The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-06-09
WORLDS FAIR COMMISSION DULY
ORGANIZED.
LEE MANTLE is PRESIDENT
First Steps Taken by Board Who Will
Have Charge Of Montana's
Exhibit.

the Montana exhibit at the Louisiana
Purchase exposition was held and an
organization was perfected. The meet
ing was in pursuance to the call of
the governor and was held in the
gubernatorial reception room at the
capitol. Eleven of the Is members
, were present as follows: Paul Inc
| Cormick, Lee Mantle, H. i. Frank,
B. F. White, Martin Maginnis, G. w.
Hoffman, William Scallon, j. H. Rice,
G. J. Mcnamara, D. r. Peeler and
=. L. Greenough. The absentees were,
Dan Mcdonald, F. A. Heinze, Conrad
Kohrs and w. G. ConradA
A temporary organization was ef-
fected by the election Of Mr.. Mantle
as chairman and Mr. Mccormick as
secretary Call of the roll showed
those already named as present and
also the absentees. The permanent
organization was formed by the cleo
tion of Mr.. Mantle as president, Mr..
Maginnis, vice president, Mr.. McCor-
mick secretary and Mr.. HOFFMAN treas
urer.
Delegated With Full Power.
Mr.. Hoffman introduced the follow
ing resolution, which was adopted:
Resolved, That an executive com
mittee composed of six members, to-
wit: The president, vice president,
secretary, William Scallon, B. f.
White and H. L. Frank, be and the
same is hereby appointed with the
right to exercise all powers conferred
upon the commission by the act Great
ing it; said executive committee to
have full charge and direction of the
business of the commission, and un-
der the general direction of the com
mission"
Three members of the executive
committee constitute quorum
Assistant Secretary.
When the matter of appointing an
assistant secretary was taken up con-
siderable interest was manifested, as
the applicants for the position num-
bered more than dozen and repre-
sented almost every part of the state.
An informal ballot was taken with
the following result: CarWile, 1;
Cook, 1 Leggat, 5; Woodworth, /;
Skelly, 2; Barnes, /.
A formal vote was now taken and
Leggat was elected he receiving
votes, Cook, 1; Skelly, 1; Barnes, l.
On motion of Mr.. Mcnamara the
election of Leggat was made unan1-
nous.
The successful candidate is John B.
Leggat of Butte who mas been promi- I
nently identified with the mining in
dustry of that place and was formerly |
a resident of ST. Louis. His salary I
was fixed at $3.50 a month, pay to be-
gin whenever he is notified by the
COuMloSlOu CAdI LIS SOl WINS 0AS
needed.
Authority was given the executive
committee to prepare rules and regula-
tions for the government OF the COM
mission and it's employees the same
to: be submitted at the next regular
meeting of the commission, which is
to be held at Helena, June %.
For State Building.
The matter of state building was
discussed in detail and it was finally
decided that such structure should
be built at cost not to exceed $1S.-
900. It was voted to invite submis-
sion by the architects of the state of
plans and specifications, to be submit
ted at the next meeting of the COM
mission. AS compensation the archi-
tect whose plans are accepted is to
receive per cent of the estimated
cost of the building. He will be re-
quired to superintend construction
and also inspect all material used.
While it was not definitely decided
upon, it seemed that the general idea
OF the commissioners was that a
building modelled after the state capt.
tol should be erected. The desire is