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4 ■ The Bozeman Courier m -4 9 6*1 i 1 BOZEMAN, MONTANA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1921. NUMBER 5. YEAR special Legislative Session Called by Dixon ys* ANNUM. VOCATIONAL CONGRESS OPENS WITH OVER 1,000 RELEGATESj II ( > ! r i; \l OF EVENTS IN CHARGE OF PROF. ABBEY SAID TO BE THE MOST INTERESTING AND INSTRUCTIVE EVER GIVEN >] I ! - 1 I Many Entertainments I l ,. • r 1 1i'"S and Frat Houses Take Care of Large Numbers of j ut Majority of High School Delegates Find Homes In p Residences, Hotels, Hospital and Railroad Pullman Cars, p f M. J. Abbey Given C redit for Success of This Splendid rational Event. i u Annual Boys' Vocational pened at the Mon coliege in this city Mon ,g, with an initial enroll- : 001 delegates and which j n the second day, was j . of the college facul- i i . Prof. M. J. Abbey, who f the conference, to | ■ biggest and most sue-j ;«-• of its kind ever held i , winch o ■ ■ 1.100 «0 uid i 'CSS P ^ I • t tut.ion. • first congress a total of 92 ; The enroll- ! I year was 800. The four j fairly crowded with in- 1 in-tru dive numbers, in-j programs ! cents, (iovernor Joseph who was scheduled for an | lerday afternoon and who ave been accompanied here ln von to help entertain the j ! ' ention in their honor last i . I re enroile«!. % men : 1 n' 1 • « * trdj' M.1 a.Mi boys was unable to be present on acco' ; ' pressing business of state ital in connection with tlie g of the state's warrants re me court, l ull TÎainmcnt Program A her of musical numbers relaxation and entertain- ! I \ by S fur' mem »ughout the four days of ad dr«|.' 1'hcre were vocal numbers by i I ' Pleff Club, the Glee Club,: Gills SeMettc, Men's Quartette, So pTui > Sb» by Mona Frazier, Violin Sol by Stella I Jollier, music by Col- j lege • rd f ra, and a piano solo by (Continued on Page 7) ,i,i t. ( I ■AÏS FOR SURVEY! re m the! &■ d inlNEl isine ELECTED (TTY DADS! I 1501 I) FIRST MEETING •eail I.\ST THURSDAY for T1 ' ' regular business meeting n ly elected board of city hf ners was held last Thurs ev<ning. KM t 1 .0 r*ih y those present being May«' Kinmnd Burke, Commissioner • ince iKrrj i if. m. City Attorney George >«*, * 'ity Manager and Secretary Mrs. Butts. Stallings, who wall act ry for the board during the . Butts, who was re a three-months' leave also present. Com -1 B. Hill was absent, n granted a five-weeks' '■•me to take a trip to the account of his health. ■ vn reported a conversation y had with K. E. Torgerson, ve of the state highway D. 3 Fred M. ! cl B = 1' M e( ,, 1 ahse of * Bat VO : . was per? K. G. havi I Ar W us M ttor!*he r ,f Lif re coni' I ! -, in which the city of Boze-1 is -an v.. <t kcil to defray its share r '"'nsc of a preliminary sur-: : tr.o prf»posed cut-off section of I ntati or ? stone Trail beginning at lain street and extending f'-r a distance of between I three-quarters of a mile. w Yellowstone Trail right of rallel the Northern Pacific v av and will therefore avoid nd sharp turns on the road '■n this city and Rocky canyon. ( ity to Pay for Survey ' ommis.sioners authorized the which was Mr. r >nA estimate of the city's of the cost of the survey. •* ey ( )\\ ing 5 ■erne one , f T>ic rt w »y It ne r:3 3S. m is 7 e This n t is to be refunded to the city 'vent that the road is not con within two years. The new 1 i must E>e surveyed and the route ned before federal aid can be taget ..fj ■ ' 'hat when the as n* The hope was expressed time came for the in of the new road, the city ■ (Continued on Page Twelve.) SENATOR HARMON STATES SESSION WILL BE SHORT I Before leaving for Helena Sun day to attend the special session called by Governor Dixon for Tues day morning, for the purpose of re enacting appropriation measures to validate state warrants already is sued, as well as those to be is sued in the future to take care of necessary state expenditures, State Senator W, E. Harmon, Republican, of this city, an old-timer io the legislative ha'ls at Helena, said: "While it is unfortunate that the j I supreme courts in different states do not put the same construction on, and similarly interpret such an action as the pruning down, on percentage basis, of legislative appropriation bills by a governor, who is honestly desirous of hold ing the expenditures of a common wealth within its actual revenue, it is my opinion as well as the opinion of our Republican repre sentative, H. S. Buell, chairman of the appropriations committee in the house, with whom I talked this morning, that the coming session will be one of the very shortest special gatherings of the legisla tive bodies in the history of the state, as well as the most economi cal. i a I "Not only is it expected that the session will not take up more than three days, possibly two, but it is generally understood that the busi ness in hand, and not petty politics factional fights, will take up the time of the members of both the house and the senate, and