The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1906-05-29
ANOTHER ACHIEVEMENT OF THE
PARTY THAT DOES THINGS.

cOA W thO iVhS Not
party's great achievements in the field
of constructive legislation.
Scnatorsand representatives, as well
as distinguished and undistinguished
persons who are not in public station,
are con%gratulating the president on the
passage of the bill. They are right.
The president started the movement for
rate regulation. In his message to con-
gress in December, 1904, he said that in
his judgment "the most important leg
~islative act now needed as regards the
regulation of corporations is an act to
confer upon the interstate comm rec
committee the power to revise rates,
the revised rate to go into effect and
to stay in effect unless and until the
court Of review reverses it, This pow
er is conferred by the bill which went
through the house a few weeks ago, and
which has Just gone through the $ nate
in a somewhat modified form.
A few minutes before the bill was
brought up for final passage in senate
Tillman testified that but for the pres.
ident's advocacy the measure coul,i.
never nave had had a chance for adop-
tion. Everybody knows that this state
ment is correct. The president succeed
ed because he had his whole party be-
hind him from the beginning of tie
movement the Republican party has
championed rate regulation consta t Y,
intelligently. When the Esch-Townsend
bill passed the house Of the lite con.
gress a year and a quarter ago, the coun.
try saw the first step taken toward
placing rate regulation in the statutes.
Owing to the lack of time the Senate
did not take up the question in tlas
congress, but it made amends in this
one.
The bill which will soon be IN the
president IS hands is a courageous and
sane attempt to deal with this laro is
sue in a way that will meet the people s
demands for government control owe
freight charges, and at the same time
protect the railroads from harmful as
sault. The interests of shippers, of rail-
roads and of the people are, SO far as
can be forseen in alvarez Of the ac-
tual operation of the law in~tc'iigcntly
guarded.
When in 1871, Clemcnt j. valIandi-
CHAM, the eopperhead chieftan Of the
rebellion days warned Us party against
waging furthnr futile WI against the
legislation of the preceding decade, he
Pa a striking tribute 10 the wisdom If
pa otism of tie Repup ! ar party
That party is still doing things VIII ca
its enemies re forced to accept.
During the discussion of the rate
bill in the senate the president and his
party were assailed by the Democrats.
but in the end all were compelled to
fall into line in support of the Repvb-
lican measure.
When in a few days hence it is placed
on the national statute book, another
great exploit in legislation will be in
scribed to the Republican party's crea-
il. This measure, which originate. with
a republican president, was sha scd bj
republicans, and passei . i,cpuhli
cai congress ~ a virti.,y utamlnas
vote. In the congressional campaign
this year it will make tensof thousands
of votes for the Republicans, parsicul-
arly in the West.
For nearly half a century almost
every great measure which has gone
on the statute book has been pat taelo
by the Republican party, and most OF
them have been oppose by inc d IN
ocrats. In 1908, when M Rsp b'icans