Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1874-03-12
SACRAMENTO, March 10, 1874.

En-. News: Nothing OF paramount
Importance, extraordinary or sensa-
tlonal having t%ranspired since my last,
your correspondent has allowed a very
considerable Interval to lapse In
his correspondence. As the term fixed
by the State Constitution for the ses-
sion OF the Legislature expires on the
eth day OF April, there Is but three
weeks more OF the session remaining.
by tho time named, tho treasury will
have been very materially depleted.
This reminds your correspondent OF n
remark made a number Of years slncc
by Watkins (who wrote considerably
for the papers over the nom do plume
reversal OF his name, "~Sniktaw'L
formerly a member OF Assembly from
Siskiyou, but now OF Paraguay. Early
In the session. he got the floor aud got
oil the following short. but charac-
acterlstic aud pithy speech: MIR.
S~peaker-I sec from the Treasurer's
report. that there Is Ss00,0 900 In tho
State Treasury. Let's rake her :"
Ills advice was followed, but the raking
OF the treasury that session was moth
ing compared with this. The two
Houses at the present session have not
done business on 80 small a scale as TO
use q rake (; they have used q regular
old fashioned scraper. Tho speech Of
"~Snik:aw" reminds your correspon-
dent OF a remark made by John III.
Tatman. commonly called tho Mar
iposl statesman" who. the same ses-
sion, introduced a bill Into the CAL
ifornia Assembly to amend the Con-
stitution OF the United States. At the
same session a bill was introduced au-
thorizlng the State to purchase 800
copies OF Weeds Digest OF the Laws
OF California ut so n copy. Charley
DE Long. then an Assemblyman from
Yuba county. being interested In the
passage Of tho bill solicited "0ld
ra,'s" support Of the measure. Scr
tainly, Charley, I'll 20 for IL, II you
say It's q good thing" was the prompt
response /; "but how does 1t come. In
boxes or bottlcsg This Intelligent
legislator evidently coniounded n d.
gest Of the laws, with some anti dys-
peptic remedy, In which latter form
lie would evidently prefer that 1t should
come In glass.
rrecn,sn's Freight and Fare Hill.
Frseman's bill, regulating the tariff
OF freigh,s and fares on the railroads
Of the State, which passed the Assem-
bly, near a month ago. has been before
the Senate Committee OH Corporations
since that time. The committee has
held numerous meetings, and In ODE
diencc TO its summons, Governor STAN
ford, President OF the Central. Pacific,
and numerous other railroad men Of
the State, have appeared aud testified.
The testimony Of Governor Stanford,
which was volumlnous and exhaustive,
goes to show that while the Central
Pacific might DO operated under the
tariff prescribed by the Assembly, Its
rates would be fatal to tho successful
operation OF all the side roads OF the
State. which testimony was fully cor
roborated by other railroad men. The
report OF the committee, which the
Chairman stated yesterday, should DO
forthcoming on Saturday, Its delay
being sccasioned by the inability Of
the shorthand reporters to write up
his notes before that time, Is looked
for with interest.
Prospective Candidates Gr once.
As the session draws ear Its close,
the casting Of political horoscopes Is
the order OF tho day, and "comlng
events cast their shadows before" On
the Democratic side tho fight for the
to succeed Governor Booth
lies mainly between Farley, the late
nominee for the long term,
and Irwin. OF Siskiyou, editor OF the
Union, aud President pro TEN. OF
the Senate. While the fight for this
honor lies mainly between these par
ties, your correspondent Is OF spinion
that II things get into y snarl In the
nominating Convention, the tall and
young statesman. the Senator
from Napa, VIM. Writ Pendergast,
term expires the present session,
would o object to gobbling up the
aud handing each OF the contes-
u shell ; failing In this, as he Is a
lignihed and capable presiding officer,
he might be satisfied with the second
position. that Of Lieutenant Governor.
Pendergast, who. during the present
has been q tee-totaller, has
,een announced several times to ad-
lress temperance meetings, but falling
put In an appearance, has responded
BY letter.
Nap Broughton, the king OF the lob.
". referring to the Senators reform,
avs: They d.d-don't get P-Pandy
N wh-wh-whisky this session, but Is.
D-B-Barnes' tiger claws him
'retty r-r.roughly sometimes Oh the
.l-last turn" |.
On the Dolly Warden side Of the
louise, Freeman, OF V0lo, expects to