Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1874-06-10
NpErINIrE DISAPPOINTMENT.

INDEFINITE r0srr0NEMENr.
The Senate Committee on Judiciary,
IN whom was referred ut Sutro's re-
quest tho Infamous Sutro-N egley
amendment to our mining laws, yes
tsrday through its Chairman made a
report. The conclusions Of the COM
mi,tee were not favorable to the inter-
.,ts Of Su,ro, nor did they coincide
with those Of bis eminent but not
gratefully remembered legal adviser,
Jeremiah S. Black.
II will DO remembered that this bill,
with the amendments thereto, was, az
ter p.sslng the House and being re-
celyed In the Senate, properly referred
10 tho Comnlttse on Mines and Min
ing. At the time Of this reference, the
only member Of that committee from
the Pacific coast vas Senator Sargent.
subsequently, n Of Its members re-
signed on account Of III health, and,
also very properly, senator Jones
wss appointed to MI the vacancy
thus created. Thus there were Of tho
seven members composing this CON-
ml,,se only two who had ever been
practically interested or connected
with mining upon the Pacific Coast,
or who knew from personal observa-
ton or acquaintance with our leading
industry, Its wants or necessities. IL
will be further called to mind by our
readers that Sutro and his attorney
went before this committee, and OBJ
iectsd to Its consideration OF tho
Negley amendment, on the ground
that two Of its members were unfavor-
able thereto. In other words, he
charged that Senator Sargent had pre-
viously expressed an opinion against
such legislation and that Senator Jones
was Interested In the Crown Point
mine, and therefore, prsjudlced against
his tsu,ro's) enterprise" This was
u gross indignity to those Senator's, a
proceeding without precedent, and
doubtless, though Sutro succeeded
BY the aid OF carpot-baggcrs
In accomplishing the transfer
ho demanded, had its inevitable re-
dictionary effect. The bill was referred
to the judiciary Committee as desired
by Su,ro and Black. 1t has been In
charge thereof for several weeks. Both
the Comstock mines and the Sutro tun.
mel have been represented before IL by
their respective attorneys. Black. In
a most sophistical argument, demon
s,rated to hls own land Sutro's) salts
faction that the Comstock companies
had no title TO their claims; that they
were open 20 relocation 10y Sutrol and
that. la short, the Sutro Tunnel Com
pany was the inly legal aud valid
owner Of the Constock lode. TIL.
was all very pleasant. Sutro was
In ~ec,taeies, his 1.-TWO papers, boil
daily" one In san Francisco, aud the
other In Virginia City, were ecstati'
In contemplation Of the prospective
value OF the stock donated them, ant
the reading world stood ashast at th'
prospect OF the success OF n swindle a
ouco so eold-bloodei. enormous an'
disbolical.
But 1t appears that tho argument O
the Hon. jeremiah 5. Black, as ono
before within the memory OF our read
srs, failed In produce conviction. w
all remember the famous "oplnion
at the beginning OF our late war, en-
Inundated by Attorney General Black
"rhc Government has no power I
ccerco n State" was his dictum then
just as latterly he told this committe
that the miners OH the Co,nStock lod
had no rights which Congress or III
Sutro Tunnel are bound to rcspec
The committee, rs was the case wit
many millions OF people In 1850. o'
jected to Jersmlsh's sage conclusions
they "didn't see 1t In that light" nh
yesterday, as we have said. rsPorte
back the bill they had In charge, wit
the recommendation, not that Il ;
passed, not that IL be modified
but that IL DO f~RledRitely pos
poned. IL IL barely possible 1t ma
come up this session II so, 1t Is d.
sijedly improbable that tho Sena,
will not ratify the committees recon
msndation Of indeflnit. postponemen.