St. Paul daily globe., 1891-04-18
Sweeping Report Made by s
Special Committee Of the
House.
Grave Insinuations Leveled
at the Elevator Men at the
Head of the Lake.
Vigorous Protest That the
Report Is Ex-Parte and
Unreliable.
The Investigation Is Con-
tinued so That All Sides
Be Given a Show.

The proceedings in the house yester-
day afternoon were the liveliest of the
session.
The Alliance members have backed,
a great deal upon special committee
appointed to investigate certain alleged
wheat deals by the public elevators at
Duluth. Considerable feeling has beeu
raised by the investigation of this COM
mittee, 1t being alleged that it had been
conducted in one-sided manner. The
presentation of the report, therefore,
acted like a dynamite bomb upon the
house.
The special committee was appointed
March 81 ''to investigate whether OF not
10000 bushels of wheat we re taken ou
without inspection from public eleva-
tor in Duluth, and if the same condi-
tions prevail in other public elevators
in this state"
Two reports were presented, major
ity and a minority report.
The majority report was signed by E.
j. Moore, P. E. Barrett and N. G. Cas-
well.
Inv AOllONluS CACClptS olO tohOh
from the majority report:
X. j. Hall was invited by the commit
tee to make statement of information
which had come into his possession in
relation to the subject embraced in the
resolution. He presented to the COM
mittee an affidavit made by G. D. Pat
tenson and NJ. Lynch, showing that
wheat had been taken out of Elevator
'E' at Duluth and billed out as screen
ing, without state inspection, during
February and March, 1889.
Patterson and Lynch appeared before
the commit tee.
On Feb. 1, 1889, Mr.. Patterson. who
was yard master of the n. p. r. r.
company at Duluth, set six ID. S. S. u
Superior and Union Improvement Eie-
vator companies, which were loaded
at night with wheat and shipped to S.
S. Guthrie & Sons. Buffalo. n. Y. Also
that February %, Mr.. Patterson set
six d. s. s. and A. cars with elevator
''E'' belonging to the same company,
which were loaded at night and billed
out as screenings.
Mr.. Lynch correlated both to the
loading being done at night, and Sc
cretly.
j. l. Thomas, agent of the D. S. c.
q A. Railway company, produced the
yard switch slips and the waybill copy
ing books of that road between Jan. l,
1889 and March 81, 1889, and exhibited
the waybill copying book III evidence,
which showed that on Jan. IS George
Ripley shipped to s. S. Guthrie & Sons,
Buffalo, n. Y, car 1874, containing a.
600 pounds, billed screenings. and car
26614, loaded with 10000 bushels (cor-
rected to $4,000 bushels), billed screen
ingS. Feb. l, cars 3605, 3797, 1858, 4O1S,
1888 and 1907, billed to S. S. Guthrie
d Sons, each containing $4,000 pounds
bulk screenings; Feb. z, ) cars contain
ing $4,000 pounds each, billed as screen
ings; Feb. %, 8 cars containing $4,000
pounds each billed as screenings:
March s, cars containing $4,000 pounds
billed as screenings; March II, cars
containing $4,000 pounds each, billed as
screenings; March 15, 9 cars containing
$4,000 pounds each billed as screenings;
March %, 9 cars containing $4,000
pounds. billed as screenings.
The car numbers. with one or two eX-
ceptionS, cOrresponded with those given
by MessrS. Lynch & Patterson.
John LOTUS, now night foreman of
Elevator IL, Lake Superior and Union
Improvement Elevator companies, in
1889 temporary foreman of Elevator E,
said he
Worked at Night
in January, February and March. 1885,
with crew of eight or nine men. He
received an order from Mr.. Rupley. su-
perintendent, to load the cars at night.
and it was understood that the cars
were to be loaded without the state in
Spector and state Weigher being there
He received from Mr.. Rupley double
time as compensation for his night
work, and it was understood that this
matter was to be kept secret by himself
and crew.
Leopold Ario, watchman, knew cars
were loaded from elevator "E'' in Feb
ruarY, 1889, at night without rate in
spectiOn or state weighing. The car
goes were loaded with wheat and
marked screenings"
Chiet Deputy Grain Inspector Fulton.
of Duluth, testified to the non-inspec-
ton of this cargo.
Mr.. Ario. recalled, said in 1888 the
vator ii twenty cars in the night OH the
Northern Pacific cars, without the
knowledge of the state weigh
master, and that the cars were
screenings" Mr.. Rupley. superin-
tendent, and Mr.. Marvin, assistant su-
perlntendent, were present at the time
of shipment. Foreman Sharvey told the
men that if any one asked what they
were doing down there at night to tell
him ''that they were loading out screen
ings." Mr.. Ario further testified that
IN 1856 he knew of boats which carried
from Elevators E and T 2OO,O bushels
of wheat, and further that these were
almost all Transit line boats.
The books of the transit company
and the state inspectors were compared
for the years 1856 to 1891. From such
comparison it appears that on Jan. "a,
1886, the inspectors books showed in
spected on propeller B. w. Blanchard
31,O23 bushels of wheat, but the books of
the transit company gave 3S. .023 bushels,
the propeller thus carrying aWay 1000
bushels of wheat on which there is no
record of Inspection.
The inspectors books show that Oh
July 1, 1856, there was inspected into
the propeller Japan, 490.3O bushels No.
2 northern, 2,629.50 bushels No. 2 North
ern, 2.649.40 condemned. S62 10 rejected.
1,079.10 rejected, special bin. 5,97O. 40
No. 2 northern. 1,4S6 No. northern.
1,53S.20 no grade, 600 no grade, special
bin, and 62S.30 No. 8, 1,S27.20 rejected.
all to the order of George Spencer 81
Co., and also 5,151.40 bushels No. i
white winter, order Of w. W. Davis:
while the books of the Transit company
show that this grain was carried in
three holds, thus miXiGg some of it.
The books of tha state inspector show
that On July Is, 1886. there was inspect
ed in.teu the propeller WinsloW 20. 600