The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1912-03-09
Special to the Record

CARSON CITY, Ne, March Gov
ernor oddie has given the following
authorized interview TO the press:
1T is a condition and not a theory
which eonfronts the people of Ne
vada, Time will speedily tell wheth-
er | am right or the opponents of my
administration.
In my message to the special ses-
sion Of the legislature | made il
clear that more than the borrowing
of IA sum of money to tide over the
pr sent deficit in the general fund
was required for the business wei
fare CT the state. That the future
must be looked out for, else we could
anticipate situation which would
be beyond legislative remedy with.
/ or, involving embarrassments to ev-
cry state institution.
Il showed that the general fund
Ter three Years had been running be-
hmd over '$l5O,000 per year; why it
was running behind, and what steps
must lie taken to get the state back
on sound business basis. The sen
ate ne, my showing by rushing throu
bill decreasing, instead Of increas-
lE@, the general fund-a direct is
sue with my recommendation II
was rnallA amended by the assembly
| bly leaving the general fund unchang-
| ed az against the showing present, d
that the general fund must be in
creased from 1876 to at least so
Gel Is ON each 500 valuation Of
taxable property,
I'm letter TO the ways and means
conmltte", showed how, without
Increasing the tax rate, but by fund
ln8 the present outstanding indebt-
cdnesS into a new state loan and
providing during the next three years,
While we are restoring the general
iund to a normal basis and provid,
ing ways and means for an exhibit
at the Panama Pacific exposition,
| merely for the interest on the loan
and not until 1915 beginning the re-
drmption of the principal, that
a. cents of the 6 cents now applied
TO the interest and redemption of
the old and new loan could be ad-
ded to the general fund and become
a part of the increase required
II make no pretcnse of infallibility
| Possibly my contention is incorrect
| tilat the state is already in sight of
breakers ahead. Possibly the legis-
lature, in its wisdom. on the other
hand is correct and that there are
no einharrassments in store for us
Time will speedily tel.
II when another year comes about
and the condition of the genera
fund Is such that injurious retrench-
mont has to be resorod to, affecting
every state institution as well as
every state office and commission, |
even after exercising our borrowing |
power up to the 100000 limit, II
beg Of the people of Nevada to be.
! Hove that the responsibility does
not rest upon myself.
"rhc reform of the state taxation
system, which ! proposed, met
with like fate; certain members sue.
ceeding, it its two presentations, in
getting themselves recorded on both
sides Of it, Possibly the bill is a
joke; but | believe the taxpayers of
Nevada will not find ii so when they
give it study
u showed in my message that the
! receipts of the general fund, as com
| pared with disbursements, were run
ming behind over $l50,000 per year;
that It has exhausted the surplus
accumulated prior to January L.
| 1909, when the tax rate was Is cents,
when the secretry of states office
was turning into cur revenues over
| 100000 per year as against less
| than $4,000 now and when there was
1000 Of poll tax receipts coming in
20 it as against none now.
After treating the remedies pro
posed by me as a joke, the iegislat |
Te proposed its remedy-retrencl |
ment, 1t was proposed to restore
the $l5O000 deficit in the general
fund by eliminating the commission
Of industry, agriculture and irrigation.
This commission abolished would
save the ship. 1t did not seem to
occur to the advocates of special
retrenchment that the trouble was
somewhat larger than the saving
that would be effected by abolish.
ing the above nomed commiss on to-
geteher with the abolition of the
state police, the railroad and public
service commission, the state en-.