Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-03-08
DAILY INDEPENDENT.
A Lively Row.

Governor Sadler's message regarding
the University: ...
Nevada STATE University,
PRESIDENTS OFFICE, March 4. 1897.
To tho Honorable, the Assembly,
The undersigned, your petitioner, is a
resident Of tho State of Nevada and
President Of the State University.
located in Reno, Nevada.
The statute makes 1t the duty OF the
President Of the University, under
tho direction OF the Board of Regents,
to manage all matters connected with
the institution, to employ teachers and
servants, purchase supplies and Lake
monthly statements to the Beard Of
Regents Of all receipts and expendi
lures supported by vouchers.
Your petitioner has read in the Ne
vada State Journal, published at
Reno, Nevada, and dated March 4,
1897. under the head university Bills
Approved-A Sharp Message from
the Governor" an article which in
cludes message from the Governor
to your honorable body, which re
ports his approval of Assembly bill
No. "a, but which further gives four
reasons why he, the Governor, with
held approval of this bill until the
last day allowed him by the constitu-
ton.
Prof. Stubbs then quotes from the
Governors message and continues as
follows:
1nasmuch as the Board OF Regents
Of the State University will not be in
session prior to the adjournment of
the Legislature, and therefore cannot
take action with reference to the i'm
piled charges Of Encouragement by
the Governor, and inasmuch as your
petitioner the President of the Uni
versity, Is the executive Of the Board
OF Regents and is charged by statute
with the responsible duty of making
under the direction of the Board of
Regents all the expenditures con-
nected with the management OF said
institution, and is therefore Justly
held responsible for any such mis-
management or extravaganza of ex-
penditure as the Governor sets forth
clearly, though by implication, in his
message to your honorable body.
Your petitioner, the President of
the University, deems it duty which
he owes himself and the University
and the Board of Regents to set forth
to your honorable body a specific
denial OF the truthfulness and in.
tegrity Of the several reasons set forth
by the Governor in his message to
the Assembly; and your petitioner
further asserts that the statements
OF the message are for the most part
reckless and calculated to do injury.
Your petitioner affirms that the first
reason set forth in the message ia un
true, and asserts further that all the
bills for furnishing the dormitories
we're severally approved Sas correct
and ought to be paid" Ky the State
Board OF Examiners, and that each
several blu bears the Governors sig
nature approving the same.
Your petitioner denies the correct.
ness OF the judgment given by the
Governor as his second reason.
Your petitioner AYERS that the state. |
ment under the third head is also |
wholly untrue, and that the Cover.
nor ought to have known that his |
statement under this head was nm.
true.
80 far rs the fourth reason ia CON-
cerned' your petitioner asserts that
while the question is one for the Inv.
yers, yet he believes that the opinion
of the Governor as to the oonstitu-
aonality of the bill because Of de
receive title cannot be established.
In view OF the gravity of the
charges implied in the Governors
message touching the administration
OF his duties by the President Of the
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