Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-03-16
(By Special Correspondence.

day was the fight in. the assembly,
starting in the afternoon and con-
tinuing into the evening, over the
state police bill. The final result,
the passage of the senate bill, you
have already published This result
was obtained after much verbal
sparring and parliamentary rough
and tumble, catch as catch can
scratching, biting and eye gouging.
First, the. emasculating assembly
bill was ANONYMOUSLY indefinitely
postponed. Then the defeated sup
porters of that measure started an
attack on the senate bill, lombard
ing it with volley after volley of
amendments, the purpose of all of
which was to render the state police
force inefficient under any and all
circumstances-an object of ridicule.
Of course the bushwackers were
merely endeavoring to fulfill their
anti-election promises to that por-
tion of their constituents who acted
or sympathized with the Reds in the
late lamented unpleasantness at
Goldfield, when the states royal in
dustry was stricken PROSTATE.
Another forensic battle was pulled
off when the senate bill giving to
Mrs. Sparks some ten thousand and
odd dollars all of the salary Gov
ernor Sparks would have drawn had
he lived out his term-came up for
consideration. There was nothing
personal or political in the opposition
to this relief bill. Those who op-
posed it pointed out the very appar-
ent fact that bad precedent was be-
ing established, which all could see:
but the bill passed, nevertheless. the
well known fact that the worthy
widow needs the money influencing
a big majority to thus donate the
states money.
The governors veto of the bill
making an appropriation for the pur-
chase of that secondhand job lot of
astronomical instruments was sus-
tanned by tie vote, number of
members being absent and others re-
fusing to vote. This was another
cause for war of words. SMALL,
who seems to be particularly anxious
that the graft goes" maintained
that the veto message was not re-
ceived within the time limit of five
days. The speaker decided against
him on this point, Some holidays be-
ing the question on which the issue
rests. He gave notice that on Mon
day he would move to reconsider the
vote sustaining the veto.
The bill appropriating funds for
the maintenance of and improve
ments at the insane asylum was in
troduced. 1t carries a wad of money
big enough to choke herd of Jer-
sey COWS; the exact amount of which
is here withheld, in hope and fear
in hope that it will be scaled down,
and in fear that to hurl it unan-
nounced at the pockets of the tax
payers would cause them to drop
dead with heart failure. There is
nothing small about the Reno local
patriots when it comes to "panhand-
ling the state treasury.
At this juncture, Bradshaw, chair
man of the ways and means commit.
tee, who has been wrestling contin-
uously with appropriations for ter
days past. asked for a leave of alb.
sence and resigned from the commit
tee. The ostensible excuse is urgent
private business, which is probably
the real reason; for Bradshaw Is no
shirker. And then the little man
from Manhattan whom you people OF
Nye sent here to the legislature. gave
another exhibition of the stun he Is
made of-threw down the friends
who made him speaker. by appoint
ing Neill. the man who fought him
most fiercely in the Democratic
caucus that gave him the speaker.
ship. to MI the vacancy, Rlddell was
made chairman.
Winters local option liquor bill,
that has been kicked from pillar to
post for three weeks past was again
made a special order, this time for :
o'clock tomorrow II this we're In
the senate, u could he confidently
predicted that Il would be given The
rope. but the assembly Is a. uueer.
saiu as Jury However. the wires
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