Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-10-16
THE COURT OF COMMERCE

] At the request of Hon. Key
Pittman, we publish the following
from his speech Saturday night
which dealt with the Court of
Commerce. After discussing the
determinations Of the railroad
toward Nevada and the efforts of
our railroad commission to secure
reiured rates. Mr.. Pittman said:
Why haven't you got them? Be-
cause the Interstate Commerce
Commission was prevented from
putting them into force and effect.
And how was it prevented from
putting them into force and effect?
BY the Court of Commerce; an
institution created at the request
of President Taft and The standpat
Republicans and all the railroad
lawyers in the United States
Senate, court created under the
pretense that it was to expedite
the matter of the Interstate Com
merce Commission. And what
was the real fact as to the creation
of that Court of Commerce.
Why. two years ago from a plat
form in Reno, on the day before
election. told the people of that
city that their hopes of reduction
of rates was absolutely futile so
long as the Court of Commerce ex-
listed in this country. ! told them
that when Aldrich and Sam Pyles
and all the railroad lawyers in the
United States Senate supported the
bill creating the Court IF Com
merce. they knew that the Court
of Commerce was a fraud and
organized solely for the purpose
of obstructing the Interstate Com
merce Commission and preventing
justice being done to the people
of onr State.
And what happened? When the
Interstat' Commerce Commission
granted remedy to our people,
reduction of rates to our people,
when the Interstate Commerce
Commission took away the disrrim.
nation againt our people, the
Court of Commerce stepped in
and enjoined the enforcement of
those rates And you stand today
lust where you stood lhree or four
years ago. And when the liner.
state Commerce Commission
attempted other measures of relief
to our people. they were enjoined
from giving US that relief. And
out of 27 cases. mind you, that
were appealed from the Interstate
Commerce Commission to the Court
of Commerce, 81 of them were re-
versed and decided by the Court of
Commerce against the people and
in favO. of the railroad companies.
Why, so suspicious became the
action of that Court of Commerce
that an investigation took place,
and it was discovered that Mr..
Archibald, Judge Archibald, the
Chairman IF that Court of Com.
merce, uas receiving brides from
the railroad companies ell the time
in tho interests of the railroads
and for the decisions that he was
rendering IN favor of the railroads
in that Court of Commerce. Such
an obnoxious thing has never been
known in our judiciary in years.
1t was very great disgrace to the
judiciary of this country, and did
as much as anything else to compel
the people of this country to de-
mapd the recall Of the judiciary.
| And in the face of that through
our State Railroad Commission and
though the Chamber of Commerce
in Reno, petirioned our repre-.
sentatives in Congress to do all in
their power to kill that Court of
Commerce. Our State Railroad
Commission, over their own
signatures petitioned our repre-.
entatives in the United States
Senate and in the House of Rep.