White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-28

surely there should be very little
mathematical intelligence required
to tell how much will be needed TO
meet these expenditures. And yet
in 1906 they collected a million dol
lars. They collected $1,070,562 to pay
out $4,000, or, they collected
practically from all sources two dol
lars where they needed only one. And
they had a balance on hand of nearly
$478,5O5 in the year 1907. And yet
in 1907 they collected not the sum
expended the year before, but
81, 100000 from the people of this
state. And this Is the sworn state
ment of the state treasurer. In the
year 1907, then, they increased the
expenditures by nearly $4,000
Why so large an increase?
Mr.. Dickerson Is your acting gov
ernor. His running mate was a nan
kicked out by the governor and he
is at "outs" with almost every Of
fcer who is associated with him. /
say rather facetiously il Dickerson
should become really governor of the
state he would not be on speaking
terms with any of the officers of the
state before his actual term began.
Now | come to 1908. They carried
over in cash after the hard year of
the awful panic of 1907, when every
body was hard up, they carried over
from that panic year of 1907 the
sum of 5000 900 in cash from 1905,
more than they had expended in 1905
for expenses of government. There
was interest from your school lands,
from ad valorem taxes, and taxes on
lands, and sheep and hogs, and on
your little homes and on the very
bed in which you slept-they carried
all that over; and yet that man Dick
erson says he stands on his admins
tration, So in 1908 We had what?
Seven hundred and sixty-four thous-
and dollars, and they collected a mil
lion and four thousand dollars in
addition and they paid out $4,000
a year in a time when men had the
heart taken out of them, when 1t was
sweat and blood to get bread and
meat in the state of Nevada and in
four years they have doubled the ex-
penses of the government. Now In
the name of fairness, gazing on this
record, what have you got for it?
Some of the none has been we'll
spent, some of ii has been squander-
ed. But 1t could not have been
squandered II the executive officers
of this state had performed their
duty under the laws and constitution
of the state and the oath of Office.
Let us see how some of this was
expended. Take up the general APP
preparation bill of 1908. There was
an appropriation of $1,000 paid out
to a committee-to the chairman of
the publicity commission. Sam Da-
Wis was that chairman. He draws a
salary of $4,000 a year under a
Democratic administration and a
Democratic governor. That man has
not turned his hand yer and he
could not have turned 1t over If he
wanted to do so, except to sign his
name and endorse a check on the
bank. Ten thousand dollars in four
years. Take a drill and bore a hole
in a barrel having forty gallons in IL
and how long will it be before the
leak will let all the contents out?
Yes, like the cider barrels into
which we used to bore when We were
boys and forgot the leak till all the
cider was gone.
That publicity committee-what
has it done? 1t is not on record
that is a part of the administration.
But there is another officer in this
state doing nothing. What do they
call him? They call him state
auditor. He runs around the state
doing politics and drawing a salary
of $4,000, with $4,000 expenses. |
have been trying hard to find out
what he has been doing but although
I am in Reno getting myself into
trouble, while getting other people
out, | have not learned what he
does.
You have a state controller and he
has two clerks at Carson City and it
Is his duty to do what seems to be
undone by the state auditor. / see
travelling expenses of governor, and
1880 expenses paid to the attorney
general who has a private law prae-
tice in Reno. Does the government
pay his expenses going back and
forth between Reno and Carson City?
| have looked to see what is the ne
cessity of $4,000 travelling expenses
and ! have failed to learn why there
should be such a leak.
Then they have a bank examiner
at a salary of $500, and travel
ing expenses of $4,000. We need a
bank examiner sure enough But you
know what the history Is In the state
of Nevada. Has the man ever saved
one single penny to the depositors of
this state?
And what | have said of these is
true of nearly all the expenditures of
your money.
Now what necessity is there of a
new penitentiary in the state? Why
should the acting governor demand
the construction of a new prison?
And yet they wanted to buy a farm
and put men ON the farm to work II
and they could not start 1t. Twenty
five thousand dollars for a farm,
They already have a good farm. And
wet they go on "A iunketinp tour of