Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1913-06-19
REMOCRATIC STATE
CENTRAL COMMITTEE
(Specal Correspondence

of the principal railroad labLr or
9anizations and endorsed by the
heads of several great railroad sys-
TENS, the national Civic Federation
and others has been introduced in
the United States Senate by Sena-
tor Newlands 1t is designed to
meet the objections to the Erdman
law which were raised in the re-
cent wage dispute between the To-
comotive firemen and the Eastern
railroads enlerging the board of
arbitration to six members The
law now provides three.
The amendment provides tor
commissioner of meditation and
concliation, who with two other
government officials to be appoint
ed by the President, with ratifica-
tion of the Senate would constitute
a board Of meditation and concili-
alton The board would name
disinterested arbitration to act
with arbitrators chosen by EN-
ployers and employees The pro-
posed amendment relies upon vol
untaIy arbitration While it covers
only controversies arising between
interstate railroads and their train
men both the railroad officials and
the brotherhood officials are selling
to have the shopmen included if
the latter wish.
The amendment introduced by
Senator Newlands remedies the de-
fects of the present law and yet
preserves all its valuable features
The interests of the public are fully
protected by the amendment and
inasmuch as representatives of the
employees as well as the railroads
Akave agreed to it, there seems to
~De no doubt that the Newlands
amendment will pass this session of
Congress or the regular session
which meets in December
Senator Newlands Address before
the Secretary of the Interior on
Government Reclamation Projecls.
Senator Newlamds appeared be-
fore Secretary Of the Interior Lane
recently at the conference with the
association to Water Users on Gov
ernment Reclamation Projects at
Washington and made the follow.
ing interesting address:
Mr. Secretary, pursuant to my re-
quest, the Reclamation Service has
presented an outline map of Ne
vada, showing its four rivers, These
are the Walker River on the south
having it's source in the Sierra Me-
vada Mountains in California and
emptying into Walker Lake
Next the Carson River having a
similar course whose waters find
their way into the sink known as
Carson Lake Further to the north
is the Truckee River having it's
source partly in Nevada and partly
in California, near Lake Tahoe
and whose waters flow into Pyra-
mid Lake
Last is the Humboldt River, hav-
ing it's source in the northeastern
part Of the state and flowing south.
westerly whose waters sink into the
Humboldt Lake. The only lake
shown on this map which is a
source Of water supply is Lake
Tahoe The waters of the other
mentioned are absolutely unutiliz-
ed. The problem is to prevent
these waters from flow into these
lakes and to turn them upon the
land and make it productive.
The Walker River is a consider
able element in what is known as
Mason Valley. The irrigation de-
velopment there has been crude.
The land is held in large tracts
and there have been difficulties be-
tween the water appropriations on
the two sides of the state line Sec
rotary of the Interior Hitchcock
at one time allotted $4,000, 900 for