Daily globe., 1879-02-18
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
The swindling Brass Kettlo-settling tho
Railroad--Proposed Harmony on the
State Fair Question.
At the meeting offthe chamber of commerce
yesterday morning Mr.. McOlung offered the
following resolution, which was adopted:
Resolued, That committee Of ten from this
f%nsm6er %anmim consisting Of Messrs r. sibley VIM
Mce, H. F. Hall J. A. Wheelock, n. A. Castle, John
Gilman aad c. x. Davis, present to the legislature
the resolutions passed at the last meeting relative to
the settlement Of the State railroad bonds and at the
same time present bill embodying substantially the
terms which have been once accepted by the people
ana creditors representing large majority OF the
bonds, and urge it's passage.
1.-The committee met after the adjournment,
and will again tomorrow, when the chairman
IS to present bill giving the lands for the
bonds. and making clean sweep of the old in
debtedness.]
THE o1rY ENGINEER.
w. l.. Wilson, from the committee appointed
to oppose the passage of the bill changing the
mode of electing city engineer, reported that
tho committee had met with the legislative
delegation, and also with the council commit
tee on legislation. The bill was referred back
to the legislative delegation, and it's passage is
doubtful. The only complaints seemed to be
dlscourtesy on the part of Mr.. Sewall, and a
good deal of that could be explained.
THE sw1NDL1Na BRASS KETTLE.
MIR. Banning, from the committee to whom
the majority and minority reports on the wheat
question were referred, reported the following
resolutions:
Resolved, That it having been thoroughly demon
strated that the brass tester can be more easily
manipulated to give different weights for the same
grain than other Devices it should be abolished and
| its use forbidden in this State.
Resotved, That our legislature be requested to
take such action will prevent the use Of the brass
in this State and that other States be requested
Res0lved, That We cordially recommend the move
ment now in progress in New York and Eastern COM
mercial centers (Which has become established
practice IN England to have the pound taken the
unit OF weight in the sale of all articles of produce
and that we recommend such action by Congress- as
will make transactions throughout the country uni
formly on the pound basis.
Resotved, That the time has come when the North
west, which already does, and in the future must
to S7s in supplying the world with
not as now, be subjected to the manipulation Of
grades at the intermediate points between the pro-
ducer and consumer of this great staple.
Mr.. Drake, from the portion of the commit
tee not present when Mr.. Banning's report had
been prepared. wished to bmit another report,
as follows:
WHEREAS, The objections made to the brass tester
relate to its improper use as measure of grain by
careless and dishonest buyers and not to any fault
defect in the instrument itself; and,
WHEREAS, The same objection would apply in q
greater or less degree to any instrument or
that mas been suggested as substitute Therefore and,
WHEREAS, The change from instrument SO
widely used and recognized by the commercial world
would work great confusion and injury, unless
more effective and certain than has yet been
suggested can be devised substitute; therefore,
Res0tved, That this chamber declines to recon-
mend the passage Of any bill abolishing the use of
a ff1r0 ono Ia n
ReSOlVed, That we approve and recommend the
adoption if possible, of some equitable and uniform
method OF filling the brass tester.
Both reports were made the special order for
the next meeting.
UNION FAIR GROUNDS.
The resolution of the Minneapolis board of
trade appointing a committee to confer with a
similar committee from St. Paul relative to
holding union fairs or expositions between the
two cities was taken up.
w. s. Wilson submitted resolution which
after some verbal amendments read as follows,
with the exception of the word State inclused
IN brackets ], that not being in the original
| resolution.
| WHEREAS The board of trade Of Minneapolis has
chosen committee to confer with like committee
from st. Paul concerning the practcabiity of OBJ
tanning suitable grounds somewhere between the two
cities to be used permanently for [state] fairs or
exposions, and also to consider the proprietv and
feasibility Of union fair in the fall of 1870.
Resolved that we accept these propositions in the
spirit in which they are rendered and that the Presi
dent be requested to appoint committee of five citi-
zens OF St. Paul, who shall be authorized to bring
about If possible, an honorable satisfactory adjust
| ment Of all differences.
Mr.. W. p Murray wanted to know if this
proposition and acceptance included the State
fair The Minneapolis resolutions ignored the
State fair entirely, and we should accept no
overtures which repudiated that.
The chamber of commerce had unanimously
endorsed MI. Kelly's selection as president Of
! the State fair, and in so doing had pledged it
| self to support the State fair. He was sus-
picious Of the proposition as it now stands.
| MI. P. Il. Kelly said it was originally pro-
| posed to have committee of five from each
city, with two additional ones representing Mr..
Kings fair, and two representing the State
Agricultural society. It was the intention to
| take into consideration the whole question ol
the State fair and union exposition. He did
not know why they had changed the programme
Mr.. Wilson explained that it was was the un-
derstanding that the State fair was to be con-
sidered.
Mr.. Dawson was suspicious Of some members
| of the Minneapolis committee. Mr.. Corser was
on the committee, and he remembered Mr..
Corser called special meeting of the council
and telegraphed protest to Washington
! against the Fort Smelling bridge appropriation
because the bridge only sixty-eight and
one-half feet high when it should be seventy
feet. He pawson) was in faqDr of peace if
we were not called upon to surrender every
thing.
Mr.. E. F. Drake was in favor of having St.
Paul, saltwater, Minneapolis and other cities
unite in a fair which will be independent of
the State organization. There might be some
arrangement whereby the State fair could Join
this year and then let it be dropped. He was
| in favor of a union fair for the surrounding
cities.
DR.. Day thought the first thing was to agree
upon protocol, and the committee should
have some limits. Such thing as is now pro-
posed was offered once before, and the first
fair was held at Minneapolis, and we were to
have the next, but we never got it. BE didn't
want to go into an arrangement with all the
turkey on the other side.
Mr.. Ingersoll was sorry to see this discussion
and thought we should accept without any
qualifications.
Mr.. McClung said this was not new ques-
tion. The same thing was attempted three
years ago and Minneapolis rebelled. He be-
ieved now in accepting their offer in the spirit
in which it was intended.
Mr.. Kelly explained that he was acting as a
citizen of st. Paul in this matter, and not as
representing the State Agricultural society.
He wanted to see all the differences settled,
and he believed they could be.
MIR. Murray wanted to have it fully under
stood, so that there could be no slip in the
matter. He moved to insert the word Estate
before the word fair in Mr.. Wilson's resolution.
This change was accepted by Mr.. Wilson and
the resolution then passed as published above.
Messrs. P. Fl. Kelly, G. Gotzian. J. W. Nc
Chung, D. Day and D. W. Ingersoll were ap-
pointed as the committee.
THE PARK sWINDLE. -
Mr.. D. r. Noyes said two gentlemen had
alluded to the Lake park, and he wished to say
Minnetonka won it honorably. If White Bear
had offered as much it would have been located
there.
THE WOOLEN MILL.
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