Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1909-03-26
SENATOR'S HUNTER
AND C0RYELL

Some of the state papers are unmerci-
fully roasting Senators Hunter IL
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
de~nunciation of all the senators who
voted with Coryell and Hunter on these
propositions and charges them all with
treachcry to the people.
The Bonanza and other critics of Elko
county's senators forget that neither one
of them was elected on Il platform pledg-
ing them to vote for Il guarantee de-
post banking bill. They were elected
in 1906, before the guarantee of bank
lanoaits hacaIna q political Issue. This
left them free to vote on 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 the 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 as Senator COryell is concerned. He
does not nor never did owe the bank n
dollar. He was not, therefore. afraid of
the crack of Jonn Henderson's whip.
While it may be true that Senator
Hunter is indebted to this bank. he is
not the kind of a 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 in
Oklahoma, it should be remembered
that there is a vast difference between
the conditions existing in Oklahoma
and Nevada. \ law that would work
well in the one might he %ruinous TO the
other.
With very few exceptions, the
Nevada banks have been honestly con
Quoted While a few have been
managed by r~ascals, the great majority
OF them have been managed by men of
the strictest integrity. Dishonest men
can be 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
crooked work of another engaged in
the same business, especially when hi
has no control or authority over the
crooked banker? The guarantee deposit
law makes the honest banker pay fol
the crooked work Of the dishonest one
This is the principle upon which that
law is based and we believe tina;
Senators Hunter and Corycll voiced the
their constituents when they refused tc
vote for such q law.
so far as their votes Oh the repeal OF
the law creating the state board OF
assessors is concerned, we believe they
made a mistake. Since the creation OF
that board, it has been controlled by
the Southern Pacific railroad and iudg.
ing from its action at the last meeting
there seems to DO but little hope foI
the future. Whether the state board
of revenue would he an Improvement OF
not we are not able to say. hut there /.
chance that it would be and we believe
the Legislature should have taken that
chance, tAf