The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1905-06-27
OUR NATIONAL MACHINE

H1 MEF
u NATIONAL MACHINE.
A. somewhat sarcastic correspondent
Of Pub ic, Opinion has the following just
criticism Of our present governmental
machinery:
Has President Roosevelt the courage
to be a, reformer71 queries Mr.. Bryan
In the same artic- g he mentions thai the
Senate declined to pemit the passage OF
a railroad rate bill that had gone
through the. House by a practical y
unanimous vote. Does not this prove
that the under ying question is this:
Can the American peep e accompl sh any
reform with the kline Of governmental
machinery they, now have? Suppose the
House of Commons had passed that bill.
would the House of Lords have dared &c
hold 1t up? No, they no longer venture
to rock legis alton that they know Is
desired. by an overwhelming majority OF
the Peep g.. Would the king have dared
veto 1t? The veto power has not been
exercised in England for almost two
hundred years. Would a Supreme Coure
have dared to pronounce 1t unconstitu
tional? lover, there they dent al ow any
court to nul,fy the work of Parliament;
. law stands until repealed by the body
which, made It.
The American recipe for Legislative
cookery shou a read something like this:
ssUr;~ot catch o.r HorSa IF Rpnrp qQpfa-
tives and put 1t on ice for thirteen
months II your Senate is a lit e OF
set your State legislatures to shap ng
new material: II may not take more
than four, years to get just what you
need. Then catch your House OF Rep
resentatives again and put on ice.
Meantime you should have been looking
for the right sort of President. When
everything is ready bake in a Out k
wen and then hod your breath for fear
the Supreme Court may take the notion
to tip the dish bottom side up. The
truth OF the matter is this: When a fair
majority OF those Blasted bloody Brit
ishefs call for a thing they get It p. D..
o. when we free and enlightened Amer
leans raise q hol err we get mostly echo.
II we can't conceive q government that
We can handle. we had better haul down
our qmEscrtai Declaration and ask Jon ,
Bull to take us back.
Have h American Peep . the courage
to revise their. constitution. or, I neces
sary. send il to keep company with the
old Artieesloft coB 3ederatioh? That is &
qulsfion xof far greater Importance thar
the one Mr.. . Bryan raises about Mr..
RoQsevslt's courage. But Mr.. Bryan al
on~t& o~,otSo 0cfn0 ton For hofnuv ~ cs1r.
face of things. The mar object OF his
u-tterances is to remind the American
people that II Teddy fails there is an
other man who could be induced to take
the, 5sb.i Address ale mrunscations to
wv. j. b." Lincoln. Nebraska.
a. ea4 4- Il.
The correspondence with regard to the
Santa Observation-Disclosures con-
trovers~ es alb fshes' tn, fact that
Messrs. Adaarmonl and Jus son. who have
been re .a'ned 40 specia' counsel for the
govern-nt Mt In the prosecution Of the re-
hate case against the santa Re railway.
resigned hecause they ruere not q how'll
the. Navy, as well az the corpora,irn
itself. The President. however. in sew
.erap lengthy letters. sets forth strore
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prosecuted. He submits that Mr.. Nor
ton came frankly and bod y before the
Interstate Commerce Committee and
there 'isave testimony which proved o.
thu utmost W ne to tho government in
putting a stop to the system of granting
rebates. The President points out that
there 10. not d sc1ntiiia o. evidenre T.
show tha Mr.. Morton was directly re
~sponsib'e for the granting OF rebates b..
the. Santa Re ana that, IN the oths
hand. he evidently did what he could e
prevent such VIC alton Of the Jaw. rhs
President further declares that he has
every confidence In gMr. Norton and thal
as the. government has not. in the past
attempted the prosecution OF .tfcaii
where there appeared 70 be 10 evid' nc'
asainut enpflndsvidaallysi anust ncc''s
sarflyshe that h demand Cor the pros
ecution, Of Mr.. Norton arisn from tn
fact that M was . member of the cab
na4.