The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1931-01-29
GOVERNOR SUGGESTS
USE STATE PRODUCTS
The Purchase of Local Material on
All Public Works Are Strongly
Recommended

llldIcll 1l anu lOlIdill ClO0-
ucts, at least so far as it is good
business to do So" Jergensen of JEFF
ferson gave notice in the senate of
a bill requiring the state purchasing
agent to buy Montana products under
a per cent differential. The bill
states that "all supplies of dairy,
meat and food products, also oil, gaso-
line, lumber, or any other material or
product purchased, shall be Montana
produced and manufactured products
if obtainable, and at a price within
s per cent of any bid submitted for the
same articles without the state"
Senator CAREERS bill to abolish the
office of chancellor and install bus
mess manager for the higher eduva-
tional institutions probably will be
acted upon in committee of the whole
by the senate. This is the third ses-
sion in which he has sought such ac-
ton.
A house resolution urging congress
to pass the Selvig bill to impose tax
on flour for the benefit of wheat grow
ers received the approval OF the COM
mittee on agriculture.
Senator Shelver of Park gave no
tice he will introduce bill provid-
ing for the nonpartisan election OF
judges of supreme and district courts
in Montana.
He would abolish existing methods
of political designations at elections
for judicial offices and would require
the secretary of state and county Off
GERS having charge of election affairs
to provide a separate ballot in the
primaries carrying the names of can
didates for judgeships, with no party
designation. At the general election,
he would have provided a separate
column for nominees for judges.
The pay roll Of the Greater Univer-
sity of Montana was prepared for the
inspection of the senate. The report
was requested in resolution by Sen
ator Pauline of Flathead. The pay roll
lists 517 employees, among whom are
professors and instructors, who re-
ceive 2,O55, 495.30 annually. The high
est salary on the list is paid to the
chancellor of the university. 1t is
shown as $4,000.
Representative Hamilton of Mussel-
shell county has introduced IN the
state legislature a resolution urging
the national congress to add to its
emergency public works program some
projects for the impounding of flood
waters for purposes of flood control
and irrigation. The Musselshell river
valley is one of several in Montana
which could multiply its productivity
if water was conserved and utilized.
Representative Dougherty's bill
seeking change in the open season
on elk and deer in western Ravalli
county, so as to give Montanans a
chance to hunt them before they slip
over the mountains into Idaho for
the winter, has cleared its first hurd-
les. Tt has been given the okeh of
the fish and game committee and the
report of that body has been adopted
The Rev. R. A. Shepherd, national
field worker of the American Red
Cross, delivered an address on the
history, aims and achievements Of
the organization at joint meeting
of both houses. He said he had sur
veyed drought conditions in Montana
and had found counties which needed
aid of the Red Cross from outside the
state. This is the first time, he ex-
planned, that the organization has
been called upon to serve because OF
national drought and countrywide de-
preston.
A bill providing for the annual
meeting of the various county clerks
with the state board of examiners has
been prepared by Representative An
drew Iceland of Sheridan county. The
meeting would be held for the purpose
Of discussing accounting methods anc
TO bring about uniformity in proceed
ure.
Perhaps the longest bill that car
be expected in the present session Of
the state assembly is the high schoo
code, now being considered informally
bv the house committee on education
The bill as presented to the committee
has 115 sections, according to Hodgs
kiss of Teton, chairman OF the com
mittee. The code has been prepared
by the state high school commission.
An interesting possibility in the sen
ate is announcement of the member
ship of the committee which will ap
portion the 100000 construction
bond fund to the several state lnstl
buttons. About half the members o.
the senate gre eligible under provision
that members of the committee shall
not be members Of the finance ant
claims committee or the counties II
which the Institutions to be benefited
are located
Action by the senate on house bill
1, providing for issuance of S6,OO0,OO'
worth of gasoline tax debentures To-
highway bvilding, became possible
when the roads and highways com
mittee reported it for passage. Three
minor amendments, one affecting thu