The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1886-10-30

losses they may suffer summarily to suspend
their usual occupations. break their business
| engagements travel long distances and re-
main from their homes Tor an uncertain
period, and attend upon District Courts as
jnrymen. Is measure of unwise economy,
often productive Of great hardship and unjust
imposition of public burdens, upon private
individuals. We therefore demand of the
next Legislature such legislation as shall
secure to all citizens fair compensation for
all the time which they spend and full reim-
buTsement for all expenses which they incur
in performing the duties of jurymen in the
District Courts.
coast while there was vast surplus in the
Treasury, and thousands Of laborers out of
employment.
We again declare our constant sympaty
with the just and consistent Republican policy
and practice of granting out OF The Nations
abundance generous pensions to the disabled
veterans OF our wars, whether for the cOuntry's
defense or for the preservation of the Union.
w Q protest against the revomal from official
places of worthy and disabled Union soldiers
to make way for partisan civilians and ex-
Confederates.
In common With all loyal people Of the land
we mourn the loss to our country OF he heroic
dead, and especially that great Republican,
as well as great soldier and statesman, Ulysses
). Grant. His life will forever be an lnspira-
ton to high and honorable manhood, patriotic
devotion to our country, aud loyalty to the
principles of Republcansm which he SO fit
tingly represented and did so much to ad
vance. We shall ever treasure his memory
XIV.
1t Is the duty Of this State to maintain free
schools. not only in towns and thickS pUpu-
lated sections, but in the rural and spaTsely
settled districts, and as the education of pupils
in the sparsely settled sections of the State is
necessarily more expensive per capita :han
where large NUN Der of pupils can attend
the same school,such division of the school
money should be made as will furnish the
means of education to all children of the State.
XVI.
Expenditures beyond the means of private
individuals are required for surveys, engin-
eering.. and the construction of reservoirs,
canals. and other hydraulic works, for the
purpose of irrigation in this State. We
therefore favor liberal appropriation by
Congress for surveys, both photographed
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 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 ths people to settle
upon aid occupy the same.
XVII.
Resolved. That two years experience has
demonstrated that he presentjury law which
cO0ptiS tlttLt0c, di iutlT own tADt0cc, WIFI
out regard to their pccuniary ABILITY or the
XVIII.
Resolved, That we point with pride ana
pleasure 10 the able and brilliant record made
by our Senator IN Congress, the Hon. John
L. Junes, in bis watchtul and vlgilant care of
our interests upon all occasions, as are fully
shown by his unanswerable speeches in Con-
gress against tho reduction of duties upon
foreign manufacturers and foreign prOduC-
tlons. which exposes in u mastery style ard
in "A clear and forci BILE manner the free trade
doctrines of modern Democracy. His able
and ex haustiVe speeches upon the remOnetiza-
tlon Uf silver. particularly in the last speech
in Congress upon that subject. in which he
has displayed more strongly his ability to
render the abtruse subjects intelligent to the
common mind, thereby replacing and uphold
ing the old time honored American Dollar of
our fathers in its rightful position as a part
OF our circulating medium and purchasing
power; and its logical and oyerw helming al
guments In favor of the passing Of the Chin
ese Restriction and Exclusion Bill and amend
ments thereto.
Resolved, That our able Representative in
Congress. Hon. VIM. Noodburn, deserves the
united thanks Of tie people of this State for
his constant zeal and watchful care over the
true interests Of the people of this State, and
that We recognize in him an able statesman,
a faithful Representative and an honest mes
and we say: Nv ell done. thou good and faith
full servant; renewed honors await thee"
Resolved. That We are unalterably IN favor
of "homc rule" for Nevada. and entertain
that the men who pay her taxes and whose
homes and interests are inentifed with this
Stats should control its, politics,
Resolved. That we demand that the next
Legislature shall pass laws in accordance
with the plan known as the Nebraska Plan.
for the elect ion of United States Senators.