White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1917-01-28
LEGISLATIVE MACHINERY
Is SLOWLY GRINDING

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is to be located at Austin, the county
seat of the county.
The increased cost of paper was
brought to the attention of the SEN
ate when Harrington introduced a
bill amending the act providing that
all supreme court decisions should be
published. BY the amendment the
cost of publishing the decisions is
raised from 1925 to $50 per month.
The decisions are published in news
papers.
Adoption of sagebrush as the Off
cial state emblem was laid before the
Lee stature Tuesday by the Nevada
federation OF Women's clubs through
a communication and resolution pre-
scented by Mrs. r. d. E~ichelberger,
president of the association. The as
sociation passed a resolution at its
last meeting fayoring the sagebrush
as the state emblem. The commu-
~nication was received in the senate
and filed.
The members of the bipartisan in
v~estigating committee which will
conduct an investigation of the uni
versity were named Thursday after
noon I'm the senate and house. BY
agreement between the president of
house, the committee will be evenly
divided as far as political affiliations
are concerned. The senate Is to have
two republicans and one democrat on
the committee and the house two
democrats and one republican.
Chaplin, Buol and Hesson were ap-
pointed from the senate.
The members from the house are
Coryell, Bell and Fulmer.
The Lazy Husband bill which was
passed by the assembly Wednesday,
was killed in the senate by a vote of
ten to six. The bill was introduced
in the assembly by Alexander of
White Pine county. 1t repealed the
law giving the husband the right to
the earnings of his wife or minor
children after il was amended by the
judiciary committee. In the original
draft of the bill the husband would
be entitled to half of the earnings of
his wife and children.
Alexander. assemblyman from
White Pine, itroduced a real freak
measure Wednesday morning. 1t
contains no title, no enaeting clause,
and no sections. Ii apparently is a
rough draft of a measure and prob
ably was offered by mistake under the
belief that it was the finished bill
The bill was referred to the commit
tee on railroads.
All attaches of the senate must re-
port half an hour before the opening
of the morning session and must re-
main until fouro'clock'
If assembly bill No. 10, introduced
by Williams of Clark county, becomes
a law, ii will be a gross misdemeanor
for any person to have a deck OF
cards in his possession and he can be
fined 5000 to $1,000 and sent to the
county jail for from two to twelve
months.
The bill prohibits all forms of card
games or other percentage games
with any form of gambling device.
Ii knocks out all slot machines and
enumerates a number of special
games that cannot be played.
1t also repeats the racetrack bill
in its entirety, making il a gross mis-
demeanor to conduct a race meet
According to provisions Of the bill
All witnesses a De compelled TO tes-
tify but II provides that the testimo-
ny of a witness cannot be used
against him If he is arrested for vio-
lation of the law.
The bill is absolutely prohibitory
as far as any kind of gambling or
card playing is concerned. 1t was
referred to the judiciary committee.
A bill which provides for the main
troduced by Alderman of Mineral
county. II is practically the same
as the act of 1915 which continued
the life of the commission untl 1918,