Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1909-03-23
SENATOR'S HUNTER =
AND CNRYELL

Some of the state papers arc unmerci-
fully roasting Senators Hunter and
Coryell for their votes against the guar
antee deposit bill and the repeal of the
law creating the state board of assessors.
The Tonopah Bonanza is bitter in its
denunciation of all the senators who
voted with Coryell and Hunter on these
propositions and charges them all with
treachery to the people.
The Bonanza and other critics of El!lo
county's senators forget that neither one
of them was elected on platform pledg-
ing them to vote for a guarantee de-
post banking bill. They were elected
in 1906, before the guarantee of bank
deposits became political issue. This
left them free to vote OH this measure
according to their best judgements and
for what they believed to be the best in
terests of the people of this state. That
they were controlled or whipped into
line by any threat of the Henderson
Banking Company or anybody else no
one who knows them will believe. In
order to give this charge tho semblance
of truth, it is claimed that Senators
Hunter and COryell are both indebted to
the Henderson Bank. This charge we
are able to pronounce absolutely false SO
far us Senator Coryell is concerned. He
does not nor never did owe the bank a
dollar He was not, therefore, afraid of
the crack of Jonn Henderson whip.
While it may he true that Senator
Hunter is indebted to this bank, he is
not the kind of man that is driven by
the crack of anybody's whip.
Now, SO far as the guarantee deposit
feature of the banking bill is concerned,
it is as yet an unsolved problem. True,
it has been in force in Oklahoma for the
last two years and seems to work well,
though this is seriously disputed. 1t is
also true that the national democratic
platform endorsed the guarantee deposit
plan. While the law may work well III
Oklahoma, it should lie remembered
that there is vast difference between
the conditions existing in Oklahoma
and Nevada. \ law that would work
well i'll the ono might bc ruinous to the
other.
With very few exceptions. the
Nevada banks have been honestly con-
Quoted. While Il few have been
managed by rascalS, the great majority
of them have been managed by men of
the strictest integrity. Dishonest men
eau he found in every line of business
and it is not strange that they are found
in the banking business This being
true, is it right or just to make the
honest banker responsible for the
crooked work of another engaged in
the same business, especially when he
has no control or authority over the
crooked banker? The guarantee deposit
law makes the honest banker pay for
the crooked work of the dishonest one.
This is the principle upon which that
law is based and we believe that
Senators Hunter and Corycll voiced the
sentiments Of very large majority of
their constituents when they refused to
vote for such law.
SO far us their votes on the repeal of
the law creating tho state board of
assessors is concerned, we believe they
made n mistake. Since tho creation of
that board, it has been controlled by
the Southern Pacific railroad and judg-
ing from its action at the last meeting
there seems to be but little hope for