Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1901-03-22
A LITTLE COURTESY.
1t is an Excellent Thing to Use
in Public Affairs.

The t.iti,Is of Senator Haries,y assert
that the reason tn" Jackson insurance
! hill W;t> i'atrr WAS because Jack son was
repeating "uc of Hardr>ty's bills and had
| not The t'ti:u~y To c,.iSull HIM in the
| IN ter. Had he dnne so, Harle>ty would
hav- supp RED The hill and even intro
huced n. and it would have passed. The
| charge of II breach of courtesy is well
fnuniet, f"f when the bill of fellow
Senator is being repealed it is always
conslher'd &" q f'ru, to consult him. TO
| repeal Hardestv'S bill was il lacit snub,
wh'l. to show him his mistake and ask
| him t. rectiiy il instead of some one else
| wound have been the correct wav.
| II is not to be supposed. however, that
jack son intended any slight to Hardesty.
He WAS a rev man and overlooked the
little principle of etiquette involved.
Again, there WAS a glaring lack of cOur-
toSy ~ her Pitt WAS elected Chairman of
the SPEC i.l Re, enue Committee. Living
sion intr. duced the resolution and was
NV all PRECEDENT the Chairman. After
Pitts attention was called to the breach
Of etiquette, however. for which he was
not re~pon>ihle, he at the first meeting of
the committee resigned i'm Mr. Living
ston's favor and Senator Williams apollo
gzed to him on behalf of the committee.
most of whom hal simply overlooked
h" usual preci'lent. Senator Livingston
accepted the apology graciously and in
sisted ON Mr.. Pitt retaining his place as
Chairman-
..
brought about Il good telling and the iu-
cident was soon forgotten.
| Again. there was a lack of courtesy
when Van DuZer attempted, by d resolu-
ton, t" diSpli,"e Senator Freudenthal
from the Craftsmanship of the Special
committee to 90 to san Francisco and
meet the railroad people. As the author
II the resolution he was entitled to the
ChHrmanSs,!;:. The resolution introduce
ri by Van Duztr was deliberate and in
suit ing, but FrtudSnthal, perfectly secure
ia h position, paid no attention to il
such fragrant piece of bad breeding
however. "a> ueE er before witnessed OF
the floor of the House. The other breach
r e> of dccorum had been unintentional
. but his WAS willtul and deliberate or thu
result of The dense>t ignorance. Now
he " hole good tffec aimed at 10y the ap
p in'n:oit III the committee is lost.
A~semilyman Allen one day accused ;
-Iate >tlis.cr of an ottense, which. if true
I "uld be sutiiri' ut grounds COR impeach
ment and removal from office. Wher
i mis- error was shown him he expressed
+ ! regret at his language, hut he did appre
/ ci"te he situation sufficiently to extent
the agrieNtd party retrac;ion of hi
charge a> puhicly as he had made it,
= Another case of discourteSy was whel
h a prominent insurance man from Sal
: Francisco was here to go before the legis
. iature and give his reasons why the in
Surance companies objected to the Har
desty bill. He probably knew NOR
= about tive underlying principles of in
t surance than ali the House rolled int
l. one. They passed the bill over the Gov
: errors Veto while he was waiting t. q
+ a chance to address then. What Will eli
{; iz"u~ of California thini, of the breedin
:. of eur lawmakers when this incident
related?
Again, there was Il representative
Clark, the railroad man, who came all IL
way from >ait Lake to address the Ian
makers on bill relating to the railroa
but he was curly refused a hearing
Think OF tae foolishness of this. "
treat with mark ed diSvourtesy q man>rel
reseuting twenty million capital about
be isvc std III Nevada.
Is it good policy for members of Il
y Legislature to overlook tie fact that the
d are but the hired servants of the peopl,
1T In many instances committees wi
D. were wrestling with bills could have ha
to the whole questions III dispute strai-h
le ened out in five minutes with the info
, nation tU2t the State officers could ha,
given lhar., out they lack ed the courtes
, to apply or that Information. and so
~ l0. of 'AIddieS were created which wi
'" ,ake .ti.O;her session to straighten out.
Ia all the wiangle over the inSuran
laws the insurance commissioner of Il
State WAS never called upon to throw al
light or furnish Information unless it W
volunteered and then it was very coo
L" received.
slf Possibly had Senator Hardesty, VIII,
h. he lost bis hotel by fire in Elko, appli
ad to the Insurance Commissioner he cou
ar have compelled the insurance compal
10. to have settled fairly or had their licen
to do business in Nevada Cancelled.
not seeking the relief guaranteed him
the law he has turned down over for
companies paying revenue to the Sta
to punish one. This was certainly L
: the courteous thing to the balance 90,
tesy goes long way in public affairs,
We thing this article has amply demo
strated.