The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-03-11

that Montana does not look with favor
upon the recent call of Governor Dixon
summoning the state legislature into
special session.
Among the newspapers of the state ,
which is most staunch in support of the
administration, we find the Helena
Record Herald (Republican) upholding
the hands of the Governor, stating the
course which the executive has chosen
to pursue, to be entirely in accord with
the wishes of the people, adding that
the state government i~mperatively
requires the laws which are asked.
The Montana Record Herald (Helena).
The Montana Record Herald, Il & =
! believes that a dispassionate public,
will agree that Governor Dixon's call
for an extraordinary session of the
legislature is fully justified. and that
he did not overstate the fact when he
said that the present acute financial
situation of the state government
imperatively requires laws hat the
Legislature in regular session failed
to pass. S * * We think the Cover
nor's position is unassailable. + * s.
Governor Dixon was by the people of
the state selected to head the state
government. He has taken full re-
sponsibility for the plan he RECON-
mends. * = K We fully think the peo-
pie will approve that course"
Among the other Republican news
papers which sanction the calling of
the special session, and the Governors
effort to bring about the passage of the
tax commission bill, is the Havre Pro-
moter, the editor of which expresses
the belief that the legislature failed
in, the allotted time to perform those
things which their constituents de-
manded.
The Daily Promoter (Havre)
'There was a vast amount of work
undone when the constitutional time
for expiration of the assembly ar
rived, work which the people of Mon
tana sent the members of the legiS-
lature to Helena to perform, and the
Governor has acted most wisely in
telling the Legislators to finish their
job. * r = In calling a special session
of legislature and in calling it i'm
mediately we believe that Joe Dixon
has acted in accordance wit the ideas
of a vast majority of Montanans."
The Whitefish Pilot, one of the
states few semi-weekly publications,
takes a stand with the Governor be-
cause, it deems that Especial interests
are opposing him.
The Pilot (Whitefish)
"* * + Governor Dixon has convened
an extraordinary session of the legis-
lature. * * His major contention is
that the legislature did not pass the
legislation needed to safeguard the
state the next two years. We are in
hearty accord with the Governor on
the proposition. We were for Dixon
last fall, and we are for Dixon now.
There are special interests in the
state that do not want a change in
the Constitution, who are fond of APP
pealing to the great work of the Fa-
theirs They are very jealous of any
changes in the taxation methods. =
4 * Joe Dixon is a real Governor; he
has no political future to worry
about; he can continue to do the work
of the people; he has a notable rec
ord behind him; he has real back
bone"
Not all Republican newspapers,
though, are looking with favor upon
Mr.. Dixon's action, for we find the
Muscular, published at Missoula, and
one of the leading Republican dailies
of the state, u~nalterably opposed to
Mr.. Dixon's attitude, and its editor
purports to show in several arguments
that the special session is an ill-timed
expense, and also infers that the chief
executive has over-stepped the Ameri-
can rights of the people to whom alone
the legislature is responsible.
The Muscular (Missoula)) Mar. 5
"a session of the legislature costs
the taxpayers of Montana something
like $4,000 a day. In the cause of
economy and retrenchment which
Governor Dixon advised in his mes
sage, we insist that in these times
only a very great emergency should
call for an extraordinary session.
The reasons assigned by the governor
in his message do not appeal to us
cluded a session of sixty days, or a
period wisely fixed by the constitu-
ton, and during that time passed
laws providing new and extraordin-
airy taxes which are certain to prove
most b~urdensome to the people. 4 * u
The Governor should be we'll salts
fed.
"We advise Governor Dixon to go
easy with the bull whip. The people
= are getting tired of hearing nothing
but taxes and more taxes at the
l Governors behest. + II + Meanwhile,
the Governor will do well to remem-
I her that the legislature is both a
: separate and coordinate branch of
the state government and is respon-
: sible to nobody but the people"
/ The Muscular (Missoula) Mar. 7.
"If the extra session prevails and
nothing results but a waste of the
taxpayers money, the responsibility
must rest with the Governor and not
with the Legislature or the people.
The accounting must come from the
northeast corner of the state house.
The Muscular (MissOula) March 8
eve find that the oldest friends
and well wishers of Governor Dixon
admit readily that he has worked
himself into a most awkward and
e difficult position. In his call for an
extra legislative session for the pur-
s pose of creating a tax commission,
| he has deliberately set his will
a against the will of the people, as eX-
a pressed at the November election. We
q do not think for a moment that such
accumntion Of authority will be toll