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


the senate, scrapping over the veto
of the water bill. The democrats in
vain endeavored TO pass the measure
over the head of Governor Oddie,
but they failed TO do it; and were
obliged to return to their con-
stituencies with the best explanation
which they could give for defeating
the most important legislation that
was ever introduced for the benefit
of the state They tried to do poll
tics, unmindful of the peoples inter-
ests; they tried to force Governor
Oddie TO do politics with them, to
return to them some of the laurels
which had been wrested from them
by the people in last November.
But now they know Governor
Oddie for a man of his word; when
he makes statement in future they
will give heed to it. for he did just
what he warned them that he would
do in the event of the bill being pass
ed up to him, in its amended form.
1t means delayed legislation for two
years; it means keeping back the ad
yancement of the state for that
length of time; but Oddie took the
stand that his supporters expected
him to take. He declined to parcel
back the power which the people of
the state had taken from the former
administration, to those in opposi
ton to his own administration. The
message of the governor, which sent
his opponents back to their homes
downeast with defeat is given
here in full, and every line of
1t is worth reading; for it shows
the kind of a man we have in the
position of Chief Executive of the
State. Here is the message:
To the Honorable Senate and the
Assembly:
! return herewith to the honor
able senate without my approval
Senate Bill No. 2S entitled IAN Act
TO Provide Water Law for the
State of Nevada, ETC. On the 14th
inst. while the said bill was pend
ing in the assembly. l submitted
special message to your honorable
bodies in which there was no equivo-
cation with respect to the action |
would take if this bill came to me
in the form ii passed the senate. to-
wit: with the engineers depart
ment of the state government re-
moved from the executive control
and placed in the practical control of
the lieutenant governor and the sec
retary of state. The message was
submitted at that time in order that
there might be no doubt or uncer-
tainty upon the part of any member
of your honorable bodies as to
whether a vote in the assembly, for
or against an amendment restoring
the engineering department of the
state government to the control of
the executive. was a vote to save the
measure or to kill it.
The reason which aetuated me in
taking this stand upon a measure
which | had in public address and
in special message to your honorable
bodies on February 23rd, urged as of
the greatest importance to the state,
in my own view are eogent. reason
able and sufficient. These reasons
have a deeper significance than ap-
pear upon the surface, or than the
are, and whose servant / am, are as
yet fully aware. The inaccuracies in
certain of the public press as to what
has transpired here the past sixty
days will not stand a the history of
this session, except insofar as cor
roborated by the truth. When that
truth is known, have no fear of
the verdict concerning my action in
disappearing a measure, in the ex-
eellenee of whose provisions ] believe
as firmly today as when in my spe-
cial message i urged its passage, but
which, as amended by the senate and
concurred in by a union of the demo-
Gratis of the assembly with three
members of the assembly who had
been elected as republicans. brought
about situation in which greater
issues were at stake than two-years'
postponement of the provisions of
said proposed act.
The people of this state on No
vember Sth last elected me govern
or, in preference to Denver s. Dick
erson, by decisive majority. The
responsibility is upon me to guide
this state as its executive the next
four years, and let no one assume
that l do not intend to be its gov
ernor during that time, in the full
sense of the term, and without any
parceling of the power received from
my predecessor back to those in op-
position.
The most powerful Appointment in
the gift of this state Is the state en-
gineer, and in connection with the
work planned for myself as govern
or for the next four years, and
which is forecast in Assembly Bills