Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1875-04-20
THE MINERAL HILL STRIP
AGAIN.

AGAIN.
The Elko Independent is out in an
other ill-natured article about the Min
eral Hill cession. 1t attempts to JUS
tify the Commissioners of Elko in their
course in seeking to gather revenue
from a section of country over which
they have no more jurisdiction than
has Emperor Norton. Elko's only
shadow Of claim to the territory is
based upon an assumed parliament
airy ir%regularity in the passage of the
bill over the Governors veto. To be
more specific, the Senate reconsidered
its vote on the Governors veto. The
Independent says 1t had no right to do
any such thing; and yet the constitu-
ton of Nevada gives the Legislature,
and both branches thereof, full power
to make all rules for their own guild
ance. The people of Elko should I'M
derstand that it is not the province of
courts to inquire into the name of
the passage of any measure. They
are simply required to pass upon the
constitutionality of enactments, never
going behind the certificate of the
proper officers of the Legislature at
testing that a given law did pass by the
number Of affirmative votes fixed by
the constitution. The record of the
boundary law in question shows all
that is essential or necessary. But are
not these Elko people q consistent set
OF mortalsf In the Senate they stoutly
maintained that it was not proper to
reconsider the vote on the Governors
veto, and still the members from Elko
in the House endeavored to do pre-
cisely the same thing. After losing
the fight there, they gave notice of a
reconsideration, and by reason of this
notice actually held the bill for more
than thirty hours. On the second day
the vote was taken on the question to
reconsider, and Elko was again de-
feated. Clearly, then, Eureka's crime
consists in having been successful.
Had Eureka lost through the tactics Of
Elko's Representatives with reference
to the proposition to reconsider, she
would have yielded a graceful acqui-
essence, and that would have been the
end of the whole matter. But not so
with Elko. She first repudiates a SOL
emn agreement entered into two years
before, and next has the bad taste to
cry out T" foul" after ~exhausting every
parliamentary right called into requi-
sition by Eureka. Away with such
puerile nonsense. The course the
officials of Elko are striving to pursue
Is beneath the dignity of men. They
have no case or standing in court, and
yet they seek to annoy and bully "a
honest neighbor."
No man in Elko county knows bet
ter than the editor of the Independent
that Eureka has acquired nothing but
what she was justly and honestly en-
titled to. Only . short time prior to
the meeting Of the last Legislature the
editor Of the Independent, in the pres
moe Of q number of gentlemen, in the
SENTINEL Office, admitted in unequiv-
ocal terms that to Eureka justly be-
longed the now disputed territory, and
that so far Is he was concerned he was
perfectly willing that Eureka should
have every inch Of 1t. Colonel Moore,
HI. Q. Street, Reinhart, Freeman, Fitch,
Wilsey. and other prominent citizens
Of Elko, familiar with all of the facts,
have each Ia turn, at various TIMES and
ON divers occasions, also assented to
the justice Of Eureka's claim.
The people Of Mineral Hill and vi
entity are anxious to be recognized as a
part of Eureka county. Our tax rate
Is less, and they want to pay in this
county. Eureka is now engaged in
running the boundary line at her own
expense, and she is determined in the
future to exercise q pr~otectorate over
that particular section, n~otwithstand-
ing the objections OF Elko's editor and
commissioners. Lot ns hear no more
ON this subject.