The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-02-17

ENDS BUSY
WEEK
MANY BILLS ARE KILLED, IN
GLIDING SEMI-MONTHLT
PAYDAY

CARSON CITY, req. lO.-lI Iooh
but a short time TO dispose of senate
bills &c and 81 yesterday afternoon.
The bills were companion measures
relating to trials by jury. One pro-
vided that litigants could secure a
trial by jury by depositing $40 at
the outset of the trial. Under the
present law the litigant DESTROYS of
having a case heard by a jury is
required to deposit the amount of
the jury fees daily. The other
would place upon counties the ex-
pense of all jury trials.
The bills came out of the assem-
bly, judiciary committee with an un-
favorable report and without discus
sion the assembly indefinitely post
poned both. Gallagher of White
Pine attempted to have the execu-
ton performed by striking out the
enacting clause, but failed.
A semi-monthly payday for EN-
ployes of the state printing office is
provided for in a bill introduced in
the senate yesterday by Harringto on
81 Ormsjy. The same bill also au-
thoriles the state printer to bind
volumes of the statutes and supreme
cohrt reports in buckram as well as
sheepskin and provides for the
printing of 1900 instead of 1900 vol
umes of the supreme court reports
and session laws.
DINNERS for auto lamps will be
required in case a bill amending Ger
tain sections of the automobile Ii
cense law is passed by the legisla
ture. The amendment makes t Il
misdemeanor to fail to equip auto
mobiles and motorcycles with dim
mers, punishable by a fine or i'm
prisOnmcnt.
The same bill also provided Tor
the establishment of a county road
repair fund" into which automobile
license money collected from each
county will be deposited for use on
the roads of the county in which
collected.
The bill also carries amendments
to the license section of the present
act.
The Legislature practically reached
the halfway station of it's 60-day
session when both houses adjourned
till next Monday. Monday will be
the 2Sth day of the session.
This week the chief fight came In
the senate when the semi-monthly
payday bill vas slaughtered by in
definite pOstponement. The bill was
one of the most important to be con
sidered up to the present time n
aroused statewide interest. 1t got
through the assembly without IA
dissenting vote, only to be indefinite
ly postponed in the upper house by
a vote of nine to eight.
In the assembly Fulmer's bill pro-
viding for an eight-hour day for
women held the center of the stage
together with the bill creating a
state rabies commission. Both were
passed by the lower house after pro-
lOnged debate without a dissenting
vote. There was nc particular oppo-
sitiOn to the rabies commission meas
ure, but many amendments were
maui W tHt III blll DtloIe II Sot
through. A fight will be made on it
in the senate.
The senate also dismissed the pro-
hibition movement in so far as the
present legislature is concerned by
rejecting the initiative petition. At
torney General Thatcher says the
measure now is in proper shape to
go before the voters for approval in
1918.
The gambling question was touch
ed upon lightly in the assembly this
week when the Williams bill was re-
ported unfavorably and made a spe-
cial order for next Tuesday after
noon.
During the week a new water law.
fostered by opponents of the present
law, was introduced in the assembly.
In the senate Senator Huskey in
troduced a new primary election law
containing practically the same pro-
visions as were found in his first act
on the same subject.