Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1883-01-16
CARSON CORRESPONDENCE.


PERTAINING Our Law-mah ers-Ex-
cursion to Reno.
CARSON, Jan. IS, 1888.
Both branches of our Legislature are
now in good running order. The sessions
have been brief, but the work is well up.
There is a p~raiseworthy absence among
our legislators of what Tony Weller
called 'the gift O. CAB gallopin'," and
there is less hair-splitting, after the man
ner of a own meeting, than we have seen
in former Nevada Legislatures. The
temptation is strong, of course, for the
experienced legislator to air his parlia-
mentary knowledge, and to hurl Jefferson
and Gushing at the heads of new mem
bers, but there is even less of this than
formerly. The point-of-order fend occa-
sionally pops up and deserves, like other
nuisances, to be abated, but there is no
doing away with him, and, like Tenny-
sons brook, he will probably flow on for
ever.
The number of bills introduced up to
the present time is S3-45 in the Senate
and SO in the Assembly.
The legislators are distributed about
town more generally than during former
sessions. OF the hotels, the Ormsby has
the greatest share, the Arlington taking
second place, while many Of the old-time
members are comfortably entertained at
the St. Charles. But a majority Of our
Lawmakers have rooms at private resi-
dences, for which less extravagant prices
are charged than formerly, and the res
taurants and hotel tables feed many of the
so-called ''private roomers." AS a Car
sonite, I proudly announce the fact that
very few, if any, complaints have thus far
been heard of what is commonly known as
~s'hogging." OF course Renoites are ex-
ceptod in this statement.
RAILROAD BILLS.
Quite a number of railroad bills have
been introduced, while more, l under
stand, are being prepared, and from the
present outlook it is safe to say that there
will be no lack of at least pretended efforts
'to cinch the railroads." as Pete Smith
once said he wanted to do, but what the
aforesaid Pete utterly failed in. The leg
islators who meant what they said when
nominated on anti-railread platforms, who
are honestly with the people, and conse-
quently not the puppets of corporations,
will do what they can for the peoples re-
lief, and it is to be hoped that we have
enough such men to secure for us the
much needed railroad legislation. But
already we hear murmurings and hints
about tfalling down." we see a look of
contentment on the face of Steve Gage; |
Cleveland's mind is SO easy that he re-
Gently took q trip to San Francisco, and
the whippers-in, the lickspittles of the
corporations, are ready to wager that no
operative measure against railroads will
hnpny,a n liz yr in NnrDnp this Win{ny p,f |
even the lobby and its friends may be
mistaken this time, as every well-wisher
for Nevada's prosperity sincerely hopes.
Your correspondent has seen and read
but three of the railroad bills offered at this
session; one introduced by A~ssemblyman
Hardin on the Sth instant, being an Act to
establish fares on railroads running con-
tinuously through Nevada. The bill is o
short one, containing but four brief Sec
tions, and its provisions may be sum-
married. as follows: 1t is made unlawful
for any railroad company to charge more
than four cents per mile for passenger
travel, and two cents per mile for chill
dren under five years of age, 100 pounds
of baggage to be allowed grown persons
and so pounds allowed children under the
age above given. The penalty for a viola
ton of the provisions of this Act shall be
a fine of $500, to be recovered through the
Court in the district through
which the railroad may run.
Senator Smyth of Lander has intro
duced a bill Senate bill No. 2S) to regu-
late the charges for carrying and handling
freight and carrying passengers by inter
state railroads through Nevada. The
features of this bill briefly stated are: No
railroad corporation or person engaged as
a public carrier shall carry freight beyond
its point Of destination. The second and
third sections propose doing away with
the competitive point hobby, and prevent
ing public carriers from charging more
for a short than a long distance. Six
cents per mile is the maximum figure of
freight charges, and four cents per mile
for passengers. 1t is proposed to do away
with the discrimination against small
shippers. The penalty for a violation Of
any of the provisions of the Smyth bill is
a forfeiture Of a sum equal to five times
the amount Of damage sustained, the PEN
atty to be enforced by a Court Of compe-
tent jurisdiction.
Assemblyman Rieppe Of Lincoln has
introduced a bill ASSEMBLY bill No. 12)
to create a Board of Railroad Commits
toner's and to define their powers. This is
modelled after the O'Connor bill Of Cali
fornia, which became a law in 1876, and
under which Gen. Stoneman was appointed
one of the Commissioners by Gov. Irwin.
The Reippe bill provides for the Com
missioners, to be appointed by the Gov
ernor, a Secretary and a stenographer, the
latter to be employed by the Board when
ever his services shall be deemed necessary.
The Commissioner are each to receive
50, 400 for their services, the compensa-
ton Of the Secretary to be 81 200 per
-~x- 49, u,I D., 40 ~ he ,@atI Dl,t 10 tho |
General Fund. Three railroad districts
are to be created, the first district to
embrace Douglass, Storey, Washoe and
Ormsby Counties; the second consisting
of Humboldt, Churchill, Esmeralda and
Lyon Counties; the third embracing Elko,
Eureka, White Pine, Lincoln and Nye
Counties. The Board is to have their
Office in the State Capitol building in
Carson City. The Commissioners to be
clothed with judicial authority, shall have
power to establish rates of fare and pass
age, examine books Of transportation
companies, etc. The penalty for failure
to conform to rates established by the
Board shall be a fine not to exceed 50, 1000,
or imprisonment in a County Jail for a
term not exceeding one year.
The bills of Senator Smyth and Assem-
blyman Rieppe, of which / have given an
outline above, have been referred to their
appropriate committees-the first to the
Railroad Committee, the other to the
Committee on Corporations OF the Assem-
bly,. When the bills are reported back,
which 1t is to be hoped will be in the near
future, there will at least be o showing
of hands. and the people will have an
opportunity TO know whether before.elec-
ton pledges are to be honestly kept or
unblushingly broken.
THE w~ARpENsHIP.
Among the candidates for Warden Of the
State Prison now in Carson are Lyon and
Gibson, two of the acknowledged strong
men. Bell, Coulter and Julian have been
here until within a few days past, and OF
course will again be on the ground when
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