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RESOLUTIONS AND MEMORIALS
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No. 1Assembly Joint and Concurrent Resolution, relative to an investigation of the University of Nevada.
Whereas, A radical difference of opinion exists regarding the propriety, wisdom and justice of certain acts of officials connected with the management of the University of Nevada, said officials including the president, members of the faculty, and the present and retiring board of regents; and Whereas, Various unofficial charges have been made of irregularity, mismanagement and injustice on the part of said officials of the university; and Whereas, It is deemed for the best interest of the state that the members of the legislature and the public shall have full knowledge of all facts relative to the affairs, management and conduct of our state university; now, therefore, be it Resolved, That a full and complete investigation of the university, its management and the acts and administration of the president, the faculty and the present and retiring members of the board of regents by the twenty-eighth session of the legislature be hereby determined upon, and that such investigation be conducted by a joint and bipartisan committee of said legislature consisting of three members from each house to be appointed by the speaker of the assembly and the president of the senate. Such joint committee, acting for and on the authority of the legislature of the State of Nevada, is hereby authorized to issue subpenas for, call for, and require, command and compel the attendance of witnesses to testify before said committee; to call for and compel the production of papers, records, files, correspondence, and books of account pertaining to or having to do with the Nevada state university or the business, management or conduct of affairs thereof. Said joint committee is further authorized and is hereby empowered to examine witnesses, and each or any of the members of said committee are hereby empowered to administer oaths and to swear and examine any witness or witnesses called before said committee. Said joint committee, acting for and on the authority of the legislature of the State of Nevada, is hereby empowered to punish for contempt any witness who, being called or subpenaed before said committee, refuses to comply with the requirements of said call or subpena or refuses to testify as to matters in any way pertaining to the Nevada state university, or who intentionally fails or refuses to disclose matters within his or her knowledge or refuses to produce any book or books, record or records, correspondence, files, or documents within his or her control or possession. |
Concerning investigation of University of Nevada
Joint bipartisan committee; 3 senators, 3 assemblymen |
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Powers of committee |
his or her control or possession. For the purpose of facilitating the work of this joint committee, said committee is hereby authorized and empowered to order and compel the production before it of any books, papers, documents, contracts, minutes, correspondence, or memoranda, which it may deem necessary, and said committee may take possession of the same for the purpose of the investigation. Such joint committee, when appointed, is hereby authorized and empowered to employ a competent stenographer, having the qualifications of a court reporter, and also to employ a competent certified accountant, and to fix the compensation for such employments. Said joint committee, when appointed, shall immediately organize and proceed with the duties hereby assigned, and shall report to this legislature not later than February 20, 1917. |
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Adjournment for university exercises |
No. 2Assembly Joint and Concurrent Resolution, relative to adjournment to accept an invitation from the University of Nevada.
Resolved by the Assembly, the Senate concurring, That when the assembly and senate do adjourn on the twenty-fifth day of January, nineteen hundred and seventeen, that said adjournment shall be for the period of four days and until the twenty-ninth day of January, nineteen hundred and seventeen, at the hour of eleven oclock a. m., in order to permit both houses of the legislature to accept the invitation of the University of Nevada to attend the special exercises and program arranged for Friday, the twenty-sixth, and Saturday, the twenty-seventh day of January, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and the assembly and senate by the passage of this resolution each hereby gives its consent to the adjournment of the other. |
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Supplemental to resolution concerning investigation of University of Nevada |
No. 3Senate Joint and Concurrent Resolution, relative to amending Assembly Joint and Concurrent Resolution No. 1, of the twenty-eighth session.
