The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1920-02-27
BOND AND LEVY
TO AID SCHOOLS
EDUCATORS EXPLAIN PLAN TO
FURNISH MONEY FOR ExPAN.
SION or INSTITUTIONS
NEWS OF THE CAPITAL CITY
Supreme Court Rules That Primary
Amendment Is Not Emergency Law,
and Measure 10 Suspended to
Be Voted on by People

Observation-Disclosures of two measures.
one for a bond issue of $5.OOO.OOO and
the other for an annual state tax levy |
Of one and one-l,alf mills. to be levied |
during the next 10 years. as announc-
"a some time ago. Is proposed by the |
University of Montana. which includes |
the State university ut Missoula. the |
OF Mines at Butte, and the Normal
college at Dillon. Educators of the |
flute have been working on the plans |
Tor nearly year to establish q con. |
Htructive university policy for the state
The measures will be submitted ut the
next general election.
The bills. as submitted, provide for
$S,75O.00O for the higher state schools
and 81. 125. 900 for the deaf, dumb. blind
and feeble minded Mt Boulder, the state
orphans home Mt Twin Bridges, and
the Industrial schools at Miles City
and Helena.
Initiation of the measures was final
" decided upon at meeting in Butte
Of Chancellor f. G. Elliott and the
executive officers of the state schools.
including Acting President Secheuch
of Missoula. President Atkinson OF
Bozeman, President Sheldon Il. Davis
Of the normal school. President c. H.
Clapp of the School of Mines. Director
+. B. Linfield Of the agricultural ex-
pertinent station and Director F. s.
Cooley Of the agricultural extension
service.
The funds are to be administered by
the state board Of education. The need
Of additional funds has been felt for
some time in the university institutions
which have been seriously handicapped
because Of lack of funds for operation.
inadequate buildings and insufficient
equipment.
During the past year the condition
Of affairs in the institutions has
brought on Il real crisis" the formal
statement of the educators outlining
the plan. said. 1t added:
"The unprecedented increase in the
number of students produced over
crowded conditions which resulted in
sharp criticisms from all sections Of
the state. The nationwide movement
for the increased salaries of inStruc-
tors could no longer he avoided if Mon
tana was to have Il competent staff Of
teachers. Moreover. the extraordinary
rise in the cost OF supplies and ap-
paratus caused the appropriations to
he wholly unequal to the pressing
needs.
'The state board of education and
the executive officers Of the univer-
sity could no longer escape the out
standing fact that there were no state
funds available.
AT the meeting of the state board Of
education on December II. the whole
financial problem was given extended
consideration. Any plan for limiting
the number Of students who might be
admitted to the university institutions
was considered unavoidable and un-
worthy.
THE proposed new tax would in.
crease the supporting funds Of the In.
situations from 10 to 40 per cent"
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Primary Act Not Emergency Law.
The state supreme court has decid.
ed the amended primary act is not an
emergency measure and can therefore
be held up by referendum petitions.
In SO doing. it reversed Judge w.
H. Poorman Of the district court In this
county. who recently ruled that the
legislature, in amending the act, was
within its power in declaring it an
emergency law, which, under the con.
stitution. cannot be referred.
The decision Of yesterday means that
the elections this year will be held un.
der the old law, the amended act being
automatically held up by petitions on
file for its reference.
The supreme court reversed the
judgment Of the district court in IN
opinion by Associate Justice John
Mathews, which was concurred in by
Justices Hurley and Cooper.
Chief Justice Brantley and Asso.
ciate Justice Holloway dissented In an
opinion written by Justice Holloway;
in which the minority members of the
court say that neither reason nor au.
thority supports the view that the
terms public peace health and safe
IT, have to do only with the extra.
ordinary occurrences arising out Of
public calamity"
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viii Manufacture Weedere.
The Standard Rotary Rod Weedel
company is to erect factory In Hell
ena for the manufacture of farm ma
chinery In conjunction with the T. C
Power company. 1t Is announced by
r. f.. Theinhardt, vice president and
manager Of the former concern. He
has. returned from the east where II
Is said he purchased enough ma
terials and supplies to last a year
There are to be 50 factory employees