The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1893-02-25
NEVADA LEGISLATURES.
What Is Being Done by Our Law
Makers.

absent from his usual vocation during
the past month, most of which time
was spent about the Capitol at Car
son, where he has had good oppor-
tunity to observe the working of the
Legislature.
The members in both houses are
above the average of former Legisla-
lures both in ability and strictness and
attention to duty.
The Senate is composed of some
very able men that are credit to the
upper House. Our own Senator Com
ms is the peer of any on the floor and
when he rises to address the Senate
he commands prompt attention from
the floor and the galleries. He is not
long talker, but terse and to the
point. Williamson of Lander, Foley
of .Washoe, and La Grave of Hum
boldt are the orators of the Senate.
Senators Maute of Nye and Patchen
of Lincoln are wideawake, watchful
guardians of the public welfare. Moth
ing inimical to the interests of the
Peoples party runs the gauntlet of
their scrutiny. The Nevada Senate
has one of the best presiding officers
to be found any where in the person
of Lieutenant Governor Poujade.
In the House there is a large num-
Der of young men, this being their
first term. The orators of the House
are Massey of Elko, Pike of Washoe,
Allen of Churhill and Foulk of
Washoe. Bob Hamil is the witty
peace-maker of the House. Our own
Assemblyman-Sol Hips a close
observer and hard worker and let's
others do the talking. Russell of
Elko and Harris of Douglas are both
valuable members. The House is
ably presided over by Speaker Bell.
The only legislation of general in
terest so far enacted is the repeal of
the obnoxious Act creating the State
Board of Assessors and Equalization.
The people demanded that it be
stricken from the statute books and
their voice was needed.
OF course many other laws of local
interest to the several counties of the
State have been enacted, and the work
of preparing and getting under way
such important measures as the Con-
stitutional amendments, new rev.
enue law and the appropriation bills
has been done in committees.
Most of the Constitutional Amend
ments had been favorably acted upon
in the Senate and went to the House
this week.
| Another important measure, and
one of great interest to the taxpayers
of the State-a bill to materially re-
duce the salaries of State officials and
their deputies, came up in the Assem-
bly, last Saturday. 1t reduces the sal
aries about one-half of the present
figures. .
Many people, unused to the modus
operandi of legislation, imagine that
law-making is holiday recreation,
requiring little time and labor. This
is mistaken idea, as any one who has
closely watched the sessions of the
present Legislature can readily see.
Of course, to the uninitiated, there APP
pears to be good deal of cred tape,
about the various stages through which
all bills have to pass before they be-
come laws. But all this is necessary
to prevent the hasty and inconsiderate
enactment of new laws. Both houses
have worked faithfully during the
session.
When we left Carson a week ago
the opinion was divided whether they
could get through in forty days or have
to extend the session. Most of the
members of both houses expressed
themselves as being anxious to adj
journ at the expiration of the forty
days if they could do SO without detri-
ment to the public interest. 1t is not,
however, probable that they can dis
pose of the important measures before
them in that time.
We feel confident that the present
Legislature will make a record for
which the Peoples party can feel
proud, and whether it adjourns at the
end of forty or sixty days is inmate