St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-03
CANNING,s RECORD.
His Work in the House During the
Session Of 1885.


Gen. Barrett gives Mr.. CanningSs
record in the legislature in 1855 in the
following concise form:
1t was at that session that the men,
Orable contest took place between the
monopolists and the people for the con-
troll of the markets of the state. The
result of that, attempt TO corral the
wheat of the Northwest was the enact
ment of the present grain law. The
wheat ring, backed by the railway mag
mates. demanded that all grain houses
should be bonded, and that they should
have the exclusive right to handle
grain.
What part Mr.. Canning took in that
fight the following extracts from the St.
Paul Pioneer Press and Dispatch will
show:
From the Pioneer Press of Feb. 6, 1885.
Mr. Canning. Il member of
the house committee, has persistently and
with all the characteristic Scotch 0bstinacy
insisted that any bonding OF licensing of the
outside warehouses would be equivalent to
the continuance of the present monopoly.
He has fought vigorously and persistently
for free warehouses i'll the country, and i'll
this has been seconded by Mr.. FLYNN Mr.
mittee.
The st. Paul Dispatch of March 6,
1885, in speaking of the passage of the
new grain law, has this to say:
s. To Mr.. Canning is doubtless due
pre-eminently the credit above any other in
dividual for the law. IN season and out, he
pressed always on the one object. And sup
porting him with earnest cooperation were
Messrs. Hush, Flynn and Teubert, while Mr..
Mcguire fell into line. Mr.. Muzzy felt it his
duty to stand out to the last. s. g
How the grain law has affected the
markets of Minnesota, let the following
extract from Minneapolis paper make
plain:
From the Minneapolis Tribune of Sept. TO-
'SS:
could all the No. 1 hard wheat
now being harvested and threshed be secured
at home there would be scarcely any shortage
bul portion of it is already moving east
ward. almost in q straight line for Liverpool.
This is causing some apprehension, as it is
well known, that the foreign demand for
hard spring wheat has increased very mate
rally during the past year. and should even
the present outward movement be kept up
that particular grade will be in very limited
supply at the close of the current year.
'.There has been some talk of combina-
ton among millers for the purpose of secur-
igg supply of the hard wheat and control
ling the entire crop but. with the existing
laws and the agricultural tendency of late
legislation, any control of the grain crop, eX
ccpt by actual purchase, is almost an impos
sibility.' =
The Minneapolis Tribune under
stands how the Minneapolis millerS' in
terests are affected by the grain laws
il is good authority on that subject.
According to that paper, under ''eXist-
ing laws" the miliers must buy the
wheat if they wish to control it. What
an outrage on the honest miller!
Had the country elevators been
bonded and all grain dealers licensed,
as the wheat ring attempted to force
upon the people by law, the farmer
must have deposited his wheat in their
clutches (bonded country warehouses;
before selling it, taken receipt there
for, and then the millerS could have
controlled the wheat without being put
to the disagreeable necessity of first
buying it.
But, fortunately for the agricultural
interests, and all other interests except
monopoly, Mr.. Canning was Oh the
grain committee, and that ubiquitous
measure. after most extraordinary
contest, was defeated.
And now, disregarding ali party ties,
the members of the wheat ring and
monopolists of every grade and of every
party, will oppose Mr.. Canning-de-
nouncing him because they fear him.
In the contest between the railway