Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1917-02-21
Assembly, Feb. 20, A. M.


o'clock, Speaker Luce in the chair.
Roll call. Absent. Baird. Bell and
Golden. Absentees were excused.
Prayer by Rev. w. H. McCreery.
Reading Of minutes of previous ses.
sion was dispensed with.
Committee on enrolment reported
A. b. Nos. II and 40 enrolled and
sent to the governor.
Committee on public lands reported
favorably on A. B. No. "a.
New Bills
A. B. No. 113, by Gallagher-To
amend an act concerning public
schools. Referred to committee ON
education.
A. B. No. ia, by Washoe county
delegatlon-To authorize county com
missioners Of Washoe county to issue
bonds to widen the Truckee river
Referred to Washoe county delega
ton.
A. u. No. lis. by Washoe county
delegation-To authorize the county
commissioners of Washoe TO dispose
OF certain real estate. Referred Ia
Washoe county delegation.
A. B. No. 116, by Tidd-An irriga
ton measure. Referred to irrigation
committee.
A. b. No. III, by Griffin-To re
peal an act establishing an expert
mental farm in the southern part o.
the state. Referred to committee OF
agriculture.
Third Reading
| Assembly substitute for A. Is. No
SO, the new gambling bill, PRACTICAL!
doing away with all kinds of gamb
ling, bookmaking, selling paris mu
fuels, etc. was called up. Boohe
moved the adoption OF the bill. Nc
| Namara moved, as an amendment, 1
be referred TO committee on publ,
morals. Booher spoke for the bill
and stated that the Wingfield inter
ests were opposing It, and that Bur
ton, Wingfield's private secretary
had approached Senator Chaplin Of
the matter. Heidtman made the poin
of order that the substitute had no
been adopted and was upheld in hi
point by the speaker. The substi
tute was then adopted without a dis
senting vote. a motion was ther
made that the bill be referred TO tn,
committee on public morals. AS ar
amendment, Williams moved that thu
nesday. February 2S. The amend
ment was lot by vote OF Is to 16
A motion then prevailed to refer tn,
substitute To the committee on publi
morals.
| AssembIyman Griffin presented
petition from residents of Clarl
county asking that the manufactur
and sale OF liquors in Nevada b,
stopped.
| Adjournment was then taken unit
200 p. IN.
Senate, Feb. 20, A. M.
The senate convened at 11:0'
O'Clock. President Sullivan presiding.
Prayer by Rev. Father Horgan.
Roll call. Senator Elliott absent
excused.
| Journal of previous session reRt
and approved.
| Engrossment committee reported
b. No. 55 correctly engrossed.
Committee on education reportet
s. b. No. 30. the excise bill, unfavoI
ably. with the recommendation tina
It do not pass.
New Bills
s. J. and c. X. No. !. by Harring
ton-Memorallzing congress to con
struct highways to the Pacific coast
The resolution refers to the trip o
Senator Keddie in the dead OF winter
making the trip over the Slerras b!
way OF Reno. Beckwith Pass and tn
Feather river to Sacramento with
25.horsepowcr automobile in forty
two hours, demonstrating that an al
year route from the interior to tn
Pacific coast Ia feasible and can b
kept open the year round. The resu
tuition memoralizos congress, throug
Nevada's United States senators an,
representative, to appropriate fund
for the construction OF such high
way. The resolution was referred 4
the committee on federal relations
| S. u. No. ~, by Chapln--Pertain
ing to the extradition of persons o
unsound minds and to make uniform
the laws OF the states which enac