The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-01-27
Power Lobbyists DOwncast

Power Lobbyists DOWncaSt
The protest, which contains nine
pages of legal cap is accompanied bv
two lengthy exhibits one of which is
an engineers report on the water lev
els of Flathead Lake, brought sharply
to the attention of senators the fact
that an effort was being made to
put something over on the senate.
It called attention to a clause of the
appropriation bill which would grant
the power to body of three men to
lease an important water sight to
private interests. The innocent look
ing clause or "joker" in the bill is
now exposed and representatives of
the Montana Power Company here
have not the confident appearance
they had a week ago.
The fact that the clause which was
50 Skillfully hidden amongst a score
Of items in the appropriation bill has
now been forced into the spotlight of
attention by the Wallace protest has
worried the two Montana senators
also They will now be forced to take
stand one way or the other. Sena-
tor Walsh is placed in a peculiarly
embarrassing position by the fact that
he is fathering public utility probe.
hCgreSSlve senator's, who have been
talked to" by Wallace are already
asking the Junior Senator from Mon
lana how he can justify his attack on
PUBLIC utilities in other state while he
Is allowing the biggest utility com
pany IN his own state to grab this
site. Wills
Wheeler Hearing From Home
Senator Wheeler is hearing from
nome. he Is being told that the Pro-
uucefS News has spread the facts in
every part of the state and that if
ne does not oppose this steal that his
appearance on the stump in Montana
UnlS summer will not be so very pleas
ant his recent visit to New York
was SAID to be chiefly to lay these un-
peasant fact before Mr.. Con Kelly in
ge nope that he could be allowedd to
pace himself in some sort of a DO
auon that would convince the people
a. az nome that he was not a tool of the
Montana Power Company.
" Is reported that Mr.. Kelly fig
WS WeS that if Senators Wheeler and
WALSH say nothing when the bill
.ulnes INTO the senate that other pro-
SS.eSSlVe senator's will not oppose it
UCduse OF the customs of senator's
IU. 10 interfere in matters in the
foa4 fol.e states Of other senators. The
Sora. Sav's are now so we'll known that
ISa"IorS Io Walsh and Wheeler would
sto.o S@S eaSte with other progressive SEN
f.oIS' f. who have heard about this bill
mOn y ~ progressive Farmers Councils
oppose the bill. '0' '-0 io'
n, ra'"ead Farmers Worry Senators
maaI nle arrival Of Lieut.. Gov. McCor-
.na"a ,,aCA and W. F. Jellison to oppose the
piT;sSage OF the bill has further COM
b1'aIea r. matters. They are expected
ON appear ap before the sub committee
will 'lgIpIopnatiOns lI this week. They
will SHOW snow how the raising of the lake
of oS;e GauSe damage to the homesteads
poToJ 1uJacent settlers. The Montana
hi" tbi"eI company lobbyists are meeting
~n viii argument by saving that tbe lake
DO apC DO' RAISE the levels sufficient to
any damage to lands.
nj "alace's Protest
te.t t"e s.1 following is a copy of the pro-
'''eu today by Mr.. Wallace:
oTo ~ Copy.
h 10 the Chairman and members o+
6on, 0 senate Committee on Appronria.
GepadOf Gent IOf the Interior Department
b.t ! desire to call your attention +,
Hat Paragraph entitled ed aF1ofbend FIefboi0H Tx u
with iiIolect, Montana" beginninf
line a Li.e ne Il page 80 and ending witt
fore roig page 80 of H. r. 9136 now be
Won roo your committee to the end tha-
6on nlay give it your earnest atfen
herewith. 'iie IacVs IN connection
Passed 'Ie l., paragraph referred to wer,
autbor;4o r o' the Senate it would DIV,
FederaiI' n 70 three men sitting on tn,
to nriUo4r iUa rover Commission to Ieas
Years r'dye a. interests for term of fift,
Sites Sites n Ine most valuable six Il y nowe oI
Il wo,,Iy NOW IN possession of the nation
IN fUula fSo I. mean that the largest roe ''iiIl lax
used ss state of Montana would b
the doS,a az storage reservoir hack y
Comnan,I.S which the Montana Powe
ROctu and its subsidiary th
pro,ay Mountain \ Power Co..,..- -
head Lato construct; I that this Flat
long and JHf, !; Which is thirty-five mile
dOnal Pori Il contiguous to Glacier Ne
raised bV % n n would have its Level
PROPERTY ~ .ne proposed dams so ths
aged to tbo III lts shores would be dan
dollars sooo,'3. '.,e extent Of fifteen millio
competeSStf according to report by
Of the fa,0,sg far engineer; that the home
the sbosaorme and townspeonle aIon