The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-06-07
A HEARING.

In the matter of Butte's federal
building the Inter Mountain suggests
that II. L. Frank make TO the board OF
trade a formal report showing the
status of the bill in congress, the prob
ability of its passage and the dan
gers and difficulties attending the
effort TO get such a measure through
congress at this time"
We fancy that Mr.. Frank could arise
from soundest sleep at the dead of
night and, without written notes or
preparation. fire off a report that would
elucidate all these points to the salts
faction of a listening board of trade.
lie would have three points to discuss,
if he meets the suggestions of the In
ter Mountain. Regarding the first he
could say that the status of the bill" is
that il is ~hopelessly low down on the
calendar and cannot he lifted To n bet
ter place. On point number two, Mr..
Frank, in discussing the chances of the
bill, a simply echo the belief which is
universal in Washington, that the bill
has no chance at all-at any rate, that
prediction was made in April. in the
city of Washington, by senators and
representatives who would be greatly
pleased were Butte to get a building
but whose settled opinion IL then was
that Butte will have to wait.
The Inter Mountains third topic
suggests a broader range for discus
sion. Mr.. Frank might justly be *
pected to grow eloquent in ~picturing
before the eyes of the board of trade
members the dangers and Difficult
ties attend the effort to get a building"
They are many; 81 many more
than Mr.. Carter imagined them to be
when, on last October's stump, with
remarkably bad taste, he sought to be-
little Governor Toole's services in con-
gress, assuring his audiences that all
he needed to do in Washington was
TO ask and receive, all that was neces-
sary was for him TO talk with the sec
rotary and the thing would be done.
When, last year, Mr.. Carter claimed
credit for his own alleged conspicuous
services in bringing about the admis.
sion of Montana, the STANDARD be
liaved him guilty Of peryerting what he
knew 10 be the trHth. Our opinion OF
that score, however, must undergo re-
vision. We now suspect that Mr..
Garter believed what he said, actually
Gathering himself that the victory for
statehood was his. IL was a preposter-
Gus conceit. but people will be disposed
to be good natured about IL now, Just
as they smile when they recall the easy
grace with which the congressman told
what a power he was going to be in
Washington. lie has sweat and stewed
and fumed around the national capital
since December: he has done all that
he could but he has discovered that he
cant do much.
Mr.. Carter's trouble is that he led the
public TO expect too much OF him. For
what he has accomplished the STAND
ARD has accorded him generous credit
but il is SO easy TO promise in Mon
tana and SO hard to fulfill in Washing
ton. Mr.. Carter didn't realize this in
October. but undoubtedly he does in
June; and while Mr.. Frank might
argue before the board of trade with
all the fire of debating-club e%loquence,
it is our judgment that Mr.. Carter is
the best man I'm this country to sketch
the dangers and the difficulties" at
tending an effort to get m appropria-
ton for Butte.