The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-02-16
BUSINESS IS GOAL
p BACK OF HIS BILL,
=: =: :: Mp. SENATOR AYERS
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Opportunity to Manage EIe.
vator and FIGURING Unham. :
pered Held Solution
COMMISSION IS MlsTRUsTED
McHenry Statesman Cannot
See Efficiency in Three
Bosses for Enterprise

Denial that his bill to place the
management OF the state mill and
elevator under one-man control was
dictated by other than purely BUSH
ness considerations has been made
here by D. H. Hamilton. OF McHenry
county, Nonpartisan senate leader.
Hamilton's bill. which is at marked
variance with the administrations
bill to place the institution under the
control Of a commission. has created
considerable comment. 1t is liable to
become the measure around which
the Nonpartisan senator's will rally In
opposition to the administrators
proposal.
Il don't know If anyone will vote
for this bill outside Of FredrlckSon
and myself Hamilton said. we
haven't discussed it with anyone and
It is distinctly not party PROPOSE
ton with U.s."
L.O. Fredrickson of Nelson county,
joined with Hamilton In sponsoring
the bill. They are the NOnpartisan
members of the senate committee
which investigated the mill manage
ment last year.
Hamilton said his observation OF
the mill had led him to believe that
It would operate better under the
direct control Of one man, who should
Be charged with responsibility Tor u.
Up until recently, he said, the osten-
stble manager Of the mill was moth
in9 but q figurehead" without con-
troll over numerous important phases
Of the business and without power to
coordinate them.
Under this system" Hamilton
said, lone man viii be the boss WITH
power to hire and fire. II he doesn't
make good It viii be up to the gov
ernor to fire him. But no governor
would fire o man who was making
rood In the Job and to that extent
It takes the mill out Of politics. Ger.
tainly 1t takes it out Of politics more
than the proposal to turn the mill
over to q commission could do. What
the mill needs is administrative eff
cheney, and think this Is the best
way to get It,"
Advocates Of the administration
plan are placing their dependence In
the argument that the people sup
ported the administration proposal
when they elected George r. Shafer -
governor and that the administra-
tons plan should be tried out. From
Z political standpoint they profess to
see as many advantages for the indie
pendents II the administration bill
fails as would be the case II it passed.
Refusal Of the Nonpartisan senate
to support the administration meas
ure, they point out, would give them
an argument with which to make .
strong campaign for control Of the
senate at the next session. II the
present plan Of direct control by the
governor is continued and the mill
happens to make good showing UNI
der the Shafer administration, they
could point with pride to that fact.
II the showing Of the enterprise
happened to be poor they could point
to the fact that the Nonpartisan sen
ate refused to turn the enterprise
over to q commission; that Governor
ehafer never promised to make 1t
pay, but that he had done the best
be could.
The gist Of the Independent idea
Is that the commission plan should be
tried because the people voted to give
Il . trial. The gist of Hamilton's
argument Is that the mill should be
given . chance to demonstrate its
worth under the most efficient man
agement possible to give 1t and that
his plan Is the best assurance of eff
cient management.