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Der to fill them. Mr.. Smith did not insist
on resigning, and there the matter dropped.

L WAAO0e WAtSA lu1kuG Cdx 1OI l0Q16
lation. Some men have diverted this matter
TO partisan ends and it made men feel as
| though they did not want to be a member o1
TINS chamber. The moment this was intro
duced partisan person sought to injure Mr.
Washburn, who was, perhaps, somewhat en-.
gagged IN milling. He paid tribute to Mr.
Hodges and did not believe he had partisan
motives. The Governor then proceeded tc
take Mr.. Hodges to task for some words he
had used, but upon being informed that he
was in error in supposing Mr.. Hodges had
made such presentation, desisted. AS far as
the partisan aspect is concerned, immediate
action was necessary. So far as the larger
view was concerned, the effect upon the
State, it might require six months, and Mr.
Hodges was good man to continue the in
yestigation.
Mr.. Lee was in favor of discussing the
question whether it affected Mr.. Donnelly o1
Mr.. Washburn. He did not believe we could
legislate to make men honest and competi-
ton must be our great reliance. The re-
marks he had made in this matter were not
intended for political effect and he was not
seeking to make votes for Donnelly.
DIR. L. T. Mann said there was not enough
tanning mills in the county to properly
clean the wheat. He described the manner
OF using the tester, alleging that it was a
fraud. He did not believe in legislation.
Mr.. Banning said, in reply to the remarks
Of Mr.. Lee, 1 have to say that he, and those
thinking with him, are mistaken in suppos-
ing that this is not question for legisla-
ton. Weights and measures are, and must
be, fixed by positive law, and violation of
the weight and measure SO fixed should be
punished by the penalties adjudged by the
law.
Should a merchant shorten his yard stick,
alter his weights, or reduce his measures, he
will find that the law will punish him.
Yet it is charged that this very ofense has
been committed by the weight and measure
ment Of wheat, and that the wheat producers
OF the State are being thereby defrauded.
Now, I am not here to say that these
charges are true, but that they are of very
general circulation, and believed by the com
munity, can hardly be doubted.
One thing is certain, that when an oppor-
tunity is presented, for the buyer to get an
advantage over the seller, he is very apt to
take it. unless there IS some positive prohi-
bition, or danger to this natural greed or
cupidity of human nature.
l have nothing to say against the Millers
ASSOCIATION of Minneapolis, except this, that
even their monumental virtue will not protect
them against the strong temptation afforded
by the practice and mode adopted by their
agents and the agents of Chicago and Mil
waukee in the measuring and grading of
wheat.
They are singularly favored by their situa-
ton on this river to do large and profitable
business in the manufacture of flour.
The government has given them nearly a
half million of dollars out of the pub
lie treasury to build up their milling
interest and enhance their private gains, the
people of the country are being taxed to pay
this money, and the millers are the last men
in the world who should be justly exposed
to the charge of injuring the wheat pro-
ducers Of the State. s
The citizens and business men generally
of Minneapolis will, I am sure, agree with
me in this, for we are all alike interested in
sustaining our agricultural interest, as upon
it nearly all else depends. 5rr.si SIS.
Mr. r. +. Drake, president of the st. Paul
d Sioux City railroad, thought this was
good deal of a tempest in a tea pot. He
defended the tester, and declared it was
superior to the half bushel. and the best
measure which ths ingenuity of man could
invent. No two half bushels in the State
were alike. The tester is made with math-
emetical accuracy, and the only possible way
IN which it could be wrong was the way in
which it was filled. The usual way was to
pour in the grain very lightly. If you pour
ed it IN heavily it made more. This year he
said we had great deal of shrunken wheat,
and. fine grades was all warehouses
could handle. Most of the elevator mon
were selected owing to their skill in handling
the tester. he argued that if the wheat went
a shade lower than the rate required, it went
grade lower and that this was right. IF
you took SO cents to bank and deposited it,
you did not expect the bank to give you 81.
Mr.. Banning-If you deposited SO cents
would you expect to receive SO or 70 cents?
Mr.. Drake-Ninety- nine, of course. zes
The speaker proceeded to say that Mime
apolis had nothing to do with fixing the
grade. The elevator men graded it and the
Minneapolis Millers' association took it from
the elevators.
Mr.. Hall stated that he had the authority
OF Mr.. Valentine for stating that probably
ten or twelve cars of wheat sent into Min
neapolis had been rejected by the MilIers'
association and graded back on the local
inspector, causing him loss of from 10 to
10 cents per bushel. He wanted to know if
this did not show that the Millers' associa-
ton practically fixed the grade.
MI. Drake thought not. On his road they
had had to return cars of wheat which were
improperly graded. The association
simply insisted on it being
brought up to standard weight. In
response to a question from Mr.. McClune he
said that neither he or any officers of his
road were wheat buyers.
PUBLISHING THE REPORT.
The question of publishing the partial re-
port without waiting for Mr. Hodges return
to make complete report, was considered
and it was voted not to print but that vote
was reconsidered and the reporters were au-
thorized to use it.
Gen. Sibley read the following resolu-
tions, which had been presented by Gov.
Marshall:
i lesotoed, That in the heavy affection and be-
reavement suffered by our worthy secretary.
W.LD. Rogers, in the, death of his estimable
wife he has the heartfelt sympathies of this
chamber.
Resozved, That as a mark of respect to the
memory Of the deceased Mrs. Rogers. the
chamber do now adjourn.
The resolutions were unanimously adont-
ed by rising vote. a.sta ,ss.51
'At = THE LINGARDS.
Their Production of "Heart and Crown,
Last tEvening-Future Pc rformances.
The Lingards produced for the first time in
this city, last evening, Mr.. Archie D. Gordon's
new new historical DRAMA written expressly for
them, entitled sHeart and Crown. ~ It is
p based 'a'e on the sad career OF Mary, Queen Of
Scots, and, like all plays of modern times.
written to order. is distinctively one-charac-
Ier 9l drama: lis full of fdramaticincident and