Resolved by the Senate, the Assembly concurring, That assembly joint and concurrent resolution No. 1 of the twenty-eighth session, relative to an investigation of the University of Nevada, be, and is hereby amended by the addition at the end of said resolution of the following: Such joint committee is hereby authorized and empowered to incur any and all other necessary expenses in connection with the carrying out of the work of such joint committee as outlined in this resolution, and the state controller is hereby authorized and directed, upon receipt of vouchers therefor bearing the certificate of the chairman of such joint committee that the same have been approved and allowed by such joint committee, to issue his warrants in payment thereof to the person or persons entitled thereto, and the state treasurer is hereby authorized and directed to pay the same out of any moneys in the legislative fund now or hereafter to be created. |
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such joint committee, to issue his warrants in payment thereof to the person or persons entitled thereto, and the state treasurer is hereby authorized and directed to pay the same out of any moneys in the legislative fund now or hereafter to be created. |
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No. 4Senate and Assembly Joint Resolution, approving the policies of the President of the United States in the matter of maintaining the rights of American citizens in travel and commerce.
[Approved February 7, 1917]
Whereas, The President of the United States has decided that it is necessary to suspend diplomatic relations with a great nation, toward whom our friendship has been shown by our long-continued patience, and to advise and warn all nations that the rights of our citizens to travel and trade upon the high seas must be respected and will be maintained by the American people; and Whereas, It is the solemn duty of every American, regardless of party faith or family origin, to sustain and uphold our national government at all times, and particularly when our national honor and principles of humanity and justice to which our government is dedicated have been assailed; now, therefore, be it Resolved, That the people of the State of Nevada, represented by the senate and assembly in joint session, do approve the policies of the President of the United States, as stated in his address to the Congress of the United States on February third, nineteen hundred seventeen; and with the hope, as expressed by him, that our nation will not be challenged to defend our rights to liberty, justice, and unmolested life; and do pledge the State of Nevada to the limit of its resources toward the maintenance of the honor of our nation and the support of our President and the national government; and be it further Resolved, That a copy of this resolution, signed by the governor of the State of Nevada, the president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly, be transmitted by telegraph to the President of the United States, and that an engrossed copy hereof, certified under the great seal of the State of Nevada, be transmitted by mail to the President of the United States. |
Approving policies of President Wilson |
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No. 5Senate Resolution, relative to marriage and divorce; authorizing the appointment of a committee to investigate and report on the subject, and committing Nevada to the leadership in a movement for better safeguarding the integrity of the American home.
Whereas, The home is the unit and basis of civilized society upon which the welfare of this nation depends; and |
Relative to marriage and divorce |
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Relative to marriage and divorce
Committee to investigate and report
Various duties of committee |
Whereas, The people of Nevada deem the custom of divorce, as now administered by the diverse and conflicting laws of the several states, to be a vicious menace to the integrity of the American home; and Whereas, The divorce law of Nevada was passed in 1861, before the state was admitted into the Union, and has continued unchanged for more than fifty years; and Whereas, The standard of residence then was deemed just and was followed later in the constitutional requirement for electors; and the grounds for divorce then were so fixed because they were deemed just; and Whereas, No other motive or outside demand existed then or has been considered since and the law has been tested by time and use and remains adequate to the needs of our people; and Whereas, The American bar association recently approved grounds for divorce such as have been in force in Nevada since 1861; and Whereas, The evident and growing inadequacy of the laws of other states to serve their peoples has imposed increasing abuses upon our laws; and Whereas, No internal fault of the law of Nevada has developed in fifty years and it is believed that the abuses are due to external causes; and Whereas, The people of Nevada have been maligned and a false reputation concerning them has been created by those who would make Nevada the scapegoat of a national evil and problem; and Whereas, The evils of divorce legislation can be abated only by accommodating the marriage and divorce laws governing all the people to a single standard consistent with the national conscience, thereby preventing each state from avoiding responsibility to and for its own people; therefore, be it Resolved, That in order to promote the national welfare; to make known the true character of the people of Nevada and to engage actively in the practical work facing all the American people, the State of Nevada do assume leadership in a movement to make uniform the marriage and divorce laws of the American states and to make them responsive to the ideals of the American people as a whole; be it further Resolved, That, to this end, a committee be appointed to serve, without pay from or charge against, the State of Nevada, consisting of not less than three nor more than five persons, appointed forthwith by the governor of Nevada, and that such committee be vested and charged with the following powers and duties respecting the work for which it is created: To investigate the operation of the existing statutes of Nevada and other states of the Union respecting marriage, divorce and kindred matters; |
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To visit the President of the United States, request his counsel and cooperation, and to solicit the counsel and cooperation of all appropriate departments and officers of the federal government, including the representatives of Nevada in the Congress of the United States; To correspond, consult and cooperate with official bureaus and committees appointed in other states for like purposes; conduct meetings in other states, inviting the attendance of public committees or officials and private citizens thereat; To cooperate with any society or association, not for profit, having similar aims; and To take and preserve a record of its doings and the information and testimony secured and to present a full report or abstract thereof, with conclusions, discussion and recommendations and including a report and recommendations on existing, proposed or desirable legislation respecting the object of its labors; and be it further Resolved, That such committee shall present its report to this session, or, if not practicable, to the twenty-ninth session of the legislature of Nevada. |
Various duties of committee |
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No. 6Assembly Joint and Concurrent Resolution.
