Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-06-22
CASSIDY'S
The Good News 1t Brings-What 1t
Means.

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The following dispatch was received yes
terday morning by the SENTINEL. The
news is of so much importance that it was
Immediately published in an extra" and
distributed Throughout town. When the
next Legislature meets, without the fund
mentioned in the dispatch, our finances
would be in a very bad condition. The
constitutional borrowing capacity of the
State has been largely drawn upon. The
revenues of the State have dwindled down
so as to fall far below the necessary ex-
penses of government. Without the $780,
900 mentioned, which m like a wind
fall, the State would have to be run on
credit for at least one-half of the time be-
tween the next and the subsequent ses-
sions Of the Legislature. The emergency
would not nave been improbable of the
States being without money and without
authority to borrow-which ia equivalent
to being without money and without
credit. This unfortunate and extraordin-
airy condition Of things had already be-
come q problem, and was occupying the
minds of all who ave material interests
in Nevada and are not unfamiliar with the
state Of our finances. 1t did look as
though the wheels Of government
would be stopped. Nor would there
have been any remedy. There was
talk of resuming our former condition as
a territory--for which there is no prece-
dent, MOI any law, SO far as we are in.
formed. This $500, 600, under the law
regulating State expenses, which goes into
effect Jan. /, 1888, will go far towarda pay
ing expenses for a year.
The dispatch containing the good It'd
ings is as follows, as II came to US from
the telegraph Office:
WASHINGTON, June 81, 1882.
Just passed bill to pay all Nevada
War Claims, which will put nearly Two
Hundred Thousand Dollars in the State
Treasury. CASSIDY.
In the Extra the word "have" was added
in the SENTINEL office, making the dispatch
read "Have just passed." etc. This word,
however, might just as well have been
omitted, as the sense remains the same.
The reading Of it is too plain to be misun-
derstood unless for a purpose. Mr.. Cas-
sidy makes no intimation in the dispatch
that he was the means of securing the pas
sage of the bill. The wording can only
be tortured into such significance. Had
Mr.. Cassidy suspected that there would be
ANYBODY in the world 30 unfriendly and
unjust as to place a false construction
upon his words. he might have been more
prudish from the suspicion OF such I'M
likely criticism, and have said merely:
'Bill passed to pay" etc. 1t is the most
unlikely thing in the world, however, that
he ever suspected the existence OF any
body among his own %neighbors who
would ~criticise the rhetoric of a dispatch
and comfort it in a funny effort to make
L. 10000, ,I,o,1n,a Thnaa who know
Mr.. Cassidy, and there are few that do not
know him, are not capable of believing
that he would allow his pride and egotism,
never mind how much elated by success in
the cause of his constituency, to so far
get the better of him as to make him silly.
He is the last nan in Nevada to "glve
himself away" as the saying is. We do
not know particularly what share OF the
honor is Mr.. Cassidy's for securing the pass
age Of the 5000, 900 bill. He has never writ.
ten a word about it to this office, or to any
OF his friends in Eureka, so far as we have
heard. But that his shoulder was at the
| wheel in the good work we have every
reason to believe from our general knowl-
| edge OF his earnestness and activity in
| Congress, where, though only a raw men,
| Der, he has asserted himself in a mastery
wav, and won the recognition OF older
| members ana tnt stiohsoSe hoh AZ a.
House. Senator Fair has no doubt pulled
hard for the same good result. We had
occasion, only a little while age, to review
Mr.. Fairs course in the Senate. Although
he has not made any studied speech on
the floor yet, he has done a vast deal Of
work in the committees, where work tells.
Moreover, we have the most reliable
assurances that our Senator and Congress
man work together in perfect harmony.
All honor to both of these gentlemen Tor
the good they have done.