St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-07-03

yer, and said he was not in the habit of
weighing screenings.
..What does a car of wheat weigh?" asked
Mr.. Erwin, after the witness had said that
screenings sometimes weighed as high as
10000 pounds.
From $50 bushels to 1913 bushels"
YES but the S33 bushels is an extraordi-
nary load?''
lit can be put in the Manitoba cars, and
about 7e0 in most cars
Forty thousand pounds Of screenings is
more than an ordinary load of wheatt"
Witness thought 1t was. He de-
scribed the manner of loading screen
ings. Usually car is loaded heavier
than wheat. When he weighed out
screenings he never followed them to
the cars, but he had seen cars loaded.
'If loaded the same as wheat. and as heavy
as wheat it must be pretty nearly all
wheat?" asked Mr.. Erwin.
Witness replied that he was not
speaking of all the cars he had seen
loaded. He didn't know how high they
were loaded, but those he did see were
a little higher than wheat.
Then screenings are pretty heavy?"
''They will weigh about as much as wheat.
think wheat a little the heaviest, although
cookie is heavy"
This reply provoked deal of merri-
ment among the members of the grain
growers association.
A. w. Sylvester, a private inspector
in the employ of A. j. Sawyer q Co.,
testified that he saw all wheat shipped
out by his employers in Duluth. Some
times he discovered wheat being
shipped that was dirty. He called the
attention of the state inspector TO the
occurrence, and it was shut off.
In the cross-examination by Mr.. Err
win, the witness exhibited the fact that
he knewvery little about the operations
of his employers. A wrangle enSued
between the attorneys that consumed
considerable time. Mr.. Severance
thought the prosecution should be alb
brevated in crOSs-examinati0ns, as he
had considerable evidence yet to intro
duce and the hour for adjournment was
near at hand.
Il don't know what the combine wants to
spring on US in the closing half hour" dryly
remarked Mr.. Erwin. This is the first time
we have been able to get hold of one of these
Sawyer fellows that have been saving things
so etfectually, and l think we can get con-
siderable information"
The witness testified that
Some of the Wheat
is shipped in the name of Sawyer & Co.,
and some A. J. Sawyer. Sometimes the
wheat is mixed.
rs it not in the interest Of Sawyer to ship
just as much dirt in his wheat as will pass
Buffalo and New York;"
Il don't know Ny orders were not to al
low dirty wheat shipped"
rs it not for Sawyer's interest to dock as
much as posSiblef"
Perhaps"
why do you keep watch over the state
inspectors If you do not think they are
rotten?'
Its my duty"
r. H.
dirty wheat that the inspectors blindly
pass?'
Yes"
Here another forensic controversy
occurred over the introduction of an
affidavit presented by Daniel A. ChriSty.
Mr.. Erwin strenuously objected. The
affiant had been witness before the
committee. His evidence was taken,
and the intention of the affidavit eX-
parte is to repudiate that testimony.
1t is against every rule of evidence.
Chairman Gessel explained that
Christy had not been cr0ss-examined,
ard the affidavit could be read. Mr..
Childs said it was an irregular proceed
ing, but, inaSlnuch as ChriSty can be
called at any time, he thought it might
go in.
Mr.. Erwin declared that the commit
tee would stuItify itself If it permitted
a man who had testified to certain facts,
with the books of the company before
him, to make an affidavit impeaching
that testimony, and the contest grew
quite breezy, in which Severance de-
clared that Mr.. Erwin was not compli-
mentary to the committee.
= MIR. Barrett moved that Mr.. Christy
be subpenaed, and ordered to produce
the books on Jan. 5. After a spicy de-
bate the motion prevailed.
Mr.. Smith explained that he wanted
MeSsrS Fillsbury, Sawyer, Chambers,
Petit, Peavy and Irons subp6naed with
their books, so as to sift the Minneap-
oils cases.
At the hour for adjournment Mr..
Hartman presented himself. He de-
manded the right to be sworn that he
could refute a newspaper story that
while he was the general agent for
the st. Paul Pacific road at Duluth
he accepted $50 for making secret ship
ments. 1t was the story of C.. d. Patter-
son before the committee, and it had
been printed in New York papers. This
created a great hubub. If he were al
lowed to testify all the other witnesses
asked for a like chance-even Eric Oh
son-and Mr.. Hartman became indig-
nant and said he could not suffer his
name to be coupled with Olson's. With
out further action than reading the
newspaper clipping complained, of the
committee adjourned.