that or j j the entire re-enactment of the need ful 1 *gis:nt ; >r. will be accomplished oni 'Uüly and without fuss or *t n simply a business ,'(;n, unù the matter will be bar: flour ■ i. pvopo handle* rccordirgly. "So far as 1 nave been able to learn, the members of both the senate and the house will get right down to business Tuesday morn ing and put into process of pass age an appropriation bill that will be so apportioned that every de partment of the slate government will be allowed its proper pro rata share of the state's actual reve nnues, for the proper conduct of the state's business, all there is to it. l S And that's •• ROAD MEET CALLS BOARO TO HELENA 1 The board of county commissioners, posed of Chairman George W. Darlington, Vice^hairman James E. Moore and John Aakjer, departed on Ä : attend a special meeting of the State Highway commission, called tor 10 o'clock this morning at the state house for the ^ ^specific proj srsEï sîs way funds that are available for 19~4 highway construction work in the com state. John A. Harader, secretary of the Bozeman Chamber of Commerce, and number of other local good roads enthusiasts, accompanied the to Helena, and wül lend a com missioners their efforts toward such a presenta tion of Gallatin county's claims that (Continued on Page Twelve.) Expenses Within Income Fails on Court 's Ruling $ « % , i y •x < - fSg£ v • -y.% WßMimSM-. •*V V 1» sa&s <vt ;U : £ £ g;. N m m I ma Tv ; 4*' *■ A h ; s a, j m ! ■ ■■■ AZO mm :-: : r A I m A m m :< m igyt&s. - . V JHP m .•>* m m. •>: * •iX § mi] . •Ä* * X c : v i; 33 p I# m-. %y ,>iv i w V % ' H m WÊ >■ £* '■ :• £ A m-M m n x.*: i M 'S jJA VdU K* i ■m m . vM : mm , V : W'y ■ "J. ■À ■ Ti VXS*: $ * Æ* ■ w. [ah & « ■ % V =* ; . ■a M» ■-it' y-.*? .*1 * f I ,» '•fir* GOVERNOR JOSEPH M. DIXON _ Call to Assembly The proclamation of Governor Joseph M. Dixon convening the Montana assembly In extraordinary session follows^ By the Governor of the State of Montana, a Proclamation WHEREAS. The constitution of the state of Montana makes it the duty of the governor to convene the legislative assembly j in extraordinary session, when, in his judgment, the necessity for such action shall have arisen ; AND WHEREAS, A majority of the supreme court of thei state has recently held that the actions, taken by the governor i jin his vetoes of certain legislative appropriations made at the llast regular session of the legislative assembly, are null and of !no legal effect, ard that certain of the legislative appropriations I , » . . , j, n .I i • I i "i i mot having received the full executive approval, no legal pnations are now available for carrying on the work of many j indispensable department of state government, AND WHEREAS. The State warrants that have been regu i„rlv such annronriation«? since Tune TO 192T larly issued again, t such appropriations Since June dü, are now invalid and the credit of the state has been brought into question ; AND, It appearing to me that under these recited conditions a grave emergency now confronts the state, which can only be remedied by prompt legislative ; NOW THEREFORE, I, Jos. M. Dixon, governor of the state of Montana, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by I the constitution, do hereby convene the eighteenth legislative ' _ _ --T 1 — . assembly in extraordinary session at the city of Helena, Montana, ^ ca pital of the state, at the hour of 9 o'clock, a. rn., on TUESDAY> THE TWENTY-SECOND DAY OF JANUARY, A D 1924> ** «. .< MMtt. ".rein Wore re ferred to, the same being the enactment of such appropriation ; laws as have been rendered nugatory and void by the said majority decision of the s upreme Court, and for the validating of all war rants that have been regularly issued against said appropriations. « »m» whereof, . ^ **** ». y ^ anc J casued the Great Seal of the S ite of Montana to be affixed. * DONE at the City of Helena, the Capital, this the fif teenth day of January, A. D., 1924. TOS M DIXON ' U1AU ' Governor. • By the Governor: C* T. STEWART. Secretary of State. I MONTANA STATE.!™ CflURI DECIflES APPROPRIATIONS ARE VOID DECISION INVALIDATING BILLS PASSED BY THE LAST SESSION OF STATE LEGISLATURE SIGNED BY THREE JUSTICES Special Session (Governor Joseph M. Dixon's Effort to Hold the State's Appro priations Within Its Revenues, by Cutting $600,000 From the Appropriations Passed by the Last Session of the Legislature. Is Held Un-Constitutional by the State Supreme Court. i In view of the uncertainty as to the ultimate outcome, both expressed and implied, of the invalidating of state warrants through the official nullification, Friday, by the supreme court, of the appropriation bills of the last legislative session, which had been pruned down by Governor Joseph M. Dixon in an effort to I keep the state's expenditures within the actual resources of the I commonwealth, the governor decided yesterday afternoon to call special session of the state legislature to