St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-06-05
ALL GRAM NOT INSPECTED,
While in Many Cases the Owner
Does Not Take q RECENT.


Does Not Take a Receipt.
Grain Inspector Clausen was again
placed on the stand yesterday morning
at the re-opening of the wheat investi-
CATION. He was asked to explain how
private warehouses became public ware
houses, and what was done with the
average on hand when they became
public elevators. Mr.. ClauSen stated
that when, at the beginning of season,
private warehouSeman applied for a
license to conduct a public warehouse
he was granted license for one year
and that nothing was done with the
wheat they might have taken in as pri-
yate warehousemen. The warehouse
men assumed the right to ship wheat
that had been inspected in without in
spectIon out. Mr.. Clausen was then
shown several samples of wheat for in
SpectiOn. The first sample exhibited he
termed
Goose Wheat.
and said it would come under the head
OF rejected wheat. Mr.. Severance then
called the attention of the committee to
the fact that Mr.. Ario had graded that
sample as No. l northern. Other sam
pies were produced and characterized
as badly mixed. One sample, the in
spector said, was not only mixed, but
bin-burned, and would have been elassed
as rejected.
Samples Of barley of the black va
rlety were shown Mr.. Clausen, who said
1t stood in the same relation to good
barley as goose wheat stood TO good
wheat. 1t had been imported into this
state and grown in the Southern por-
ton by the Russians, who used it as
or
again called upon to explain the use
of special bins in the public ware
houses. The bins were for the use
Of those who might have a gilt
edged quality of a certain grade Of
wheat, and desire to sell it, also to keep
it from being mixed with damp wheat
The law, he said, required that grain
should be delivered at the same grade
at which it was received, without re-
gard to any Improvement that may have
been made by drying or cleaning it in
the elevator. Thus unless a reinspec-
ton was called for the Eastern men
would get the benefit of the Improve
ment in grade, eXceDt where it was sold
by sample, as is frequently done in
Minneapolis, where they have a sample
market. In Duluth they have no such
market. A reinsDectiOn is only made
upon the certificate of the owner or his
authorized agent that the grade of the
grain has been improved while stored
III special bin. The reinspection can
not result to the advantage of the ware
bouseman In any way. When asked to
interpret the
Meaning eff Section Is
of the inspection law, Mr.. Clausen
said the commission did not consider it
thar n fbat had
been stored III the elevators prior to the
time they became public warehouses.
They inspected out one lot in Minneap-
oils out of courtesy, as the board of
trade inspectors were not there. Not
all the grain received at the Duluth ele-
vatorS had been recelDted for. but it was
a small amount. 1t had all been in
spected and weighed. The owner had
simply neglected to take a receipt The
registrar, the witness thought, had a
memorandum of these cases. 1t was
purely optional with the owner whether
he took receipt or not. The object in
registering the receipts was to give a
value and make them negotiable. As to
the inspection OF outgoing grain Oh the
tracks. Mr. ClauSen remarked that
railroad companies showed no regard
for the rights of the inspection depart
ment. They would catch up cars and
switch them all over town and often
take them out Of town before an oppor-
tunity had been given for inspection of
the grain.
William c. Wells was called before
the committee, but was given no oppor-
tunity to testify at the morning session.
A telegram was received this morning
from the experts at Duluth stating that
they lad just completed the first check
ing and the end was rather indefinite.
AT the afternoon session William
NelG, state WelghmaSter, was Dut on
the stand. lie SAID he attended to all
the weighing personally, AM had never
heard Of any grain being shipped out
without weighing. He never knew of
a vessel taking out more wheat than she
could carry without the wheat being
weighed back into the elevator and
credited to the elevator, 1t was a fire.
quent occurrence for state weighmen
to be transferred from one elevator
to another. and also to West Su-
perior. Mr. Yields testimony was
quite lengthy, aud occupied good share
OF the session: He was followed on the
stand by G. S. FuiTon, deputy inspector
at Duluth. Mr.. Fulton testified that
the books of the elevator and transit
companies showed that number of car
goes OF wheat haQ been shipped out
during 1886, of which the records of the
inspection Office showed no record He
told the committee this afternoon, how
ever, that Mr.. Lynch mad checked up
the books from which these statements
were taken. There were some things
he knew nothing about, he said, as he
had not the books all the time, Sc he
desired to quality some of the answers.
Mr.. Fulton said he was employed by
George Spencer & Co. before he was in
spector, and knew of wheat having
been shipped without inspection.
Howard Starkey. foreman of elevator
d. was examined. He explained the
character Of pocket bins, and said they
were never used during the shipping
season, but only in the winter time.
Regarding the shipment of grain in
1856, he said he never shipped any wheat
without inspection. He knew of none
being shipped without inspection. He
die not even know of one Instance when
wheat was shipped out during his alb
sence from the elevator. The com
mittee adjourned at 5:15 to meet this
morning at 10 o'clock