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Show The Meeting of Governors. L AST WEEK'S meeting of governors, govern-ors, in the city1 of Helena, resulted result-ed in making more of a stir in the business worldt than . mcst people had supposed it would, according to the Anaconda Standard. . The popular anticipation an-ticipation had been that these governors, govern-ors, representative of northwest states, would meet, exchange courtesies, have a good time and, conclude , to, differ witn .Governor VanSnt totally,-., or disagree with him ' respecting' some of the' vital parts of his programme, or otherwise deal with the Hill merger in such a manner as. to ' make' their meeting a Colorless session and their conference quite harmless. " It transpired that the assembled governors took up In a seri-! seri-! ous spirit the important question that was the cause of bringing them together. togeth-er. They did not disagree at essential points; on the 'contrary; they were fully in accord as to' the main issue and they so declared themselves, permitting permit-ting the press dispatches to inform the country to that effect. The New Yorkers York-ers who were disposed at first to sneer at the conference, when it was proposed, pro-posed, are described in some of last week's dispatches as taking a more sober view of the situation. It was given out in behalf of Mr. Hill that the opposition of Governor Van Sant was prompted by personal motives and by a desire to make political capital. It is not easy to make that allegation spread over all the governors who conferred In Helena the Hill people cannot now make their frivolous reference to the Minnesota governor go around so as to let it impugn successfully the motives of four governors. In any event, several sev-eral new forces are enlisted, on one 'side or the other, as the result of the action taken at' Helena and, despite of the transaction in New York in the retirement re-tirement of the Northern Pacific's preferred pre-ferred stock. President Hill ia lilrelv in realize that .several people are out for his merger scalp.; ' |