[Approved March 10, 1917]
Whereas, The federal government did maintain at Carson City, Nevada, a mint at which was coined many millions of dollars of the gold and silver product of Nevada and other mining states of the west, and the building and property so long used for that purpose is still owned by the United States government and could be inexpensively restored to that use; and Whereas, The people of Nevada would be proud to again see the gold and silver of their mines coined into United States money within the state that produced it, and believe that such condition would result in material benefit to the nation by attracting greater attention to our mineral resources, thereby causing their further discovery and development; now, therefore, be it Resolved by the Assembly of the State of Nevada, the Senate concurring, That we respectfully petition the government of the United States for the restoration of the mint at Carson City, Nevada, and the resumption of coinage thereat. We urge upon the proper officials the consideration of Nevadas services to the nation in its bountiful yield of money metal when it was most urgently needed to preserve the national credit; and we request their attention to our present great and constantly increasing mineral production which deserves favorable notice and friendly action by national authority; be it further |
Asking government to reopen U. S. mint at Carson City |
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Resolved, That copies of this resolution be transmitted by the secretary of state of Nevada to the President of the United States, the secretary of the treasury, the director of the United States mint, and to the senators and representative from Nevada in Congress. |
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Committee to revise joint rules of senate and assembly |
No. 7Assembly Concurrent Resolution.
Whereas, Both houses of the legislature of the State of Nevada have, for many sessions, been enacting laws through the medium of Joint and Concurrent resolutions; and Whereas, No such form of resolutions exists in the parliamentary practice of either the senate or the house of representatives of the United States, nor does it appear in the parliamentary practice of the legislatures of other states, and seems to be peculiar to the legislature of the State of Nevada; and Whereas, Other matters, such as the rule necessary for an adjournment for more than three days in accordance with the provisions of the constitution, could be definitely stated in the rules of the houses of the Nevada legislature; now, therefore, be it Resolved by the Assembly, the Senate concurring, That the speaker of the assembly appoint a committee of three members to meet with the committee of rules and joint rules of the senate, or with a committee to be appointed by the president of the senate, for the purpose of making recommendations regarding the revision of the joint rules of the senate and assembly. |
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Sessions of federal court at various cities of Nevada |
No. 8Senate Joint and Concurrent Resolution.
[Approved March 14, 1917]
Resolved by the Senate, the Assembly concurring, That the United States senators, Francis G. Newlands and Key Pittman, and E. E. Roberts, congressman from Nevada, be requested to at once have a law passed by Congress authorizing the federal court to hold sessions in Reno, Winnemucca, Elko, Ely, Goldfield, or Tonopah, in order to accommodate litigants and save them vast amount of expense in traveling from eastern Nevada to attend court in Carson City. |
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No. 9Assembly Joint and Concurrent Resolution, memorializing Congress to grant a pension to Lottie K. Boyd and Eliza and Klem Boyd, widow and children of the late Captain Charles T. Boyd.
