Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1899-03-25
THE CEOWNING OUTK ,Gr.

in vetoing the hill, calling for const ii.
tutioral conven ION. in opposi ion to
the we'll known wishes 1T ut lens,
four tifths Of the voters of th- State.
The iufamy Of the deed ia only para
lelled by the weakness, not to say ihe
idocy, of the reasons given for it's
commission. which are rs lows, ms
published ~ the Appeal:
"Idy obj 'ction to the bill ure
founded mainly "n the hist ,ry of the
passage NJ the measure IA shown nv
the legislative officers. n the sail
history is correct III enrolled ON the
bill, the procedure in the legislature
ID 20 irregular as to create in my
mind very strious doubt respect
ing the actual enactment Of the hill
in a constitutional manner. The
financial condition OF the State ia
such that pro :edure under the
doubtful authority of the history of
the bill, which reads as follows,
March 9th. read third time and lost,
ayes Is, Maya ~, absent 3; March 8,
returned from Senate to Assembly
on recall; reconsiderpd, placed on
third reading and final passage: read
third time and passed by following
vote, yeas u, nays 5 absent II. can
not be considered as correct"
A to the Financial condition ut the
Srate,' which in his OPP ion is a reas
on hr not entailing such expense
upon the people, Governor SldIer
signed without hesitation a pauper
bill making a charity donation of ST.
800 year to the Lieutenant Cover
nor, which in four years will amount
to considerably more than the entire
expense Of calling aud holding a con-
stitutional convention. That, how.
ever, was only one OF the several
treasury robbing bills approved by
his excellency during the session, not.
outstanding the depressed Financial
condition OF the State"
In regard to the wretched pretext
that the bill was not "constitutionally
enacted" the Governor does not pre-
tend that it failed to receive the con-
stitutional two.thirds majority in
both branches OF the legislature, but
bases, another objection upon what
may have been clerical error and
which may have been committed at
the time OF en- rollment, or afterwards
for that matter, as such things are
not unknown in the Legislative history
OF the State. But, presuming that it
was an innocent clerical error in the
enrolling clerk or some other legis-
lative official, there If not a su-
preme court in the United States
not oven excepting Nevada's,
that would declare invalid an
act on account of trifing clerical
error or slight incongruity in it's leg.
sIatlve history, when it could be
clearly proven that it had received q
constitutional majority in both
houses. It's dollars to dumplinUs
that the Governor signed dozen
bills more faulty III their history than
the ono in question. Another THING. .
The bill was not only the most mer,-
torious, but the most important to
the people OF the State than any TINT
was passed during the session. Whv
did he not examine 1t and return IL
to the legislature with his veto before
chat body adjournedH The natural,
inference is, us it had passed botl,
houses by more than a two.tb;rdo
majority, that it would have been 70.
passed over his veto This Inference
is Justifiable from the filmsy preteyt
he gives for such M arbitrary exercise
OF executive power.
For more than twenty years tho
people OF Nevada have been an.
deavoring to revise the Constitution
90 that it would be ADAPTED to tho
population and revenue of the state
The call has been passed bv tho