St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-27
The Farmer Sentiment Push
ing the Measures For
ward Toward Success.
Minneapolis Gets Her State
Park Without Serious
Trouble.
Senators Actually Find Time
to Do a Good Days
Work.

no question llldl Is 10 COiliG utlOl0 tiit
legislature that will excite so much
public interest, and which is now rous-
ing the entire farming community, as
the Forbes and Scheffer meat inspection
bills. Neither bill has been acted upon
yet. although the one in the house is
fayorably commended to pass, and the
Judiciary committee will report to-day
or tomorrow. The chief points of the
measures, as claimed by their authors
and Gen. Cole, are: An exercise by the
state of its police powers to protect the
consumer from diseased meat slaugh-
tered in Kansas City or Chicago and
sold in Minnesota without home
sanitary inspection, and the ell
couragement by home protection of
the now tagging industry of
stock raising, incidentally thereby
benefiting the home plants for the
Strengthening and dressing of beef,
pork, mutton, etc. The bills are es-
sentially Minnesota measures. and
would make. if passed, it is claimed,
home market, where now the producer
is forced to ship to Chicago or Milwau-
kee, and to be at the mercy and dicta-
ton of the Big Four trust. Colorado
has passed such protective measure:
other states are about to. The Mime
sofa delegates to the st. Louis anti
beef trust convention, Oh their return
home, reported favOrably upon the pass
age of such bill.
In the state at large the farmers,
aside from the butchers and Stockmen,
are taking the most interest in the queS-
ton, and through petitions and letters
are bringing heavy pressure to bear
ipSfayor of the bill. The only petitions
that have appeared against it come from
Minneapolis, where public sentiment is
divided. The outside state, with it's
heavy representation in the legislature,
is almost unit for the inspection sys-
tenn. AS will be seen by the interviews
below and taken from leading members
of the house, the main arguments
for the bill are-it is demanded
by the people; it enforces home
protection; it aims to build up a home
industry; 1t shuts out corporate trust
and it is a sanitary protection impera-
lively needed. In the debate that is to
come the bill will dOubtleSsly be amend
ed in some particulars, but its FREEDOM
inant idea is we'll supported now. The
interviews below are taken from MEM
berS representing all of the agricultural
sections of the state and is a fair index
TO the feeling of the house.
Mr.. DUNN am most heartily in favor
of the passage of the meat inspection
bill.
Mr.. Flathers-I shall support the meat
inspection bill. 1t will prove a good
thing for our people.
Mr.. Bari shall vote for the bill be-
cause my constituents desire me to.
Mr.. Smart have received a petition
from one town alone containing over 200
names in favor of this bill. | shall sup
port the measure.
Mr.. Quam-The drift of sentiment
among my people is for this bill. AS
between a home and foreign monop-
oily we will choose the former.
Mr.. Buell-There are two sides to this
question, but think that | shall vote
for the bill.
Mr.. Kelley-My constituents desire
the passage of this bill, and | shall vote
for it. feel that we can better protect
our own interests at home than by hav-
ing them located at Chicago.
Mr.. Taft-My idea is that home pro-
lection is pretty good thing, and that
as an experiment we may well try 1t for
a couple of years. l shall vote for the
bill.
MI. CUuSllIutlilS drG
unanimously in favor of the bill. Our
committee will report ON it at once, !
think.
Mr.. Forbes-You can say that the
farmers of my district honestly and
earnestly desire this bill to pass.
Mr.. Lassow-The idea of home pro-
lection in the bill | am in favor of.
Mr.. Phillips think the majority of
the farmers of my district favor the
bill.
Mr.. Thurber-All of the opinions that
l have been able to get from the farmers
of my district are in favor of this bill.
1t is a good measure.
J. n. JOhnson-You can put me down
as one who will vote for the bill My
people desire it passed, and personally
| am in favor Of encouraging the stock
raiserS of our state.
Mr.. Faricy-With some features OF
the bill slightly amended shall vote
for it.
II. Ii. WilSon-The idea of the bill
suits me, but in its present form | de-
sire to see it amended. Home protec-
ton | believe in.
Mr.. CoX-bIy people desire to see this
meat inspection bill passed.
Mr.. Temple-Sentiment among my
constituents is for this bill.
Mr.. James-The farmers have quite
generally approached me and favored
this bill.
Mr.. Damp don't think a man from
my section would dare vote against this
bill. The people are united in their de-
mand that they should receive this
home protection.
Mr.. Sumner-My people are in favor
of this bill-desire the inspection and
the protection.
Mr.. Searle-The central point of the
bill-to protect home lndustries-re.
ceiveS my hearty approval.
Mr.. Maland-The farmers ask fol
this protection and encouragement
and shall vote to it give to them.
Mr.. Hayen-While the people of my
district are somewhat divided On the
bill, there is a strong clement in favor
of its chief merit, to protect Minnesota
Mr.. Brown-The beef raisers of the
state desire the passage of this bill.
Mr.. Stebbins-I received letter from
home butcher supporting the bill.