Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-02-26
SOME MORE CENTENNIAL.

Inc EdlefIftS9 IL Dr4aAA Va '" L. IL
OF W. L. H. on behalf of the Enterprise
persists in the averment that Whitehil!
presented his bill of fourteen hundred
and odd dollars before lie resigned. II
IS 4 matter hardly worth all the talk that
has been expended upon it, bat for the
information O. Tie Enterprise and It s
contumacious Initials We viii state the
facts Of the case as they stand, as near
circumstantially as need be. Tie quar-
rel between Whitehill and the executive
committee took place at the meeting OF
Nov. 20. That meeting was held II the
private Office in rear Of Wells, Fargo Il
Co.'S bank in this city. After Stewart
had been notified tia: Lis services would
no longer be required. then came up the
proposition to send Stevenson to PhIIa-
delphia. Whitebil inquired if he was
not going to be sent to Philadelphia IN
Il after Stevenson return. The Board
-oli him that lie was not. Then,
said he, - want nothing more to do
with the Centennial. Very well,
was the reply. &" then your resignation is
II .order right now" and his resisns-
ton as specimen collector and Secre-
tary of the Board, was accepted there
and then. There was some dispute be-
tween Whitehill ard :he executive COM
mittee about the exact wording OF this
&C. of resignation. but We have stated
the substance of what occurred. After
this fare-up had taken place, Whitehill
presented the bill for travelling expenses.
At the Lext meeting. (which We report
ID, Mr.. Whitehill distinctly said that
the S1,435.I5 was Of moneys due the
State Treasury and not to him. Suisse
quently-it may have been, as stated IL
the Enterprise, Dec. I've do not care TO
refer 70 our files for the detes-WhIte-
hill resigned as member OF the Com
mission. But there is not any founda-
ton for the charge of ". r. II. that
WLitehill resigned because the Board
would not allow tine 81, 1919 bill of ex-
psnses, or any other bill. He resigned
his place as collector and secretary be-
cause he objected to being obliged to
wait Stevenson's return from Washing
ton. He seemed to have wrought him
self up to the idea that the Board wanted
TO humiliate him by putting the cabinet
AID all into Stevenson's hands. This Is
where all the trouble came from. When
de finally resigned from the Board he
lid SO, as We thought a. the time, in
conformity with our suggestion that both
ne and Stevenson should resign for the
sake of promoting peace. As to the
public sentiment that ran so high IL
Stewards behalf, it is all bosh. Public
sentiment expressed itself with regard
10 him and Whitehill when 1t elected
The latter and defeated the former for
the Office of uineralogist. Stewar. has
been treated with great kindness by
lie press, all things considered. He has
amused people with his earthquake
vagariss, and tickIed the ears Of the
owners Of bar-roo1n cabinets and their
gaping retainers with his chronic d!arr-
laa of technical catch words. He has
been Tegardadas harmless, hai--braineli
enthusiast with q somewhat amusing IN
tatuation for the oIogies. There Is 10
,Ioub: thai he IS an acceptable oracle to
emotional people like the Black Rock
nan and unthinking people who would
rather lear - science " talked across {
lunch-tabIe than il lecture hall; but
ne would not astoEish anybody about
the Smithsonian Institute. Come 10
think of it, may he he would, tool Now
We like Stewart and would not harm him
tor lie world. But his friends VIII in
sist on it that we shall regard him as q
savant and trea. him as tenderly is If he
were an object too sacred for the prob
i1gs of pens profane. Bat We are not
going TO let good fellowship domineer
our convictions Of the fitness Of things.
As to the lobby business, limited at.
we are very glad to see that the Enter
l5tss, fc- once, suffers its emotional
nature to be restrained by something re-
semblisg good judgment. There IS some
feeble hope for il, yet.