The producers news., 1925-04-10
Vain Effort to Saddle State
With Increased Indebtedness
Continued from Page One)


also, the sO-called company repubH-
cans.
The only excitement, after the
Farmer-LabOr bills, the Bank Guar
antee Act, the Eight Per Cent Inter
est act, the Act to Repeal the Sedi-
ton Laws and the other Inquisition
Acts, the Property Classification Act.
and the Act to abolish the useless and
obsolete Railroad Commission which
costs the taxpayers $4,000 per wear.
the Farm Labor Lien Law and the
Antl-Dlscrimination Laws had been
murdered, were over the, appropria-
/ ton measures.
1hefe were no new revenue meas
ures proposed this session. The sol
ons seemed to be satisfied to pet
along on the flow of gold now coming
IN. Gov. Erickson having made a
campaign on the usual economy. plat-
Iorm, was and Is, it seems, anxious
to make good, and to wipe out the
94,OOO,OOO deficit and heritage Of
debt left by Joe Dixon as a monu-
ment to his general inefficiencv and
TO his administration. The Governor
wanted the appropriation pared down
70 the quick, and the revenues left
where they are, in order that he
mint make good In paying up that
mountain Of debt. Joe Dixon's outfit.
made up OF the element described
above, mostly members of the Ku
hlux Klan, or Of that complex. did
not want the Governor to make good
on his economy pledge and thew did
not want him to pay off the public
deOt or to reduce it one iota-for. in
the first place that would discredit
Dixon and the Dixon-Ianstr1n ma
c1lne permanently, rendering it i'm
possible to ever get back into Office:
! and IN the second place, the bankers.
al OF whom support the Dixon ma
chlne, make a lot Of money ont of
dlscountlng warrants and the inter-
est paid on warrants.
30 the DlXon-Lanstrum, small town
hu kIux Klan members Of the house
and sente, there were only a very few
IN the senate, set out to prevent the
reduction of appropriations, but rath-
er 70 increase them, and to reduce If
possible the revenues available ia
carry on the state. The leaders of the
house who lent themselves willingly
to these designs of the Dixon-Lan.
strum machine, leaders who were
made by the Dixon crowd because o1
their slavish adherence to that ma.
chine, were Ruffcorn of Valley, WoIC
OF Yellowstone, Hanson Of Daniel;
and couple cf other still lesser fry
The policy pursued was to keer
back the appropriation bills until tht
last minute and then to spring then
in the closing hours of the legisla.
ture. when the members were al
tired and anxious to get home anC
when the time was too short to give
them the consideration they should
receive on the floor of the house anc
then rush them through Although
the bills were introduced in plenty OF
time, and the committee on appropri
alton had completed its work, they
were not, as a part Of this cheap DO.
litical trickery, submitted to the
House until the latter days Of the
session although the House had haC
nothing before it for consideration
| for several days and was killing time
while the Senate had its state clear
and was recessing from hour to hour
Finally on the last day Of the ses
sion. the bills appropriating over 81,
millions Of dollars reached the Sen
ate, made in blanket form, in such
manner that the members Of tha
body could not consider the severa
items making up the lump appropria
tions. for the several institutions an
for the several departments Of state
The Senate at once decided that ]
would not accept anything Of the kin
and resented this insult to its right
and referred the bills to the Commit
tee on Finance and Claims whic
committee proceeded to go into thel