Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-23
TOO MUCH HE|NzE
REASON WHY MORE SUPREME
JUDGES ARE NEEDED.
WHAT THE RECORD DIsCLosEs.
Gov. Toole and the Senatorship-Mr.
Franks Friends Sanguine-The
Gambling Bill.
Special to Inter Mountain

Helena. Jan. 2S.--It is generally be-
lieved here that Heinze is behind the
agitation for two additional justices of
! the supreme court. Whether bill to
this effect will ever become law remains
to be seen but there is certainly much
! opposition to il at the present time
| TO show that the bill for the creation
of two new supreme court justices is
rot founded on the broad rock of public
veal it is necessary only to so to the
records. In black and white is told the
tale. BY the records are shown the
following facts:
The number of cases disposed of by
the supreme court from January 3. 1899,
to and including December %, 1899, We're
149; from January 2. 1900. to and in
Guiding December 49, 1900, We're lO5: a
! total of 254.
! The number of motions heard and dis
posed of from January 3. 1899. to and
including December %. 1899. We're Ga;
! from January .. 1900. to and including
December 81, 1900, We're 246 making a
total of 410
The number of attorneys admitted to
Practice from January 10. 1899, to jan
uary 9. 1900. We're IS: from January ?,
1900, to December "a, 1900, We're A.; maxi
ing a total of so.
The number of days the court was
sitting in 1899 were 14S. and in 1900 were
1S.. total of $50.
The number of opinions prepared and
filed from January 49, 1899. to and in
Guiding December %, 1899, were 1903; from
January %. 1900, to and including jan
uary q. 1901, were "a; a total of 1917.
The number of cases filed in 1899 were
III. in 1900 were 125, a total OF $50.
If the reader will take the statistics
furnished in the foregoing and study
the figures carefully he will discover
that Mr.. Heinze himself is the person
responsible for the congested condition
of the supreme court calendar. Motions
to the number of 41O We're heard and
disposed of from January 8, 1899, to ana
Including December 81, 1900. The larger
mart of these motions were in regard to
the mining litigation in the county or
Silver Bow in which Mr.. Helnze IS
directly concerned. If it had not been
for this litigation, there would nave
been no congested condition OF the
supreme court calendar: there Woulo
have been no necessity Tor even SUI
prenle court commission.
The bill providing for a supreme court
commission is commonly admitted to
he a good one and deserves to become
a law. With the assistance such COM
mission could render the supreme court
calendar would soon be clear. III Mr.
Heinze should ever leave the state, TAX
ing along enough money 10 keep MINI
self out Of debt and out OF the poor
house. as he smilingly said he could 40
in his campaign speech delivered at the
Auditorium in Butte, the calendar
would not again be crowded and even
commission would be a judicial orna-
ment.
behind this bill providing for two new
justices of the supreme court the leeis-
lators may sniff the fumes emanating
from the smelter of the Montana Ore
Purchasing company. The course OF
the bill is marked by strains of music
from a choir invisible. and through 1t
all is heard the diapason produced by
Aeolus at work on populistic whiskers.
This supreme court bill and the anx-
iety of Mr. Heinze to force senatorial
honors on Joseph X. Toole. are the out
ward evidences of an inner colliholloA
Desnite the governors habit OF refus-
ing a nomination.. he might accept 1t.
and with him in Washington, the path
way would be clear. The red lantern
of danger to Mr.. Heinze and his LOOK
ing-glass could then be cast INTO the
ditch of the dead past and buried under
numberless bottles. whose h1e-ploou
noured out when the cork was rudely
handled.
The friends of Lieutenant Governor
Frank G. Higgins resent the innuendo
cast on him with a deal of asperity
They declare that he has always shown
himself to be a man of honesty and
integrity. a man who will not knowing
ly be come the tool of any man or OF
any corporation, and that If Mr.. Helnze
relies upon Higgins to appoint friendly
supreme court justices. in case the OIL
passes the legislature and GOV. Toole
goes to the senate, he will find out that
he has reckoned with the wrong kind
of man.
1t appears that Governor Toole has
made mistake in the appointment or
Judson A. Ferguson to the position or
commissioner of agriculture, labor ana
industry. Everybody expected, in view
of Dan McDonald's devotion to the
cause of the fusionists and the prom
nent part he took in the late election,
so far as the forces OF labor We're con-
cerned. that he would naturally be
given this plum from the political tree.
1t is said however, that Governor Toole
did not believe Mcdonald exercised
enough influence with his brethren In
| the ranks of labor, and appointed Fer
/ guson because it was thought that he
could Zine up the labor delegates
| TO the present legislature for the gov
ernor for senator. Many here declare
I that in view of Mr.. FergusOns conduct
in withdra wing from the race for the
| sovernorship ten days prior to the last
election he forfeited all claims to con-
, sideration at their hands and could not
receive a complimentary vote for any
/ thing whatever at the present time in
! any labor union in the state of Mon
| tana. If these statements are true.
| Governor Toole has at once exposed his
| hand and made very serious blunder.
| But if he didn't blunder occasionally
he wouldn't be fusionist. Once IA
| milar with her bewhiskered face" etc.
| that explains it.
The friends of II. l.. Frank beneVe