Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1886-10-20

| sely settled sections of the State is necessarily
more expensive per capita than where a large
number of pupils can attend the same school, such
| division OF the school money should be MADE as
will furnish the means Of ucation to all child
rem 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 irriga-
ton in this State. We therefore favor liberal ap-
propriatstons by Congress for surveys, both hy-
biographical and typographical TO ascertain how
The waters of this state which now run to waste
In food time, may be stored and utilized for the
purpose of agriculture, to the end that 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 to
enable the people to settle upon and occupy
the same
XVII.
RESOLVED. That two years experience has dem
onstrated that the present jury law which CON-
pes citizens, at their own expense without regard
TO their pecuniary ability or The losses they may
suffer, summarily 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, 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 which
they spend and full reimbursement for all ex-
penses which they incur in performing the duties
Of jurymen in the Distric Courts.
XVIII.
ResOlUed That we point with pride and pleas
ure to the able aud brilliant record made by our
Senator in Congress-, the Hon. John p. Jones' in
his wAtchful aud vgiant OF our interests up
on all OCCASIONS fully shown by his unan-
swerabls speeches in Congress against the reduc-
tion Of duties upon foreign manufactures and
productions which expose i'll masterly style
and in a clear and forcible manner the free trade
doctrines of modern Democracy. His able and
exhaustive speeches upon the remonetizatfou of
silver, particularly the last speech in Congress
uopn that subject, in which he has displayed
more strongly his ability to render that abstruse
subject intelligent to the most common mind,
thereby replacing and upholding the old time-hOn.
ored American dollar of fathers in its rightful
position as a part of our circulating medium and
purchasing power, and his logical and Sverwhem-
ing arguments in favor of the passage of the
Chinese Restriction and Exclusion Bill, and
amendments thereto during the last Congress.
Resolred, 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 watchful over the true in
of the people of this Stste. and that
coguize in him able statesman, faithful Repre-
sentative, and sn honest man: We'll done, thou
vood and faithful servant; renewed honors await
thee"
| Resolved, That we are unAltersbly in favor Of
| "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-
lAtnre 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.