Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1905-03-15
THE LATE LEGISLATURE
Review Of th9 .vvorss. and the State
Benefits.

Benefits.
# one will take the. trouble ID look
| er the back files Of the. Nevada,
,wspapers since we have become q
tate, it will be seen that for thirty
avs after adjournment 81 the Degis-
lative body it has been the habit Of
ne press to roast the members to a
rich brown and solemnly~ assert that
the last legislature, was positively the
most depraved and rotten of any tina.
ever existed. The Appeal recalls the
time when members were Obliged TO
skip the country and some who had
the nerve to come home to visit their
families were treated to rides on a
rail, a tar and feathering or hung in
effegy.
Some of the newspapers are jus.
now roasting the members and their
work without an adequate idea If
what they are saying.
They hear some of their patrons
kicking about the defeat of some pet
bill and imagine that the whole super
structure of the commonwealth is
| about to fall.
An intelligent review of the work
of the session just passed will con-
vince any reasonable person that
while mistakes have been made in
some directions the general trend Of
the work was broad and comprehen-
sive.
There has been a great deal of work
to accomplish and 1t has been accom-
plished under many difficulties not
known to persons unfamiliar with the
workings of Legislative body.
In the frs tplace there is howl
about appropriations, but this may be
dismissed with the remark that the
appropriations are about the same as
last session and not so large as many
previous ones.
There has been no unwarranted ex-
travagance in any direction, but need
ed appropriations were treated in a
broad and liberal spirit Cheese par
ing economy has no longer any place
in this growing commonwealth of Ne
vada.
Instead of indulging in it, it is better
to have the tax shirkers come to the
front and make them share their just
burdens of running the state govern
ment. Brewers revenue bill aimed
at this and it will accomplish great
deal Of good and add to the revenue.
There were several other bills that
were intended to add to the revenue
receipts and these will, combined, give
the State over two hundred thousand
dollars revenue per annum.
The Governor has been compelled
to meet a good share of abuse but
he has been in every instance sus
tanned by the legislature irrespective
Of party.
He has sound judgment and plenty
of horse sense and no one can deny
the assertion that he is honest to the
core. His acts will stand the test
and when a dispassionate review q
the work of the session just finishe'
!. is made it will pass muster with any
session ever held in Nevada.
1t has been free from scandal ant
corrupt influences and there is no
a man in either house who is afrai(
to go home and look his constituent
in the face
The Appeal regrets that they di'
not give the Oregon system of taxa
ton more consideration in the Senat
and we think that the party made
mistake in not passing the initiativ
and referendum. but these are mino
matters in which the best of men ma
entertain an honest and differen, OPT
ion. Taken as whole it was on
of the best legislative bodies tina
ever convened in the State.
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