The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-04-17
HUSKY TO ASK FOR !
CLARIF|CAT|0N OF
OP|N|ONBY VERRET
Says Ruling on Status Of Dairy
Department Fails to Solve
Problem
SEES BURDEN on INDUSTRY
Asserts Dairy Farmers Will Pay
II All Licensees Must
Come to Bismarck

John HUSKY, state commissioner Of
agriculture and labor, Monday said
an opinion of Charles Verret, assist
ant attorney general, in which the
status Of the state dairy department
Is outlined "calls for another opinion
to clarity the one just made public"
"Mr. verret's opinion might be
construed as an attempt to defend
the governors veto Of the dairy ap-
propriation," HUSKY said, but I as
sumo he really Is trying to clarity the
law for us and shall again ask him
how 1t will be possible to operate the
dairy department and do the things
he says must be done without money
with which to do it.
HE says the licenses for cream
testers and cream stations must be
issued aS usual and declares to be
wrong my assertion that after July I
there will be no provision for issuing
them. I shall ask Mr.. Verret just
what the provisions are to which he
refers.
II am unwilling to require each ap-
plicant for q cream-te testers license or
cream station or creamery license to
appear here in Bismarck to procure
such license. The cost would be
heavy and 1t would eventually come
out Of the dairy producers pocket"
In his opinion Verret held that in
spection work formerly done by in
spectors for the dairy department
would be performed by the new state
regulatory department, set up by the
last legislature.
Sends Letter 70 HUSKY
In q letter to HUSKY, who had in
quired about the status Of the dairy
department, in view Of the governor
veto Of all items in the dairy budget
except that Of salary for the dairy
commissioner. Verret called attention
to the law under which the regulatory
department Is reorganized.
HUSKY inquired as to the status Of
two assistant dairy commissioners
which the law requires him to ap-
point. On account of the governors
veto there will be no appropriation
for salary for those assistants after
July /.
The status Of the two assistants Is
left unchanged but they are power
less to act because Of lack Of funds to
meet their salaries and expenses,
Verret said, but the office Is not abol-
ished or the laws under which they
act repealed.
The veto merely deprives your Of
flee Of the services Of those two off,
GERS for the time that such appropria-
ton remains unavailable to meet
their salaries and puts upon the dairy
commissioner and other employees Of
your department, with such assist
ance as may be available from the
newly created North Dakota regula-
tory department, the duties which
could have been performed by those
two assistants" verret informed the
dairy commissioner.
1.-THE law which they are charged
with the enforcement Of, known a.
the dairy law, Is not, on account Of
lack Of funds with which to pay the
salaries and expenses Of the assist
ants, repealed or suspended, and such
law must nevertheless be enforced by
the dairy commissioner and other
employees Of your department with
the assistance Of the regulatory de-
partment to the best Of their ability"
HUSKY inquired has the dairy conn
missioner any rights or authority to
make inspections7"
Retains Supervisory Power
verret replied that the regulatory
act takes away from the dairy COM
mission authority to perform iaspec-
ton work Ut the expense Of the de-.
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