Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1886-10-16

sely settled sections of the State is necessarily
more expensive per 3ita than where a large
number of pupils can attend The same school, such
q division OF the school money should be made as
will furnish the means of 9 ucstion to all child
rem in the State,
XVI.
Expenditures beyond the means Of private in
dividuas are required for surveys, engineering,
and the construction OF reservoirs, canals and
other hydraulic works, for the purpose OF irrfga.
tion in this State We therefore favor liberal ap-
propriatstions by Congress for surveys, both hy-
biographical snd 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 COM
pels eitizens at their own expense, without regard
To their pecuniary ability or The losses they may
suffer, summarilyt suspend their usual occupa-
tions, break their business engagements, travel
long distances, and remain from their homes for
uncertain period, and attend upon District
Courts as jur, men, is measure OF unwise econo-
my, ten productiye'of great hardship ana 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 VIII ch
they spend, and full reimbursement for all ex-
penses which they incur in performing the duties
Of jurymen in the Distric Courts
XVIII. q p DO e' -
ResolUed. That we point with pride. and pleas
ure to the able aud brilliant record made by our
Senator in Co, gress the Hon. John z. Jones' in
his watchful aud vigilant OF our interests up
on ali occasions, are fully shown by his unan-
swerable speeches in Congress against the reduc-
tion of duties upon foreign manufactures and
productions, which expOhe III mastery style
and in a clear and forcible manner the free trade
doctrines of modern Democracy. His able and
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 upholdng the old tfme-hon-
ored American dollar of fathers in its rightful
position as part of our circulating medium and
purchasing power, and his logical and Cverwhelm-
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 watchful over the true in
terests of the people of this Stste, and that
sentative, aud an honest man: We'll done, thou
rood and faithful servant; renewed honors await
thee"
ReSotred That we are uDslterably in favor of
home rule" in Nevads and believe that the men
who pay their taxes and whose homes and interests
Identified with this State should control its
politics. ......
Resolved That we demand that the next Legis-
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 senator's.