The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-03-09
Our Carson Letter.
Carson, Nevada, Mch 4th, 1899.

To The REcoRD:-The fifty days
for which members of the Legislature
are allowed pay viii expire with
Monday next, the 9th inst While
some members are casting about for
some means by which to prolong the
session to sixty days, if there is any
possibility of getting paid for it, the
majority favor an early adjournment.
Some have private business interests
which demand attention, while many
others are weary of the continued
pulling, hauling and political COM
binations which seem inseparable
from every Legislative gathering and
which grow in intensity and bitter
ness apparently towards the close
of tue session.
As usual at the closing days there
is lam of bills and unfinished busi-
ness on hand, but no more bills are
to be introduced in either house, ex-
cept by unanimous consent, after
noon on Monday next and both
houses will adjourn by Thursday.
Several measures of Importance to
Lincoln County have been enacted
into laws. The bill to give us an
additional assemblyman came back
from the Assembly branch with
amendments which added a Senator
to Washoe's representation and an
Assemblyman to Humboldt and Elko
counties. This at the expense of
Storey County mostly ,and it required
hard work to secure a Concurrence
by the Senate in the amendments
thus made. A number of Senators
who had pet measures of their own
threatened to down the reappoint.
ment bill because Lincoln's repre-.
sentatives had opposed theirs. One Of
these is the bill to reduce interest on
State Land Contracts from six pei
cent to four per cent per annum
Its promoters urge that it is better tC
allow the money due on contract
lands to stand out among the people
at four per cent, than to maintain tho
rate at six per cent, thus force tn'
money into the School Fund of the
State, where, on account of the lin
tied avenues provided for its invest
ment, towit United States and New
ada State bonds, tt, for the most par
lies idle and nets less than three pc
cent per annum when invested
The opponents of the bill however
recognize in its supporters men VIII
hold personally, or represent a
agents, thousands upon thousand
of acres of contract lands, mostly i
the northern and western parts @
the State, and suspect that it is NOR
for their own Immediate benefit
than the remote good of the SohoC
Fund that the measure is forced fol
ward. They see an immediate fal
off of some $25, 900. a year in inter
est. Payments to the School Func
by the proposed change, with yer
questionable problem of how it is
be made up in any other way. Sci
ator Denton led the opposition
Senate. He lost the fight but di
much to educate both houses on tt
subject, and his arrangement will |
used and added to in the Assembl
when the bill comes up for consit
Grafton, which it will do about Tue
day next.
The holders of the bond judgmel
against our County, telegraph'
Senator Denton from San Francis
the other day, that they would a
cept the face of the bonds, in cas-
in satisfaction of their claims again
US. This will require about SIS
10000. Are we disposed to get
with present values it would requi
tax rate of about 81 95 for bono
as against As cents now, to ma
sure of interest alone on the n
issue. The one thing, which abo
all others, promises to lift this 10
of debt from us, is the railroa
Letit once come and develop our
sources and our way will be Gle
The bill re-enacting the old
granting exemption from taxes
county purposes, for limited per
to the first road that reaches us
passed both houses of this legi'
ture and it is to be hoped that SO
one of the companies which have
pended so much for surveys and |
paratory work in the past few YET
will hasten to take advantage of
possessions. y
Concluded next week.
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