The daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1906-1907, 1907-03-01
Woodbury. Of ormsby the Sole Sen.
ator who was Recorded in the
Nega-Ive.

Ne9d-iVe.
The demands for seats this after
noon in the Senate chamber was very
brisk. AS 1.3V was the time set tor
the special order which brought the
railroad rate bill up in the senate
Tor final consideration.
1t was understood yesterday that
there would be no further delay IN
the matter and that the corporations
must be ready to face the music ior
the final struggle over the bill.
Some people had an idea that there
was to be a pitch battle between tle
corporations and friends OF the bill
and that the sound of the conflict
would be heard clear to the V. & 7.
depot. They came forward 10 wit
ness the thrilling excitement that
holds in the vicinity of the prize
ring, while others had the tip that
the fighting part Of the business had
all been fried out in the committee
and that the railroads, already salts
fled that they were whipped would lie
down gracefully on the mat and take
the count.
The reading of the bill occupied
about an hour. No amendments were
offered. At 2.3O Senator Pyne of Es-
meralda took the floor as the first
speaker in favor of the measure.
Pyne Opens the Ball.
He said that the bill was the first
ray of light that had shot through the
clouds of financial gloom which had
hung over the corporation, long suffer
ing state of Nevada. 1t was the first
bill in years that had shown the way
to people to secure relief to the down
trodden people who had so long suf-
fered from the extOrtiOns of the mo-
nopolies.
He believed that a board with
proper authority could enforce he
law in a way to deal fairly with all.
The argument that the board might
be corrupt was no argument. 1t
might as we'll be argued that we
must abolish the supreme court be,
cause it might become corrupt and dc
away with all state officers under the
same illogical objection.
THE state of Nevada has beer
more unjustly treated than any state
in the Union and this bill was steI
toward industrial freedom. The argu
ment that the bill was in any way
unconstitutional was for the courts t
decide"
Step Father o, the Bill on Dick.
Senator Boyd, of Wasnoe, was th'
next speaker. He said he had beer
charged with being the father of th
bill when as a matter of fact he wa
the step-falner of the bill. 1t was no
produced by one man or two or thre
but it was the accumulated work .
men who had fought for fair play TO
twenty-five years or more.
Nevada had poured her wealth int
the treasury of the Nation and ha
saved the Union, but she had bee
robbed all the while.
Men had been legislating from Sat
ramento, San Francisco and Denve
and Salt Lake and now let us get te
gether and do some legislating for tn
people of Nevada and not the none
sharks and pawn-brOkers of Californl
and Utah. No one had yet asserte
that this bill was not good thin
for the people of It's STATE.
The railroads have asked for della
and have asked us to be cOnservatlv
ana all that, but the time has arrive
for action and now is the time
reap the benefits of the prosperit
now being poured into the laps {
strangers. If we don't protect ou
selves now, in twenty years ther
will be nothing left but holes in tn
ground.
The railroad committee have bee
unable to secure any data from tf
railroad men. They simply ask fe
conservative legislation and are IL
able to show where they would be u
favorably treated.
Conservatism he considered to mea
the fellow who did nothing while tt
sun went down.
The Boston tea party was not co
servative and Lincoln's emancipatio
proclamation was not. Even co
rupt commission would give us MOI
relief than we were getting now
If there is any foolishness the pc
pie will take charge Of their own i