The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-05-13
NEVADA'S REPRESENTATIVES.

The question of railroad rates in Ne
vada has come up campaign after cam
paign and through bills and resolutions
in the State Legislature. but when the
election aud law-making period passed
into history the great interests Of the
people Of Nevada rested in allegiance sc
far as the States representatives in
Washington were concerned.
A few a z when it looked as ii
the old regime of Jones and Stewart
and Stewart aud Jones would become
innocuous the people thought they saw
a ray of light in the black clouds Of the
political sky Of the railroad corporations
of the country when Francis G. New
lands declared himself in the Opera
House at Carson City on Jan. is, 1899.
At the November election Mr.. New
lands had beer reelected to Congress
and afterwards came out as a candidate
against William NJ. Stewart for United
States Senator. Mr.. Newlands' nota-
BILE speech at Carson was ON 1.-THE
Senatorial Question:" and he put the
issue before the people thus: "Shan our
Senators represent Nevada or the
Southern Pacific ?" and he said:
..The aim of the great railroad cor
porations Of the country is to control
the Senate Of the United States by
selecting the Senators from the States
traversed by them. The duty assigned
to the Southern Pacific is that Of select
ing Senators from the States through
which it passes. 1t has always aimed
to control the Senators from California
and Nevada. &s< 1t has for years
absolutely controlled the public acts OF
the two Senators from this State on the
railroad question, and its aim has al
WAYS been to control the action of Ne
vada's representative in Congress. ***
Stewart can not deny the charge that
he is going back to the Senate of the
United States as an act of gratitude on
the part of the Southern Pacific Rail-
road for past services, and he is return
ing there to render services in the
future"
During his speech Mr.. Newlands was
asked to say something about the long
and short haul clause and terminal
points in Nevada. In reply he said that
the system of charging for freight from
Ogden, Utah. to any point in Nevada
the through rate to San Francisco, and
also the local freight back to the inter-
mediate point lis an absolute violation
of all just principles and in violation OF
the spirit of the fourth clause of the
Interstate Commerce Act. out of which
all life has been construed by the
courts, owing to some defective phrase
ology. That is one of the great ques-
tions of the future, whether these great
corporations can practically transfer all
the business and all the population of
the country to terminal points by
favoring the terminal points in the
matter of freights at the expense Of the
intermediate. 1t is to the interest of
this cou ntry that there should be an
equal and harmonious development
throughout the entire country in popu-
lation and wealth; that population
and business should not be con-
gested in great cities which owe their
growth to discriminating rates of
freight of railroad companies. No such
power should be given to a corpora
ton in charge of a great public
use. s*t This question is one of
the serious questions of the future.
The State platform at the last Conven-
ton called for its remedy. by legislation
$*& and absolutely requiring that nc
greater charge should be imposed for a
short haul than for a long haul" etc.
William NJ. Stewart was returned to
the United State Senate and Francis G..
served his term as Congress
man.
Both of them knew the immediate
demands Of the people of Nevada on
the railroad question.
What did they do?
Nothing. They were recreant to their
ami faithless to the people.
Notwithstanding, two years later
Mr.. Newlands succeeded John P. Jones
as Senator from Nevada. Q. D. Van