Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1914-10-02
Mayortorena's Rebels, 5000 Strong,
Expected to Engage Hills Army
Today --- Government May Not
Evacuate Vera Cruz for the
Present

as rebels. 1000 strong, are reported
at noon as being within five miles Of
Naco, Sonora. The Carranza forces
under General Benjamin Hill, start
ed out to meet the advance. The
American troops have been called to
the camps here to protect the inter
national border Hundreds of Aneri-
cans with field glasses have sought
vantage points to watch the expected
fight.
Mr. Bryan, who, in a letter. urged
him to present his views in a bill.
Your senator declined at that time TO
do so because the Democratic party
was in the minority and he feared
that if he drew bill the discussion
would be confined to mere matters
of detail and that we would lose sight
OF matters of principle; and he pre-
ferred to present the principles clear
ly and definitely in resolutions in an
tagonism to the Aldrich bill: and the
Aldrich bill was beaten, or. at all
events, did not come to final action.
Now. with that experience, would
you expect your senator when the
Democratic party came into power :u
abandon the convictions of a life
time and to give immediate assent 10
all the features of bill presented III
the house OF representatives by the
chairman of the committee there,
drawn by very able but rather III
university? At all events, youS Sc IA
" did not think So your senator
felt that there were certain defects il
that measure, which, in the main was
in accord with his long entertained
views, that ought to be remedied.
tendency and principle, and he stood
for his views as long as he could
maintain them. They were views that
had received the approval of the
Democracy of the senate the year De
fore when he was opposing the Aid
I'LL piopoSd1 dHu TIC NCly views tIdt
received the approval of Mr. Bryan
Do you think your senator lost caste
| among Democrats for that independ-
ence of action? He may have lost
caste among those who expect sell
I fish subservience rather than indie
pendent courage from their represent
tatives. But he did not have the dis
approval of the Democracy of the
country, nor of the president, nor oi
those whose views he opposed, who
recognized his sincerity and his can
dor. That bill went through a great
many changes as the result of the
criticism imposed upon. it and the
bill as finally passed was quite diffc~-
ent from the bill as originally intro
duced. AS result of. the criticism
passed upon it, it was an improvet
measure, though not perfect meas
ure. One of the objections that
had to the bill is one of the objec.
, tions that has since proved to be cor
rect. | insisted that as half of ths
banks of this country were nationa
and half of the banks of the country
were state banks; and as the state
banks were just as strong in deposits
and capital as the national banks an.
more numerous; that banking sys
tenn which was half good and hal!
| bad would not meet emergencies
that our legislation should tend +
bring state bank legislation in har
mony with national bank legislation
and that this could be accomplished
either through the force of nationa
control over interstate commerce an
over these state banks as the instru
mentalities of interstate exchange, o1
by persuasion that would coax then