The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1907-02-02

creases are as follows: Governors pri.
vate secretary, from $500 to $1,000
deputy Controller. from $500 t $1,000
deputy Secretary of State, from $500 tc
$4,000; deputy Surveyor General, from
$3.50 to $4,000; draughtsman in State
Land Office. from $500 t. $4,000 deputy
treasurer, from $500 to $4,000; all
stenographers, from s75 to 500.
Senator Oddie introduced a bill Great.
ing the position of Governors clerk at O
salary Of $1,000 per year; Secretary Of
States clerk, $4,000 per year; State
Treasurer's clerk. $1,000 per year; and
two additional attaches for the Score.
tary of States office.
Senator Pyne has introduced an EN-.
ployer's liability Act. The measure is
similar to the one that was killed by
the Democratic Senate two years ago.
A Till defining water rights, and pro-
viding for the appointment OF a State
Engineer and his assistant and for a
Water Commissioner has been intro.
duced by Assemblyman Syphus.
Senator Pyne introduced a bill allow
ing school districts to issue coupon
bonds for the construction and main.
tenance of school buildings.
The Board of Regents of the Univers.
ity of Nevada has thrown down the
gauntlet to Speaker Skaggs of the AS
sembly and has demanded an investiga-
ton into the administration of the funds
of the State University. In a letter to
the leader of the lower House. Saturday
night, Oscar j. Smith, president of the
Board of Regents. demanded that the
threatened investigation be carried out
as speedily as possible and suggests that
an expert accountant be employed by
the committee on State institutions to
have charge of the technical part of the
investigation in conjunction with the
work Of the committee.
There seems to be a great difference
of opinion in Carson as to the best
means Of putring into effect the desired
railroad legislation. 1t appears to be a
question of whether or not the work can
be best bone by an appoinliye railroad
commission. to be given full power to
act upon all questions arising in con
nection with railroad affairs. Many
object to such a commission OIL the
ground that the members might be
bought by the railroad companies.
However. strong sentiment seems to
favor Commission for the following rea-
sons set forth by the Nevada CONNER
cial League:
Everybody wants railroad legisla-
ton. Does any one know specifically
what is wanted to cover conditions
throughout the State?
Reno wants terminal facilities, Z ko
wants cars for cattle, Goldfeld wants
its freight properly handled. Ely wants
relief from a railroad that pays for itself
every three months, every other com
munity in Nevada wants something
equally important, aud every body in
the State advocates something done to
the railroads on general principles.
There are a thousand and one com.
modities upon which the tariffs have to
be studied, compared and revised. and a
hundred various grievances against the
railroad. some just aud some unjust, all
of which have to be heari aud argued.
''Out Of this chaos can anyone bring
a definite shape for presentation to the
Legislature !?
will any one undertake the task and
guarantee to complete it thoroughly,
without overlooking anything. in time
for legislation?
"The Federal Government, after days
of argument, decided that no one or one
hundred bills can be devised to solve the
railroad problem in the United States,
and hat it would have to be in constant
session, laying aside all other business,
to hear and pass bills regulating rail
roads, should it attempt to control them
by direct leg Station. Therefore an In.
ter. State Commerce Commission was
created and vested with full powers OF
hearing and passing Judgment upon
grievances against aud disputes with
the railroads. Fear was expressed by
few gloomy souls with a habit of seeing
the wrong side first that such a Com
mission could be controlled by the rail
roads. The Government, however,
evidenced its faith in the people by as
suming that there are some honest men
among them.
"Neally every State in the Union has
a Railroad Commission. Out of all only
two have gone wrong: New York and
California, the explanation for which is
furnished by the control which Harri'
man and his machine are VIGOROUSLY
reputed to have over the executives OF
the two States, conditions which do not
exist here, the integrity and attitude OF
our own Chief Executive re Iuiring nc
comment.
"Would it not be well for Nevada tc
assume that there are three honest men
in the State-men of means and stand.
ing, sufficiently patriotic to render Ne.
vada a great ~servise regardless of none.
tary profit to themselves?
s.There is no need for either of them
TO be a railroad man, The utter State