The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-02-18
STATE LEGISLATURE.

At a meeting of the State Prisons
of the Senate the appropria-
ton OF $I07, 900 asked for in Senator
Androus' bill for the Whittier State
School was cut down TO $50 900. 7
Notices were sent out by this commit .
tee asking the State Prison Directors
to appear before the committee and
explain certain expenditures authorized
by them.
The Committee On Claims of the
Senate decided to recommend that the
attorneys fees for Robert Y. q. Hayne,
w. W. Foote and j. G. Daily in the
Railroad Commissions case be reduced
from $25, 000 to $l2, 800. Judge Hayne
and w. w. Foote, unaware of the
action of the Claims Committee, APP
peared before the Finance Committee
of the Senate to present their case for
the payment to them of the $4,000
awarded by the Board of Examiners.
They also argued in favor of the $780,
900 contingent fund to be used in the
continued prosecution of the case above
referred to.
Z. +. Leake. Commissioner of Pub
lie Works, is very much interested in
the bill appropriating $500, 900 for
the construction of monster dredger
after the pattern of the Bates machine.
In his official capacity he has made
thorough study of the subject and is
convinced that the restraining dams
now to be provided to keep the heavy
detritus stored in the canyons from
coming down into the rivers and the
adoption of the modern dredging ma
chine will not only keep the rivers
nayigable-this being the primary OBJ
jeet of the bill--but will also reclaim
many thousands OF acres of the most
valuable land.
A rather humorous incident occurred
at the meeting of the Senate Finance
/ Committee in connection with the bill
providing for the salary Of the Com
missioner of Public Works The bill,
which originally provided for salary
of $4,000 per annum, was amended by
the Assembly SO as to reduce the
amount to $4,000. 1t next turned up
before the Senate Committee ON Labor
and Capital, which Endorsed the pro-
posed reduction, but recommended that
it be not made to apply to the incum-
bent. The members of the committee
had evidently lost sight of the fact
that the office of Commissioner of Pub
\ lie Works will cease to exist at the OK
piration of the term of Il. Il. Lealie,
the incumbent.
Assemblymen Valentine. Cutter,
North, Dibble, Malcolm, Dryden and
others made speeches in favor of the
final passage of Wright's Assembly bill
1870, to levy tax of | cent on each
500 of taxable property in this State
for the purpose of creating fund for
additional support, maintenance, etc. ,
of the University of California. The
work of the university was highly
praised, and the institution was spoken
of by several of the speakers as a pool
mans institution. Mahoney took ex.
ception to this title. He was poor
man and the son of poor man, and he
had always felt a desire to go to the
university, but he had never been able
to do so because of the lack of funds tc
support him while in the institution
should he 60 there. The best that ht
had been able to do was to work hare
in order to be able TO attend night
school. Notwithstanding the fact thai
the university was practically CLOSED
to the children of the poor, beeaus,
their parents are unable to support
them while they are attending that in
stitution, he would vote in favor O.
the bill, and hoped that it would pass
The bill was passed without objection
and was sent to the Senate.
]. p. BaumgaItner of the State Edi
torial Association has prepared bill
which will be introduced in botl
houses. 1t provides that the Secretar,
of State shall, within thirty days afte
the approval of any law by the Cover
nor. prepare the same for publication
in the newspapers and designate til,
papers III which such publication shall
be madei provided that the Legislature
may fully direct or wholly prohibit th
publication of any law by provision
therein made. The law shall be con
strued and interpreted as providing 70
and directing the publication of al
laws of general interest i'll at least tw,
newspapers in each county in. the State
and all other laws in at least two news
papers i'll each county affected thereb
or interested therein. The paper
selected for such publication shall be
if possible, one daily and one week.
of different management, and shall b
of different politics where there ar
two papers of different politics possess
ing the qualifications hereinafter men
toned; and no paper shall be desig
mated by the Secretary of State unles
it shall have been established in sal
county for at least one year prior {
the date of such selection and shal
have bona fide circulation of at leas
800 subscribers; provided that wher
only two or less than two papers ar
published in any county then the law
shall be published in said papers re
CARELESS of their politics, circulation
or length of time established, 0
whether of daily or weekly issue.
The legislative committees of tn
different editorial associations in thi
State have prepared the following bill
on the law of libel, which will be in
troduced in the Assembly by Melick
Every person aggrieved by publica
ton in newspaper or other periodical
publication before bringing suit TO
libel thereon shall by himself or hi