Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-12-10

great earthquakes are always preceded by
season of preliminary earth tremblinGs. He
believes that. by means of geographically con.
nected stations for observing these trem.
blings it would be possible to foretell earth
quakes Just as storms are now foretold, and
to issue warnings to all threatened districts
three days in advance.
TIE Enterprise boastingly remarks that
"TEe 1ag-fy annoys the stallion in the sum-
mer time and flea can make the philosopher
curse the system Of creation" This Journal
is willing to admit that during the hot season
the attacks Of our Con,stock contemporary
annoyed it but, they never in the slightest de-
gree distnrbed its solid philosophy of affected
its profound faith in that system of creation
which compells millienaires to hire drought
less writer's to 90 their thinking by special
contract.
The Stoct Eschanqe says: What is the usc
of our journals taking the side of the Irish
landlords We threw overheard the tea III
Boston harbor because it was taxed. The
Irish tenants are throwing over landlords
because excessive and unjust rents threaten
to tax them out of existence. That's all there
is to it; and considering that some Of our
American money paid for the seed potatoes
which these landlords want TO sell fer rent,
We ought to stand by the Irish Land League
that We may not be called upon to put orr
hands in orr pockets again next season.
Nor YRr.-A Nevada paper has intimated
that the Republican State Senators could, by
absenting themselves, prevent an organization
Of the Legislature this winter and consequent
" proven: the election Of n United States
Senator to succeed Mr.. Sharon of California.
There are SEINE people who are uhcharitable
enough to suggest that such 4 course would
be benefit to the people of the State, but it
would not be exactly the square thin. to de-
fraud Col. fair of the seat which he has
bought and paid for.-Stock Report.
The Report does not seem TO comprehend
the situation up here. The Colonel has not as
yet paid for his seat, as he will doubtless dis
cover before he finds himself through with
the business.
The REASON WHy-The Democratic papers
have made considerable capital cut of the
assertion that the prosecution in the Philip
case dare not try him for forgery. The Record
Union explains tho matter in the following
satisfactory way:
A contemporary fails to understand why
Philip has been indicted for libel instead Of
forgery. The explanation is simple. The
laws Of New York are so peculiar that
charge Of forgery cannot be preferred where
there is no question of financial or commercial
interest The purpose of the Morey letter
was not to raise money, and therefore the
imitation Of General Garfield's name on it
was not forgery under the State statutes.
This is why Philip was indicted for criminal
libel, and not for forgery.
REDUCE THE NuMBER.-The Reno Journal
suggests new apportionment of the members
Of the Legislature, cutting the number down
to sixty. The State might get along with ten
less, or fifty in the aggregate. The present
number, which is the constitutional limit, is
seventy -fiye-twenty-five Senators and fifty
Assemblymen. A saving could be made to
the State by the proposed reduction. The
constitution, by implication, requires neg
superintendent based upon each Federal and
State census. 1t is therefore partially obiga-
tory on the incoming Legislature to move in
the premises. The superintendent must be
made on the population as developed by tho
census, and not on The vete of the last preced-
ing election as indicated by the Journal! See
the constitution Sentinel
The above suggestions may result in quite
a saving to the morepolies who make pur-
chases OF Legislatures every two years. Then
again there being fewer members each indi.
viduars Influence would be propsrtisnately
greater and he mis- ht set higher price on his
vote. At all events, the experiment. is worth
trying and no doubt the next Legislature will
take some steps toward reducing the number
Of men selected to make laws Considering
the amount OF work done there can be no
doubt that too many hands are employed.
DEFECTIVE LAws.-Frem the manner in
which lawyers pull law to pieces while practic-
ing in the courts, the idea suggests itself that
the men who form the laws leave loop holes
in them that when occasion requires they
may have no difficulty in assisting some crimi-
nal they are defending to evade them. The
laws are now nearly all framed by members
of the bar. As a rule they get $500 for fran.
in. them, and all the way from $500 to So, 900
for knocking them into flinders. At each ses-
sion of the Legislature batch of new laws
has to be made. and after the men to whom