The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1898-03-23

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issue so far as the Democratic party vas
concerned, but the Republican party
still claimed to be a bimelallic party by
international agreement. 1t is now Il
single gold standard party and our
success in the contest is practically as
sured.
MIR. Stewart has always attended to
the business OF the citizens OF Nevada,
answered all their letters and accom-
plisled what could be accomplished in
the departments for their interest. No
person has ever written him with regard
to "a posto,ice, pension or any other
matter without receiving a reply and
having the matter attended to promptly
and efficiently. He distributes among
the people all the seeds and documents
that he can procure from the depart
ment.
Largely through his efforts the con-
struction OF the public buildings at Car
son was expedited.
When he was elected there was no
State University. The pittanee that
was realized by the institution from the
college land grant was of no consequence.
After it was elected it will be reInem
bered that he spent more than a month
in changing the organization OF the
University and getting the Institution
under the reliable supervision of COM
petent regents. He then devoted his at
tention to obtaining government aid and
had the necessary legislation OF the State
and regulation of the department made
which secured the $4,000 a year for the
Experiment Station. He then assisted
the venerable Senator Morrill, OF Vermont
to pass the bill in aid of Agriculture
Colleges and suggested such amendments
to the bill as to avoid the objections
which had prevented its passage for
twenty-five years. He secured the
assent of the representatives OF the land
states and removed all objection by the
amendment he suggested. Under that
bill the institution is now receiving $780,
QUO a year, and the $4,000 from the
general Government with the assistance
from the state has made the Nevada
State University a grand institution. 1t
confers untold blessings upon the people
OF the State and makes the educational
facilities OF Nevada equal to any other
State ia the Union.
He devised the plan for the Indian
schools and secured the appropriation
and the final establishment of the insti-
tuition, which is the best Indian school
in the country.
He has lone a vast amount OF work in
reducing TO form the wal claims of the
State of Nevada against the United
States. The general Government owe
Jerest, over four hundred thousand dol
lars. lie secured the examination and
auditing OF these claims by the War De-
partnnent, and the unanswerable report
which he presented to the Committee
on Military Affairs was adopted. The
claim was favorably reported to the
Senate tw ice IRON that COMMITTEES and
twice from the Committee on Claims, and
it has once passed the Senate, but it
failed in the House.
He has repeatedly passed bills through
the Senate for payment OF the Piute
Indian war claims and many other claims
for Nevada; in fact, he does it in every
Congress, but these bills nave failed in
the House. At the present session, as a
member Of the Committee on Claims he
has secured the incorporation of the State
claim and the Piute war claims in an
Omnibus bill, which will probably pass
both Houses during the present Congress.
1t may not be passed at this session, but
it is believed that after election it will
certainly be passed. The bill appropri-
ates about ten millions to honest claim
nants.
Appropriations originate in the House
OF Representatives, but as a rule the
Carson mint has been neglected by that
body. For the last ten years at nearly
every session it has been necessary to
secure amendments in the Senate to
keep the mint running. At the present
session Mr.. Newlands succeeded in hav-
ing the appropriation originate in the
House according to the usual custom in
such matters. The House has been SO
adverse to anything that Nevada re-
quired that nearly every item OF legisla-