[Approved March 14, 1917]
To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress assembled:
The legislature of the State of Nevada respectfully represents that Whereas, The late Captain Charles T. Boyd, of the Tenth United States Cavalry, was killed in the service of his country at Carrizal, Mexico; and Whereas, His widow, Lottie K. Boyd, and his two minor children, Eliza and Klem, were dependent upon him for support and were by his death left without support; now, therefore, be it Resolved by the Assembly, the Senate concurring, That we urge upon Congress the passage of Senate bill 6614 granting a pension to said widow and children. Resolved, That his excellency the governor be requested to transmit a copy of this resolution to each of our senators and our representative in Congress. |
Asking Congress to grant pension to family of Captain Chas. T. Boyd |
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No. 10Senate Joint and Concurrent Resolution, relative to restoration to entry of public lands temporarily withdrawn.
Whereas, The secretary of the interior of the United States has from time to time withdrawn from entry under the public land laws large areas of the public lands in the State of Nevada for the purposes of the Truckee-Carson and other possible federal irrigation projects; and Whereas, There now remain withdrawn from entry under said public land laws an area considerably in excess of 100,000 acres in the State of Nevada which are not embraced within the Truckee-Carson or any other contemplated federal irrigation project and which are not required for the construction of any federal irrigation works, either planned or in contemplation; and Whereas, It is desirable and in the interest of the State of Nevada and of the public that such lands be opened to entry to the end that such of them as are suitable may be acquired by citizens of the United States for the making of homes and putting to beneficial uses; and Whereas, Such withdrawals, with no immediate nor contemplated use, retard the development and the reclamation by individuals of thousands of acres of land; now, therefore, be it Resolved by the Senate, the Assembly concurring, That the honorable secretary of the interior of the United States is hereby respectfully requested to restore to entry under the public land laws all such withdrawn lands in the State of Nevada as are not embraced within, or required for the construction of works for, any approved or contemplated federal irrigation project; and be it further |
Relative to restoration to entry of public lands temporarily withdrawn |
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Relative to restoration to entry of public lands temporarily withdrawn |
hereby respectfully requested to restore to entry under the public land laws all such withdrawn lands in the State of Nevada as are not embraced within, or required for the construction of works for, any approved or contemplated federal irrigation project; and be it further Resolved, That his excellency, the governor, be requested to transmit to the secretary of the interior, and to each of the senators and representative in Congress from the State of Nevada, a copy of the foregoing preamble and resolution. |
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Regarding unfair back-haul charges by railroads on Nevada freight |
No. 11Senate Joint and Concurrent Resolution, relative to the amendment of section four of the federal act to regulate commerce, and petitioning the President of the United States and our representatives in Congress to take such action as will provide in said amendment for an absolute long-and-short-haul provision eliminating the grossly unjust and discriminatory back-haul charges which are assessed against the people of Nevada on both east- and west-bound transcontinental freight traffic.
Whereas, The people of the State of Nevada have suffered, and are suffering, under a most unjust and oppressive discrimination arising from the imposition of a system of infamous differentials or back-haul charges in freight rates on both east- and west-bound transcontinental freight traffic, assessed against Nevada points through the medium of the Transcontinental Freight Bureau of Chicago, Illinois, the membership of which is made up of all interstate railways which participate in said transcontinental business; and Whereas, Said differentials, or back-haul charges, when defined, amount to the charging of a higher rate upon freight traffic between all Nevada points and all points of origin or destination in eastern defined territory than is charged to or from the longer distant Pacific coast terminal points, or, conversely stated, the charging of a lower rate on said traffic to and from said farther distant Pacific coast terminal points than is charged to and from said shorter distant Nevada points; and Whereas, Said discriminatory and preferential system of charging is defended upon the theory that same is forced and compelled because of the presence of water competition at San Francisco, Los Angeles, and other Pacific coast terminal points or ports of call; and Whereas, With rare exceptions said ocean-going traffic has never amounted to more than 10 per cent of the all-rail transcontinental traffic moving to and from said Pacific coast terminals; and Whereas, Since the slides in the Panama canal in 1915 and the European war, there has never been any ocean-going competition, nor is there any today; and |
