The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-03-06
COMMISSION
BILL TO front
MADE SPECIAL ORDER OF BUSI-
NESS FOR MONDAY
AFTERNOON

CARSON CITY, New, March A.
The tax commission bill was made a
special order of business in the as
sembly this morning for $3.50 o'clock
next Monday afternoon with instruc-
tions to have the amendments adopt
ed by the committee on the whole
printed. There vas no discussion
the bill when it was reached on the
general file this morning and it is
said that the fight against it's pas
sage has been abandoned.
Beason of Lincoln county noticed
a bill providing a non-partisan judi
ciary. The bill will apply to dis
trict courts and the state supreme
court and will absolutely prohibit
political parties making nominations
for judicial positions. 1t will be
introduced tomorrow.
Budget System
An armful of bills was introduced
in the senate this morning. Most of
them we're administration measures
relating to the taxation system and
were introduced by the ways and
means committee. Among them is
one placing counties under a bud
get system and prohibiting any board
of county commissioners mourning
any floating Indebtedness other than
by bond issues, unless there is mon
ey in the treasury to meet such in
d%ebtedness. 1t makes any commits
sioner voting to incur such indebt-
ness subject to removal. 1t also au-
thOrizes the county commissioners
to decrease the county tax rate.
A bill by Thatcher provides for
two deputy mine inspectors at a
salary of 5000 a month. The sem
ate passed the billing making the
state comptroller ex-officio state in
surance commissioner. The boxing
bill is on the general file in the sem
ate with a favorable report and will
be taken up this afternoon.
Appropriation Bill
The state tax levy for the next two
years will not be over five cents and
may be as low as f~orty-five cents,
according to a statement made yes
terday by Senator Fulmer, chairman
of the senate ways and means COM
mittee, which is drafting the gener-
al appropriation bill. The amount
called for in the general appropria-
ton bill governs the state tax rate,
it being fixed so as to bring in an
amount estimated to be equal to the
running expenses of the state until
the next levy is fixed two years
hence.
The ways and means committee is
working on the state budget togeth-
err with expert accountants. Senator
Fulmer says that the reduction in
the tax rate this year is the result
of the tax commission. He esti-
mates the assessed valuation in the
state this ear at 100000, 900. Two
years ago the tax rate was fixed at
sixty = five cents for 1919 and sixty
cents for 1914.
BY a vote of Is to 4, the senate
Yesterday passed the bill making the
superintendent of the state police
eX-officio warden of the state prison.
There we're some minor amendments
which it was thought would hamper
the state police and cut down it's eff
f~iciency. Voting against the bill
were Fulmer. Harrington, Kenney
and Elliott. The bill fixes the sal
airy of the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES at
$4,000 a year. Bradshaw explained
the bill saying that it was a move
for economy. The bill, if it becomes
a law, will automatically remove
Warden Dickerson and make A. A.
Burke, former sheriff of Washoe
county, ex-officio warden.