSed.
| Assembly bill 81 amending Act relat-
| ing to marriage and divorce. The Dill
| provides for divorce for impOtency, adul-
| try, willful desertion for one year, con-
viction for felony and habitual drunk
| enness, defining what intemperance Is,
extreme cruelty, failsre to provide for
two years, insanity for two years; also,
amending the jurisdictional clause and
| requiring proof of facts Ill all cases.
| Mr.. Cole oppose, the bill because 1t
| reduces the desertlon cause to the III
| diana rule, and because it makes insanity
a cause. The latter is inhuman and
| cruel; it is something over which human
| ity has no control.
| EIr. Wallace said able jurists had de-
! clared the bill a good one and necessary.
| Mr.. Bowman Mr.. Savage in the chair)
! favored the one year desertion clause or
/, even q shorter time. Wilfull desertion
should not be measured by time.
Mr.. Mack thought the law now too
liberal. The insanity proposition is
simply cold-blooded.
| The House refused to indefinitely post
pone, and refused to engross the bill.
| Assembly bill to amend Act concern
| ing State Treasurer. Ordered engrossed.
| Recess taken.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
| House assembled at Pm.
| Call Of the House ordered--Mr. Brun-
! ner found absent.
Mr.. Shoatf rose to a question of privi-
| lege and read from the Enterprise of Feb.
| q. in the Legislative report concerning
| the action upon the Rhoades Bondsmen
| case rs follows:
| .Shoatf said as this was a very import
] ant matterh would move to adjourn y
| Mr.. Shoaff said the interrogation point
| was intended as a bit of ridicule, that
| the reporter of that paper had pursued
| him in his reports for some time. He
| would not be misrepresented. He had
| used no such language. He notified MIR.
| Gillespie he would personally punish him
if he persisted in holding him (the
| speaker up to ridicule.
Mr. Ely rose to point OF order that
| the gentleman was using language i'm
| proper for the floor of the House.
| Held. not well taken.
| Mr.. Shoaff continued and reiterated
| his former warning.
| The Rhoades Bondsmen case was then
| taken up.
The clerk read the evidence produced
| before the committee.
l. Exhibit from the Controllers books.
2. Affidavit of Nourse, late State EX-
| aminer.
3. Atfitlavits of Noteware and Clarke,
State Examiners, as to counting money
in Treasury.
4. Affidavit of Bostwick.
5. Affidavit of H. F. Rice.
6. Affidavit of B. II. Meder.
Mr.. Street said the substance of the
testimony taken by the committee was
embodied in those affidavits.
Mr.. Crawford moved that both the re-
! ports of the committee and the papers
Just read be printed. Carried.
Mr.. Cole said he was not satisfied with
| the evidence. 1t proved nothing ON
which the report of the testimony WAS
based.
The bill to release the bondsmen was
| then placed upon its final passage and
carried by SO to II.
An Act to define the time for the levy
! inc and collection of taxes Passed.
Messages were received from the Gov
ernor announcing approval OF bills, anu
returning one for authorization.
An Act to amend the Act to create
State loan and provide means of levying
taxes To pay t!le SitlHe Ii c blii hutAioA
ICES the State Treasurer to redeem State
bonds at not less than 10 per cent. pre-
MUM. Passed.
An Act to amend an Act entitled an
Act 10 authorize Il State loan for the pur-
pose of paying the State proportion OF
the bonds issued under the Act approved
February 9th, 1871, to fund the floating
debt and place the State upon perma-
nent cash basis, approved February 9th,
1871. Passed.
An Act to regulate the business OF
pawn6rokers and pledges.
Mr.. Cole said the bill was good law at
least as in force in most of the States.
He did not know whether it was good for
Nevada or not The bill was full Of bad
spelling and bad construction Of language.
Mr. Owen thought pawnbrokcrs
should be allowed to charge just what
they wished. A large class dealing with
them would pledge stolen goods and
they cash much that way. Honest men
could get money on pledges at lawful
rates. but of another class the brokers
had to exact large rates. He cited cases
in illustration. Lost
Mr.. Bowman gave notice OF reconsld-
Grafton of the vote by which the bill was