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Whereas, In exemplification of the arbitrary and unjust character of said discrimination imposed against the people of Nevada and other intermountain territory embracing all of the great country lying between a line running north and south from Canada to Mexico through Denver, and another north and south line immediately east of Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego, let it be stated that the final carriers reaching said Pacific coast terminals or ports of call absorb said entire differentials or back-haul charges assessed against our people, notwithstanding the self-evident fact that if said water competition were truly forceful and compelling, as alleged, the connecting carriers east of Ogden, El Paso, and St. Paul would be as vitally concerned and insistent upon a participation in said higher charges for said shorter hauls as are the final carriers; and Whereas, As further indicating that said water competition is not a compelling consideration, let it be emphasized that there have never been any differentials or back-haul charges assessed against the people of eastern interior territory (Indiana, Ohio, etc.) tributary to the Atlantic coast, on east-bound transcontinental traffic from Pacific coast terminals or interior points tributary thereto. On the contrary, while these arbitraries are not assessed against east-bound traffic to the same extent as on west-bound, yet whenever levied against said east-bound traffic, as in the case of wool shipments, the Nevada wool producer pays said back-haul charge and the originating carrier absorbs it; and Whereas, Said system of back-haul charging never was, and is not now, predicated upon any principal of justice or fair dealing to the people of said intermountain territory, from which it follows that this theory or basis of rate making will not stand the test of a fair analysis; and Whereas, The effect of said lower charges for the longer haul to and from said more distant points results in building up great industrial and commercial enterprises, and in centralizing and enlarging the population at said Pacific coast terminal points, a substantial proportion of which is at the expense of Nevada and other intermountain states; and Whereas, The effect of said higher charges for the shorter haul to and from said less distant points results in retarding the growth and development of Nevadas industrial and commercial prosperity, and in restricting the states growth in population and wealth; and Whereas, The railroad commission of Nevada in 1908 brought a proceeding before the interstate commerce commission, and did then, and has ever since, been contending in numerous hearings which have been held, that these arbitrary back-haul charges should be entirely removed on west-bound transcontinental traffic; and Whereas, When said proceeding was brought in 1908, the average back-haul charge assessed against Nevada points amounted to rates approximately 75 per cent higher than those charged on similar traffic passing through Nevada to San Francisco and Los Angeles; and |
Regarding unfair back-haul charges by railroads on Nevada freight |
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Regarding unfair back-haul charges by railroads on Nevada freight |
amounted to rates approximately 75 per cent higher than those charged on similar traffic passing through Nevada to San Francisco and Los Angeles; and Whereas, Since that time said railroad commission of Nevada has been successful in securing reductions in class and commodity rates from all eastern defined territory, which have had the effect of reducing said differentials or back-haul charges to approximately 25 per cent, as compared with 75 per cent when the case was started in 1908; and Whereas, The railroad commission has conclusively shown throughout the trial of these cases, that the lower rates charged to said Pacific coast terminals on said west-bound traffic was in every way compensatory when considered upon the basis of the cost of moving said traffic in trainload lots without the necessity of breaking bulk in transit during the long haul across the continent; and Whereas, Further, the people of Nevada have through their railroad commission contended, and do now contend, that said rates covering the movement of west-bound transcontinental traffic to Pacific coast terminals are fully compensatory; the evidence upon this point being conclusive and having never been refuted by the railroads, it follows that the removal of said back-haul charges, and the application of rates no higher to Nevada points than to Pacific coast terminals, would be equally, or in fact more compensatory, than to said farther distant points; and Whereas, The carriers have from the outset, and do now, elect to stand upon the mere question of the presence of water competition at said Pacific coast terminals as fully justifying the charging of said lower preferential rates at said Pacific coast terminals and the higher discriminatory rates at Nevada points, and this without regard to the relationship existing between the revenue received and the cost of rendering said service, or any other consideration; and Whereas, Said interstate commerce commission has, in Nevada Railroad Commission vs. Southern Pacific Co., 19 I. C. C. 238, June 22, 1911, stated: The carriers herein involved have not shown that undue discrimination was not effected by their rate reductions between points in Nevada and points in California, nor have they established that the rates to the Pacific coast cities, if extended by them from eastern points outside the zone of water influence, are not fully compensatory; and Whereas, The interstate commerce commission has, in its decision of June 5, 1916, in the matter of fourth-section applications Nos. 205 et al., said: The result of all the evidence offered was to show that there is not at this time any effective water competition between the two coasts, and that there is little likelihood of any material competition by water during the present calendar year, irrespective of the action the commission may take with respect to these petitions. |
