The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-08-30

his views of the matter, pilY"seis'
tho senators who are to attempt W
sneak for the administration IN the
committee. But it is likely tfiaC III
will let the senate discover, from
frs5-hand testimony by federal trS'oe
representatives and by the chicago
hacking barons, how serious oal-
DOR to, the allied cause is the pach-
ers' combination in control Oh Tic
allies meat supplies.
PRESIDENT FIGHTS DAM LEASE
President Wilson let it be known
through Congressman Scott Ferns o.
Oklahoma, that he is opposed TO the
clause in the present waterpoWef OH
that would force the public to pay
! an exorbitant price to regain controi
If waterpower sites leased to private
corporations by the government.
The bill, as now written, provides
for 5O-year leases, with provision
that these leases could be repur-
chased at the end of that time by
paving the original investment OF the
private corporation.
"The president feels. as | do, that
the public should be forced to pay
only actual value and not the origin
al investment" said Ferris. "He will
also fight to force corporations with
waterpower leases to show why their
| leases should be continued at the end
of the 5O-year period, instead OF fore
ing the federal government to show
why the leases should not be con-
; tinued."
J MISTREAT THE SUFFRAGIST
The suffragists, who have been
holding meetings at the foot of the
: statutes to Lafayette and Rocham-
beau, in the little park opposite the
: White House, have succeeded in the
: one thing they set out to accomplish.
They have made the whole country
) realize that the senate is still block
: ing the suffrage amendment, and
that personal letters from the presi-
: dent to two OF three members of the
e senate have not assured the passage
! of the amendment when congress re-
sumes regular work.
e Anyhow, these women of the Ma
tional Woman's party have been ar
e rested four times within a few
. days. They are arrested after they
: start making speeches they ride to
e police headquarters; they are held :
e few minutes or few hours; they &c
5, free; then they go back to their
: headquarters and discuss plans fol-
= another meeting Finally rs were
) sent to Jail for from five to Is days
It A lot of the biggest policemen grab
It bed the. girls in an effort to teal
their bows of ribbon, in the suffrage
y colors, from their shoulders. Severa
! of the girls We're hurt in the tussle
i. One policement broke a girls finger
! Another twisted the wrist of a CIR
~ until she had to be taken to a sur
= geon to see whether the bones wer
Id broken.
L. d.. Sarah Loclzrey, OF Philadelphia
IL paid her fine at the Jail and was re
O. leased. She is a surgeon and is tax
is ing the place Of several doctors VIII
have gone to France with the army
On On account Of having to perform tw
T. operations N Philadelphia the mex
r. day she asked that she might pay he
he fine and be released.
Ike THE PEOPLE CHOOSE
j. The presidents action in regard
al, congressional election indicates ths
IL in some instances he has been mi.
o. led. In opposing the denomination
Sc Representative Huddleston, the a,
ministration might have conferre
the Office on the corporation gan
IS represented by Underwood. The Al;
p bama Power company, whose bittt
DIS enemy Huddieston had been for mar
e. years, hoped for his. defeat. II
he young labor movement in the Birr
he .ngham steel and coal region and Il
he farmers prevented this mistake.
re- The president, many here feel, CT
" not know local conditions in stat
ed far from Washington well enough
ort choose congressman with the best