Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1898-11-02

ment, and any part that you may
have taken in it was mere routine
work and consisted in referring
the letters of applicants to the
proper departments and request
ing favorable action, which is the
work of your clerk and required
no action on your part.
You also allowed your friends
and the press of this State to claim
for you the authorship of the res
olution annexing the Sandwich
Islands. The resolution for the
annexation of the Sandwich Isl
ands was carefully prepared by
the Committee on Foreign Rela-
tons of the Senate, and after
much deliberation was reported to
that body on the 10th day of
March, 1898, and placed upon the
calender. The war revenue bill
occupied the attention of the SEN
ate and occasioned delay in pass
ing the annexation resolution. On
the 4th day of May, 1893, nearly
two months after it was reported
to the Senate, you introduced in
the House the identical resolution
without the change of a word,
which was reported by Senator
Davis, Chairman of Senate Com
mittee on Foreign Relations, and
y, tc1, f1,a,, tho Coz, ~
calender. 1t was we'll known at
the time that the majority of the
House was with the Administra-
ton for the annexation of the
Islands and the Senate resolution
passed the House exactly as it
was reported to the Senate. Not
withstanding these facts you al
lowed it to be published without
contradiction that you were the
AUTHOR of the resolution.
Mr.. Newlands, you pose as an
anti-railroad man, and to prove
that you are such you had printed
speech against the Central Pa
cific and circulated it in Nevada.
The people, however, understand
you better than you imagine. They
know that you represent the Shar-
on estate which was largely made
up from the profits of the Virginia
and Truckee R. R., which road wa
as largely subsidized by the couns
ties of Storey and Ormsby and the
Comstock Mining Companies, aver
aging it per mile, as was the Cen
trail Pacific. Your fares and
freights on the V. & T. have al
ways been double those on the
Central Pacific for the same ser
vice. Your road has been obliged
to maintain a powerful and corrupt
lobby in Carson to enable it to do
gross injustice to the people. If
you will assist even at this late day
in reducing the outrageously high
charges on the V. & T., the people
may forgive you for your attempt
to deceive them.
Nevada has important interests
to be represented at Washington
and requires an industrious and
faithful Representative who will
not deceive the people by pretend
ing to serve them when he does
not, or claiming credit which does
not belong to him. If your course
in Congress were known to the
people of Nevada, as shown by
the record, they would certainly
choose somebody else, because
they cannot afford to go on unrep-
resented.
1t may be regarded as immodest
for me to speak of myself, but
necessity compels it. l have re-
sided in Nevada for the best part of
my life. l did not come here to
seek Office, but to engage in min
ing and practice my profession.
The people of Nevada elected me
for one term in Congress and dur
ing that term I was not absent
from my seat single day. was
present at every roll-call except
possibly when | was attending
committee duty. During the time
l was in Congress bill was pass
ed by the House of Representa-
tives for the free coinage of silver
at the ratio of I6 to I. This bill
was amended in the Senate and