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action the commission may take with respect to these petitions. * * * The war and an unparalleled rise in prices for ocean transportation have so changed the situation as to transfer a relation of rates that was justified when established, to one that is now unjustly discriminatory against intermountain points; and Whereas, Notwithstanding the indisputable character of the evidence submitted by Nevada through its railroad commission and said findings above quoted, the interstate commerce commission has thus far failed to remove in their entirety said arbitrary differentials or back-haul charges assessed against Nevada; and Whereas, During the year 1916 the entire question covering said differentials on west-bound freight traffic was, upon further application of the Nevada railroad commission for the complete removal of said back-haul charges, again reopened and heard by the interstate commerce commission and is now submitted for decision; and Whereas, If said back-haul charges are removed by order of said commission the Pacific coast jobbing interests and the carriers who profit by the perpetuation of said system of charging may contest said order in the federal courts on the ground of informality, irregularity in proceedings, or otherwise, thus resulting in unreasonable and unnecessary delay; therefore, be it Resolved by the Senate, the Assembly concurring, That the President of the United States and the senators representing Nevada, and the Nevada representative in Congress be, and they are hereby, requested to work for the passage and vote for an amendment to section four of the act to regulate commerce, providing that it shall be unlawful for any common carrier subject to the provisions of said act to charge or receive any greater compensation in the aggregate for the transportation of freight and passengers for a shorter than for a longer distance over the same line or route in the same direction, the shorter being included within the longer distance; but this shall not be construed as authorizing any common carrier within the terms of said act to charge or receive as great compensation for a shorter as for a longer distance; and be it further Resolved, That Congress be and is hereby memorialized and requested to provide for and pass said amendment; and it is further Resolved, That copies of this resolution be forwarded to each senator and representative in Congress; and it is further Resolved, That the railroad commission of Nevada be, and it is hereby, authorized to cooperate with the railroad commissions and commercial organizations of all other intermountain states hereinbefore defined, in bringing this matter to the attention of Congress, when said amendment is under consideration, |
Regarding unfair back-haul charges by railroads on Nevada freight
Asking Congress to amend interstate commerce act |
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consideration, in such manner as will most effectively support and promote its passage. |
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Memorializing Congress to enact legislation for control of public grazing lands |
No. 12Assembly Joint Memorial.
[Approved March 20, 1917]
To the Honorable, the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, in Congress assembled:
Your memorialists, the legislature of the State of Nevada, respectfully represent that Whereas, A marked increase in the number of home-owning farmers in the State of Nevada would contribute greatly to the economic and political stability of the state and to the welfare of its farm workers; and Whereas, The existence of great corporations which own a large part of the irrigated and irrigable lands of the state tends strongly to prevent the growth of the farm population; and Whereas, The absence of a suitable national policy in relation to the control and management of public grazing lands is responsible, in large measure, for the existence of such large land holdings; and Whereas, The national associations of those engaged in the cattle-raising industry and those engaged in the sheep-raising industry have both officially endorsed such a policy; therefore, be it Resolved, That the Congress of the United States is hereby memorialized and urged to enact legislation providing for the control of the public grazing lands, and we especially emphasize the need of such legal provisions as may be necessary to increase the value of the range pastures and to open such grazing lands more fully to the use of owners of small and medium-sized farms; and be it further Resolved, That certified copies of this memorial be forwarded by the secretary of state to each of the congressional delegation from the State of Nevada to the Congress of the United States, and that the same shall constitute a request to the said delegates to employ severally and collectively their best efforts to secure action in the premises. |
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Pledging support of Nevada to President Wilson |
No. 13Senate and Assembly Concurrent Resolution, approving the policies of the President of the United States and pledging the support of Nevada and its citizens.
