The daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1906-1907, 1907-03-05
CAUGHT MAPPING
inside History of how the Railway
People Thought they Had Cinch.
Title of the Bill Defective
but Remeded Later on
and Now Constitutional

anu ISS"
1t seems now that the real reason !
the railroad had for thinking the bill |
unconstitutional was because there !
was a little mistake in the title of the
bill which omitted to mention the
creating of a board. This was merely
stenOgraphers error and as long rs
it was there the opponents OF the bill
bill thought they could easily knock
ii out Section II Article " of the
Constitution is very plain. 1t says.
Each law enacted by the legisla-
1ure shall embrace but one subject
and matters properly connected there
with which subject shall be briefly
expressed in the title.
If there was no mention Of the
board Of Railway Commissioners in
The title the supreme court would de-
eide against its constitutionality as
they have done many times before
when the question has been raised.
The railroad people seeing that the
title was defective in that respect
rested easy and felt secure. The
friends of the bill however, were not
asleep and discovered the defect in
time to remedy it and now that it IS
all right the railroad people have dis
covered that they were taking a nap
during the time that the defect was
remedied
They now come to the front and in
sist that they were about to make re-
ductions anyway and that they will
not now do so unless compelled.
In this connection prominent
member of the Commercial League
said TO a journal reporter:
when Mr.. Jones was here 4 couple
OF weeks since, we tried our best 10
get him before the league TO advise
lowering Of these rates, and at the
time he talked with us, but was not
prepared to say anything specific. AT
the time he agreed TO come prepared
with facts and figures, but never did
SO, and the idea that the railroad
company was not given ample op.
pOrtunity TO meet Us and express
through its proper agents, its ideas Gi
the situation and the charges needed
in fairness TO the people, is entirely
wrOLe.
The fact of the whole matter is
just this, and it also explains the
presence OF SO many distinguished
railroad men here at time which
would ordinarily be considered very
ill-timed and alladvised.
When the bill was drafted. the
stenographer, before it went to the
printer. made the mistake of leaving
out Il very essential part of the head
ing which explained the object of thu
, bill, and which the law says must b,
so contained in the headings"
The railroad .eople saw this, ant
1 about the same time discovered tha
their business in Nevada was not s.
pressing Or urgent as they ha
thought 1T to be, and departed. Thei
idea was, of course, that the erro
would not be detected, as the bill wa
at that time ready for the printer, an
T. that it would be passed as it was, an
e that it could very easily be shown /
q be without force, as legal measur
90 hn ,ie-;T
after it had been passed and SO t
the object of the railroad compan
; would be attained, by the aid of tn
q very people who passed it.
+ They, like the Arabs, folded thei
n tents, and silently stole away bu
@ you will notice that they are all bac
here now, after the clock has struc
the eleventh hour, and the reason
; that the little omission Of the stem,
u grapher was discovered before tn
y bill was acted upon and corrected"
u Darling is Right.
Il president Darling is quite right .
his view of the matter, that the raj
o road was given ample time and o.
d portunity to make suggestions and a
guments based upon facts and figure
not hasty, mysterious oratory an
: elusive conversation, and that the
- did not do it is there own fault 1t
now too late. The bill has bee
l. passed by both houses. whose men
e bers did their duty, and has gone 1
E. the governor who will do his duty /
s signing it, and if there are those WI
thing there is any occasion for appr