White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1917-01-28
Legislative Machinery Slowly
Grinding on Big Grist of Bills
Senator Chaplin Chairman Of nqusors Named to Investigate
Conditions at State Unversty--Most of Measures Thus
Far Submitted Are Yet in Hands of Committees

Out of the fourteen days each
house has worked a little over half
time. The senate has a one-day
edge on the assembly, the lower
house having taken one more half
holiday than the upper When the
legislative day of Sunday is ended,
completing the first fourteen days of
the session, the assembly will have
seven and one-half days of work to
Its credit. while the senate's credit
account will show eight days. says the
Reno Gazette.
In the assembly twenty-six bills
have been introduced and twenty-four
of them are still in committee, the
judiciary committee having the big
ger portion of them. In the senate
fourteen bills have been introduced
and about half of them have been
passed.
In addition To the assembly bills
that are in committees. the commit
tees of the lower house also have un-
der consideration about half dozen
bills from the senate
The assembly has a scrap scheduled
for next Tuesday when the Aeker-
man resolution providing for the ap-
pointment of two more attaches will
be taken up in the afternoon under
special order. The resolution calls
for appointment by the speaker of
an assistant mailing clerk and an
expert shorthand reporter.
The joint legislative committee,
appointed to investigate the affairs of
the state university. organized FRI
day inRepo an elected N. II. Cha
pin, state senator from White Pine
county, as chairman.
The committee hopes to begin its
Investigations al once. Inasmuch
as the members are on some of the
most important committees In each
house of the Legislature. 1t will be
necessary for them to divide their
time between Reno and Carson.
1t has not been decided whether
the meetings will be public or 81
cret.
Attorneys, strong proponents of
the prohibition bill. which Is now be-
fore the legislature upon an initia-
tive petition and which will be sub
mitted to the people at the next gen.
eral election. say the enacting clauses
of the measure are not illegal as
claimed and that the bill as submitted
will stand every test to which 1t may
be subjected before the courts.
In support of their contention they
point out that there is variation In
the wording of the initiative enacting
clause as laid down by the compiled
laws of Nevada ana by various ses-
sion laws and that the attorneys
who prepared the prohibition bill fol-
lowed the exact words of the consti-
tuition, as laid down In the complied
laws of 1912, which Is, they say, the
recognized authority.
Attorneys interested In the passage
of the prohibition bill declare that
the constitution as laid down in the
compiled laws of 1912, will govern,
and that the alleged irregularities
Sol mt hn
riously considered by the courts
Attorney General Thatcher holds
that the enacting clause of the bill as
drawn Ia In proper form
a. l.. Haight of Fallon was made Of
fcial bill drafter for the Legislature
Wednesday. He was appointed by
the senate following the passage of
senate resolution No. s, which rec
ated the Office. The resolution was
presented by Senator Keddie and met
with considerable opposition. Sol
Summerfield of Mineral county lead
| Ing the opponents. The vote stood
eleven to six In favor of the resolu-
ton
Considerable comment. favorable
and unfavorable, was aroused by the
action of the senate In appointing an
attorney as official bill drafter at
salary of SIS per day and travelling
expenses Some members of the SEN
ate and assembly took the position
that the necessity for such an official
did not exist. Senator Keddie, who
was back OF the move for the ap-
pointment OF the new attache, asserts
that the principal duty OF the Official
bin draftsr will BE- to act In an ad-