The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1915-12-04
AGAINST FREE RIDES
Injunction Sought to Prevent
State Railroad Commissioners
From Receiving Free
Transportation

taken in California by j. E. Sexton,
manager of the Eureka Nevada Rail-
way:
One of the greatest prequisits of
the all-powerful State Railroad Com
mission, its free transportation. has
been attacked by j. E. Sexton, a rail-
road man. Sections railroad, how
ever, is in Nevada.
Sexton, through Attorneys Nc
Nair and Stoker, filed suit in the Su-
perior Court yesterday asking an in
junction to stop the issuance of free
transportation to everybody connect
ed with the Railroad Commission.
Including the Commissioners, clerks
and outside employees, approximate
ly 200 persons would be affected if
the injunction were granted.
The suit is directed against the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Rail-
way Company. the directors of that
corporation, and the five Railroad
Commissioners.
Santa Fe Stakeholder
Sexton. who is the managing d.
rector of the Eureka-Nevada Rail-
road Company. which operates IS
miles of line in Eureka County. Ne
vada, brings the suit as a stakeholder
of the Santa Fe Railway Company.
Sexton, who is at the Palace Hotel,
said yesterday:
| own stock in the Southern Pa
cifc. | have written a letter to the
directors asking them to bring an ac-
ton similar to the one | brought to-
day. If they do not bring such a
suit | will bring it myself as a stock
holder.
| intend to fight the Railroad Com
mission in every State that is bur-
dened with the commission form of
government. 1t may be necessary
for me to buy stock in every railroad
in the United States to do this, but
that can be easily arranged.
Railroads In Fear
The railroads are afraid of the
Railroad Commission. They can't
call their property their own in this
State any more. No matter what
the railroad Commission may do they
dare not protest. E. P. Ripley OF
the Santa Fe admits as much in a let.
ter which he wrote me in reply to a
letter of mine asking him to refuse
transportation to the employees o!
the Railroad Commission.
In this letter he says he cannot do
anything and he dare not protest be.
cause his company might be visited
| with worse calamities than those
which have been inflicted upon il
already.
| sent a similar letter to the direct.
ors of the Southern Pacific. This
letter was held up by William
Sproule, the president, who refuses
to give it to the board of directors.
He will not commit himself, but in
his n wer to my letter, in which he
says he does not want to start any
thing, by reading between the lines
it is easy to detect his fear of offend.
ing the commission.
Politics And Fishing
The commissioners use this free
II ansportation. which amounts tc
more than $500. 900 a year. to travel
about doing politics. for fishing trips
etc. These things cannot be CLASH.
fled as necessary for the public in.
terest.
Douglas Brookman, attorney for
the Railroad Commission, yesterday
said he would not be prepared to is
sue a statement on behalf of that
body until Monday because of the
fact they have not as yet been served
with a copy of the injunction COM
plant. 1t will be served on them
Monday morning.
Free transportation for the Rail-
road Commission, the injunction COM
plant recites, is granted under the