Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1897-01-30
NEVADA LEGISLATURE.
SENATE.

Met at IL a. m. President McCone in
the chair.
Roll call. All present,
Prayer by the Chaplain and read
ing Of the Journal.
5 B. No. -, Leavitt-To authorize
hon. g. b. Mack, District Judge, for
Storey, Lyon, Ormsby, Douglas and
Esmeralda counties to place his sig
nature upon certain records aud docu-
ments in these counties which was
left unsigned by his predecessor. Ju-
dietary.
> b No. Is, Comins-Janitor for
COMMITTEE rooms. Ways and Meane.
SC No. 2, Summerfield of Wasboe
10 amend the State Constitution.
Limits all future sessions of the Leg
lslature to thirty days and any special
session to ten days.
Sgmmerffeld argued in favor Of this
bill as Of great Importance to the tax
payers of this State. Thirty DAYS is
amply sufficient. Sixty days is the
Constitutional limit or maximum.
Recent legislation shortened the time
to fifty days. Our population as we'll
as our resources have been decreasing
Tor some time past, yet we keep up our
expenditures, when we should put on
the brakes and economic for the bene-
ut OF the whole State. At any rate it
VIII take six years to complete or
bring this amendment into Constitu-
tlonal effect, and if meanwhile 2
grand wave Of prosperity should
strike us and this measure of economy
should not be found necessary. a fu-
ture legis AZURE could easily repudiate
it,
Denton considered thirty DAYS al
together too short aud advocated forty
lays as the least allowable. He
0 to amend to that effect, as the
era OF prosperity is coming as sure as
the u rises and sets.
Ernst Endorsed he amendment and
Comlns suggested a compromise on
forty days.
Denton's amendment was carried
and Comins as Committee Of one
made the requisite change in the bill
to forty days, the period for which our
Savior was in the wilderness, and the
Dill was ordered engrossed.
. No. SO, relief of Tony Kramer,
$780, has not come up yet. 1t was
passed at the close Of the last session
but through the carelessness of some.
poay II go wrongly pigeonholed, and
never reached the Governor for his
AS a matter of Legislative
human justice this should be attend
to without further delay
A noon a recess was taken until ,
m.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
oenate Concurrent Resolution No,
|, relative to the pardoring power. bv
OF Washoe, came up for
special consideration. Mr.. Summer
held spoke at considerable length in |
and advocacy of the bill. l
Lt proposes to amend the State Con- l
where it relates to the State
prison. The Board of Pardops shall
lot nave the power to grant pardops.
emit lines and fol FIXTURES excent
o newly discovered evidence of
innocence, and that the Governor ;,
nail nave no more power than apy .
Their member of the Board. -
Summerfield set forth the abuses Of :.
ne pardening favor, instances Of ;,
'hlch are fresh in the memory Of the ~
ubllc, citing thai of the fellow re- =
entity pardoned out, who proceeded at =
nee to get drunk kown at Steamboat >.
prlngs and establish himself as q .
oily terror until ovelpowared with .
.ubs, crowbars and other indictments ~
packed off to Reno on a stretcher =
hen ne IS properly cared for in the >,
III, instead Of in the State Prison ~
here he legally and morally should y,
ave been kept. "
spoke In opposition to the II
III on the grounds of humanity and d.
1sery. Denton opposed the bill. and ~
lated Instances where the pardonino 80
'wer had beer exercised very bene- DR.
'lally, morally and socially. Ernest ~
ade one OF his most elegant speeches
opposition to the bill. Comins .
10 there are men who are born Grim.
ais, n there are those who through
OF circumstances he ca
me criminals and convicts. II a or
comes to the State prison a 10
time it shows him to be hard A
co. put II he comes a third time be les