Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1914-10-20
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harmony out of discord and chaos; l
have saved lives, and | can show
you how | have done it; have saved
this state from internal strife. To
day we have peace and harmony,
and can see no occasion why II
should not continue. (Applause)
Workmen's Compensation.
There is one matter | would like
to call to your attention in eonnec
ton with labor matters. and that is
the question of workmens compen
sation. have been a large employ
er of labor, as | have told you, and
| have worked for myself; and ! have
studied this matter for a long time,
for years previous to my taking Of
flee as governor. ! could see the
injustice done, the hardships worked
on men who had been injured in
the course of their employment, and
to the dependents of those killed.
have studied this matter hard and
| brought this matter TO the atten-
tion of our legislature for the first
time in the history of the state that
IT had ever been brought properly to
the attention of the legislature; and
today we have good law. It will
be improved at the next session of
the legislature. Four years after my
original message to the Legislature
law was passed improving the old
conditions; but ! will say that when
that law was passed | discovered a
flaw in il. The railroad employees
were instrumental in getting that
law through: | went to them prompt
ly, and very short time, just few
hours before it would have been too
late to change it, there was fatal
flaw in the law went for the rail
road boys and called their attention
to that flaw; they had il corrected
promptly and It became a law two
years after"
The governor then read what he
first recommended to the Legislature
the first recommendation of a gov
ernor of this state along this line
State Extravaganza.
81 recently stated in Reno that the
State of Nevada needed a complete
overhauling or simplifcation Of its
state and county governments. My
friends. this must be done There
are extravaganeces and wastes of the
public money going on in Carson
which the people should know about.
will tell you that | suggested this
very matter in this inaugural mess
age. In my first message in 1911 to
| the legislature | stated this
81 recommend that joint com
mittee Of the two houses be appoint
\ ed 10 investigate the ways and means
OF reducing state expenditures, and
I to report the reductions which can
/ be effected without impairment tC
I the public service"
MY friends, the legislature was In
session sixty days, and nothing was
! done Two years later a committee
/ was appointed from both houses o.
the Legislature. which made shan
pretence at retrenchment. Nothing
was accomplished. The heads of the
various departments, the principa
ones. we're interviewed, and theii
words were taken that everything
was all right and the committee lie
II 20 at that / will not go into th'
individual departments now with you
but | say that there are eXtrava
gances going on there and they mus
be cut out. am accused of eXtrava
gance! My opponents are accusing
me of extravaganza; they are accus
ing the Republican administration
but when you think that two-third
of the state officers and employees o
the state are Democrats, why, 20
will see that there is a reason,
Matter OF Business.
Now, am not charging goo
Democrats with any crimes; ar
not charging good Republicans wit
any crimes; this is not a politics
: matter, il is a matter of business
| was in the legislature from thi
county some years ago; there wer
no politics then: the men in tn
various parties worked side by sid
for the welfare of the State of N
vada; but in the last few years
Carson City there have been to
much politics playing, and We hay
had to suffer from IT,
Divorce and Gambling.
another matter | would like
call your attention to, which is
very delicate matter. | know TIL
II is going to make me less vote
but. my friends, would rather con
out and tell you squarely where
q stand, and that is in regard to u
question of the return of the op'
II gambling and easy divorce law.
have heen n member of the Pardt