The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1927-05-27

been rewarded with a million dol
lar check, but you can take that
report with a grain of salt, divide
the sum by 100 and be carer the
truth.
Agitation in the peninsula state
of Florida for a division of that
commonwealth will serve as well
as anything else for an excuse
for a reminder that there was
once a state in the Union for
which no star adorns the field of
blue in the American flag.
Biographies do not include it in
our maps, nor is any question of
it to be found in Il histories.
The lost commonwealth was once
known as the State of Franklin,
and covered much the same terri
tory embraced by the boundaries
of Tennessee today.
In 1885, this writer is informed,
Colonel John Sewer organized a
state, through an alliance with
Georgia, with the city of Green
vile as the capital. The new
state had the friendship of Benja-
min Franklin, and took his name.
This state had a brief and storm
existence, fading out of being to
become the state of Tennessee
with Colonel Sewer as the first
governor.
In Washington it is under
stood that the Miami Chamber of
Commerce is one of the impor-
tant factors seeking a division,
and information as to the proper
procedure for the division. 1t
would seem there is really little
precedent for such action. Certain
ly it is not to be found in the Gre
alton of the states of North Dako-
ia and South Dakota, for the ter
ritory of the DakotaS was divided
before the states were admitted
to the Union. A possible proce-
dure would be for the State Legis-
lature of Florida to petition Con-
gress for the division, having first
agreed as to the boundary lines,
the division of property, refund
ing of the public debt, and a
myriad number of other matters.
Congress then would act ON the
petition. Among the politically
minded one of the primary con
siderations would be the fact that
the Senate would be increased by
two members, both of them pro
badly Democratic. Congress, you
may tell Florida, will decide to
worry along for a while with a
membership of 96 Senators.
A military aspect is given the
transportation of currency be-
tween the Department of the
Treasury Building and the Bureau
of Printing and Engraving by the
purchase of two heavily armored
trucks recently put into operation.
Features of the new equipment
include bullet proof windshields,
while on the sides are specially
constructed turrets through which
guards may fire in safety to them
selves. The trucks are steel plated
from top to bottom and are sup
posed to be absolutely bullet
proof, though none of u best
bandits have as yet had the te-
merity 10 make a test of the
claims. They are, in fact, port
able vaults, which the govern
ment Uses daily to transport ap-
proximately s8. 1000, 900 in currency
to say nothing of the bonds and
securities that value about $4,000
900
How much of an issue will be
the third term question if Presi-
dent Coolidge decides, as many
believe lie has, to become a can
didate again for the high office he
now holds? Such a question is
almost idle to ask, since any one
with an answer to it that would
impart the Information to the Re
publican party could name virtual
ly any political plum within the
gift Of the people, so to speak.
Both parties are embarrassed to
almost an identical degree, the
Republican, as suggested above,
while the Democrats are specuiat-