Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1908-01-31
How The Police Bill Passed.

account OF the passage Of the police bill
by the assembly:
The tight began shortly after the con
vcu;ng II tie session III the morning.
Asserubl! uaI Vaughan fired the first
shot by making n motion tia: Govern or
SIar!s he waited upon by d committee
from the Gs sembiy to answer why he
had not complied with the C'Breu
resolution which t.,ksd for iue .-uT.rs-
pJndeuCr un which he based hs cal
Tor the federal trUops. The mouru was
los by vote Of % TO l.. Tie Yot,
d lrprised many as the general impress
sion WAS the full strength Of Inc police
measure wouId show its AND on the
resolution.
The Nevada State Police measure,
kuowu It's Semhfc Bill Nc. /, wae then
reported by Assembly man Huxley, Us
chairman of the speCIni committee O.
ten. y motion was hen mnde to refer
the measure to the committee .! the
whole for consideration.
At this jauciure Speaker Shu-Gs.
evidently . GUIDED tine floor work MA
not beng done t" suit him and he left
the chair, calling A~ss"mhlymar
Vaughan to the chair 10 preside.
Mr.. Skaggs made II motion tat tht
measure be referred back to the specia!
committee of ten for corrections is it was
clearly Unconstitutional and hc did moi
Si>h such Il measure Ia pass. lie talk
ii at length upon !ae constItOuuralIty
II the measure and called upon tn,
special committee for an opinion as to
ais contention.
Chairman IlueFey male an apt reply,
simply stating ,hat he believed that ii
Speaker Skaggs real! thought that the
police measure wils unconstitutional,
hat hr @kaggs) would mo- Object TO it.
passage and resort To Tie tactics he was
doing to obstruCJ the passage Of the biIl
Tie reply was short hut 1t told the
antire story and it re- G.tca ~ yns Il y.
ion o! SHa-g- beng lost and the meas-
ure referred "a the cp.umIttce ot the
whole.
When thr mrazuTr was considered in
The committee o.! tic 'Halc Assembly,
men Al HuIne 80 ~ ~-.r,., presided.
ChItf EIrrk Coiu Ur-sE regdmg tin
meas ura md the c"numg progressed L
the fourth s., c:Iuu before an Interrupt
non Was rAHic and an amendment
Dtlrred hy tilt opposing forces. From
stE, 80. .,,a,. IL. -H-- 49, IL -
ior lunch A,s,mO!! men liaurl ga,
SEaggs, O'Bricn and Vaughan miro
iuCed amendments to almost ever
,ectiou read, Al were voted down nd
after the first two amendments bad
Dccn sent Ia lhv scFa; heap even \,
semuIymaD Fitzpatrick, who had been
lighting tie measure as originally
changed hY attitude md voted
with the majority.
Whcn the noon hour came Assembly,
man Williams, nude a motion to adj
for lunch. This was douc Il
during the noon hour there was con
hurrying and sCurryInR aDOul
the lOJOies aud hotel corridors and
AscertaIning il every line held true and
no change had occurred in The forces.
Immediately after the assembly hal
convened in the afternoon the body
vent into session as "a committee OF the
whole aud continued the consideration
Of the police bill. The opponents of
lie measure cUutiBued the offering OF
amendments and as a result it was after
; o'clock before TIC measure was rcnd
Ii referred back to the house with a
recommendation that it pnss.
When the measure caIne ny for third
'cadm and final passage the same inc
tics wore pursued by hi opponents Of
the measure. They aEan mtroIuced
the same amen lmcuts tInt hnl been IT,
truducti m the committee Of the whole
and the amendments, as they rx3ectcd,
met the same defeat. The reading was
tiually completed and the measure was
up for final vote.
Mr.. SEaggs then ma iv u speech. He
sad tlat every section Of .hc bIll had q
constitutional Tia y in it. That uc knew
so because be was constitutional law.
yer far ettcr thuD come that has shing-
Ies hnugIng Out. He also stated that
avery man that had voted FOR the mruF-
are would dig his political grave IL
Also thai the democrats
rally together and beat the meas
urc instead OF rallylng around aud li.h =
Tor il. Tho speaker also said that as
most lab BRING men were members OF the
democratic Iariy therefore the demo
Gratis should not support it, Hs to do SO
meant democratic lie feat.
Spccohco in favor Of tho bill were
made by Bray, Fcsslcr, Ray AMI
WIiliums. Iho latter ~ referring Ia
the Insertion 81 SEaggs Tint everyone
voting for tho bil vas ;!iggmg hle
political grave said: "It may he my
political grave but not Novuda's Iis.
honor
when the roll WIS finally called thirty
one votes wof" recorded Tor the bill and
seven against It. Those voting Ugalua,
tho hlll wcro Skuggo - rilKo, Hamilton
OF Es%ucralda, O'Bficn Of LluJcr,
Naughao, u Lincoln, and Corbcti,