The Bismarck tribune., 1929-02-09
ATTEMPT TO SLASH
=APPR0PRIATIONSON
!. MCLELLAND FAILS
NTH SteeIed Hearts, $6, 900 Is
-
Cut on Mandan institution
and $4,000 Added
u. S. DAIRY FARM IGNORED
0evine Salary Is Raised and
'~e$2,4oO Restored to Money
- for Health Department

The senate appropriations commit
tee was SO ruthless. Friday night. in
attempting to reduce budget appro-
priations. that it sunk the ak into
the state training school items and
Clipped off $500. after which,
seized with compassion, It added
$4,000 for stokerizing the boiler
house Of the Mandan institution.
The principle on which the cuts were
made was that w. F.. McClelland. the
superintendent, was Of too magnetic
personality and that the tendency
was to allow him too much money, in
consequence. So the committee
stce!ed its heart and began hacking
into the items. AS the French would
say, VOLTA! He gets $4,000 more for
$1,000 less.
No Land for Uncle Sam
The committee also cut Mandan
off in another direction. j. H. New
ton was before the body in behalf OF
a bill by Senator Martin. appropriat-
Ing $4,000 for an additional section
OF land adjoining the federal dairy
station. the land to be bought by the
state and leased to the federal plant.
Newton made detailed plea for the
project, telling alfalfa could be raised
In the cCuleeS, how purebred sireS
would be loaned to the farmers fer
breeding up their herds and how
FARMERS would learn to weed their
d4try herds Of boarder cows-the
United States paying all the main
tenance of this sort OF education.
When he had finished, Senator
Watt crumpled the argument from
the committee standpoint by calling
attention to the governments action
i'm getting dairy station under way
at Hettinger and then. as he termed
1t, unloading 1t on the state There
.Also Is dairy herd at the state train
Ing school at Mandan and another
1t the state prison, he said, where
-3he use of purebred sircs could be
obtained for breeding up farmers
dairy stock.
Later in the session when the ques-
tton OF what action came up, Senator
Watt proposed offering the federal
government free gift of the Eet-
finger station. It was moved to in
definitely postpone the Martin bill,
and this action was adopted.
Meet Rockefeller Benevolence
The committee also had up an
other of the major bills of the ses-
sion. that appropriating $65,50O to the
state health department. DR.. White
more, head of the department, was
.~presef1t to ask for restoration OF
50 400 item for stenographer for the
.ssanitary engineer. The committee
had stricken out this item at a pre-
ssvious session. on the assumption that
There was no sanitary engineer. DR..
4 Whittemore explained that there is
sspne. but no appropriation is asked for
s-lhiS salary. as the Rockefeller Founda-
tion Is paying that and donating his
s4eerviceS free to the state, at an an.
nual cost Of $4,000 to the foundation.
-~It also Is contributing to the salaries
.-bf two other officials Of the bureau,
..aae said. The committee restored the
--btenographer salary appropriation
This raised the total Of the health
department appropriation to SGT 1900
at which sum the bill was recon-
~ @k1ACuucu 1OE passage.
Devine's Services Rewarded
81 j. M. Devine, commissioner of i'm.
emigration, asked that the salary OF
the office be raised to $1,000 q year
and that he be allowed a mailing
-clerk and bookkeeper combined. The
Salary was raised, but the committee
sr1id not see Its way clear to adding
sanother appointce to the staff. The
~soffice Is allowed $22,l40.
The bill appropriating 391.77o to
the forestry school at Bottineau was
recommended for passage, after a
Of the school had an.
eSwered q few questions. The school
has 135, students.
8 Water Destroys Mandan Pines
& & The major portion Of the evening
~Was devoted to the kudget Of the
training school at Mandan. Superin.
tendent McClelland was present and
spoke for the various items. particu-
xpiarly for tunnels for the steam and
water pipes, 50 that they may be re-
s1paired more handily than digging
them up this winter. It seems the
N1water used at the school sets free q
lot Of carbonic acid when It is heated
and the best wrought iron pipes fair
~yly melt away due to the chemical ac-
.tton. He also spoke for either q new
BOILER house appropriation or stoker-
lining Of the old and changes in coal
storage facilities. At present the fuel