White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1913-06-22
POLITICS.

the senate lobby investigation prod
ding the members of the upper house.
and Attorney Sam Bedford of Reno
contributing to the harmony
chorus by calling down Senator New
lands for his lack OF s~tand-patism.
summer politics are proving an in
teresting performance At the nation
al capital. IN fact, with the hot pol
ities and the hotter weather. Sec
Rotary Bryan is 50 busy that be car
ries his lunch TO his Office and Presi-
dent Wilson neels OF his coat and
works IN his shirtsleeyes like any
ordinary laborer. As The Republicans
don't have any particular say-so JUS
at present. they can enjoy the tangle
OF their present dominant brethren.
and make predictions as 70 future r
suits. II is already ~forecasfed that Al
torney Relford. formerly Of Fly and
now OF Reno. and who knows a thing
or two about politics. Is after Sena-
tor Newlands goat and Is moi mourn-
Ing himself 10 death over the latter's
tariff actions and the opportunity TO
get him where the hair Is short on
the party pledges line.
Senator Pittman. before the senate
investigation committee. has made
some remarkable statements as TO
Nevada's sheep and wool industry.
that are in a way to rise up and
haunt him later. And as a further
interesting phase of the situation,
developed by the lobby" inquiry.
some of the senators have come
across with the allegation or i%nsinua- |
ton or whatever one wishes TO term
it. that in the fight for free wool,
free sugar, etc, President Wilson
himself has been the chief lobbyist OF
all in his determination to see the
Underwood free trade bill become a
law,
The following from the Reno Ca
zette. of Wednesday. bears illumina-
.ingly on Senator Pittman's views of
the sheep and wool industry in Ne
vada. as brought out before the
senate's lobby commission:
In answer. says the Gazette. 10 a
further question from Senator Reed
as to whether the Basque sheep J
herders we're ordinarily n~aturalized
itizens. Mr.. Pittman said: No.
hey are not. As a general thing
they never associate with other peo-
Pile in the state; they live among
themselves; they can only speak a
few words OF the English language;
they live in the lowest possible way
FOR a human being to live; and they
ire nothing but sheep nerders."
Then. in response to another inquiry.
Senator Pittman said the $50 per
month paid the Basque sheep
herders was much less than the
wages paid others in the industry.
and that this did not ordinarily in
elude board. although the other
character Of help are boarded he
said.
The foregoing viii serve to show
what estimate Senator Pittman puts
upon the WOOL and sheep industry OF
Nevada. as we'll as his estimate OF
the men employed to carry on the
work. Further on in his testimony.
when complaining of the expensive
lobby maintained by the Wool
Growers association, he admitted
that ne was thoroughly familiar with
the extent of the industry, having
made two campaigns in the state
He said all the Literature sent to him
by the lobbyists at home had been
consigned to the waste basket. be-
ause he knew exactly in what re-
spect the ~instigators of the campaign
Of deception were en~deavoring 10
mislead him. Had he read. or even
inquired, he might have learned that
upwards OF 1000 persons are en-
ployed in the sheep and wool indus
ries of Nevada. and that iocks,
which he says are owned almost en-
ireiy by a dozen institutions. are in
act owned by between $50 and 500
Sevadans. He might have learned,
llso, what he evidently failed TO
carr in his two campaigns, that the
basque sheep herders whom he
laims TO despise so heartily. are re-
:arded by the men who employ them
omewhat more highly than by him.
elf. The Basques. according to the
ifficial figures, receive an average
monthly wage of s45, with board in
EDITION. Camp tenders receive from
80 to SIS; foremen from SIS to
ina. -onah ka.a- from co. - $40