Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1885-09-29
CONTRO LLER HALLOCA'S
ECONOMY.

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District Court, after hearing the
case of S. P. Davis VS.. the State OF
Nevada on an appeal from the JUS
tice Court gave the plaintiff a yer
dict for the full amount claimed.
The history of this case fully
disposes of the long fight made by
Controller Hallock against the typo
graphical fraternity of Nevada, in
his efforts to break down the rates
Of official advertising. Mr.. Hallock
has long posed before the people OF
Nevada as the special watchdog OF
the Treasury, and claimed to have
the power to disallow bills which
had been accepted as correct by the
State Board of Examiners. We
do not believe that he has any con :
stiturional right to review or re-
verse the acts of the Board, as the
Constitution of the State expressly
provides that the acts of this Board
shall be final.
An act of Legislature provided
that the State Controller was high
er than the Board, in spite Of a
plain Constitutions! provision to
the contrary, Under this act, how
ever. Hallock has for many years
held undisputed sway in the Capt.
tol building, and held himself as
officially of more Importance than
the Governor and all the State Off
GERS combined. When the State
Beard of Examiners audited IS
correct bill of $40 presented by
the APPEAL, Mr.. Hallock, acting
with Governor Adams, who fought
the bill an6 everything connected
with it, refused to pay cent over
*26. In refusing to draw the war
rant for this bill Mr.. Hallock set
his construction of the law above
that of General Davenport, the sal
aired Attorney General of the
State who held the bill to be abso-
luteley correct.
The APPEAL determined to as
certain just how much Hallock and
Governor Adams knew about the
law on the subject, referred the
matter to the Justice Court. The
Court gave us'a judgment. Mr..
Hallock, however, was still unwill-
ing to give up his peculiar construc-
ton of the statute, and appealed it
to the District Court. After hear
ing the evidence Judge Edwards
gave exactly the same judgment
given by the lower court, remarking
that if the State let out advertising
contracts it must be governed by
the State laws in paying the bill.
1t was claimed that the case was
a test case. It was not test case
as it was advertising for Indian
War Claims, done under special
law. All the advertising under the
law has been disposed of. and will
never occur again therefore Hal
lock has saddled an additional debt
upon the State of several hundred
dollars to decide a question, which
in all the course of time is not
liable to come up again.
The suit has been a hopeless one
for the State, and we hope that Mr.
Hallock will not again presume to
set himself up as knowing more
about the law than the Attorney
General of the State, unless he has
an idea of passing bill consolidat
ing the office of Controller and At
formed General, and drawing the
two salaries. Governor Adams
made himself conspicuous in the
Board Of Examiners, fighting the
bill, and in so doing, ignoring
plain laws which he was under oath
to obey. We are we'll aware that
the APPEAL is held in absolute
hatred by Adams and Hallock, and
we will endeavor to see that these
two gentlemen shall have no cause
to change their feelings in regard
to MS. In Systematically fighting
US, however, they must not lei
their tempers get the better Of
their judgment, and keep inside