The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-10-21

He said that he was an advocate
OF national suffrage and in asking
for the support of Goldfield said:
~ am familiar with every achieve
ment of the administration and en-
dorse them. / am anxious to enter
the battle and aid them"
Kennett was the next speaker.
His remarks were brief. He asked
for support for Sanders and him
self and said: "As the position 10
which I aspire is simply a clerical
one, | have no platform" He gave
a brief history of his career, to show
his fitness for the position, and stat
ed that he had been a court steno-
grapher and had reported for Is
years and was thoroughly CONVEX
SAINT with all the details of court
work.
The chairman then introduced
Senator Pittman as. "honored as
one of the circle of advisors of the
president himself" and the senator
was greeted with cheers as he arose.
Senator Pittman addressed him
self chiefly to the tariff, the feder-
al reserve act, the farm oar bill,
the graduated income tax, child
labor law, the Adamson bill, Susan
E. Anthony amendment and the
pending land legislation for which
he is sponsor. He contended that
the tariff was not an issue, that
il has been settled, subject only
to notifications and Celebrations.
The federal reserve act had taken
control Of the financial system from
Wal Street and placed it in the
hands of the government, while the
farm loan act had made it possible
fer land n to borrow money
ar four to five per cent.
On the subject of the land grant
bill he said he had secured the
passage of three bills through the
senate as companion measures and
at the same time.
THE land grant bill has for its
chief purpose said the speaker,
the raising of a fund from the in
terest on which the schools may be
supported. 1t provides a grant Of
1000, 900 acres to the state for this
purpose.
Everyone admits that the object
OF the bill is good, but some OBJ
ject to the auction clause. The
bill did not contain this clause
when introduced, but was insisted
upon by every senator for three
reasons Congress insists that the
land belongs to the schools and that
the schools should receive the full
value of the land. Every grant
Of a similar character to other
states since 1872 has contained such
provision. The constitutions of
Montana, Wyoming, Arizona and
New Mexico expressly provide that
no lands granted for school pur-
poses shall be sold for less than
ten dollars an acre, and as much
more as can be obtained at public
sale"
The speaker contended that the
state alone could make the selec-
ton. at doesn't have to sell at
any particular price. The limita-
ton on the state is that it shall
not sell more than $40 acres to
any citizen. The state may make
the terms of payment as easy as
it sees fit. In fact the state only
wants the interest IN the price.
This places the poor man in as
good position as the rich man, for
he can pay for the land out of the
land. My bill is the first Of the
kind to limit the amount that may
be sold to one person.
eff we want the grant" he con-
tirued,' 1--WE must accept 1t on the
same conditions as other states and
on the terms hat congress insists
upon.
lone Of the other bills" said
the senator, els a non-residence
homestead act which permits a citi-
zen to acquire a homestead without
the necessity of actual residence on
the land. but simply by improving
the land each year"
The speaker stated that "in 50
years we have only had 1000 home
steaders and we will not have that
many in the next so years under the
existing laws. In so years we have
only homesteaded $4,000 acres out
of 10. 0 900"
The third bill. he said, provided
for the prospecting for and develop
ment of artesian and s~ub-surface
waters. "a citizen may have ex-
elusive right to develop water upon
four sections for two years. and
if he develops sufficient water to
practically irrigate 20 acres he gets
any one of the four sections for
nothing as a bonus for his work"
He said the charges that he was
in a conspiracy with the ranch men.
and that he bought an island in