Senate Resolution No. 8–Senators Raggio, Titus, Amodei, Care, Carlton, Coffin, Jacobsen, James, Mathews, McGinness, Neal, O’Connell, O’Donnell, Porter, Rawson, Rhoads, Schneider, Shaffer, Townsend, Washington and Wiener

 

April 2, 2001

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Read and Adopted

 

SUMMARY—Inducts Henry A. Comins into Senate Hall of Fame. (BDR R‑1339)

 

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EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new; matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.

 

Senate RESOLUTION—Inducting Henry A.Comins into the Senate Hall of Fame.

 

1-1    Whereas, The Senate of the Legislature of the State of Nevada has

1-2  established a Senate Hall of Fame whose members are selected by

1-3  leadership from those past Senators who have served with distinction and

1-4  who have made exemplary contributions to the State of Nevada; and

1-5    Whereas, A dedicated legislator who served longer than any other

1-6  nineteenth century legislator, Henry A. Comins represented the residents of

1-7  White Pine County for 18 years, traveling the considerable distance

1-8  between Ely and Carson City to serve as an Assemblyman in 1875 and

1-9  1876 and as a Senator from 1877 through 1880 and from 1889 through

1-10  1900, leading the Senate as President pro Tempore for the 1891 regular

1-11  session; and

1-12    Whereas, Even though his party did not control the Senate in 1877,

1-13  Senator Comins was named chairman of the Senate Committee on Ways

1-14  and Means that year, his first term as a Senator, and served with distinction

1-15  on that committee during his entire Senate career, chairing it four

1-16  additional times; and

1-17    Whereas, A key legislator for the women’s suffrage movement in

1-18  Nevada, in 1895 Senator Comins sponsored the first bill for a constitutional

1-19  amendment that would have given women the right to vote, a measure

1-20  which was approved by both legislative houses that session but failed to

1-21  receive the required second legislative approval 2 years later; now,

1-22  therefore, be it

1-23    Resolved by the Senate of the State of Nevada, That Henry A.

1-24  Comins, an influential legislative leader in the nineteenth century who

1-25  helped shape the financial and tax policy of this state, is hereby inducted

1-26  into the Senate Hall of Fame of the Legislature of the State of Nevada.

 

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