The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-03-08
RAILROAD ATTORNEYS AND PET
TIFOGGERS.

1t is all very proper for overgrown
monopolies to have attorneys when
ever they are needed to look aftertheir
interests, but as Il rule they are re-
quired to foot their own bills and pay
their own counsel. The Central Pa
citic Railroad Company i'll this respect
however is peculiarly fortunate, As the
! State Of Nevada has furnished them
with Il distinguished attorney at
Washington to represent their inter-
c>ts, and the Federal Government
foots the bills. Senate Stewart, who
is supposed to represent the interests
of the state whose people i,onorcd him
/ with their confidence, since he has
quit lr@.,lating for the negro has d.
rccted the whole of his time TO the
protection of the interests OF the or
poration whose attorney and reprc>en-
tativc he seems 10 be. Ii was tortu-
nate for the Senator that he had
mastered the multiplication table and
could tell how nlanytwoanItNo would
/ make before he became Il Senator. as
his proficiency in mathematics has
enabled him TO figure out that il costs
a greater sum to transport Govern
ment supplies and mail matter by
way of the IsthmaS of Panama to San
Francisco. by several millions, than
to perform the same service hy rail
road across the continent. and because
this can he done after the Government
has given the railroad lands and Sub>i-
DIV sufficient TO make princcly fortunes
for all the corporators, ne now urges
Congress TO exempt them from the
payment of interest on the bonds
loaned them by the Government for
thirty Years. One-half the interest 10y
! the terms of the contract was TO be
paid in the transportation OF military
/ supplies and mail matter, and the
other half was to be paid as 1t &c
crued; but Senator Stewart is deter
mined that his clients shall pay moth
ing If lie can help it. and from the
apparent temper OF Congress We much
fear that he will succeed. It is per-
haps we'll that the senator turned his
back upon the people before they
turned their backs upon him. as he
viii thus be enabled to place himself
upon a safe financial basis which Will
enable him to travel abroad where the
indignant circumstances of his out
RACED constituents will not reach his
stolid ear. Stewart has no thought or
expectation Of being honored by the
confidence of this people again, and
hence his open and shameless adVo-
cacy Of eveTythicving railroad scheme
that is presented to Congress. II in
innate friends have been heard to
boast of his large possessions at the
new town of Duluth, at the eastern
terminus Of the Northern Pacific Rail
road, which was doubtless Il part of
the price paid for his services i'll pass
inc that and robbing the peo-
pie of their landed inheritance. The
unjust and outrageous discrimination
made against the State OF Nevada in
! way frejghts and passenger fare. finds
no word OF ccnsurc or condemnation
in any Of the trio who represent the
State in Congress: but on the con-
trary. they have permitted and en-
couraged the strangling of every at
tempt to obtain favorable action on
that subject i'll the interest of the
State. Nevada demands and Will have
a new deal on the question OF her rep
resentatives in the upper branch of
Congress. and should the Republican
party even carry the State in the next
two Legislatures, neither of the wind
broken political hacks who misrerre-
sent the people of the State will ever
be returned to the seats they 10Y dis
grace: but new men, who are not
owned soul and body by grasping mo-
nopolies and sOulless corporations,
will be chosen to fill their places.
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