White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1911-08-20

The Republican papers have
studiously refrained from saying n
thing about it. When it is remember.
ed that the administration has been
In power but seven months and found
an overlooking treasury awaiting II
when 1t took possession, the desire
FOR silence is not strange" y
Ely Expositor.
The Carson City News replies to
the above by going back to the days
OF the legislature and quoting the
language of Governor Oddie on the
very essential details of the financial
situation. 1t says:
Governor Oddie called the atten-
ton of the legislature to the situa-
tom
A Republican assembly passed
the measure designed to relieve II,
A Democratic senate laid the meas
ure ON the table without permitting
1t to be voted on,
Now, the Democratie press is at
tempting to throw the responsibility
for a situation which Oddie foresaw
and tried to relieve, on the governor.
forgetting the fact that the senate
must face the responsibility!
On February %, 1911, Governor
oddie submitted a special message to
the legislature. One thousand and
five hundred copies of it were printed
and laid on the desks of every SEN
ator and assemblyman. One half
OF II was devoted to a discussion of
state finances. and the present situa-
ton was forecast as plainly as words
can express it.
That message is interesting read
ing, and we commend it to the careful
perusal of Ex-Governor Dfckerson.
the Carson Appeal and the Nevada
State Journal.
Pages 7 to 10 are devoted to a dis
cussion of state finances and tax
alton and the vital necessity of the
legislature graphing with the
problem.
Ii Is too long to be quoted in full,
but the concluding portion of it will
cause the Democratic press to take a
reef in their %exuberant delight over
the present situation.
Governor Oddie's Special Message.
In this connection | desire to call
the attention of your honorable
bodies to these significant facts:
That on January l, 1909, there
was a cash balance in the general
fund in the state treasury Of $780,
5s5.29.
THAT on January /, 1911. the
cash balance in such fund was but
s~2f2,622.5S.
THAT by the adoption of the con-
stitutional amendment applying the
proportion of poll-tax re-
to the county road funds $780,
600 per annum of the state revenue
is cut off.
THAT the receipts from lncorpora-
ton fees in the secretary of states
office have decreased from $780,
S26.10 in 1908. to %s39.S25.45. In
1910, with a possibly further diminu-
ton this year,
THAT the retiring state prison
board executed a contract for a new
prison obligating the state in the sum
of $147,450 for steel cells and re-
q%uiring a large appropriation in adj
dition to complete such new prison.
And that the normal and neces-
sary expenditures of the state govern
ment for the ensuing two years can
not be materially reduced.
Conclusion.
Summarizing the various recon-
mendations and statements made In
this message to your honorable
bodies, | trust that ! have made the
problem. as | vew 1t. of what is best
to be done for the welfare of the
state. clearly, namely:
THAT We should address ourselves
to the ways and means of bringing
more population and creating more
taxable property in this state. and
which can only be permanently ac-
complished through the reclamation
and colonization of u wastes, That
this great work of state upbuilding
permits of no postponement without
inviting In the measurable future a
crisis in the state, between the
natural desire of our people for pro-
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