St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-06-03
PROBING FOR CORRUPTION.
The Wheat Investigation Is Re
sumed at the Capitol.

All the members of the legislative
wheat investigating committee were on
hand at 10 O'Clock yesterday morning.
A request was read from R. j. Hall,
asking that Mr.. Stockwell, of Minneap-
oils, be sent back to Duluth to assist in
completing the work there. This Gre
ated lengthy argument as to the adj
visibility of spending more money on
clerk hire. A vote being taken. it was
decided to send Mr.. Stockwell back to
assist IN eXpediting matters IN Duluth.
Assistant Attorney General Childs in
troduced the testimony given before
the house committee by John Lotus.
Stenographer Shoemaker was placed on
the stand to identify the testimony.
Lotus testified that he was employed
in the elevators as foreman during 1888
and 1889, and had at different times
loaded cars at night when the inspect
orS were not present. The cars were
loaded by order of Supt. Ripley.
Nothing was said about the state in
spector being present. He made the re-
turns to Supt. Ripley in the morning.
lie loaded forty-tive or fifty cars in that
way during January and February. 1888,
the first two months of his employment
at the elevator. No cars were loaded
witness was asked if he had had any
conversation with any one regarding
the testimony after he had been sub
p9naed. He replied that he had. 1t
was with Mr.. Ripley, and the latter
had advised him to tell the truth in the
matter.
The statements of d. A. Christie, agent
of the Lake Superior Transit company,
before the house committee were also
introduced. Mr.. Christie had produced
the books of the committee, showing
the vessels on which the wheat bad
been shipped out during the season of
1856, together with the amount carried
by each boat and the names of the par
ties to whom it was consigned. The
reports covered the shipments made for
the five years from January, 1856, to
January. 1891.
The afternoon session was largely de-
voted to the vOluminOuS CORRESPONDENCE
offered by State Grain Inspector A. C.
ClauSen, between the Lake Superior
Elevator company, of Duluth, and the
railroad warehouse commission. The
admission of this correspondence was
strenuously objected to by w. w. En-
win, but after considerable discussion,
III which Messrs. Moore and Barrett
took part, Mr.. Erwin withdrew his OBJ
was gone through with. The bulk of
them related to certain amounts of grain
disposed of and showed on the face that
the grain inspection for the past five
years had been very disastrous to the
elevator folks. At the conclusion of the
reading of the correspondence Assist
ant Attorney General Childs asked Mr.
Clausen if this correspondence in
Guided all correspondence or conversa-
tian he had had with j. w. Cross, the
Minneapolis inspector He replied:
Yes, sir, this was all that l bad with
Mr., Cross,until just prior to the election,
or rather when an article of length ap-
peared in the Minneapolis Times"
Chief Grain Inspector Clausen ex-
planned at length the details of difficult
ties in the department at Duluth, which
led to the removal OF Deputy J. W.
Cross from Duluth to Minneapolis. The
dlsagreementS between Deputies Full
ton and Cross and the constantly arts
ing dissension in the department as a
result, were given as the reason for the
latters removal.
Correspondence between the chief in
spector and Mr.. Rupley regarding an
article appearing in the Alliance
papers, previous to the election, III rela-
ton to the alleged stealing of wheat,
was also read.
An adjournment was then taken until
10 o'clock this morning.