[Approved March 20, 1917]
Whereas, This is the day on which the President of the United States is again formally inaugurated; and Whereas, It is the duty of every American, regardless of party fealty and family faith, to uphold the national government and the President of the United States at all times, and more particularly when the nations honor has been assailed; and |
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more particularly when the nations honor has been assailed; and Whereas, Upon the shoulders of the President of the United States is piled the awful burden of decisions that may change the whole face of the world; and Whereas, The situation in which he is placed is so full of distressing anxieties and so appealing to the sympathy of all good men and good women; be it Resolved, That, addressing our thoughts to our countrys perplexities and problems and our petitions to the Divine Goodness that will guide president and people in the way that shall lead to our countrys security, we do again pledge the State of Nevada and its people to the limit of their resources towards the maintenance of the honor of the nation and the support of our President and the national government; and be it further Resolved, That a copy of this resolution, signed by the governor of the State of Nevada, the president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly, be transmitted by telegraph to the President of the United States and that an engrossed copy hereof, certified under the great seal of the State of Nevada, be transmitted by mail to the President of the United States. |
Pledging support of Nevada to President Wilson |
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No. 14Assembly Joint and Concurrent Resolution.
[Approved March 20, 1917]
Whereas, J. H. Price, Clinton Sparks, Halbert Bulmer, J. E. Babcock, Dr. Francis C. Lincoln, and Dr. Claude Jones installed and were in charge of Nevadas mining exhibit at the Panama-Pacific international exposition held at San Francisco, California, during the year 1915; and Whereas, Said exhibit was awarded the grand prize by the international jury of awards against all competitors; and Whereas, Said exhibit has brought great credit to the State of Nevada; and Whereas, The success of said exhibit was largely due to the efforts and ability of said J. H. Price, Clinton Sparks, Halbert Bulmer, J. E. Babcock, Dr. Francis C. Lincoln, and Dr. Claude Jones; now, therefore, be it Resolved by the Assembly of the State of Nevada, the Senate concurring, That a vote of thanks be extended to said J. H. Price, Clinton Sparks, Halbert Bulmer, J. E. Babcock, Dr. Francis C. Lincoln, and Dr. Claude Jones; and be it further Resolved, That copies of this resolution be transmitted to said J. H. Price, Clinton Sparks, Halbert Bulmer, J. E. Babcock, Dr. Francis C. Lincoln, and Dr. Claude Jones. |
Thanking those in charge of Nevada mining exhibit at P. P. I. E. |
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No. 15Senate and Assembly Joint and Concurrent Resolution, adopting an emblem for the State of Nevada.
[Approved March 20, 1917]
Be it resolved by the Senate, the Assembly concurring, That sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata or trifida) is hereby adopted as the state emblem of the State of Nevada. |
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Correcting senate bill No. 186 |
No. 16Assembly Resolution.
[Approved March 20, 1917]
Whereas, Senate bill No. 183 has been amended as to section 26, page 11, lines 6, 7 and 8 of printed bill by the elimination of the words and figures to be provided for by 1918 levy and not expended before 1918; and Whereas, The appropriation of $7,500 for improvement of capitol corridors, the description from which this elimination was made, has been provided for by senate bill No. 186, wherein on page 3, lines 22 and 23, the words and figures eliminated from senate bill No. 183, are included; and Whereas, Such inclusion renders this particular portion of senate bill No. 183 and senate bill No. 186 inoperative; now, therefore, be it Resolved, That the enrolling clerk be, and hereby is, directed to correct senate bill No. 186 by striking from page 3, in lines 22 and 23, as appears in the printed bill, the following words and figures: To be provided for by the 1918 levy and not expended before 1918. |
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Thanking and discharging university investigation committee |
No. 17Senate Concurrent Resolution, relative to accepting report of the university investigation committee.
