The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-06-10
NEVADA LETTER Of )
WASHINGTON NEWS

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WASHINGTON, D. c., June g.
As forecasted in these letters some
three months ago, a Republican
Senate has restored cyanide to the
free list this week. The scheme
failed to work as Democratic poll
ticians are alleged to have framed
it; on the contrary it worked Sena-
tor Oddie's way, and his amendment
was adopted with more Republican
votes than there were Democrats on
the fioor-25 Republican, FL Demo-
crat. Every single Democrat pres
ent voted for free cyanide, of
course; but before voting for it they
wrangled through practically twen-
ty-five pages Of the Congressional
Record, when they might just as
well have kept still. See the vote,
at page 0o34.
Senator Oddie won the support
of such staunch protectionists as
Senator Capper, Cummings, KEEL
logg, La Toilette, Lodge, Mckinley,
others, by explaining to them that
gold-mining is the only industry
in the whole wide world which has
no means of self-protection because
the price of the product is abso-
lutely fixed by law. Democratic
Senators made desperate efforts to
show activity in the matter Of free
cyanide, but everything was all
fixed for Nevada and other gold
mining states, and the free-trade
campaign thunder fell fiat. Senator
Oddie was the recipient Of much
congratulation.
"Within q few years there will
be another Pittsburg in the South
ern part Of Utah." said Senator
Smoot Republican, Utah) the other
day. 1--WE have there iron ore and
coal sufficient to porduce all the
pig iron that will be needed in this
United States for the next hundred
years." The Senator might logic
ally have gone further and said
something about the almost unlimi- |
ted possibilities Of power from the
Boulder Canyon dam with which to
carry on manufacturing Of different
kinds. And after that he might |
have mentioned the probability of
oil in western Utah and eastern Ne
vada, to complete the picture Of
what may be expected in an in |
dustrial way in "the desert"
Newspaper publishers will be glad |
to know that H. r. l0159, "A bill
to further protect interstate and
foreign commerce against bribery
and other corrupt trade practices"
Is being introduced by the Associa- |
ted Advertising Clubs Of the World,
the American Association Of Ad-
vertising Agencies, the Association
of National Advertisers, American
Paper and Pulp Association, Sales
mems Association of the Paper In
dustry, National Association of
Printing Ink Makers, and the United
Typothetae Of America, along with
many other great commercial cor
porations. The bill provides against
flake" advertising, among other
things.
Since the departure Of Repre-
sentative Arentz for the West.
where he will remain as long as
official duties may permit, there
has arrived in his Office at WASH
ington the stenographer's trans
cript Of the Congressman's speech
before the Mining and Metallurgi-
cal Society Of America, at New
York, about two months ago. After
Mr.. Arentz's quotations Of the
closing words Of the report Of the
Bureau Of Mines, "If the mining in
dustry does not want to conform to
the committees judgment, Con-
gress surely will not pass any bill
in opposition to the popular wish"
the stenographer indicates that
there was great applause" by men,
bers present-which must be con-
strued as indicating that Nevada's
Representative has won everything
which the Western mining indus
try has contended for in the matter