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BOND AND LEVY
TO AID SCHOOLS
EDUCATORS EXPLAIN PLAN TO
FURNISH MONEY FOR ExPAN-
SION OF INSTITUTIONS
NEWS OF The CAPITAL CITY
Supreme Court Rules That Primary
Amendment Is RIOT Emergency Law,
and Measure is Suspended to
Be Voted on by People

Helena.-Inftiation of two measures
one for bond issue of $5,O0O,OO0 ant
the other for an annual state tax lew
of one and One-half mills, to be Levied
ed some time ago, Is proposed by the
University of Montana, which include:
the State university at AIissoula, the
| State college at Bozeman, the Schoo
of Mines at Butte, and the Normal
college at Dillon. Educators of the
state have been working on the plans
for nearly year to establish a con
structive university policy for the state
| The measures will be submitted at the
next general election.
The bills, as submitted, provide for
So, 750,0 900 for the higher state schools
and ST, 125, 900 for the deaf, dumb, blind
and feeble minded at Boulder, the state
orphans home at Twin Bridges, and
| the Industrial schools at Miles City
and Helena.
| Initiation of the measures was final
ly decided upon at meeting in Butte
of Chancellor E. G.. Elliott and the
executive officers of the state schools,
of Missoula, President Atkinson of
Bozeman, President Sheldon E. Davis
of the normal school, President C. HI.
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 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 be avoided if Mon
tana was to have competent staff of
teachers. Moreover the extraordinary
rise in the cost of supplies and ap-
paratus caused the appropriations to
be 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 u, the whole
financial problem was given extended
consideration. Any plan for limiting
the number of students who might be
to the university institutions
was considered unworkable and un-
worthy.
''The proposed new tax would in
crease the supporting funds Of the in
stitutions from 80 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
measure and can therefore
be held up by referendum petitions.
In so doing, it reversed Judge W.
II. Poorman of the district court in this
who recently ruled that the
legislature, in amending the act, was
within its power in declaring it an
law, which, under the con-
cannot be referred.
The decision of yesterday means that
he elections this year will be held un-
held up by petitions on
lie for its reference.
The supreme court reversed the
Judgment of the district court in an
opinion by Associate Justice John
Matthew's, which was cOncurred in by
Justices Hurley and Cooper.
Chief Justice Brantley and ASso-
late Justice Holloway dissented in an
pinion written by Justice Holloway,
n which the minority members of the
ourt say that neither reason nor au-
hority supports the view that the
erms public peace health and safe
y have to do only with the extra
rdlnary occurrences arising out Of
ublic calamity"
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