The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-10-26
Il, Sen TOR Wheeler!''
citizen of Billings by
We print below, a
Senator Wheeler:

Landa md Livestock
Hedden Building
Billings Montana.
My Dear
whether you whether
you realize that
Walsh when he was in the
irrigation reclamation projects for Montana than
a Of interior and talk him and we could go
committee of the senate our influence in the senate IN
gettng
interested flood control
position much
done as she is at the present time Likewise wonder you iea M
corporation as set up would have complete control OF all the
take from condemn irrigation streams would
reclamation projects and could take over In
dian forestry service everything coming
the people who represent would have go to some cor
poraton ,,s
everybody wanted them kind salary and would
complete Montana
It impossible for me to believe that intelligent person wants
them such absolute control
people Montana this corporation would do
know stated that the Montana Power opposed to
They mentioned
to But do know that the people who are more than any
body else the CLIO organization and the more ultra radical group
Union know those people who had the
the Montana but going to turn
them over to this corporation and let them say whether was best Tor
that the waters should be used for navigation and they
would
channels
attention the fact that the spends millions
dollars first in widening deepening the channels of
them the people who benefit
escpng upon their barges and boats Their ghof
the of the government They
with the railroads but they taxes and they charge the
the freight shipped the railroad In
the they make they do not pass on the cnsu
public but they stick it in their pockets
the Of producing cheap in eastern Montana SO that
land Montana and part of western North
power plant they did
they only put Of what they could put in and in addition to that they
Montana Dakota Power company rather than to
sell for the of what had intended and which
understood intended
my the
United States build the power plant at Poison tried under the
the Montana Power
power
royalty power addition,
nsh the White settlers cheaper than furnished any place
Holding bill which
Neeley who supposedly great
Bankhad and many Of the other soed New as wen nv
the senate for the past 20 years
through and got through confer
told would have to take 1t
give in to the people because couldn't
It passed SO my opposition to cannot be attributed 70 m
regardless of anything that may have been put out
My have been in Montana
these converts who have come
they think it is popular
the bill and do not
listening propaganda put out by
interested Montana but interested in jobs for
themselves and who want to have everything controlled by the
bureaucracy RECOMMENDATION
known state the Union The bill hasn't chance in the
the United but think all of these
letter. they
should be oodnaed one OF the departments of the government
corporation that organized down in Delaware and
headed cacpot economist lawyer from ar
With best wishes
Sincerely
(Signed B. K. WHEELER
If this the only letter written by the senator this ven
might ignored considered merely the
of of politician fearful of losing his job
who felt himself slipping and because of that losing
lch of judgment he might otherwise possess
informed that other citizens in the state are
ecpens of similar masterpieces This being the case the
atemens by the SENATOR call for analysis They
lust be considered outlining the platform which he will
eek reelection next year.
Most noticeable in the phoostac copy of the letter which
before the featured pronoun ~ with which seven
the paragraphs of the letter begin These paragraphs imply
lat the man whom he is writing is totally devoid of
nowledge understanding and the senator sets himself
business instructor of Mr. Wight in what he asserts
dangers the proposed MVA bill That he makes state
tents which shall be temperate, and call merely wrong
ppareny bother the senator in the least Moreover
he convinced that the to whom he writing
cks understanding, he apparently usfes himself by con-
udng that statements coming from the Il Senator Wheel
- source, should not be questioned.
paragraph of the letter. Senator Wheeler ques
ons whether Wight has read the MVA BILL He then wan
off that subject and losses bouquets at himself and the
tie Senator Walsh These seonrbuted verbal garands ap
somehow to be irrelevant to the question posed IN the first