Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-10-30

ANo FiOhS WIN VI duS cIlL Ooe
and Smoot. and he saws he will edo
it again" Voting on the other
side of this question and foreninst,
Massey were such champions Of the
people as Newlands and the other
democrats and progressive re-
puhlicans, such as Bristow, Cum
minis, LaFolIette, Poindexter and
Works. See Congressional Records
August 9th, 1912, page 1885.
And Massey says he is still against
them. On an amendment by Senat-
or Reed of Missouri, to prohibit the
use of the canual by ships owned
or controlled by any person or cor
poration, violating the antitrust
law, Massey voted mo-" having
the physical and moral support in
that vote of frame, Lodge, Pen.
rose, Root and Smoot, and he says
he will do it again." On the
other side are still the peoples
champions, Newlands, Coummins,
La Toilette, Poindexter and Works.
Nevada has at least one senator
with the people "Newlands" Con.
gressional Records Aug. 10, 1912.
On August 2!st, 1912. When the
question arose in the senate Of
passing the legislative appropria-
ton bill over the presidents veto,
the president having vetoed the
bill on the sole gronud that II
abolished the commerce court,
Senator Massey voted mo" see
Congressional Records page 1897,
August 9rd, 1912, and he says he
will do it again."
Senator Massey promises on the
platform, and Senators Massey's
promises and performances in the
senate are not only out of tune but
out of step. Senator Massey has
never yet called the attention of
the people of the state to any of
the acts, here enumerated by
special statement of why he voted,
in the manner he did. In the last
statement of Senator Massey
published, in the Reno Gazette, of
October %, 1912, he says: "Tbey
talk to you of the Nevada railroad
commission ask the people of Reno
who knew F. j. Peck, and others,
who drafted that bill, providing for
the Nevada railroad commission,
and they will tell you Massey.
worked ON SUNDAYS and drafted il
free of charge" The above state.
nent is undoubtedly false.
Senator Massey never saw the bill
that was presented to, and passed
by the legislature until after it was
written by Jas. T. Boyd, at that
time senator elect of Washoe
county. 1t was modelled after the
Ohio railroad act and the interstate
commerce act Of the United States.
The principal difference between
the Nevada act and the Ohio act
above mentioned, is in the fact
that the Nevada act is stronger by
virtue of the clause inserted by
Mr.. Boyd, giving the railroad
commission of the State of Nevada
the power to prefer charges before
the interstate commerce commits.
sion, and to carry the litigation on
in the name of the State of
Nevada. At that lime there was
rot another railroad commission
act in the United States, containing
that prov ison. After the bill was
written it was submitted to Ernest
Bingham, proprietor and editor Of
the Nevada State Journal, and to
Oscar Morgan, editor of the Reno
Evening Gazette, for their support.
Mr.. Bingham had the clause insert
ed, giving the power of appoint.
ment of the members Of the COM
mission to the governor, lieutenan,
g vernon and the attorney general,
in place of the governor alone !.
with that change the two papers
pledged their suuport 70 the hill