The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1910-12-10
some PROBLEMS
FOR THE new
GOVERNOR

The new Republican administratio,
of Governor-e1ect T. L. Oddie will h,
confronted by a number of problem,
that have been helo over from las
term through no particular fault of n,
executive department, but which vii
require considerable ingenuity in IN,
settlement, says the Reno Journal. L.
addition IT is said that there are chang
es IN organization of various depart
ments and these, if made, will
considerable speculation.
Under the outgoing administrator
the matter of the acceptance o fthe pre-
ferred bonds of North Carolina hq:
been held up In the supreme court
where the case was taken. The matte7
has been before the court considerall
over ninety days and the decision has
been expected daily for some time.
Should the decision be adverse to
Gov. Dickerson, who took the positlc !
that the bonds should be refused III
spite of a law apparently directing hum
to accept all gifts, 1t will be up to
Gov. Oddie, if he is then governor, to
either accept the decision and take
the bonds or to continue to refuse theri
and bring the matter by appeal to the
supreme court of the United tates.
What the decision will be is still 4
matter of conjecture. In the event that
Governor eddie e~vinces a disposition
to accept the bonds if so directed by
the supreme court, it is said that GER
tain taxpayers will make an independ-
ent effort to have the action delayed BY
appeal to the federal tribunal.
Another matter that is held over is
the subject of the contract for the pur-
chase of steel cells for the new prison
at Carson. This matter has not come
up so far as the completion of the con-
tract is concerned, because the prison
has not vet begun building, but it is
certain that an opportunity to inter
pose a final objection to the award on
the score of economy will be given by
the governor.
One of the recommendations which,
it is limited, will be made by Governor
elect eddie on taking office will be the
reduction of the state police to a mere
skeleton. The originator of this ru-
NOR must have been somewhat misla-
formed, however, for the force at pres
ent consists only of enough officers to
command the squads in time of emei-
pency. with one officer to each squad.
The squads themselves are not gotten
together until an emergency arises. 10
cut down the number of officers at thu
time would be TO substitute for men
in military tactics green hands
to be picked up at any time with no
knowledge of tactics and capable OF
little better results than those of ar
undisciplined mob. Those who nave
heard the proposed move declare that
it would be far better to have no state
police at all than to dispense with the
skeleton that remains.
The disposal of the appointive OH
GERS of the state is another OF the
problems of the next administrator
which is committed to economy. II
was recently pointed out that a moN
in the direction of economy might Dc
made by the consolidation of the ohees
of state auditor and state license anu
tax agent. This would be SOM
what inconvenient from a s~tandpol''
of patronage for the reason that the aP-
nlicants for the bullion tax plum mlgLl
not be qualified to do auditing work
but otherwise there is no particular
reason why the duties of both mighl
be considered.