The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-11-08
Entered at the Billings Postofhce as Second
Glass Matter.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1901.
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C1S1A PAk LIZ oAAN S
high motives that prompted them to
make the offer, Governor Toole has
decided not to avail himself of their
generous tender of free services to
the state and will not call the mem
bers of the legislature to onven in
extraordinary session. His excellency
has arrived at this conclusion after
carefully and calmly studying the sit
uation and does not wish his refusal
to accept their services to be constru-
ed as intending to convey any slight,
or that it is prompted by any fear that
that it is prompted by any fear that
once assembled they would insist on
doing more than merely passing IN
appropriation bill to enable the state
to make a display at st. Louis. His
reason is altogether different. He
thinks Montana is not situated finan-
cially so that she may undertake the
thing without seriously inconvenience
ing herself. Plainly put, Governor
lOUlb ID vi tiS UCllCL ILoL e1S tSloeS
cannot afford it at this time. He
says it would compel incurment Of an
Indebtedness for which no compensat
ing offset could be shown. With pen
Gil and paper he has been doing a lit
tie figuring and finds that even by
allowing an increase of $1,000, 900 in
81 :, 1-o1,- re oil - xo Al rs~
erty in the state for 1902 there will
still be a deficit of about $33, 900,
which, of course, means a debt of that
amount. He is not willing to add to
this debt at the present time and
therefore will wait until the legisla-
ture meets in regular session, in 1903,
and if it wishes to assume the respon-
sibility for a debt that is it's affair,
but just now the governor does not
feel like assuming the responsibility
on his own shoulders.
While opposed, for good reasons, to
anything that would add to the states
liabilities at this time, he is yet IA
vorably disposed to the proposition of
an exhibit and intends to try a plan
he has been formulating by which he
hopes the needed money may be rails
ed for the initial work and thinks the
legislature of 1908 will vote enough
to pay the rest Of the expense neces.
sary for a creditable display.
He has concluded to appoint an
honorary commission to devise ways
and mean and to undertake the pre-.
liminary work Of preparing for an
exhibit. In the meantime he hopes
the well-to-do and liberal men of the
state will be affected by the example
of Senator Clark and loosen the
strings of their purses to the extent
of making donations in proportion to
heir means. The governor takes it
for granted that the senator still ad
heres to his purpose of sometime age
and will give the $4,000 he promised
With this amour as a starter he
thinks it should not prove overly
hard to raise about $4,000 more
which he intimates is about all tina,
would be required as a start. The
legislature would probably give tina,
much more, making a total Of $50, OOf
an amount which in his judgmen'
would be ''ample in proportion to oul
population and the benefits to be de
rived" Another little scheme which
the governor is disposed to regard al
effective would be to strike off medal:
commemorative of the event to b.
celebrated and these could be solt
and thus be the cause of a consider
able sum of money being added to tn.
subscriptions he thinks can be col
lected.
The modest sum set by the gov
ernor as being, in his opinion, ampl,
to defray the cost of an exhibit 81,
proportion to our population and tn,
benefits to be derived" must prov,
q SUNRISE to the gentlemen who hav'
been talking of amounts running int,
hundreds of thousands of dollars a
absolutely necessary for any sort O
an exhibit calculated in the least t
do justice to the state. The Gazette
on the other hand, feels that the gov
ernor is right and takes his state
ment as an endorsement of the atti
tude it has pursued on the same sub
jectE ever since the matter of partici
patton in the exposition has beel
preached. Fifty thousand dollars j
AL that should be required. Thi
amount 5ndiciously and honestly Ell
pended would make IN exhibit tina