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
interview 70 the press:
1T is condition and not a theory
which confronts 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 l made it
clear that more than the borrowing
Of sum of money to tide over the
present deficit in the general fund
was required for the business well
fare CT the state. That the future
must be looked out for. else we could
anticipate situation which would
be beyond legislative remedy with
out involving embarrassments to- ev-
cry state institution.
Il showed that the general fund
for three years had been running be-
hind over $150,OO0 per year; why it
was running behind, and what steps
must he taken to get the state back
or sound business basis. The SEN
ate net my showing by rushing throu
a bill decreasing, instead of increas-
Ing, the general fund-a direct is
sue with my recommendation. 1t
was finally amended by the assembly
bly, leaving the general fund unchang-
ed, as against the showing l presentt d
that the general fund must be in
creased from 1876 to at least so
eel is ON each 500 valuation Of
taxable pror erty
In letter 10 the ways and means
conAmittoe, showed how, without
increasing the tax rate, but by fund
! ing the present outstanding indebt
edness into new state loan and
providing during the next three years,
while we are restoring the general
| fund 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.
demption of the principal, that
Al cents of the cents now applied
to the interest and redemption OF
the old and new loan could be adj
ded to the general fund and become
a part of the increase required.
II make no pretense of infallibility
Possibly my contention is incorrect
that the state is already in sight of
breakers ahead. Possibly the legis-
lature, in it's wisdom, on the other
| hand is correct and that there are
no embarrassments in store for us.
Time wills speedily tell
IF when another year comes about
and the condition of the genera
fund is such that injurious retrench
ment has to be resored to, affecting
every state institution as well as
every state office and commission
even after exercising our borrowing
power up to the 100000 limit,
beg Of the people of Nevada to be-
lieve that the responsibility does
not rest upon myself.
The reform Of the state taxation
system, which | proposed, met
with like fate; certain members sue
ceeding, it its two presentations, il
/, getting themselves recorded on boil
sides Of it. Possibly the bill is 6
joke; but | believe the taxpayers o.
Nevada will not find it so when they
give it study.
i Il showed in my message that tn,
receipts of the general fund, as com
pared with disbursements, were run
ming behind over $150,000 per year
that it has exhausted the surplus
accumulated prior to January l
1909, when the tax rate was rs cents
when the secretly of states offic
was turning into cur revenues owe
100000 per year as against les
than $4,000 now and when there wa
$50, 900 of poll tax receipts coming in
, 70 it as against none now.
{ After treating the remedies pre-
posed by me as a joke, the legislat
ure proposed its remedy-retrencf
ment. 1t was proposed to restor
the $150,O00 deficit in the genera
D fund by eliminating the commissio
' of industry, agriculture and irrigation
9 This commission abolished woul
0 save the ship. 1t did not seem t
4 occur to the advocates of speci;
0 retrenchment that the trouble wa
{ somewhat larger than the sayin
that would be effected by abolish
geteher with the abolition of IL
b state police, the railroad and publ