The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1925-06-05

When Shelton retired it was found
that he left his department in much
the same position as his friends, the
bankers, left the banks. He drained
the department to its last cent for
expenses. About the list OF April he
took his chief assistant on trip to
Kalispell, Poison and Roman. Re-
ports from Poison on April 18th were
to the effect that Mr.. Shelton and Mr..
Kleve were that evening leaving for
the Dixon ranch where they both in
tended to spend Sunday. The Dixon
ranch, owned by the former Governor,
who made more money out of politics
than any other living Montana poll
tician, is a pleasant place to spend
the week end.
TAXPAYERS PAY WHILE
SHELTON FEASTS WITH JOE
We do not think that Gov. Dixon
would charge men who were So faith
full to him while in office for their
Board and lodging. If he did not and
Kleve and Shelton enjoyed his hospi-
tally than the taxpayers were stung.
Because Mr. Shelton and Mr.. Kleve
turned in their bills for April the Is
and 18th, the days they spent with
Mr. Dixon for board and lodging. 1t
is unthinkable that Mr.. Dixon would
have charged his guests $1.50 for
Sunday dinner yet that Is the sum
carefully noted on the expense ac-
count turned in by the redOubtable
pair.
KLEVE PULLS
DOWN THE DOUGH
1t is a very profitable trip for Mr..
Kleve and proves that holding down
a bank examiners job IS more pro-
ftable than turning sod on a dryland
farm or working in a shop.
He spent Sunday with the pleasant
Mr.. Dixon and the state paid him
$40 for transporting himself in his
own car to the scene of his vacation.
Not only that but the state paid him
$40 more for hauling Mr.. Shelton
along with him. Had Kleve made the
trip alone he would have charged the
state $40 for the use of his car. II
being more pleasant (and more pro
fitable) he took the boss along and
the state paid him $40 for transport
ing the boss and $40 for transporting
himself Not a bad deal for Kleve.
KLEVE WANTS TO STAY
ON PAYROLL
Like many other taxeaters in the
state capitol who spent lot of time
mahgning the farmer-labro party last
fall, Mr.. Kleve wants to stay on the
payroll If there is any place the
Governor should make a clean SWEEP
it is in the banking department. The
re-appOintment of the acquisitive Mr.
Kleve, or any of his copartners
would not go down well with the de
POSTERS of the state, who were robbed
by sourfaced bandits from benin,
bank wickets.
BANKERS
HAVE GALL
But the bankers have unlimitet
gall. They are liable to ask for any
thing. AS an evidence of their nerve
fs read a recent issue OF the Montan
Banker They there ask that tn
Code Commission, created by the re
cent session of the legislature to sub
nit a code of banking laws to tn
next legislature, should be manned b
bankers. If the inmates of Dee
Lodge penitentiary asked that tn
warden and the guards should be re
moved and the care of the prise
turned over to them, it wcCld be 0
a par with this audacious request.
the Governor was foolish enough t
appoint even one of the tribe VIII
looted the banks of the state on tn
important body he would hide b
face for the remainder of his ter
from the people who were robbed.
IF THE STATE CAPITOL
WAS NOT TIED DOWN.
Besides leaving the Banking d
partment fiat the old state house gar
got away with nearly everything
sight. If the State Capitol were
break loose from its mornings,
some sudden twist of fate, it won
be carried away by its inhabitants
four years past. Like birds who ha'
warmed their nest the state hou
employees hate to leave the big bull
ing with its copper dome behI
them. By hook or crook some
them manage to stay with the shi
For instance there is A. J. Violet
who fed at the public trough as
member of the Tax Commission du
ing the Dixon administration. I
landed a soft job as inheritance t;
attorney at $4,000 per month.
V. Bailey has been given a hando
of three hundred and fifty a mon
as land appraiser after drawing doy
a fat salary as Register of Sta
lands for the past four years. L