Whereas, Under authority of the assembly joint and concurrent resolution No. 1, a committee was appointed to investigate the affairs of the University of Nevada; and Whereas, Such committee has completed its report and submitted same to both houses of this legislature; now, therefore, be it Resolved by the Senate, the Assembly concurring, That said report be accepted and adopted and the committee discharged. |
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No. 18Assembly and Senate Concurrent Resolution, respecting injuries suffered by the people and State of Nevada from the pollution of the Truckee river by the Floriston Pulp and Paper Company, by sufferance of a sister state, and demanding the abatement thereof by the government and officers of said state.
[Approved March 23, 1917]
Whereas, The Floriston Pulp and Paper Company has for a long time past made a practice of and still continues dumping into the Truckee river, above the city of Reno, certain acids, pulp, refuse and waste materials from their paper-pulp mill at Floriston, California; and |
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a long time past made a practice of and still continues dumping into the Truckee river, above the city of Reno, certain acids, pulp, refuse and waste materials from their paper-pulp mill at Floriston, California; and Whereas, Mr. Arthur Arlett, as a special representative of Governor Hiram W. Johnson of California, has investigated such practice and has condemned the same; and Whereas, The State of Nevada spends large amounts of moneys in endeavoring to stock said Truckee river with fish; and Whereas, Such matters, refuse, pulp, oils and acids are deleterious to health, distasteful and disagreeable, and are a menace to and destructive of fish life and fish food in the Truckee river; and Whereas, The California fish commission has investigated said practice and has condemned the same; and Whereas, Said Truckee river is an interstate stream, having its rise and source in California, and running through and into the State of Nevada; and Whereas, The point and place where said refuse, pulp, waste, acids and other refuse materials are dumped into the Truckee river, is within the State of California; now, therefore, be it Resolved by the Assembly of the State of Nevada, the Senate concurring, That the State of Nevada would expect an immediate and clamorous protest from the State of California and, being advised, would heed the same, were the identity of injured and injuring state exchanged, and therefore rightfully expects the observance of such principles of comity and equity; and therefore it be it further Resolved, That we most respectfully, but firmly, demand of our sister State of California and of her legislature, her governor and her attorney-general, that they take such action and steps as may be necessary to prevent a continuation of the methods and practices of said Floriston Pulp and Paper Company of dumping refuse and deleterious matter into the Truckee river; and be it further Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be transmitted to the honorable the assembly of the State of California, the honorable the senate of the State of California, the Honorable Hiram W. Johnson, governor of the State of California, and the Honorable U. S. Webb, attorney-general of the State of California. |
Regarding pollution of Truckee river
Asking California to cooperate |
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No. 19Assembly Joint and Concurrent Resolution, relative to amending section four of article six of the constitution of the State of Nevada.
[Approved March 27, 1917]
Resolved by the Assembly, the Senate concurring, That section four of article six of the constitution of the State of Nevada be amended so as to read as follows: |
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Amending section 4 of article 6 of Nevada constitution-Jurisdiction and powers of supreme court |
Section 4. The supreme court shall have appellate jurisdiction in all cases in equity; also in all cases at law in which is involved the title, or the right of possession to, or the possession of, real estate or mining claims, or the legality of any tax, impost, assessment, toll or municipal fine, or in which the demand (exclusive of interest) or the value of the property in controversy, exceeds three hundred dollars; also in all other civil cases not included in the general subdivisions of law and equity, and also on questions of law alone in all criminal cases in which the offense charged is within the original jurisdiction of the district courts. The court shall also have power to issue writs of mandamus, certiorari, prohibition, quo warranto, and habeas corpus and also all writs necessary or proper to the complete exercise of its appellate jurisdiction. Each of the justices shall have power to issue writs of habeas corpus to any part of the state, upon petition by, or on behalf of, any person held in actual custody, and may make such writs returnable, before himself or the supreme court, or before any district court in the state or before any judge of said courts. In case of the disability or disqualification, for any cause, of the chief justice or either of the associate justices of the supreme court, or any two of them, the governor is authorized and empowered to designate any district judge or judges to sit in the place or places of such disqualified or disabled justice or justices, and said judge or judges so designated shall receive their actual expense of travel and otherwise while sitting in said supreme court. |