St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-02-20

San act to provide for an open market and
| free shipment of grain" and to strike out ali
after the enactipg clause, and inserting the
senate bill providing for an open market and
free shipment of grain. Lost.
The bill was then recommended to pass a.
amended.
THE DAIRY BILL.
The next measure claiming the attention
| of the committee was the bill forbdding de-
ception in the manufacture and sale of dairy
products A motion was made to indefinitely
| postpone the bill, and Senator Goodrich ad-
vocated its claims to be enacted as a law in a
| long and earnest speech.
| Senator Wheat said that the lard obtained
from pressure was most fruitful way of in
PRODUCING trichine, and when manufac-
| tured into oleomargarine was one of the
greatest enemies of health la existence
| Senator O'Brien denounced the bill as
having for its primary object the creation of
! a commission with salaries amounting u
| 50, 900 per anuum. He thought the state
board of health ought TO investigate diaries
aud creameries to see if their product was
unwhoesome and be wanted deception in
the sale of rich articles of food punished
criminay He read from the bill providing
for the appointment of assistants and said
the power and discretion of the proposed
commissioner were so broad that he need
not have a hungry thirty-third cousin un-
provided for.
Senator Billson suggested that any gentle
man who desired to feast upon Oleomargarine
be required to pay So and take out license,
which was a drive at Senator O'Brien's bill
for the licensing of drinkers, which created
| great amusement.
Senator Wheat expressed great surprise
that the senator from Houston county should
oppose the bill, saying that the great industry
of the southern portion of the state was that
of dairying, and that it should not be brough,
into com petition with the fraudulent article.
The senator then reiterated his statement thai
it was the most fruitful method of imparting
diseases and trichin9. He said that the lard
used was pressed from the hog and not sub
jeeted to heat and contained all the living
animalcule which would Immediately make
themselves at home in the bodies Of theil
new and living host.
Senator Castle strongly advocated the pass
age of the bill and read some interesting sta
tistics as to the extent of the dairy interest:
of Minnesota, and after stating that the state
had taken the sweepstakes for butter at New
Orleans submitted that the bill ought to pass,
and encourage and foster this source of the
states wealth as far as possible.
Senator Biilson said the bill only asked fol
an appropriation Of about half cent per an
mum from each inhabtant to be protected
in the quality of the butter we eat, and al
though bis constituents were only interested
as consumers he was in favor of the bill and
thought it ought to pass.
Senator j. B. Gilfillan favored the passage
of the bill.
The bill was recommended to pass.
CHATTEL MORTGAGES.
The bill relating to chattel mortgages was
amended so as to reduce the fees for filing
such mortgages from twenty to ten cents,
and providing for filing them in the Office Of
the city clerk instead of the Office of the reg
lister of deeds in the cities of st. Paul and
Min neapolis. A hot fight then took place
regarding the time when chattel mortgages
shall expire on growing grain. Some of the
senators were of the opinion that the lender
of money ought to be wide awake enough
not to allow the mortgagor to haul away and
sell wheat to elevators without letting the in
nocent purchaser know that there was an in
cum brance upon It, One argument used
was that wheat ticket ought to be negotiable
! and as good as bank note when once
signed BY an elevator manager. Any other
state of affairs would tend to depreciate their
value, and the honest grower of wheat was the
sufferer in the end.
The other side of the question is that il
lessened the chances of needy farmers to get
advances of money upon their growing
grain, as money lenders would be unwilling
to part with their wealth without a good pros
| pect of getting it back again with interest.
After further discussion the fees for filing
were reduced to ten cents in counties, and
the time for the law to go into effect was
fixed at May l, 1885, and the bill was rec
commended to pass.
The committee then arose.
THE RAILROAD BILL AGAIN.
Senator Hickman offered as an amend
ment to the railroad bill section 16 Of the
| house bill. Lost, % TO IA.
Senator Hall moved to amend by strikin 9
out all the bill except that relating to grain
| and warehouse inspection. Lost. The vote
was as follows.