Year: 1860




Downey sen. into the Senate Lis veto of t. E
bill for the construction of roads through certain
mountain passes, commonly called the Omni-
bus hill,' on the llth inst The argument Of
the Governor on the ezpediency of the act, is
well founded. We set on foot the inquiry in our
last what amount of money had been appropri-
atcd by the Legislature during .its present ses-
sion. 1t will not do to exhaust the treasury and
tap the income for two years. to come in the way
the Omnibus Bill proposed, The Governor
shows that the excess of expenditures oEer re-
ceipts for the last fiscal year was near 2 ,OO0
The omnibus bill proposed to snatch S233, 900
before it came into the treasury, and special
act for Nevada county, which properly should
have been n part of the omnibus bill, would
seize in like manner $4,000 more. quarter
of million turned aside from the treasury in
two years is no nconsidefable sum for State
four millions in debt. The Governor views the
question correctly.


We cannot say as much for the Sacramento
Union. In reviewing the veto of the Governor
the onion takes occasion, notwithstanding its
professions of impartality, to show its hand---
We ask from the people of this county attention
to the following:


+" 1t must. we think. be conceded that in view
OF the immense travel to be anticipated this
Spring. and the coming Summer, from Califor-
MIA to Utah Territory. at least first rate road
should be made over the mountains The con-
centration of travel and freight upon the Placer
vile rohte, point to that as the one which should
be made State road. 1t is central; it can be
travelled Winter and Summers it is the road to
be Travelled by passengers, the mails, and over
which most of the provisions must be trans
ported to feed the thousands who are congrega-
ting in Utah. In view of these facts. it seems
to us just and right that a bill should now be
introduced and passed, making direct appro-
priation to improve the road from Placetville to
Genoa.


Look at this impartial print The Placeftille
road, State road, in view of concentration of
travel upon it 1t can be travelled Winter and
Summer! 1t is central It is the road to be
Travelled =! In view of these facts, direct ap-
preparation should be made to improve the road
from Placerville to Genoa


| There is scarcely a fact in the whole para
graph, and if one, it is applicable to almost any
other route. Because the first Pixies in crossing
the mountains chose the worst place in a thous-
and miles, and others have followed their trail
causing concentration of travel " on it, the
/ State ought to make State road of it, in spite
of engineers who declare they have found an
other place where the mountains can be descen-
| ded by pedestrian without kndtty log drag
! oinp behind from, tho soot &C LIS ,oa+-t D.
cause the cows went in crooked lines in Boston
and made beaten trails by concentration of
travel" men should adopt them as streets!
! The truth has been set forth n thousand times
that the Henness pass is fifteen hundred feet
lower than the Placertile, that the route is a
plain even one, as short as any, far easier to
travel, and that better road can be built on II
! for $4,000 than can be made on the Placerville
route for four times the money. If the treasury
is to be taken into consideration the Henness
route. on the score of economy, should be the
favorite one of the State; and for the additional
reason that more counties would be benefited by
the appropriation.


The Union asserts indirectly that other routes
I
ter and Summer. aud that it Is ths rot:.e to be
Travelled. How does the Lnion know the future?
From what does it derive its opinion that low
route is not as passabe in Wintet as much
higher one where the SHOWS fall deeper? And
what power does the Union find for the Governor
to exercise in approving an act to appropriate
money on road in Utah Territory? The Union
IS discreet in one respect. Let it and its favor
ite route get all the favors they can from the
present Legislature, for after the coming Sum
mer the truth concerning other passes will be
well known. We hope the Governor will veto
the bill for the benefit of the Henness Pass and
If he does we are sure he is not the man to sign
one for the Placervillc, as desired by the Union,
We shall denounce, and our representatives We
are sure, will never tamely submit to any stch
favoritsm.