convene next Tuesday morning, January 22, at 9 o'clock at the statehouse. In making the announcement the governor stated that he desired to confine the session to the sole matter of re-enacting the appropriations so as to validate approximately $1,600,000 of state warrants that had been issued to the various departments of the ( 1 t a ■ state government against void appropriations. The governor stated it to be his understanding that H. S. Buell of Bozeman, chairman of the appropriations committee is writing to other members of his committee urging them to meet him in Helena Sunday so as to outline a plan of action, whereby the new : bills can be re-enacted with the least possible delay and at a : minimum of expense to the state. The governor expressed the hope that the session would be completed in two days, and three at The cost of the session is roughly estimated at i ' I the very most. between $8,000 and 812,000, it being the general belief that the j former figure will not be exceeded if present state employes can j be mustered in the service to the exclusion of outstanding steno graphic and clerical help, which it is usually necessary to pay al most on an "overtime" basis. oth Senator W. F. Harmon and Representative H. S. Buell, of Gallatin county, expect to depart on the early Sunday morning train for the capital, and both have expressed themselves as being eager to co-operate heartily with the governor in expediting the session and conducting it at the very lowest possible expense to the I * state. STORY OF THE CASE According to an opinion of the su I PROMINENT MEN AT FARMER'S PROGRAM! some previous years, due to some ex tnnditions prev aiiing in the agricul tural district» throughout the state, the Farmers' Week program, which ATTENDANCE SMALLER THAN! PREVIOUS YEARS DUE TO GENERAL CONDITIONS Although the number of delegates in attendance was smaller than in was concluded at the M. S. C., laat Saturday was said to have been one »PP«>-r"mo.T"x"n-ive and enthusia. tk of ^ any of the {ormer gatherings. Many addresses on topics of inter est to the Montana Farmers were de livered by men of state-wide, as v,el! ^ wide prominence in the dif ^ ^ of a?r i cu iture. Among the prominent speakers at the con Chancellor Brannon, ference were; «' ^ ^e^Un^'ity't" Idaho, C. C. Davis, ,; oner of Agriculture, President J, L Coulter, of the North Dakota Agri cultural College, Prof. Andrew Boss. Dairv ^necialist of the University of neso £^ and othenj i nt q u d I in ^ n ^ era | 0 f the successful farmers of the %tBUft an d many of the mem hers of the State College and Ext-n rÂTlST 1 ^ cultaral of the Statu explained and dMcuMed. In ad ,q t ion to the general program f of Farmers Week, there were held at t-s: ^ different agricul tural i ntere st ». Among other», the following associations held their an j mial meetings at the college the last week. The State Extension Service The Montana Dairyman's Associa tion. The Montana Farm Bureau, The Montana Shorthorn Breeder's Association. The Montana Seed Grow ( Coo tinned on page 12) preme court of the state of Montana delivered last Friday by Chief Justice Lew L. Callaway, and Associate Jus tices A. J. Galen and A. P. Stark, the general appropriations made by the Montana legislature of 1923 were held invalid, on the grounds that Governor Joseph M. Dixon had reduced the amounts of the appropriation bills on a percentage basis without authority, and that his signing of the bills had Associate nullified the whole bill, Justice W . L. Holloway wrote at the bottom of the decision: "I dissent." but he did not deliver a dissenting opinion giving his reasons for failing to agree with his fellow jurists. Associate Justice C. H. Cooper is The court absent from the state. j let it be known lh.it the decision, ar U«1 at several days ago. was held | up in the hope that Justice Cooper ! would I e able to return in a day or j two. hut that it had finally do' •rod jl'w u"u.-iun in •« a ' > '" *" ; the court desired not to keep the rnat tor ;. suspense longer. 1 Governor's Effort Fails Thus the attempt of the governor to cut off $C00,000 from the appropri ations made by the legislature, and bring the of the state gov ernment within its revenues, has fail ed f T [f r ^ up !| m f_ C p ° U u t ' 1 ! ! > t hrit tho G veto of three to one, held that th^* veto power of the governor given by the constitution does not permit a per cer.tage cut in legislative appropria lions, holding that the governor must SÄT. vetoing in their entirety the parts appropriation bills passed by the legislature. During the last legislative session, priations being made would far ex ceed the revenues for the coming biennium, but despite the warning, the legislature proceeded to pass appro. onation bills for the maintenant o the state university, agricultural col lege, school of mines, state norma . in sane asylum, penitentiary, »choo. for deaf and dumb, orphans home, re (Continued on Page Twelve.)