The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1912-03-02
LEGISLATURE HAS ADJOURNED
Special Session Passes Revenue
Bills and Stirs Up Some Of
fcials In the Capitol

A telephone message received from
Palisade states that the special session
of the Nevada Legislature adjourned on
Thursday afternoon at 8 o'clock.
Outside of passing Senate bill No.
providing for q State loan of 5000 900,
aud the placing Of the State tax levy for
che fiscal year commencing January /,
1912, at 80 cents upon each 800 of as.
sessable property, it is not known here
what other matters, IL any, we're passed
by the Legislature.
1t would seem from the following
dispatch to the Sacramento Bee from
its Carson correspondent that the effort
TO "start something" in the way OF in-
vestigating the present cost of conduct.
ing the State government will bear
fruit at the next regular session, and
that q number of the sup~er1uous dep
uties and stenographers that are hold
ing down places in the State offices
and on the commissions had better pre-.
pare to walk the plank when the
next Legislature gets a whsck an them.
After Brother Rays Scalp
Carson New. February 2 -Senator
Mack Of Douglas County introduced q
resolution yesterday to help Governor
T. L. Oddie to get rid of Warden Ray
Baker, Warden of the Nevada Peniten.
tiary. Mack is q brother-in-law Of
George Springmeyer who was defeated
for the Attorney Generalship by Oleve
Baker, brother of Ras Baker.
The appointive power for naming a
Penitentiary Warden now rests with
the Prison Board, composed of the Gov.
ernor, Secretary Of State and Attorney
General. AS the Secretary of State,
Brodigan, is a Democrat, and the Attorn-
ey General is a brother of the intended
victim, it is understood that the Gov
ernor has found it difficult to dispose of
Ray Baker.
The resolution introduced by Mack
would give the Governor alone the ap-
pointing power. Il is stated that if
Baker were gotten OUT of the way Cap
tain Donnelly of the State Police would
be appointed. It is believed the resolu-
tion will die in Committee.
1t is said that the recent report of the
Governors engagement TO a relative of
the Bakers, which was afterward de.
MED. started the rupture between the
Executive and the two brothers.
Reduce State Police
Senator Tanuehill OF Storey County
introduced a resolution to reduce the
State Police to three members, one cap
tain and W sn~bordinates. these three
to be retained to keep up the Bureau Of
Identification.
Publicity Fund All Gone
Resolutions demanding a full %investi-
CATION Of all the offices, bureaus and
commissions of the State and aimed
particularly at the Publicity Commits
sion, of which Charles H Norcross ID in
charge. have been introduced by the
Democrats. This Commission was gwen
an appropriation last session of $25 600.
and it has all been spent but 1886 OF.
It is claimed there are bills outstanding
that will require more than this balance
to pay.
A large portion of the appropriation
was spent for an auto and for gasoline
and repair bills TO keep il running. The
Commissioners has two relatives as his
assistants, one at $3.50 and the other, a
stenographer. at 500 per month. II is
charged that a large number OF pamph-
lets issued by the Southern Pacific Com
pany's Sunset Homeseekers. Bureau,
San Francisco. and bearing nothing to
show that the State of Nevada had any
thing to do with their publication, cost
the State, through this Commission,
$4,000. The Commission also paid $1,000
for Q deep well drilling outfit that is
lying idle near Carson. The Chicago
Land Show cost the State 1920 tor
railroad and hotel fare for the Commits
sioner and assistants.