The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1898-10-29

as Is well known, this appropriation fell
short OF completing the building, and
Senator Stewart secured an additional
$36, 900 to finish it.
! THIRD CHARGE.
Charge 3. Senator Stewart is anoted
in the journal containing the challenge
as saying Il have in every instance fol-
lowed the direction of the party plat
form and the State Legislature The
News charges that he is mo such
thing for in 1896 the Legislature OF
Nevada passed resolution instructing
the Representatives at Washington to
| demand the collection of the indebt-
edness of the Pacific railway companies,
in accordance with law" f'
The consummate ignorance of the OPP
ponents of Senator Stewart with ref
erence to facts is nowhere better shown
than in such charges az the foregoing
On the 7th OF July of the present year
an Act WAS passed which provides:
That the Secretaries of the Treasury,
Interior and Attorney General shall con-
stitute commission with power to
settle the indebtedness OF the Central
Pacific Railroad Company, subject to
the approval of the President OF the
United States. That the commission
"shall not agree to accept less sum
than the full amount due the United
States and all amounts necessary to re-
imburse the United States for money
mi fnr i,.tn n rknk
in any settlement which may be made,
the final payment shall not be postponed
to exceed ten years, and that the whole
amount, principal and interest, shall be
paid in equal seni-annual installments
within that period, with interest at
rate not less than three per cent. Under
the terms of this Act it is mandatory
hat the Central Pacific Railroad must
pay any average of over $500 900
every six months into the Treasury OF
the United States for ten years. The
Act further provides that II the railroad
does not accept the terms and conditions
imposed, on or before July 7, 1893, the
Government shall Immediately fore
close. -1sss~rssg-' ss,a4-a. -
This Act originated in the Senate of
the United States and was drawn up by
Senator White OF California and Senator
Morgan oil Alabama, two of the greatest
opponents of the Central Pacific roads
who ever sat in the Senate. Senator
Stewart, in accordance with the resolu-
tion of the State Legislature quoted by
the News, voted for this measure when
offered as an amendment to the Def
cheney bill, and for the II itself upon
its final passage. So another scandal is
exploded.
FOURTH CHARGE.
Charge 4. That in the same year and
resolution as above mention the same
body requested Nevada's representatives
to demand the enforcement of the In
terstate Commerce law everywhere, so
that unjust discrimination could be pro-
hibited.
Assuming that the foregoing was in
tended to convey the idea that Senator
Stewart took his seat in the Senate in
1887. Since the passage of that measure
the regulation OF freights and fares has
been out of the domain OF Congress. 1t
is the Fourth Section OF that Act, known
rs the long and short haul clause, in
which the people OF Nevada are 30 deep
ly interested. Soon after the passage OF
the Act test case arose which was to
determine whether or not the commits
sion had power TO enforce the Fourth
Section. The case was entitled "Inter-
state Commerce Commission vs. The
Alabama Midland Railway Company
and Others" and was carried through
all courts. The final decision of the
Supreme Court Of the United States was
handed down November 8, 1897, less
than one year ago, adversely to the con-
tention of the commission, and leaving
that body, as expressed in its report,
"shorn of its powers" The effect OF
this decision can best be understood by
quoting from the last annual report OF
the commission, page 43l at is evil
dent that the railroads we'll enough un-
derstand the effect of the decision.
Within five days from the reading OF its
opinion by the Supreme Court, the
Transmissouri Freight Bureau fled
schedules raising the rates to interine-
diate points over more than 100000
square miles"
The Carson News should apologize for
ignorantly charging Senator Stewart
with the shortcomings OF the Supreme
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