Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-01-16
THAT LAST RESOLUTION.

ceive from the Legislature, 1T wOnid not be
much of Il task for parties sufficiently inter
ested to secure the mislaying of papers. 1t
seems an important paper, which was before
the Legislature almost on the first day OF the
session, has been lost. Where * it? 1t was
first introduced in the Senate. 1t was then
sent to the House and passed by that body.
Since then it has been utterly lost as Is A.
r Stewards body. Who is to blame? Was
it left with the Clerk of the Housed Was it
returned to the Senate? or what became OF 1t!
Some one has Numbered, and whether the
bunder is due to careessness or coin, the
penalty should be the instant dismissal OF the
offender. Perhaps man may sometimes be
justified in permitting an odium to rest upon
himself, but no man has right to disgrace
the party to which he Is indebted for place,
and which trusts him with important docu
,ients. Some one has been either directly
,nrrupted or has been criminally careless
In either case it is the duty of the Leglsla-
tire to see that the guilty one be traced out
gnd promptly dismissed.
We find the foregoing in yesterdays Enter
prise. The resolutions referred to are those
iustructing our Senators in Congress to vote
for the Reagan anti Discrimination bill. The
proceedings with regard to those resolutions
are certainly very strange, and, If report be
true, very inexcusabie. We are glad to see
our influential and widely-read contempt
rary thus taking a stand in favor of the peo-
pie and against railway extortlon. 1t the
newspapers of the State will but urge the Leg
is,ature to some speedy and definite action
in regard to freights and fares, long and
important step toward the cure of existing
evils NAV be looted for at the hands of the
present Legislature.
Our State is suffering as no other commu
nifty suffers from the outrageous system OF
determinations imposed upon Us by the rail
roads The business of the San francisco
merchants tlirives at the expense Of tho ner-
chants of Nevada, and that through the de
liberate, unjust and cruel Determinations
maintained against us. Any Carson mer-
chant will tell you that it costs him as much
o. nearly much to ship a ton OF goods from
San Francisco to Carson-about $50 miles
a. it costs the San Francisco merchants to
ship ton Of goods clear through from New
York-about ten times the distance. In
stricter phrase, it costs the San tranclSc"
merchant average OF 81 - per hundred
weight. or So por ton from New York, by
rail. for his goods, wares and merchandise.
This. At ten tons t. the caj-!oai, is $3.50 per
car The merchants Of Virginia City pay
little if any less for car load II freight from
San Francisco Meantime, the Central
Pacific Railroad Company will Mt deliver any
freight at Reno at these through rates fIon
New York They take tic goods of the Rem"
consinnce to San Francisco and then trans
ship them across the Sierra. Thus, if the
Virginia City merchant wants to ship his
goods from New York. instead of being per
mitted TO pay in the s. me proportion As the
San Frame. 'co iobber, he must pay just
double tn, rates exactel Of the latter 1t is
this state of things, unjnstitiable, dishonest,
extortionate and without parallel, which
makes il obligatory upon Senators Jones and
Sharon, even without instructions from the
Legislature, to vote for any bill which promises
to remedy the evil complained OF.
We hear 1t said that no dissatisfaction ex-
lists against our local roads. Let see if
there is no ground for dissatisfaction. The
distance from Reno to San Francisco is about
800 miles ton of freight landed in Reno
from the Bay costs, for transportation, about
$50 That is at the rate of ten cents per
ton per mile. A ton of freight brought from
Reno here Ton its way from San Francisco in
al unbroken train of freight cars loaded in
that city and 1ever opened until they arrive
here), costs at the rate of S. per ton. The dis
!, ,niIas This ia AT he ratio Of
twenty cents per ton per mile. At this rate, |
a carload of ten tons shipped from Buffalo
isay 5000 miles distant), would cost Just |
$6, 900. And yet we are told that there is no |
fault to be found with the local roads. 1t is |
about 400 miles from Boston to Chicago. |
The Chicago merchant gets his wares from |
Boston at about Sc per ton. That is to say,
it costs as much to ship ton of goods in
train of made up in San Francisco and
never unlocked until they get here, from
Reno to Carson as it does to have the same
weight and amount of goods, wares and mer-
chandise shipped from Boston, Massachusetts,,
80 Chicago, Illinois. Is it any wonder that
the owners and directors of our local roads
decline to comply with the law compelling an
exhibit, each year of their transactions
ARRESTS IN NEW YORK.