The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-09-29
September 20, 1861
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said lot more money would not
have made Montana's situation i'm
prove appreciably and might even
have been hindrance to orderly de-
velopment, but enough more money
to "add an extra staff member or
two'' might have helped more than
anything. More money might have
expedited pollution control in Mon
tana but an expedited program would
have lacked understanding of the
citizens, he said.
Nutter leveled another volley in
his Castro-like revolution with Uncle
Sam by saying, eve spent only 81
thousand dollars. This is realistic.
The position of you federal people
is to judge by how many dollars you
can get rid of.
restated what had earlier been pointed
out. that they were not federal peo-
Pile, but interested citizens seeking
information.
The Governor was not to be molli-
fled and reiterated his complaint that
increased funds meant you "marry
federal CONTROL and federal enforce
ment worried" him.
John Charles Daily, exertTng his
well-known charm, pointed out
that Montana could be proud of
what it has accomplished, but Daily
said it was evident from figures
presented by DIR. Thompson that it
wasn't until Congress passed the
original pollution control act in
1856 which made federal grants
available that Montana had started
to move ahead.
From 1868 to 1866 he pointed out
Montana had only spent one million
dollars on pollution control whereas
from 1856 to 1861 71a million dol
lars had been spent.
Daily asked the Governor if he did
not feel, taking the population as
a whole, the increase in federal grants
may well expedite worthy goals and
even expedite pollution control in
Montana itself.
He also asked if the Governor did
not realize the law provided he would
have to give written permission for
the federal government to enter an
intra-state situation. This provision
against intruding on state sovereignty,
DAILY said, he would fight to main
tain.
Nutter insisted the permission
could be written out the same as
it was written in" whereupon the
Governor dismounted his trusty dino
saur and marched off to federally-
subsidized airport to fly to Billings.
WITHOUT A TIME MACHINE, YET
Good old "dinny'' was to be used
later in the day by an emotionally
distraught Nutter appointee, Com |
missioner of Agriculture Ed. c. Wren,
who thought "this money could well s
be placed to the international as
pects"; that "the State of Montana {
certainly does not need the amend
ments to the pollution act'; and
''when is the federal government 60 5
ing to stop usurpation of states /
rights. 4
Advisory Board member Charles /
H. Callison of New York asked I
Wren if, in his official position as
Commissioners of Agriculture he t
had refused or turned back federal {
grants, to which Wren admitted &
original sin by saying he had not ,
=, adding, "but many individual :
farmers are refusing federal help
on grasshopper control.
The haunting fact Mr.. Wren Z
avoided is whether the major reason
for individuals refusing federal help !.
in the grasshopper control situation :
could be that it is not sufficient. The !
two-thirds of the cost individuals have :
to pay is a financial burden hard ;,
pressed Montana farmers are in no :
position to assume. Wren might have
told the Advisory Board that the
1861 State Legislature refused to
participate in the federal-state-indi-
vidual program. He might have added
that the state took no sovereign re-
sponsibility' which leaves Montana
farmers completely free of federal
'usurpation" and their land embedded
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