Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-10-14

Aliuolng 10 the proposed C"'"p'o
mise Of suits against certain mining
companies for back axes by the last
Legislature, a late issue of the Reno
Gazette falsely says:
Had the upright members Of that
Legislature attempted to reduce the
rate of L taxation on the ground hat the
bullion tax would be collected. these
same men Those who favored the
COMPROMISED would have defeated 1t.
This shows that the reckless young
man of the Gazette Is either very dis
honest or grossly ignorant, or both.
By reference to page pa, Senate Jour
nal, be will discover that Mr.. Comins.
from the Committee on Ways and
Means, on behalf Of the Committee,
introduced Senate bill No. 1875, which
provided for reducing the State levy
from 90 cents to IS cents on the one
hundred dollars. And again, ii he will
turn to page 300 of the same book, he
will find that the bill passed the
Senate by the following vote:
Yeas-Messrs. Blair, Cassidy, Club
buck, Comins, Edwards. Farrell, Gar.
rard, Grimes, King. Martin, Piper,
Hickey, Shepherd, Shultz. Stampley
and Wes,erfield-l6.
Nays-Messrs. Boardman, Creswell !,
Dickinson, Mcconnell, Ross, Stewart
and Wescoatt- Z. MIR. Baker did not
answer to his name. The bill went to
the House and was there defeated, but
not until the Governor had vetoed the
Compromise bill. The showing made
by the financial officers OF tho State
was in effect that if the delinquent
bullion tax could be got into the
Treasury We might safely reduce, 9TH
erwise not. On the contrary they de-
handed An increase of taxes and also
authority to borrow 500. 900 il the
Compromise bill failed. No bill touch
ing taxation, save that reducing
the State levy to IS cents was proposed
in either House. The penalty on the
delinquent bullion tax, which the Leg
islature offered to cancel in order 10
get the principal, put an end to ex-
travagant litigation and place the State
in condition to reduce all taxes, has
since been thrown of by Governor
Bradley, General Clarke and others
representing the State. And so We
have precisely what the Legis-
lature proposed In the way of q
settlement of the tax suits, with
the important difference that the
people have been defrauded out
Of q reduction, which is costing
them annually not far short of $780,
900. There was no proposition to
make the tax on bullion any less than
the tax on other property, and all the
bosh about the question being in any
manner affected by the resolutions oil
political conventions cuts no figure in
the cas- 1t was a new question; II
matter Of State policy, never once
thought of by any convention. One
road led to a general reduction of tax.
alton; the other favored the mainten.
sHcs Of the present ruinous high rate.
We favored that line of policy which
contemplated the ~lessening of the bur
dens of the people, and the accumula
ton OF useless millions in the vaults OIL
the State Treasury proves c~onclusively
that we were right about it.
A SMALL Coms,ock print says i: Il
Congressman Wren, OF Nevada, were
a man h~onorably DESTROYS of represent
ing his State, he mover would have
taken the stand he has. in opposition
to President Hayes policy. He should
recollect that if a vote on the question
were to be taken in Nevada, Hayes
would be overwhelmingly sustained
without q dissenting vote almost. AL
though he knows what the will of the
people is, he has placed himself in di
rect opposition to their wishes.
We suppose Mr.. Wren will survive
the adverse comments ofthe bell. ripgeI
press of Nevada. According to our oh
~servation, a large majority Of the better
class Of Republicans in Eastern Ne
vada are with Conkling Blaine ant
Wren.
We ARE in receipt of the first mum
Der Of the Bodie Standard, . hand
somo wAeklv inst startAd by FranL