Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1910-03-21

cats paw of the State OF Nevada wa:
taken last Friday in this city when
the Supreme Court was asked for 4
writ OF mandamus compelling Gov
ernor Dickerson 10 accept l45 $lUUt
bonds, with accrued interest, OF
about S+0O,OUO as I, gift ior the State
| OF Nevada under an Act passed by
the Legislature of 1901, which was
intended to require the Governor OF
Nevada to accept donations rendered
to this State. The Governor refused
to accept the bonds and the Supreme
Court was appealed to by one +. L.
W hitc, who IS representing the Capl
tai that wishes to force Nevada to
accept the donation in que stion.
So it seems the State of North
Carolina once issued a great amount
OF railroad bonds, which it later re
pudiated Some $oU0,OOO worth are
now held by New York brokers.
While it is usually inconvenient for
an individual or corporation to sue a
state, a state might sue a state with
comparative easy procedure. Conse-
quently someone has cleverly CON
ceived the idea OF presenting the
State OF Nevada with approximately
$4U0,00U worth OF bonds. If the state
accepts them, sues the State OF North
Carolina and wins, then the bonds
held by the New York brokers would
have to be paid.
TO a man up d tree ii looks like a
pretty smooth hold-up game and thai
Governor DickerSon is OF the same
opinion is evident by the action he
has taken in the matter.
Governor Dickerson was seen by L
representative OF the Appeal and ask
ed regarding the attempt made to
COMPEL him to accept the donation.
He admitted that such plan was on
loot and gave the following state
ment to The Appeal which tells '"e
whole story and place, '''> matter
which NAV s>~nrually become OF
ra.:,naI importance, before the pub
lie in a clear and concise manner:
1T is true that have been served
with an order of the Supreme Court
to show cause why should not ac-
cept las $1,000 repudiated North Car
olina bonds The tender of the bonds
was made by Mr.. Mackenzie and
1nt -, all
go agent. last Thursday. and refues
ed to accept them.
"Therc arc several reasons, in my
Judgment, why the State of Nevada
cannot afford to get mixed up IN
transaction of this kind. To begin
with, it is not a bona tlde donation.
At the present time the bonds are
without value. No interest has been
paid on the bonds for more than 80
wears. Before the bonds could have
any value it would be necessary to
get Judgment from the United
States Supreme Court against the
State of North Carolina. In order t"
secure such judgment, II 1t could
be done at all. heavy expense would
be entailed on this State in the prose
cution Of the case. 1t would mean
, several thousand dollars of expense
I to prosecute the case and if Judgment
: should go against US who could say
! that a donation had been made to
! the State of Nevada?
These bonds were issued during
the reconstruction period when the
carpet-baggers had control of the
Legislature and all branches of the
; State Government. and the manner
in which they exploited the bona fdo
citizens of the South is matter OF
history. 1t is claimed by the people
of North Carolina that they received
not one cents benefit from the mon
ey secured by these bonds and or
that account as soon as the carpet
bag regime ended and the bona fdt