The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-03-26
ion at Fergus Falls, created quite

ton at Fergus Falls, created quite a
sensation in the house last Saturday
and led to the appointment of a special
committee to investigate the conduct of
Sergeant-at-Arms Plowman, who was
in charge Of the junket and is supposed
to have contracted for the supplies
Clerk Smalley was called upon to pro-
duce the bill, but replied that he had
lost it and was Of the opinion that it
was a fake Representative Nc
Grath, of Winona, then produced a
copy of the Princeton UNION from
which he read the itemized bill men
toned above amid roars of laughter
from the members. Clerk, Smalley
testified that it was an exact copy Of
the bill which he had received, and on
motion of Mr.. r. Cole, the Investigate
ing committe was appointed. 81
AS a sample of the wildcat Alliance
legislation, Mr.. Wagner, of Kittson
county, introduced a bill Friday which
took the cake. 1t is about as remark
able in character as Dean Swift's
Modest Proposal'', wherein the fam
Gus satirist suggests as a solution of the
difficulties of Ireland that the children
of the peasantry be killed and sold as
meat in the public markets in order to
prevent a national famine. Mr.. Wago-
ner's bill is not as cold blooded as the
late Mr.. Swift's proposition but it is to
say the least most humorously modest.
He proposes in brief to appropriate
500, 900, by levying a one mill tax on
all the taxable property in the State in
1892 and 1898, for the purpose of con-
structing two grain elevators, one at
Duluth, and the other at Hamline on
the State fair grounds, each to have a
capacity of not less than 100000 BUSH
els of wheat. These elevators are to be
public or bonded warehouses and are to
be used for storing the grain of the
farmers in any quantity of not less than
one car load. The work is to be super
intended by a board of commissioners,
who are designated in the bill, and
subsequently the elevators are to pass
under the control of the railroad and
warehouse commissioners. The rate
of charges, which is to be fixed by the
railroad commissioners, is to be upon
the basis Of paying five per cent. inter-
est on the capital invested and the
operating expenses. Another bill pre-
pared by the farmers was introduced
by Representative Bull, of Wright
county, several weeks ago. It provides
for the creation of board of commits
sioners of agriculture. The board is
to have general supervision Of the af-
fairs of the State Agricultural Society,
the Agricultural College and all agri-
cultural interests under State control
The usual biennial attack upon the
agricultural college has been begun
la special committee has been appointed
ito Investigate it's affairs and a bill has
been introduced to separate it and the
college OF mechanic arts from the State
university, and place the two institu-
lions under the charge OF a board of IS
trustees to be appointed by the gov
ernor. This board is instructed to Sc
lect new site and proceed to the cree
ton OF new buildings and the appoint
ment OF new corps of teachers. EX-
Senator Hixon, who has long been the
champion of a move OF this kind, is in
St. Paul lobbying for the bill. He
AYERS that the city is no place for the
education of country boys, and further
asserts that his son has been on the
swift road to hell ever since he entered
the university three years ago. He be-
lieves that, if the agricultural COLLEGES
were located somewhere in the vicinity
Of Willmar, that the students would be
exempt from red-curtained bagnios and
tin horn gambling joints. There will,
however, be powerful arguments ad-
duced to show that Col. Hixon is incor-
rect in his reasoning and that his son
would have probably gone to hell in
any event, whether he had attended
school in Minneapolis or Willmar. Car
rington Phelps, chairman of the ALI
ance State Central Committee, who was
a member of the special committee ap-
pointed by the Alliance convention to
Investigate the relations of the agricul-
tural college to the State university, is
q complete convert to the plan of pre-
serving the union of the two institu-
tions as it at present exists. Mr..
Phelps together with ex-Gov. J. S.
Pillsbury appeared before the commit
tee on agriculture, to which the bill
was referred, and made strong pleas in
behalf of the present system, showing
conclusively that none of the funds be-
longing to the agricultural college and
Eaccruing from the grants of land from