The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1899-03-30

3, March (, returned 10 SENATE. hdfch
Q, returned from Senate to Assembly on
recall. Reconsidered, placed on third
reading and final passage. Read third
time and passed by following vote: Yeas
81, nays 5, absent i, cannot be con-
sidered az correct. Respectfully,
REINHoLD SADLER,
Governor.
Il is thus that the best, We might al
most say the only measure passed by
the last Legislature, that was intended
10 remedy the evils that threaten to
bankrup. the State, has been killed by
TAG power behind the throne. The
Southern Pacific did not want il, SO 1t
is dead, and all that honest citizens can
dois to weep at the funeral-yet, Sad
Ter is an honorable man.. Would that
we might stir up in the hearts of all
true Nevadans that same spirit of re-
sentiment TO the usurprtion of power
which the eloquenee OF Mark Antony
over the bier of the murdered Caesar
aroused In the hearts of the Romans.
The rights OF the people have been
stabbed In the back, and stabbed by a
man who has always posed as their
friend.
II the people had voted for the con-
ysntion, as they no doubt would have
done, g thorough revision OF the Con-
stitution would probably have been
made. The scale of government would
have been cut down to fit our needs, our
population.and our ability TO support.
! lot OF the sinecures on the distribu-
ton OF which BLACK" Wallace de-
ponds largely to maintain his power,
would have been cut off. Perhaps the
Supreme Court with its sls, 900 a year
salaries would have been abolished; the
Insane Asylum and Orphans Home
might have been taken cut OF politics:
and a score of supernumerary officers
and attaches OF the State Government
and institutions done away with.
Wallace saw his danger and tried to
avert it. He fought the measure in the
Assembly, we are told, after it had re-
ceived the necessary two-thirds vote in
the Senate, and succeeded in defeating
it by vote Of Is ayes and II nays.
But the next day, the friends OF the
measure played a little game on Mr..
Wallace and, while he was OF his guard,
they again called up the bill on a mo-
tion for reconsideration, and passed
: II by vote of q to 5, with absent.
The bill had to be killed, and it has
been done. The Governor stepped into
the breach and saved the Railroad
forces from utter rout. That he was
dishonest in his intentions. We do not
mean 70 assert, but after witnessing the
manner In which Wallace worked for
him in the Reno convention, the suspic-
ion wont down that his action was
prompted by some such reasoning as
follows: Il owe nein freindt Wallace a
great debt. he got me- mein zhob and
besides he got me lief OF absence for
four monts nit vull pay 10 visit mein
cousin William, der Kaiser OF die Fad
eriand. Mein freindt Wallace don't
want dis Constitutional Convention, 20
viz pay mein debt and die taxpayers
can zhust to HI go. will shtay nit
mein fr.endts.''
Nor is this impression at all weakened
when we come to consider the miserable
contemplate excuse assigned by the
Governor for his actien. A mistake in the
enrolment OF the history of the bill, a
substitution Of IL absentees clearly i'm.
possiblel for 4, whether the innocent
error ofineompetent clerks, or the inten-
tional knayery OF Wallace's tools, was
surely not sufficient ground for a Gov
ernor to veto a measure which can be
easily proven to have received the nee
essary two-thirds majority in both
branches of the Legislature. No effort
seems TO have been made to correct the
mistake or to find how it was made.
His Excellency has seen fit to shoulder
the responsibility, burden which
clearly belonged to the COURT, and if
the people do their duty, it will break
his political back.
Strange, isn't it, that no mistakes
were made in the history of any Of
wallace's measures. The Governor
must have been in on that little game
10 steal 81, 200 out of the State Treas.
nry in the form OF a salary for Jim
Judge. There was nothing wrong with
.ast bill, nor the bill TO give $1,000 to
tlle horse races at Reno. He can pose,
II he VIII, as. 'Rumhold the patron
faint of the hobos and the rif-rah, but
la can no longer play the roll Of the
watch dog of tho Treasury.