The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-02-15
THEY HAVE KISSED

hut now it is ali over and the Governor has Come into
We know only by gossip how peace effected but it
evidently has been accomplished Il II ever was any + for or
fight how the Governor got what ne was hanging OUT "
whether the Company Won !, ,,, Tho Rec r
ord Herald and the Helena Independent have not caea J
er liar whole mOnth-there VIII Oh course 9G Tom and
n now and then the benefit of the public FRED hanson anu
Mrs Facey but the general policy OF the papers WIN iO
0 be identical ~. it, ~ bod anv Doubt about the '
sincerity of Joe Dixon need entertain 1t no ongeIoe;
is ushe now just as he was when ne Was % peIsinS
the League farmers of being free lovers fret and last and
81 tho ,a His mouthings about the Copper Company the pc
danoned lobby and dodgers SO much dust IOr W
OF the When this writer first went Senate he was warned
by Sem J. Anderson Of Rchland county 10 put no He
nixon "Dixon" said Anderson, rs playing a galne a,,,o
= f He does not gethrough single measure
only wants to make himself SOo m bd get the program
through he would have issue to go before ee
senate he will Immediately antagOnze that body N olaer 70 M
sure Of his program goes G4aGug d f5 neope
WIZ - Every word Of the prophecy Of Sent Anderson came U
last season TG the COMPANY He then denounced the Senate
Fvarv act was SUBTLE the work OF a MASTER ~ lin II
Hack art the people betrayed again and again. 9u sun fact
J That Dixon might be IN spite OIL ue Lac
6a his cohorts in the house defeated every piece o. @
f and any legislation calculated to require the
telegraph and telephone company to pay taxes was
by spite Of the fact that the state going into the hoe
;ion dollars a wear, and is S45OOO0O IN Ghe Ieu"
% ni did not make gesture provide any further ieve
nues outside of his fem against the nome Of the
Company ana @ make the Copper interests pay their taxes
became @ Income Tax Law was killed the House. where Dixon
was in control The Inheritance Tax Ia" IS no"
again Pg nsed Of providing for revenues Gov Dxons friends
passed bill providing for the raising Oh I IN @ cent ne an
wan md Gov Dixon who could have vetoed the pill slgneu IL
thus with the stroke OF ms PEN oig roxmatey $9OO0O
INC The new printing which compelled the eII I ot
itino F. the lowest bidder, which law would nave say -
t taxpavers Of the half million doas PEI f ana
let die for the want Of his signature without "OiO "
So much for the old session .4.nd NAV for economy
Then her after ag on percentage basis which the Su
irene court declared illegal and helq O a an extra session
bills entirely, Gov Dixon was conpeAeu " ~
OF the IGg Id This reluctantly and alphabetically o
The Legislature assembled january 1An" " 'p
session Di in his call limited the subjects OF egsa5o
10Y p f importation bills and validating the mvanoa
ed warrants .ol;ro the legislature was of necessi
d The economy talk a red herring IL cost LIE So0
no more this time to pass the necesy 5cit now amour
i to about four onehalf million doIars au + loo"
n+ tn over five and Onehalf million dollars before C rs Il
again than the 1925 regular session. ao9 9G on6
BUDGET could be made to balance the huge sun = T
wear in interest charges alone could be aOosn erl
The legislature was assembled, the time was IayoIOei
senator's and representatives had just come from nome %ee
notica ambitions the future, with the election cOlg
Gov Dixon in complete GontLO ~ h subjects as he 81
the special session, which only handed suc o1ar
t+g to the body: the time was and pIooaOy never
he AGAIN so favorable to the putting through Of e
cram victory and triumph was his hands ana oS qn 6
astue politician well knew It, ana Joe IN him nv an econo
people VINO mao session message by failure to act wi
victory assured. ,.4 4
The bio interests of this state were scared WHITE
1 that Dixon could do as he wshed-hey scared
he would The psychological moment had arrived TO n
tbo Anaconda Copper Mining Company the Montana Power
nanv the railroad telegraph companies pay their JUST 81
If taxes of the state the time ready to put over the
come tax and inheritance tax but Joe Dixon ala not SUI
the subject of revenues to the legislators
What did Joe Dixon do?
He apparently made deal with the big interests OF
state not to submit measures but to short ses
in the interest of economy.
When the legislature met, every one of the bediam
lobby was present every talking and urging short
sion ass the appropriation and home was on