The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1907-02-15
A RAILWAY VICTORY

, From the Reno Journal o.
February 9Th says: The vote il
the State Senate yesterday upor
the bill introduced by Senator
Boyd. having for its object the
investigation of corporation DOING
business in what are known as
public utilities" was an IN.
pleasant surprise.
Senator Boyd's measure was in
no sense radical. It gave COM
mlttees. which would have to be
appointed by the Senate of the
Assembly, authority to INQUIRE
INTO the management of all
domestic corporations or foreign
corporations doing business in
this State, engaged in the busin-
ess Of public utilities, and to COM
pei the attendance of officers.
agents and employees of such
concerns, with their books and
papers. Upon the neglect or re-
tusal of any witness to answer
the subpoena, the committees
were to report the fact to the
IL
House IN which the committees
appointment originated and that
House would then take action.
No properly conducted public
utility corporatiod had anything
to fear from such an investiga-
ton. The step was a Just and
honest effort to appoint some
official body with power to secure
information to which the people
are entitled.
The railway interests are sup
posed to have been influential in
defeating the bill; but, if that be
80, they are foolish, and they
nave grossly misinterpreted the
,emper of the people of Nevada !
I they imagine such interference {
Will be tolerated. AS a matter {
II fact, however, there were
'ther interests than those of the
always which would have been !
cached. We refer, for one to 9
he Western Union Telegraph t
company, which had the effront- l
'ry the other day to publish, as a 5
eport OF its annual receipts and :
expenditures in the State of P
Nevada, that it had taken in only o
4S, 900 and had spent $96, 900, $
yhen its income from Goldfield 7.
lone was known to have exceed
d $l1, 600 in one week in October
rom one firm.
However that may be, here is
ne vote by which Boyd's bill 4
as defeated yesterday: Ayes, q
noes, 10; as follows:
For the bill Bell, Boyd, Coryell
unter, Oddie, O'Kane, and
yne. q
Against the bill Brossemer,
Douglas, Easton, Gal
CHER, Locklin, Mack Martin.
'ilson, and Woodbury.. 4
1t is our desire to be charitable 3
I'd we believe that some of those
no voted no may have mis-
1derstood the scope of the
easure, although how they
'uld have done so after its author
ad explained it so lucidly, as he
ad before the vote was taken, 4
e candidly admit it difficult to +
'mprehend. 4
Watch whatever the ten
enators may do from this time
the end of the session, and
hen you find any of them
sainst the people on any meas =
e, put him down at once as
gged with the railway badge
I'd as a traitor to the State. i
OF the ten who voted against
e measure several, we are ask
to believe, didso honestly, be- r
use they thought it was intend
to permit inquiry into matters =
at were not before the public,
1t the majority of the ten can
readily placed NOW.
Lest an injustice may be done =
advise the constituents of the m.
n in this State to stir them up
ID show them Enthusiastically =
at the feeling of Nevada is 1
lanimously against any shilly-
allying measures at this time. :
It the newspapers in the 4
unties represented by the ten
point out to them that :
Iblic sentiment is such that the 4
an who votes against the people
this iuncture will faoa q f,,+,,ro g