White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1911-03-19

one appointed official, to be known
as the state fiscal agent, in lieu of
the state license and bullion tax
agent, whose Office the bill repealed
and conferred its duties upon the
said commission.
Assembly Bill No. los provides
for no appointive office and no ap-
pointments whatsoever by the gov
ernor
Assembly Bill No. So provides for
the repeal of the Act Creating the
State Industrial and Publicity Com
missioner, and in lieu thereof, pro-
vides for the appointment of Com
missioner of Industry, Agriculture
and Irrigation. The original bill as
1t pasesd the assembly provided for
the appointment of an associate
commissioner. At meeting with
the members of the senate judiciary
committee in my Office on February
81, / submitted to said committee
the draft of a proposed substitute,
cutting out the associate commits
sioner-substantial the bill which
passed the senate and was concurred
in by the assembly, with the excep-
tion of the ninth section added.
Senate Bill No. 2S, the bill here
with returned, was prepared by Mr..
Boyle, a democrat, formerly the
state engineer, and no provision in
the act with respect to any Office
created was suggested by me or came
to my knowledge prior to its intro
duction and my reading of the print
ed bill. AS originally drawn and in
troduced, the appointing power was
left with the governor, as under all
previous acts the state engineer has
been appointed by the governor
From the foregoing statement of
fact 1t must appear that any evidence
in support of the contention that |
advocated these measures to build
up a political machine, Is lacking.
Moreover, it is a matter of personal
information to most of the members
of the senate that | stood ready and
willing, in order to insure the pass
age of Senate Bill No. %, to divide
the patronage equally between the
republicans and democrats, and that
the names of the two democrats l
proposed to appoint were known to
the democratic senators. and met
with their professed approval. Nor
was this expression by me of will
ingness to divide the patronage un-
der this bill a late day concession,
but was made on the day said bill
was mended in the sente depriving
me of the appointing power under 1t,
and was not Withdrawn until the ac-
tion of the democratic members of
the assembly and their allies made
such concession impossible.
On my assuming the Office of
governor / found on the Statutes of
the State of Nevada an Act Provid-
ing for State Industrial and Pub
licity Commissioner, which became a
law four years since, and a measure
in relation to the Carey Act, passed by
the last session of the legislature.
Under the terms of the latter, the
state expressly surrendered all op-
portunity for profit under the provis-
ions of the Carey Act AS a sub
stitute for these two measures, l
submitted Assembly Bill No. SO and
Assembly Bill No. 105-since en-
acted into law by your honorable
bodies-co-related in their opera
tion. and under the terms of the lat
ter there will eventually be secured
by the state from the sales of Carey
Act lands. more than one million dol
lars. available for state reclamation
and upbuilding, as against nothing
under the said previous act
The opportunity to perceive and
take advantage of this great tender
of the national government, of
which other states have taken such
full advantage, was open to the pre-
ceding executive and preceding leg
islatures. The Act of March 23.
1909, is sufficient testimony that
such opportunity was either undis-
covered or was ignored. For that
law not only authorized waiver of
the states right to sell the lands.
but provided no safeguards to con-
serve such lands to legitimate recla-
nation enterprises. Instead. it left
these lands open for exploitation.
without state supervision or con-
troll, to all who might apply; the
legitimate applicant and promoter,
side by side with the land Wild
cater and the fraudulent operator.
The policy crystalized in Assem-
bly, Bills No. So and No. los, is a
substitute for the policy of the last
preceding administration. Ex-Gov-
ernor Dickerson has taken issue ag-
gressively against the substitute pol
icy, in the following language quoted
from the editorial columns of his
paper of February 23rd: 1T (the
new policy opens the door of Graft
and invites the Bureau to enter; it
supplies the Bureau with jimmy and
black jack and points the way to the
strong-box of every industrial cor
poration doing business in the state.
To say that advantage will not be
taken of the opportunities thus af-
forded, sooner or later. is to place
an unwarranted confidence in the
honesty of men-instead of the
good name of the state being pro-
faeted hV the Rurpau IL Is mora lika1y