The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1919-02-22
Brief Legislative Notes

law. The bill provides that marriages to be legal must be solemn
lied.
Increases in salaries for Eureka County officials are not wanted
by the people of that county. Senator Rand told the Senate satur-
day when Assembly bill II was reached on the general file. He
moved that the bill be tabled and the motion was carried.-Reno
Gazette.
Despite strong opposition, the Chapaier anti-gambing bill
passed the House and goes to the Senate. The bill permits social
games by adults for specified amounts of money and is q substitute
for the Booher bill, which clamped the lid tight on all forms Of
gambling and cards and dice games. Opponents claim the Chandler
bill legaizes gambling.
Aliens who have not taken out their naturalization papers will
be prohibited from securing jobs on any public york. either county
or State, if a bill introduced in the Assembly ny Baird of White
Pine is passed. The bill provides that none but native born or nat
uralized citizens shall be employed on any public works or in any
department of the State excepting convcts doing highway work.
Introduction of q bond issue bill, providing for a bond issue of
$4,000 600, to be used solely for road construction, the interest and
redemption of the bonds to be taken care of entirely by automobile
licenses. probably will be introduced by Mack of Washoe in the As
sembly next week. Governor Boyle and Mack have been working
on the bill and the Governor is said to favor the plan.
A resolution will make its appearance soon in the Senate which
may put an end to local differences being brought to the Legislature
for adjudication. The resolution will provide that it is the sense
of the Legislature that no measures dealing with purely local mat
ters be handled in either house. There is a section which applies
particularly to county seat removal fights, directing that all such mat
ters be proceeded with under the present law. The resolution is
aimed directly at the proposal to move the county seat of Lander
County from Austin to Battle Mountain, on which prominent resi-
dents of both places have been in Carson for the past week or more.
Payment of school teachers on a twelve-month basis instead OF
a ten-month basis is the system that will be advanced in an Act that
will make it's appearance in the Legislature. Under the present
system teachers are paid during the ten months that school is in
progress, leaving two months in the year that they receive no salary.
Under the system provided for in the bill the annual salary would
be divided over a period of twelve months, the salary not to be in
creased, but payments to be made every month. As an example a
teacher receiving 5000 per year under the present system is paid
500 per month for ten months. Under the proposed system the
teacher would receive $75 per month for twelve months.
Creation of the State Council of Defense as a State organization
is provided for in a bill introduced in the Assembly by Sinia of
Washoe. The bill has been in the course of preparation for several
weeks under the direction of Governor Boyle, Adjt General Suli-
van and Hal Lennon, chairman of the council The Act provides
for appointment of members by the Governor, the number to be
from 15 to Is. all to serve without pay and at the pleasure of the
Governor who is given authority to increase or decrease the num-
Der within the limits specified as necessity demands. The members
of the council are authorized to select the executive committee and
chief executive officer Of the organization. Under the terms of the
Act all solicitors for charitable purpose will be subject to prosecu-
ton if they carry on such work without first obtaining a permit
from the State Council. Authority to employ q clerical force lis con-
ferred on the council and the bill carries an appropriation of $4,000.
The cattlemen and sheepmen went to the bat the other day in
the Assembly and neither had any very nice things to say about the
other. The sheepmen emerged victorious after a bitter debate in
which the odds in 80 far as the number of the speakers was con-
cerned were about evenly divided.
Gregory of Washoe started the fireworks by saying that on the
face of it the Hill bill, which would prohibit sheep being grazed on
ranges previously occupied by cattle, looked unfair to the sheep
men. ~ temoa
An amendment by Ferguson Of Eureka, a catteman, was ad
opted. It provided that in establishing priority Of right, occupation
during the last ten years should be taken as the basis. Ferguson
ing to control the Legislature. Unless something was done to curb
the activities on the part of the sheepmen, Ferguson said, the cat
temen would be compelled to 60 out of business. He branded the
Humphrey-Mofat outfit as an OCTOPUS trying to control the entire
State" Wadsworth made a similar argument and read a decision
from the United States Supreme Court upholding the Idaho Act
which he said was identical with the Hill bill Marsh made the
same claim in behalf of the sheepmen as Wadsworth and Ferguson
made TO. the cattlemen. The catlemen, he said, we're trying t