Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1883-02-23
THE LEGISLATURE.
Everybody to Have a Whack at
the Melarkey Bill.

BI0ssOms-The Pen Picture OF u
Man who Remembers His Pledges
True TO His obligations Despite
the Jeers of SnObs-CarsOn Threat.
ened with Another Scurvy Plague
The Third HOuse-A Nice Little
Excursion at h states Expense
Gossip.
CARSON CRY, Feb. 81, 1883.
Assembly bill No. SO (the Melarkey bilD
will be brought up Friday evening at 1880
o'clock as a special order. A resolution
passed the Senate to-day allowing Speaker
varian, Hon. George W. Baker, Stephen
T. Gage, and all others that wish to avail
themselves Of the privilege, to address the
Senate on the provisions Of the bill. 1t is
doubtful il a vote will be reached Friday
night, and the fate of the bill is a seriously
doubtful matter, although the anti-rail-
road men feel reasonably hopeful as to the
success of the measure.
MIR. FULTON ON RECLAMATION.
r. L. Fulton of the Reno Gazette deliy-
cred an address, an essay rather, on the
of retaining the now barren lands
of Nevada on last Monday night in the
Senate Chamber. The paper was a we'll
written one, showing thorough familiarity
with the reclamation subject. Mr.. Fulton
drew a gloomy, but not overweight pic
ture of Nevada's present condition, calling
after ton to the feet that almost every
industry was languishing. tMr. F. might
have laid some of the responsibility for
this sad condition of things on a bad rail
road system, but didn't. The speaker
showed what had been done by retaining
barren lands in the counties of the Orient
in Egypt, India and Persia-and claimed
that similar benefits could be secured for
by judicious reclamation meas
ures. The desert blossoming as the rose,
a State aster, with the hum Of
ufacturing industries, ETC., looks we'll
paper, and such things sound
we'll. And it would be a grand day for
Nevada when such a happy change was
brought about. Perhaps the Marker bill,
to which Fulton spoke, would produce the
new order of things. But the opinion is
strongly grounded that s. B. IS under its
blooming surface contains a tanker in the
shape of a dangerous job. Again, the bill
has warm sympathy and strong backing
from a clan of '~'connubiators" h have
never been known to make great efforts
the States advancement. Upon the
OF the Marker bill, on Tuesday
night, the names of r. L. Fulton, r. Sad
Ter, s. s. Sean, the Governor, Lieutenant
Governor, State Treasurer and Surveyor
General were inserted as members of the
Reclamation Board. The Committee OF
The Whole, in which the bill had been con-
asked leave to sit again, which
was granted.
%THRoTTLED ONCE LORE.
Monsieur Tonson, in the form of a SUBJ
titute for s. B. No. 10, came up again on
last. Dropping hyperbole, the
tax relief proposition was brought
Up in the substitute numbered as above,
to amend the Act for the taxation of the
net proceeds of the mines" Brumsey
we'll for the bill, and Dennis made
good speech against its passage. He said
vi the demand for this measure came from
he Comstock, and he suggested the pro-
of disposing Of the business by at
once defeating the substitute. This was
lone by a vote of 6 for and IS against the
passage of the bill.
AssEMBLYMAN R1EPE.
This gentleman, as doubtless the SENTI-
readers know, is one of the Assem-
bly, representatives from Lincoln. Mr..
Riepe is a Democrat, which same perhaps
would not establish his status as a peoples
legislator, for even Democrats in the Legis-
lature have occupied very awkward posi-
lions for Democrats. But to return to
The subject of this paragraph. Mr.. Riepe
is a German, and not on the most intimate
terms with the English language, "the
grammarless tongue" but he knew what
he was elected for, and in doing his duty,
which he has lone throughout the session,
Mr.. Riepe has, of course, not made him
self very popular with the lobby and rail
road tools generally. When he takes the
floor a sickly smile of sarcasm plays on
a few faces inside the rail, and the guffaw
in the lobby appear delighted. Then
Mr.. Riepe is the object OF frequent para
paragraphs of the dismally humorous
kind, and clumsily put together, but they
answer every purpose with the usually
matter-of-fact lobby. A very small guam
of q certain kind OF humor may be
spread over a great surface Of dizziness.
Such is the case with the jokes () pub
lished at Mr.. Riepe's expense. Mr.. Riepe
a pledge-keeper, a conscientious and an
industrious legislator. and he can, and
will, return to his constituents with a
record than many OF his fellow
Assemblymsn who are now poking impo-
tent ridioule at him.
THREATENED WITH ANOTHER CALAMITY.
Carson has been sorely af1iicted this
Winter. We have had a murder, o re-
cent stabbing affair, scarlet fever, pneu-
MONA, frozen water pipes, dramatic in.
tlictions, professional and amateur, legis-
lative recreancy and t~omfoolery, and now
we are threatened with that direst OF
calsmities, a Third House. What have
our citizens aud the strangers within our
gates done, we ask, that they should be
visited With o Third House scourge? Have
a patient aud sorely-tried people noirights |
that stalo.witted clowns and mental
bankrupts are bound to respect? But
let us drop conundrums. The writer once
attended one OF these Third House gath
erings In Carson--only once. beloved
readers--and the effect was as il one had
been incarcerated with q lot OF jibbering
u~nfortunates in an insane asylum. The
presiding idiot called the other imbe-
allies to order through the medium of q
ponderous club, shocking the sensitive
tympanum every few minutes with ''sit
iowni' And then the bewildering Of
forts at wit, the cad humor miscarriagesl
The ghosts OF the jokes OF the late Hal.
CLAYTON and the late John James were
ruthlessly dragged from their weird abid-
ing places, and made to do serviee in
the spirit Of true idiocy. We are no
slarmist, no spologist for mobs, but we
think we understand tho temper Of tnis
community, and SO thinking we advise
the Third House agitators to have the
proper legal steps taken to provide them
selves quarters where the State stands
The expense, and no light one, either, OF
caring for the demented.
FOE BUSINESS OR PLEASURE, which,
Howell Of Lincoln has q bill now In the
hands Of the Ways and Means m
OF the Assembly, the purport OF wnioh 10
n Won will. shall be sent to Washington