The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-05-17
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warehouse and another collected of
other wheat. It is all Consolidated"
into one fund and that is turned over
for the construction of the state
warehouse. Attorney General Childs'
view would require two different set
OF fees and two separate funds.
AS the subject is of great import
ance / quote still further from the
Tribune article:
Senator Donnelly said yesterday,
When asked VINO was responsible for
the changes in the original bill:
81 cannot saw exactly who intro
duced section 15 which is the section
causing the trouble. There were
two bills introduced in the senate,
one by Senator Canestorp and the
other by Senator Hompe, and from
these two the warehouse committee
made up compromise bill, which
was reported favOrably to the senate.
Afterward, however. Senator Canes
torp came to me and said that he
thought the bill could not be
passed with the direct appropriation
of $3.50, 600 from the general fund,
which it then embodied, and he asked
if would agree to a clause providing
that the elevator should pay for it.
self, which he thought would cover
all objection. / had no objection,
and when the bill came back with
the amendment [ did not pay any at
tention to it, supposing that it had
been drawn by a capable lawyer and
was all right"
Senator Canestorp had the bill TAX
en- from the General Orders and refer
red to him, and he reported it back,
with amendments, and the bill pass
ed in the shape he reported it. I
would be glad if Senator CanestOrp
would write the REPRESENTATIVE
as to who helped him with the work,
and as to whether the printed bill is
the same he reported to the senate;
and if not by whom it was amended
in the house.
The Tribune continues:
"The senator Donnelly1 said that
he had pointed out that legislative
action should be taken by the calling
of special session of the legislature,
but aside from that expensive and
radical move, which he had no idea
would be undertaken by Gov. Nelson,
this I did not say], there was plenty
of authority for action which would
accomplish the desired result. The
board of warehouse commissioners
had power to increase the inspection
fees on all grain to figure which
4 hni, h1o MD
ly provide an adequate fund. That
could be done by merely putting the
fees back to the old figure, before
they were reduced, or to so cents per
car That rate was an exceedingly
small one anyhow, amounting, as the
senator showed, to but One-twentieth
of one cent per bushel on car lots of
1000 bushels per car. But the Sena-
tor thought that the state had au-
thOrity otherwise. 1t could borrow
the money, and he said he had had
hint to-day that such a proposition
was being considered by Gov. Nelson.
Senator Donnelly said that under the
circumstances the responsibility for
the failure of the law fell in degree
upon the republican state admins
tration, and he thought that the au-
thOrities should make the proper eff
fort to redeem itself. Moreover, the
act itself was mandatory, for the
words of the opening clause of the
law are as follows:
''That there is hereby ordered to be es-
tablished warehouse and elevator of
the total capacity of 100000 bushels of
grain"
Being "ordered," it is claimed by
the senator to be the duty of those
charged with the duty, tO-wit: the
officers of the state, to carry out the
behests of the enacting power.
Att'y-Gen. Childs, when asked
about the Donnelly letter, said that
he did not care to be mixed up in
any controversy and declined to 90
into the question of the new law any
further than he did in his opinion
| furnished to the commission and
printed in the Tribune of May g."
And then the Tribune quotes from
one of the Hennepin members, Mr..
Fletcher, chairman of House Judi
ciary Committee, whose feelings are
naturally on the side of the Elevator
Ring, and he threatens the governor
and the railroad commissioners in
this lively fashion:
He said he did not see how any
safe steps could be taken for going
on with the construction of the ele-
vator. In fact, if he was the attOr-
ney-general, he said, he would see to
it that no such step was taken unless
men wished to incur personal liabil-
ity, as he thought the state commits
sioners would if they went on as now
proposing to do. There is only about
$4,000, he says, in the grain inspec-
tion fund, which can be used. Where
is the rest of the construction and
land purchase money to come from?
To take it from the general revenue
fund would be as illegal as to use the
money of the state for any other un-
lawful purpose. Mr.. Fletcher said
that it looked to him as if the state
commissioners would be personally
liable for any such expenditure, and
for any steps taken by them beyond
the use of the revenue ON hand"
He who sups with the DEVIL"
says the old proverb, "hath need of a
long spoon"
The republicans have been helped
in their campaigns for years past3by
liberal contributions from the wheat
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