Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1879-01-24
Incorporation Gets a Setback and
the Railroads Catch the Devil.
THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED At THE COURT.
HOUSE LAST EVENING.
A Mass Meeting Called for To
morrow Night.
AZ which Railroad MOn0poIies will
be Ventilated.

put in their appearance, and as the bill was
in their possession, the meeting was at sea
a. to what course to pursue.
Mr.. Sadler moved that Mr.. James +.
Anderson act as temporary Secretary, and
it was unanimously adopted.
A long discussion then followed az to
whether the bill was before the house or
not, and Mr.. George Baker finally sug-
gested that the Committee be asked to pre-
sent it.
Judge Hubbard said a mistake evidently
existed, and that the Committee had al
ready reported; that the bill had been
turned over to the Secretary at the former
meeting. The Committees labors, he
added, ended there, and that one OF several
things could be don with it. The meet
ing had a right to receive and adopt it, TO
amend, or to lay upon the table, and that
the latter course had been adopted.
A motion was finally made that, in order
to avoid further dispute, the bill reported
by the Committee be received, and it was
adopted by one aye; nays. none.
Another interim Of silence followed,
which was finally broken by Mr.. Horn.
who thought il would be a good idea to take
the sense Of the meeting as to whether they
desired incorporation under the Commit
tees bill.
Mr.. Allen hoped the voters Of the town
would be allowed an expression of their
sentiments before definite action was
taken.
Mr.. Dunkel favored turning the meeting
into q mass convention, to take action ON
the subject of railroad monopolits.
Mr. Eanrys Daisr ,1id mt fli,L ~ a AZ
ting time to deal with railroad matters. 1t
would be much better to have the subject
agitated through the columns Of our pa
pers, and that u mass meeting should be
called for the purpose Of b~raeing up our
representatives. The subject Of fares and
freights, he claimed, was Of far more
Importance to us than incorporation.
The former subject was Of vital in
tcrest to everybody, while 10 one seemed
to care particularly about the latter. He
favored the sending OF a message to our
legislators that unless they fulfilled their
duties to their constituents. and came
home with clean hands, they need not
come at all. ICheers. lie attacked the
railroad management, and handled them
without gloves. lie cited the fact that
Judge Cole recently paid 81 for the trans
mission Of certain freight from New York
to Ogden. and S6j from Ogden to Eureka.
although the distance between New York
and Ogden was over 1000 miles greater
than between Ogden and Eureka.
A voice" That is discrimination"
Laughter.
Mr.. Horn favored some such action, but
thought petitions would prove more effec-
tive.
A messenger who had been sent in
search of Captain Rock reported his ina
bility to find that gentleman, and Mr..
Turner moved that a vote DO taken on in
corporation.
MIR. Sadler wanted the vote to be simply
as to whether incorporation was desired
under the Committees bill.
Judge Hubbard said there were many
persons present who had no earthly inter-
est in the affairs Of Eureka, and who did
not live within its limits. lie ridiculed the
idea Of the meeting attempting to act in-
telligcntiy on the bill when it was not ut
hand. and no man could remember the
gist Of half a dozen sections. lie denied
that he had taken any especial interest in
I o aing it. and that il was the united work
Of til. Committee. The manner in which
their report had been treated, he said, was
scarcely respectful.
Mr.. Horn thought tho boot was on the
other leg, and that the Committee was not
treating the meeting respectfully, from the
fact that no bill conld be found.
Mr.. Foley replied that when the bill
passed into the hands Of the Secretary,
their responsibility ended, and that it had
been treated as SO much waste paper.
Judge Hubbard moved that the bill be
laid ON the table. and joe Mendss sug-
gestcd that Mr.. Sadler be laid under the
table.
voices-"Lct's hear the bill"
Mr.. Horn co~mplimented the Committee,
aa1 ,.t1 fl.ax- hal frap,.I a. GOOD a Kill No
was possible. The town. however. was too
small TO bear the burdens that would neces-
sarily follow Incorporation, and he moved
that the thanks Of the meeting be rendered
the Committee. and that they be discharged,
which was adopted.
Mr. Orrin Miller was DESTROYS Of abating
certain nuisances. and especially the big
ditch, and favored the granting Of addi-
tional power to the Commissioners in order
to accomplish this result.
A lively debate followed this proposition,
and it was agned pro and con. George
Baker claiming that no power could be
| given the Commissioners, as it would con-
1ict with the common law OF the State.
Another Dig at the Railroads.
Mr.. Dave Baily here took the floor, and
proceeded to touch up both incorporation
and railroad matters. Some definite ac-
ton, he said, should be taken by the citi-
zcns in the matter OF incorporation, and
our representatives should not now be
embarrassed as they were two years ago by
petitions for and circumstances against it.
lie secuted the idea Of any man or set Of
men being able to draft such a bill as would
satisfy everybody, and cited in illustration
the alleSory of the painter who, after years
OF toll, finished what he deemed a master
piece, which he placed on exhibition in
the market place, with the written request
for all critics to mark with chalk such de-
fects as came under their observation In
the evening he found his painting totally
obscured with chalk marks, and the same
thing happened on the following day when
he requested that all points particularly
deserving OF praise should be marked. 1t
was the same, he claimed, with such a bill.
Many would be found to both praise and
condemn, and he thought that action once
had. all should abide by the result. For
himself, he could live in any community and
under any law that any other long-legged
man could. Laughter. The charter Of
Austin, in his estimation, was a good one,
and thought it might meet tho wants of
our people. He suggested that q request
be sent to our representatives, asking them
to exert themselves to secure some pro-
lection for a long suffering community.
"And IL they fail to do it," continued the
speaker, when they come home take
them out and reason with them gently,
and il they don't give a satisfactory ex-
PLANTATION, hang them. Cheers.
He next paid his compliments to the
railroads, and relieved his solid arguments
by some Imaginable illusions. What we
wanted. he said, was relief from that
gigantic tape worm that reaches through
our State, and brushes the life from our
industries and grinds our merchants-tES
Central Pacific Railroad. The speaker pro-
ceeded to show that while it costs but $3.50