Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1903-09-10
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!. BUSINESS" ADMINISTRATION.
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The statute books are thick with |
laws designed to prevent government |
omcials profiting from contracts o. |
dealings to which the government is
= party. but all afs them appear to
have become dead letters under this |
Administration. se.rs rea.
= Congressman Littauer sold the War
Department gloves by the, hundred
thousand, and the glove scandal is
still tangled in red tape at Washing |
ton. - i A Il
United States Senator Proctor car
ried through his deal in government
tombstones, and paid no penalty when
it was exposed.
United States Senator Plat is inter-
ested in bonding concern that guar
antees post Office clerks, and Perry
Heath, then First Assistant Postmas-
ter General, constituted himself a
drummer-up of trade for this concern
in the department.
The entire Dawes Commission, es-
tablished to protect the Indians from
being robbed in the sale of their lands,
promptly identified itself with land
SyndicateS to expl )it the very hold
ings over which they were constitT-
ted the guardians, and an army OF
deputy United States marshals and
other subordinates fastened to follow
the thrifty example.
Littauer's gloves may be excellent,
Proctor's tombstones beyond reproach.
Platt's bonds quite worthy, but Uncle
Sam is cynical soul, and the laws
and rules he makes indicate a belief
that men cannot serve two masters,
SO he prohibits the members of his
government doing business with them
AS to the Indian frauds, no amount
of argument will convince the honest
men of the country that the Dawes
Commission real estate deals were
anything better than a cold-blooded
effort to use official position and Off
cial knowledge to get the Indians
it for it's actual value, the difference
going into the pockets of the yer!
men who were there to prevent the
swindling of the nations wards.
President Roosevelt promised a hu
siness administration. but it was no
known that this was to be the kline
of business.
The hotel maid who complained be
cause she was robbed of consider
able part of the $4,000 worth of dia
monds she habitually wore might b
adequately described as a jewel of
maid
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William H. Hanna. distant re's
tive of U. S. Senator Hanna, died j
Reno Sunday.
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The wheat product OF the Big Flv
ranch at Lovelock valley this yea
is estimated at $50 carloads.
Baptiste SavOrnin was slashed a.
ross the abdomen by a knife in tn
hands of German Savornin at a shee
herder's camp on the Little HumbOlt
last Monday.
Governor Pardee of California ha
forwarded the extradition papers fe
Ccnvicts Murphy and Woods and it
expected that they will be taken bac
to Folsom in a day or. SO.
N1T12{9sv1g1sE Sci@1 esisySs
Southern Pacific passenger tral
No. met with q narrow escape fro
serious accident late Friday afte
noon just west of Promintory on IL
east end. It had slackened up at
small station when freight ira
which was following too close ra
into the observation car and bad
damaged it. No one was injured.
Fifty years ago the country won
not rest quietly, or at all, with Il
knowledge that crime had been col
mitted, and that it would not be g
posed, because the statute of limit
tons had run. But that was befo
the Republican party introduced
new set of high moral ideas.-Char
in Courier.
Wood For Sale.