Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1886-10-09

sely settled sections of the State is necessarily
more expensive per capita than where q large
number of pupils can attend the same school, such
division of the school money should be made as
will furnish the means of e.ucation to all child
ren in the State,
XVI.
Expenditures beyond the means of private in
dividuals are required for surveys, engineering,
and the construction OF reservoirs, canals and
other hydraulic works, for the purpose Of irrigs-
tion in this State. We therefore favor liberal sp.
propriststions by Congress for surveys, both hy-
biographical and typographical to ascertain how
the waters of this State. which now run to waste
in flood time, may be stored and utilized for the
purpose Of agriculture, to the end thst when all
the facts are known suitable aid may be obtained
from Congress to enable the Government Of the
United States to dispose Of its lands, and 10
enable the people to settle upon and occupy
the same.
ResoIued That two years experience has dem.
onstrated that the present jury law which com.
pels citizens, at their own expense without regard
to their pecuniary ability or the losses they may
suffer, summarily t. SUSPEND their usual occups-
tions, break their business engagements, travel
long distances, and remain from their homes for
an uncertain period, and attend upon District
Courts as jurymen, is measure of unwise econo.
my, o ten productive of great hardship and an un.
just imposition of public burdens upon private
individuals. We therefore demand of the next
Legislature such Legislation shall secure to all
citizens fair compensation for all the time whi ch
they spend, and full reimbursement for all ex.
Of jurymen in the Distric Courts.
XVIII.
Resolved. That we point with pride and pleas
ure to the able and brilliant record made by our
Senator in Congress, the Hon. John p. Jones' in
his watchful aud vigilant OF our interests up
on all occasions, as are fully shown by his unan-
swerable speeches in Congress against the reduc-
tion of duties upon foreign manufactures and
productions, which expose in Q mastery style
and in clear and forcible manner the free trade
doctrines of modern Democracy. His able and
exhaustive speeches upon the remonetizstion of
silver, particularly the last speech in Congress
uopn that subject, in which he has displayed
more strongly his ability to render that abstruse
thereby replacing and upholding the old time hon
ored American dollar of fathers in its rightful
position a part OF our circulating medium and
purchasing power, and his logical and Sverwhe In
ing arguments in favor of the passage of the
Chinese Restriction and Exclusion Bill. and
amendments thereto during the last Congress.
RESOLVED, That our able representative in Con.
gress the Hon, william Woodburn, deserves the
united thanks of the people of the State for his
constant zeal and wstchful care over the true in
teress of the people Of this Stste, and that we
coguiZe in him able statesman, faithful Repre-
sentative, and an honest man well done, thou
sood and faithful servant; renewed honors await
thee"
"home rule" In Nevada and believe that the men
who pay their taxes and whose homes and interests
are identified with this State should control its
politics.
Resolved, That we demand that the next Legs-
lature shall pass laws in accordance with the plan
known as the Nebraska plan kown as the Nebraska
plan, for the election Of United States senators.