Daily globe., 1878-01-22

nigh school, Lawrence, with 20, 900 people, has |
$50, 900 in it's high school. Salem, with $4,000
has not less than 500, 900 in its high
school, Nashua, N. H., with $4,000 population
has slo8,0oO. Utica, N. Y, with population
If $4,000 has $500. Albany has appropriated
more than 300, 1000. Fort Wayne, Ind, with |
population Of %, 900 has $3.50, 600. Rochester,
N. Y. has $125,000. Columbus, Ohio, with
Il, 900 has $4,000. Minneapolis has in process
of erection high school building very beauti-
full and attractive in its architecture, which
will cost not less than 0,000.
Our own city has already nearly 100000 in
vested in public school property in it's several
ward schools of lower grade.
Did time permit, this list might be extended
so as to embrace cities both south, east and
west, whose provisions for the education of
those who are to be the future rulers of our
land, could be shown to he most wise and gem
erous. In conclusion your committee recon-
mend the adoption of the following resolution
Reso1ved, That the sense of this Chamber is,
that the Board of Education should take inn
mediate steps toward securing a central loca-
ton for a high school building, and that as
early as practicable therefor, to erect build
ing to cost about SIS, ,000 and that if any legis-
lation is necessary, it be procured during the
present session of the legislature.
WIN, B. DEAN,
JAS. SMITH, JR., : Committee.
d. w. 1NGERsOLL.
BUSINESS STATISTICS.
The committee on statistics presented a
letter from Hon. T. M. Metcalf transmitting
certain correspondence with the secretary of
the Minneapolis Board of Trade, as follows
SECRETARY stURTEvANTs LErTRR.
MINNEAPOLIS BOARD OF TRADE,
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Jan. Is, 1878.
Mr.. Metcalf, Assistant Secretary of State, st.
Paul:
have just received in the Pioneer Press of
this morning a showing of the commerce and
trade of St. Paul. and as I understand it is
prepared with special reference to its appear
ing in your forthcoming statistical report of
the State, am constrained to ask you if it is
true, and that the statement published in
the paper will appear in your report. If 80, it
is the wish of the citizens of Minneapolis that
the one furnished by myself should be entirely
omitted.
You sent out blanks to be filled. and in con-
versation with me you stated you wanted them
honestly filled with the actual amounts and
that you intended that your report should be
an honest and impartial exhibit Of the business
and industries of the State. We have reason
to expect this from an officer of the State and
cannot believe that you will suffer the docu-
ment, as published in the Pioneer Press this
morning, to go out to the world under the sane
tion Of State authority. AS citizen of St.
Paul you know there are not 265 wholesale
houses in that city. You further know that,
aside from the large sales reported by fifteen
commission houses, that there was not $3751,-
900 worth of grain sold at wholesale in that
city, when the total quantity passed through
all the elevators there was only 1,608,OO0 bush
els, and much of that covers grain not worth on
an average over 40 cents per bushel. You will
also perceive that much of the business is du-
plicated and Implicated, as in -four wholesale
and again in the manufacture. We are willing
to abide by honest and fair comparison, but are
not willing to be be placed in competition with
,%ot1o %o:r
! in that report.
Ii the st. Paul Chamber of Commerce have
fancy for amusing themselves and showing
their ingenuity by getting up and publishing
buncombe statements, we have no objections.
1t may do to pass away their time, but we dc
most emphatically protest against State Off
Ger indorsing the statement and publishing il
| at the expense of the State.
Please answer by return mail and state wheth.
er the article will appear in your report as pub
| ished this morning.
Very respectfully,
| G. G. STURTEvANT
! Secretary Of Board of Trade.
| COMMISSIONER METCALF's 8 REPLY.
| STATE OF MINNESOTA
| OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY of STATE,
| ST. PAUL, Jan. II, 1873.
| G. G. Sturtevant, ESQ.,, Secretary Minneapolis
| Board of Trade:
DEAR S1R-I have your several communities
tions Of yesterday, but being confined in Jury
| room have not been able to give them atten.
| tion until now.
1t certainly is my intention to publish all the
| statistical information from reliable sources
from all the counties of the State which have
| received. In have nothing to do with compari.
sons between towns and counties. I am re-
qulred by law to compile statistics of wealth
population, commerce, etc., ETC.. from reliable
! sources and publish them. I do not see that
you have anything to do with these except SC
Tar as concerns your own county, and I regret
| that some of your officials have persistently
declined to send me information relating te
marriages, divorces, naturalizations, tramps
&C., and that my personal application to you
fqr these, as well as for statistics of newspa,
pers published in your county has been entirely
| ignored.
My clear impression was and is. that The
board of trade and chamber of commerce Of
the city of Minneapolis and st. Paul were re
liable sources of information. If you think
otherwise ] am little surprised, but not yer,
much interested.
Your communication is hardly such one a.
l would address to a highly respectable body o1
gentlemen such as have no doubt compose thu
chamber of commerce of st. Paul; still viii
forward it to them, as think you should have
done, with copy of this letter. I shall state
to that body as | have to you, that wish te
publish nothing inaccurately, and write then
and you to make all proper and necessary cor
| rections.
Inc publication of my report has been de
layed by the late receipt of yours, and viii
endeavor to delay it still longer that correction.
if needed may be made.
Very respectfully, T. NJ. MErcALF,
Commissioner of Statistics.
Some discussion ensued which developed
the fact that the committee on statistics
who had critically examined the report were
unanimous in sustaining it and the Chamber
was likewise. Mr.. E. +. Drake ended The
matter by offering the following resolution
which was adopted
Resohed, That the report on the statistics Of
st. Paul, furnished by this Chamber to the
State Commissioner of STATISTICS, be referred e
the committee on statistics of this Chamber
with instructions to add an explanatory note
stating the basis on which the number oi
wholesale retail and manufacturing establish
ments was arrived at.
THE SILVER PROBLEM.
MIR. w. L. Banning offered the following
resolutions which were referred to specia
meeting of the Chamber at large on Frida1
evening next:
Resol,ed. That among the measures of tinan
clal reforms imperatively required to arrest th,
further destruction of values, remove th,
paralysis of business, and depression Of al
departments of labor and productive industries
! are
! Fiyst-The reconciliation Of silver and III
! restoration to the place in the monetary system