Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-01-09
THE EXTRA SESSION QUESTION
SOME PLAIN POLITICAL TALK.

Hobart i'll his Enterprise communication has
had u remarkable effect. The old saying is,
that ''Figures wont lie Mr. Hobart
critics, without even attempting to refute any
OF his tables and estimates seek to convey the
impression that figures do lie And there is a
strange middle, all round Last winter
when the bonanza compromise bill was on the
stocks, Mr. c. J. Hillyer, as of counsel for the
bonanza firm asked and obtained an audience
OF the Speaker of the Assembly. He preached
the subject of the said bill He was informed
of the strenuous pledges taken on himself a
member of the Legislature by the Speaker.
Mr. Hillyer replied that in conference which
he had just had with the Governor, the Con
troller and the Treasurer, he had been assured
that the measure proposed was met with a
very favorable consideration. The financial
officers were represented as being fully com
uitted to the wisdom and fairness of the policy
Of the matter The Governor had seemed to
give very ready acqulescence. There Is no
doubt that both Mr.. Schooling and Mr.. Ho-
hart were of the opinion that the wiser course
situation: The State must have the two hun
bred thousand dollars locked upin the Supreme
Court of the United States or be authorized
t. borrow that amount Of money in case OF
delay in deciding the said tax Asses This left
a plain and simple question of expediency
That is, Is it better to borro1C two hundred
thousand dollars, or accept the proffer of the
mining companies to gre the State that
amount Of money! If the State were to Dor
row the needed amount she must give her
bonds for term OF years pay interest on
the amount thereof, and finally pay back the
amount borrowed If, on the other hand she
accepted the offer of the companies and took
her dues there wonld be no debt incurred, no
interest payable and 10 denau1 f"r the ana!
return Of the moneys placed N the Treasury.
This was the simple question based upon the
presumption of the law 5 delay. II the com
promise bill should prove unwise or Injurious,
il could be amended or repealed by the next
LEGISLATURE It is a matter Of history that the
taxpayers Of 0rmsby County, almost to a man,
signed 4 petition urging the delegation i'll
Seuatc ard Assembly TO support the Compro-
mise Bill and that they did comply with that
request Meantime the Compromise Bill
was heartily supported by ,Ae Enterprise and
the Chronicle, the Gold Hill VOWS, the Silver
State, the Eureka #,uti1el and
the MoaSISl; APPEAL. We believe there were
other papers which took tie same position.
Of all these papers, the only o1c which has
preserved all attitude Of absolute, intelligent
consistency is the Sentinel. The APPEAL
freely ACKNOWLEDGES that through the Incidence
and stupidity Of its editor, it got itself on the
wrong track in regard to the general subject
of taxation underlying the whole question:
The fact would seem to be that the Treasurer,
rcpenting of his attitude toward the Bonan-
z4naires and renewing a temporarily impaired
allegiance to the Governor and his advisers,
put his arthnatic into Bradlerian logarithm
and had it given to the world through the |
columns of the unsuspecting and innocent |
APPEAL Now if AIr. Schooling was right in
advising the expediency of passing the Com
promise Bill; if taxes on the mines could be |
reduced last winter, why may they not .he re-
duced on all kinds of property, now. if Hobart's |
figures are correct! The MORNING APPEAL |
is not making Hobart fight nor anybody's |
fight, for that matter; b.. Ia demands The dis |
cussion of this issue from another standpoint
than that of partisan who 5 so interested in
the success of the Democratic party as to be
willing that Bradley should be nominated for
a third term And then look at the attitude
"f the press upon this question. See how
lamentably inconsistent some of the news
papers have been The Silver State advocated
the passage of the compromise bil-a bill
only affecting the great bullion producers
Now, having received new light under the in
SEPARATION of inhexible Broadhorn pro
gr1iinlne, it is opposed to an act which would
relieve the whole people of one half their bur
den Of taxation. A few weeks ago. the Ne
vada State Journal, toying with the playthincs
OF statecraft, was for an extra session. Now
that it sees danger to Waslloe's pet scheme of
robbery the Bradley colosseum) it recants
and sees the other side of the question: Look
at the rottenness engendered by debau cherry
When Bradley and his associates, in order to
colonize Washoe County, expended 500, 900
III prison lands and wall building they began
upon course of extravaganza, partisan pur-
pose and folly from which they seem unable