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Newspaper
Weekly Nevada State Journal
Location
Reno, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1892
Page
3
Analysis of Article XVI text on how constitutional amendments may be proposed and submitted. It argues that validity hinges on whether amendments were published three months before the next legislative choice, noting prior practice reprinting in statutes may not satisfy the constitution. The piece questions if newspaper publication suffices.
Senator Stewart, known as a silver advocate, criticizes the President's message for urging gold reserve growth and warns this could push gold prices up, harming farmers. He brands the President a monometallist and attacks the monetary conference as a failed bid to bridge silver support. The El Paso Silver Convention urges Congress to restore a bi metallic standard and unlimited coinage of silver.
The issue of 75 million dollars in bonds is proposed with redemption in coin after ten years. A Denver News substitute favors coinage of Treasury silver bullion to pension payments to put dollars into circulation. Critics sayTreasury notes redeemable in gold avoid increasing standard dollars and warn against benefiting Wall Street.
The Rock Island line from Chicago west to Illinois Iowa Nebraska and Kansas is near standstill as telegraphers strike after officials refuse to confer with a committee of Railway Telegraphers. No replacement workers were found and passenger trains run only by station orders.
In Iceland a nation of 73 000 people men and women are political equals governed by representatives elected by men and women. Mothers teach future citizens and there is not an illiterate after seven. There are no prisons no police no thieves no misery. A plain temperate educated and intelligent people.
Ohio representative Harter has introduced a bill to uniform the tariff on sugar and abolish bounties. After February 1 a duty of half a cent per pound would be applied to all sugar imports, replacing the existing average duty near two cents per pound and ending bounty payments.
General Manager Dodge of the Rio Grande Western dispels Salt Lake reports that Southern Pacific has control. He asserts Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming and Nevada remain politically independent until silver is remonetized and the Silver party gains national influence.
The annual report shows total earnings of 47347000 dollars and net earnings of 15117000 dollars for the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe railroad system ending June 30 1892.
The Senate in executive session ratified the convention settling long standing U S claims against Chili and confirmed several diplomatic appointments including John H Gear as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury and D P Thomson Minister to Turkey among others. House adjourned until Monday in respect to Representative Warwick. San Francisco boxing notes cover results of two major bouts with Dawson defeating O Connell and Goddard defeating Maher in hard fought matches.
San Francisco results show Wait first in the half mile with Dust second and Sedalia third. other races list Democrat, Garcia, Jack the Ripper and Red Rose winners with times. Great excitement reported near the San Juan river Utah as placers discovered 175 miles northeast, 50 miles of deposits with 200 locations. misappropriation noted at Spring Garden National Bank involving Nelson F Eyane.
The Interstate Commerce Commission upheld a Lansing Michigan complaint against Potter Manufacturing Co and major railroads. Unfinished bedroom sets must be priced no higher than 85 percent of finished sets, and shipments to Emory California must not exceed a $110 rate if a finished rate exists at $130.
The House approved an amendment to carry unfinished business into the next session and announced committee appointments including Judiciary Fellows of New York Public Buildings and Grounds and others. A Senate bill on public printing was amended and passed after removing the Superintendent of Public Documents clause. Separately Wenatchee riots tied to railroad graders and Italian workers erupted, with about a dozen wounded but nonfatal.
A would‑be dynamite robbery on Kearney Street ends with the empty box and a captured suspect named George Johnson. He claimed desperation and came from Los Angeles, while cashier Duncan McNee restrained him with a pistol. Police took him into custody after the failed scheme.
In San Francisco on December 9 the mile race saw Marigold win with Gladiator second and Fannish third in 1 minute 46 seconds nine-pirteenths. Neil Flaherty took the nine-pirteenths dash in 56 seconds with Jack the Ripper second and Jim EB third. Minnie Eikine captured the six furlongs, Tyrona second and Blaire third in 1 minute 18 and 14 hundredths. St Croix won the half mile, Little Toogle second and San Felippo third in 51 seconds. Cyclone won the fifteen sixteenths with Regal second and Sympathetico third in 1 minute 39 seconds.
The Relief Committee reports about seventy five destitution cases from the great strike at Homestead. Winter weather is expected to raise that number. Contributions come in, but slower than desired. A brief pause in calling for aid was decided.
The article argues virtue comes from effort and adversity. Nature shows that growth requires pushing through obstacles from seed to sun, sap from roots, nests built by labor, and gems shaped by grinding. Without struggle, life would lack value or form.
The piece traces early collectors in California and European interest in Pacific coast plants including erequeiaa conifers. It recalls 1855 Californians visiting Europe and returning to urge others to cultivate native flora, highlighting Alameda County and a Lancashire woman who gardened wildflowers. It also notes a Kodak wedding gift and a humorous Sunday suit inquiry by Mr Constant Squabbler.
The article explains campaign funding through candidate assessments varying by locality and circumstance, noting Illinois checks for 59 cents per year salary and possible exemptions for poor or crippled candidates. It recounts how national committees sometimes fund local races, with anecdotes from Indiana in 1888 and 1880, including a New York manager offering unlimited funds, and highlights large voluntary contributions in smaller cities during close campaigns.
The article surveys personal crisis reports from antiquity to the modern era, noting higher incidence in the Nineteenth century and regional patterns. It highlights Clive Romilly Castlereagh Napoleon and Frederick the Great as notable cases, contrasts English restraint with American aggressiveness, and discusses insanity and motives behind self destruction in historical contexts. The piece cites the Branshe City Journal.
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