The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1914-02-11
Especial Correspondence)

1t VIII De recalled tnal, during the
campaign of 1904, a good deal was
said about the authorship of the rec
lamation law and Mr.. Roosevelt,
then a candidate for reelection,
took an active part. Certain Cabi
net officers were sent out whom pre-
sumably by instruction of their
claims for their party and particu
larly for Mr.. Roosevelt, and denied
that Senator Newlands was espeei-
ally active or influential in the mat
ter 1t is interesting, therefore, to
note that Mr. Roosevelt has now,
doubtless as the result of more ma
ture reflection, made a very differ
ent statement upon the subject,
written by him and syndieated by
the Outlook. of which he is con-
tributing editor in a widely pub
lished series of articles under the
title of Chapters of Possible Ar
photography. In one of these cha
ters Mr.. Roosevelt says:
Senator Francis G. Newlands, of
Nevada, fought hard for the cause
of reclamation in Congress. He at
tempted TO get his state TO act, and
when that proved hopeless, to get
/ the nation to act.
BY far the most effective Of the
Senators in drafting and pushing
the bill, which became known By his
name, was Newlands. The draft of
the bill was worked over by me and
others at several conferences and
revised in important particulars;
my active interference was neees-
sary TO prevent II from being made
unworkable by an undue insistanee
upon states rights, in accordance
with the efforts of Mr.. Mondell and
other congressman. who consistently
fought for local and private inter-
ests as against the interests of the
people as q whole
Nevada's Senators
Although Nevada has been the
least in population of the states rep
resented in the United States Sen
ate, she has from the beginning
been a prominent factor in that
great body at Washington. John p.
Jones was perhaps the ablest expon-
ent OF the bimetallic cause who sat
in the upper House. His main
speech on the silver question was
the profoundest ever heard during
the entire campaign for the rehabili-
tation of the white metal under our
coinage laws and it Is said that no
attempt was made to answer his arg
ument.
William NJ. Stewart was always in
the forefront His fight against the
Force Bill which would have put the
South under military rule during
election campaigns and his long
siege of the senate during the extra
session of 1893 when Cleveland sue
ceeded in finally repeating the pur-
chase clause of the sherman Act,
which was the last great blow to
silver. marked him as an able, ener-
getic and powerful man.
Senator Newlands had already
won his laurels as a member of the
House in his long and successful
fight for the enactment of the great
Reclamation Act when he became
member of the Senate Since his
entrance into that august body he
has won added fame by his advocacy
of waterways legislation. His per-
sistent efforts have been rewarded
by recognition of the wisdom of his
plan of waterway development.
Many Nevadans do not understand
the significance of the Newlands
river regulation bill and its henetic-
ial effect upon Nevada. The senior
Senator has been accused of spend
ing his time and energies on ques-
tions affecting other states and the
country as a whole and thus leay-
ing little time for measures applic-
able TO his own state.
The fact is, II the Newlands river
regulation bill passes; the 70 odd
million dollars now in the Reclama-
ton Fund would be released for use
almost entirely in the states having
no nayigable rivers, that Is TO say in
the intermountain region. This
would make 1t possible to develop
the Humboldt and other Nevada
rivers at once; otherwise, 1t would
be many a long year before the
Reclamation Service can get around
to them In other words, the Recla-
nation Fund, under present condi-
tions, is spread over dozen or more