Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-06-28
The BONANZA COMPROMISE BILL
ETC.


1t is evident that the subject matter Of the
Bonanza Compromise Bill will play a not
important part in the politics of this State next
year. We note that Senator Cassidy is not
averse to taking hand in the discussion of
that subject even at this distance Referring
to the law Of last Winter which exempts the
mines Of Storey county from city taxation,
the Senator, through the columns of his pa
per, the Eureka Sentinel, says:
No question was better understood about
the Legislature and in the Governors office.
we take it, than this same municipal exemp-
ton. 1t was radically wrong and wicked, on
principle, say these people by their acts, to
authorize q small reduction for State pur-
poses, when all taxes could have been re-
duced at the same time; but it was eminent
" wise and proper, on principle, to despoil
Virginia City, which had just been left q
heap ofS charred ruins, Of the whole Of the
revenue derived from this source. The
Governor would stand III pretty light be-
fore the world should he call an extra SEES
sion Of the Legislature to remedy statute
which he himself by his approval enacted in
to law All of this waddle about the ex-
efnption clause having been wrung in, so to
speak, is the refuge resorted to by dena-
gOgues to shield themselves from proper in
dignatiOn. This clause was in the identical
enrolled bill approved by the Governor, and
it stands there to-day. We believe the Gov
ernOr to be an houest man, but we also be-
heve that he is as liable to commit mistakes
as the average run of men. He was certainly
guilty Of gave error when he gave his as
sent to the acceptance of the back bonanza
lao a. -
what the much abused compromise bill pro-
posed After the Governor had said to the
people of the State, by his veto, ''we will
fight EN- to the bitter end, " he should have
stald with the declaration instead of consent
ing to compromise only three days prior to
the decision of the Supreme Court Of the
United States, affirming the States right to
collect tax on bullion. The only excuse
for the compromise bill, in the first place,
was the sole argument that, by getting these
back taxes into the State Treasury,
the State would then be in condition
to reduce the State rate Of taxa
ton from 50 cents, as now, TO 60 cents, as
was proposed by the bill introduced by the
writer, on each one hundred dollars valuation
of taxable property The substantial differ
ence between the proposed legislative settle
ment and that made by the State and Storey
county officials is just this: The latter scheme
secured for the State the back taxes, only.
The legislative scheme would have brought
precisely the same number of dollars into the
treasury, and besides the people of the State
would have received the further benefit of
reduction Of 20 to % per cent. in the rate of
taxation, aggregating between S1O0,0 and
S200,00 annually, quite nice little sum to
have left in the pockets Of poor taxpayers
these hard times. Controller Hobart and
Treasurer Schooling, the financial officers of
the State, heartily approved the legislative
scheme as being the best for the interests of
the whole people, and their say-so in the
premises had as much or more to do with the
passage of the Compromise bill than all other
influences combined If Bill Hobart and
Jerry Schooling had not said the bill ought
to pass, and demonstrated their position by
the facts and figures from their books, we
know at least one Senator who would never
have given it his support.
We like brave men; men who seek not to
dodge the full responsibility of their acts, be /
they official or otherwise There is much |
1emagogsm connected with this whole bust !
ness The time for unmasking it will arrive /
one of these days, and when it does come, |
the writer will not decline to take hand in |
me discussion of the question in all it's .
bearings, including some personal reminis- .
,ences from the Governors shop down to the I
most obscure member of the Legislature of |
hat session.