Yellowstone monitor. [volume] (Glendive, Mont.) 1905-1928, 1913-11-20

reverse is true on the banks of an
otner rather notable stream, to-wit
the Potomac. All is serene here
forsooth the insurgency of few
democratic members of the senate
and the tortuous progress of the
Glass money bill have created 8
ripple here and there on the placiC
waters of our contentment. Weary.
ing with the entire lack of progress
which the senate banking committee
was making with the money bill
some administration senators circu.
lated petition for a democratic
conference which is society name
for caucus. Some people who are
naturally suspicious said that Mr..
/, Wilson who resides in large white
building of conspicuous proportions
here in Washington was not wholly
ignorant Cf the purpose to call such
a conference or caucus; on the con-
trary that it was done with his entire
assent and accord if not actually at
his suggestion. Mr.. Wilson wants
that bill passed at this session and
what Mr.. Wilson wants he wants but
| have grave doubts about his get
ting this particular want despite the
acknowledged fact that he is some
getter. However that may be, the
conference, which was held this
afternoon, and at which, | am just
informed, nothing was done, will
nevertheless, have some effect.
Unless | miss my best guess, it is
going to cause the democratic men,
of the banking and currency COM
mittee of the senate to quit their
squabblipg and make a noise like
getting together to the end that a
bill which will meet the approval of
the President may be reported out
instanter, or sooner. Of course, it
is long ways from a law even after
the committee reports, for with less
than three weeks of the present
session remaining, one senator, if he
happens to take the notion. can talk
the session to death and throw the
bill over into the regular session
which will begin the morning after
the special session ends.
Former Governar Norris of Mon
tana spent several days in Washing
ton last week and his visit recalls
that he came mighty near being
resident Of Washington beginning
with the fourth day of last March.
1t was toss up with the President
for several weeks following election
as to whether he would make Norris
or Franklin K. Lane his secretary of
the interior but, at the last moment,
the scales tipped toward the rotund
Californian and he was tagged.
Governor Norris was not especially
agitated over the situation at any
stage of the proceedings, He would
pro baby have accepted the place
had it been rendered for the reason
that mighty few men in this country
make practice Of tossing cabinet
positions over their left shoulders.
but as he walked past the big inter-
ior department building the other
day, observed the streams of people
surging in to see the Secretary
about irrigation projects. public
land matters in all of their Infinite
ramifcatins, Indian affairs, pensions.
patronage and the thousand and one
other matters which comes within
the purview of this greatest OF all
the governmental departments ana
then remembered that Lane, who
looks to be pretty robust specimen
of physical manhood, has broken
down once or twice beneath the
great burden of work of responsible
ity, he rather fervently thanked his
lucky star that the scales tipped as
they did. Had he been chosen.
both the Governor and his state
would have been signally honored
but, at the end Of four years, ne
would have gone forth from that Dig
building several thousand dollars
worse off arc about ten years o'uef
than he Will be after running his
own business out in the best country
in the world for the same length OF
time Congressman Tom Stout.
Now is the time to bring IN your
pillow work. We make any KIND Ct
plow lays to fit any kind of plow. =.