The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-02-24
|Scobey Hardware Burns With $6O,OOO Loss
Plans Test PentywoodR Redsone Oil Structure Take Definite Form
Wheeler and Walsh Put Poison PorUcr Steal Thru
Senate OUer Resistance of Senator LaFoLZeHc
Special to Producers News.


Butte, Montana, February 22nd.-
The Montana Power ably assisted
by the powerful lobby of the Stand
ard Oil Company and the AnacOn-
da Copper Company put over the
gigantic steal of the Flathead Pow
er site. Monday, when the senate
ratified the work of the conference
committee in restoring that section
to the Interior Appropriation bill
which was eliminated from that bill
through the activities of the pro-
gressiVe members of the senate of
both parties under the able leader
ship OF Senators LaFOllette of Wis
cOrsin, Frazier of North Dakota,
and Norris of Nebraska over the
protest of such men as Wheeler and
Walsh of Montana, who are known
in Washington as Standard Oil and
Anaconda Copper Mines senators.
some times posing for political pur-
poses as prOgressives, last week.
However Senators Wheeler and
Walsh, thought it is reported acted
reluctantly at the crack of the whip
of the Montana Power Company
managed to send the matter into
conference and secure the appoint
ment of a conference committee.
The conference committee restOr-
ed the deleted clause and the bill
came again. before the senate for
ratification of the report of the
conference committee. Here again
Senators LaFOllette and Frazier
fought the ratification with their
backs to the wall, ably assisted by
Norris of Nebraska and Nye of
North Dakota, but the Montana
Copper senators with the aid of the
wire pulling by the great power
and mining interests, were able TO
get the bill thru the senate i'm the
behalf of their Montana masters.
The bill now goes to the house of
representatives for ratification
where another fight will be made
against this iniquity. Efforts will
also be made to induce the president
to veto it.
Prominent stockholders of the
Montana Power, OF Butte, however
report that Frank Kerr had great
difficulty in lining up the Montana
senators for this bill as it means
political death for them.
If the bill is passed it will near
a present to the Montana Power
equal if not greater than the gift
of the Teapot Dome to the Sinclair
Dohney oil interests, and makes the
Montana senators, who have carried
on the Teapot Dome investigation
ridiculous in the eyes of the nation
1t is reported in Butte that this un
masking of the Montana senators i!
one of the greatest manifestation.
of prOprietOrship in United State,
Senators and deneuments ever Oc
curing in the history of the Unite,
States senate. Walsh and WheeIe
were led up to slaughter in behaL
of the Montana Copper interest il
spite of their pitiful protests an,
walls
The open support of the POIsOl
power site steals by Wheeler an.
Walsh as predicted by the PrOduc
ers News has resulted in astOnisl
ment and complete disiIlusiOnmen
to thousands of previously arden
supporters of the Montana senator
and a state wide prestige for tha
paper.
1t is said that even the lips O
I'D. Manson, former secretary o
the Montana State Federation O
Labor and editor of the PRACTICAL
defunct Searchlight, a paper finanC
ed by Senator Wheeler are sealed.