The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1914-02-11
OUR STATES U. S. SENATOR'S
Our Reno Correspondent Writes Of the Sterling Qualities Of
Our Representatives In the Upper House Of fe National
Legislature Tells GIOWIngy Of the Good Work Done.

all but the four or five intermount-
ain states will be taken care of un-
der the new fund to be created and
the whole Reclamation Fund will be
used solely in the four or five inter-
mountain states of Nevada, Utah,
Arizona, Idaho, etc. All in all. SEN
ator Newlands' plan is shrewd
move on behalf of the intermountain
states and its beneficial effect will be
far reaching for the upbuilding of
Nevada
A few days ago the senior Senator
introduced a bill in the Senate pro-
viding for an extension of time for
payments by the settlers on the
Truckee-Carson project, which legis-
lation will be of great assistance to
many of the ranehers around Fallon
who have been unable to keep up
their payments promptly.
Senator Pittman has rapidly es-
tablished himself in the senate as an
able, energetic and constructive
statesman. 1t was only few years
back when 1t was considered impert-
inence on the part of a new Senator
to rise to his feet for any purpose
except perhaps to introduce a bill
during his first session The new
members were supposed to sit back
and listen to the older members for
year or two until they got broke
in The writer we'll remembers
when young Beveridgs first took up
his seat in the Senate. The Hoos-
Ter statesman got right up after he
had been seated a few weeks and
proceeded to talk for several min
utes and It was not ten minutes be-
fore the young Senator's voice was
.resounding in an almost empty
Chamber. Later Beveridge deliver
ed his more or less famous speech on
the Philippines After he had con-
cluded he went around to the older
members and inquired of them
what they thought of his efforts.
Among those whom he approached
was our own Senator John p. Jones.
In reply to Beveridge's inquiry
Jones said "Beyeridge, you have a
remarkable vocabulary; now go ed
ucate yourself up to your vocabu-
larry"
But conditions have changed.
After Beveridge came La Toilette
and others who smashed the old GUS
tom into smithereens. So with
Senator Pittman. He waded right
in up to his neck and did not be-
come engulfed His handling of the
fight for the Heteh Hetehy bill was
admirable and successful He then
went after the Alaska Railroad Bill,
which also passed. This is one of
the most important pieces of legis-
lation enacted by Congress for many
years 1t means the opening up of
the vast natural resources of Alas
ka and that in their development
the question of transportation will
be handled so that all will be given
an equal chance to ship their pro-
ducts to sea level. Alaska is an
empire which has been ready for de-
velopment but has been held back
by reason of lack of transportation
and also by the attempted exploita-
tion of her resources by large spec
ial interests. The government rail-
way will mean that the average man
OF enterprise and ability and with
small capital will be able to secure
his share of the wealth to be gotten
out of this almost virgin field.
Neyada's citizens, regardless of
politics, have reason to be proud of
her two able Senator'S, both of
whom are recognized beyond the
boundaries of their own state as
men of consequence in the shaping
of national affairs