St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-05-12
And Senator DOnnelly Afield
With Bad Blood in His
Eye.
The Alliance Urged to De-
mand an Extra Legisla-
tive Session.
Sage Charges the Wheat Ring
Has Killed the State Ele-
VatOp
Through the Attorney GEN.
erals Opinion, Which
Knocks 1t Out.
The Alliance is up in arms!

The Alliance is up in arms!
1t claims the wheat ring has stepped
In and euchred the state elevator prof.
ect.
A call has been issued to the several
state alliances to rise up and demand of
the governor an extra session of the leg
islature to right the wrong and enact
such laws as will result in the erection
of a state elevator at Duluth.
1t appears that Attorney General
Child has rendered an opinion which
practically knocks out the state ele-
Yator. The bill provided for an increase
to 80 cents per car for inspecting grain,
and 25 cents per car for weighing it, and
from the fund resulting from the weigh
ing and inspecting the new elevator
was to be built. But now comes the
attorney general. and tells the ware
house commission that no change is
contemplated by the new law, except
upon grain which goes into the new
elevator. In other words, the new ele-
vator cannot be built until it Is paid for
by fees collected from grain going
into it.
Senator Donnelly says of this:
"When this bill was passed it seems
that the elevator ring were red-hOt
with ra ge; they saw that if that ware
house was built their grip on the farm
ers was gone forever, and with devilish
cunning they proceeded to destroy the
work of the legislature and preven the
construction or the state elevator. They
appealed to the attorney general of the
state, and he decided that no change
in the fee for state inspection Of grain
is contemplated in the new law except
upon that which goes into the state
elevator at Duluth. AS the grain can
not 90 into the elevator until it is built,
and as it cannot be built until the
grain goes into it, the result will be
that the elevator will never be built
nor the inspection fees collected"
The Sage of Nininger has dipped his
pen in flaming sulphur, and in the Rep
resentative, the Alliance organ, which
will appear tomorrow. he will print
fiery attack on the wheat ring and its
Vaccinations against the farmer. After
quoting the opinion of the attorney gen.
eral, he will say:
1t will be seen that the attorney
general says that the question sub
mitted to him is, whether the fees for
inspecting or weighing are to be
charged against all graiu or only against
that received at the elevator to be
erected" etc. And he decides that the
"provlsions of the said law apply only
to the regulation of the hand
ling of grain within said elevator"
He goes on to argue that the
bill only applies to the state elevator:
and that the patrons of the elevator are
to be recompensed for the higher rates
of charges on wheat that goaS into the
state elevator las compared with the
charges on wheat that goes into the ring
elevators) by the advantages such ele-
vator will be to theml OF course, there
would be great inducement to send
wheat to the state elevator and pay 70
cents per car rather thar send 1T to the
other elevators, belonging to the
ring, and pay 80 cents per car! OF
course there would! And he kindly
suggests that if these charges are too
high the commissioners can reduce
them, although the law plainly says
those are the minimum charges" In
other words, the state elevator cannot
be built until $4,000 fees are collected
on grain that cannot go into it until it is
built; and ii these charges are not
sufficient to build the elevator they can
be cut down and the elevator built, of
the same capacity, for less sunni Was
a greater traTsStry on law and reason
ever written?
And thus the demands of the farmers
of the whole state are brought to nought
by the elevator ring, assisted by the at
tOrney general of the state!
The daily papers say that the railroad
commissioners are to go at once to Du
ltlth to select site for the state ele-
vator. Good God! What is the use of
a site when the fund is cut oil with
which to build it?
WHAT can be done? Is the robbery to
continue fof two years more? Two
years, be 1t observed, for the people are
denied ami lal sessions; and this Illus
trates the beauties of the biennial sys-
tenn. Is the effort of the farmers, after
fiqhting the bill through both houses
aud securing the governors signature,
to be brought to naught by an attorney,
employed by the people of the state,
paid by the people of the state, to pro-
tect the interests of the people of the
state. called afi attorney general. Words
of wrath and bitterness spring to our
tongue, but we suppress them, so care
full are we not to do injustice.
We call upon Gov. Nelson TO right the
great wrong. We cannot believe that
he has consented TO this action of his
subordinate.
We call upon the alliances to meet
everywhere and pass resolutions de-
nouncing this outrage upon the people,
and calling upon the governor to not
permit the law to be Qyerridden in this
way. Let town meetings be held in
every village. And If there is no other
remedy we hope such clamor will go
up for an extra sessron of the legisla-
ture to amend the law, as will compel
the executive to call one at once.
Is the state owned by the people or
the wheat rings?
Is free government to be forever made
farce and moekery?
Not less than 80 cents buShel is
stolen off every bushel of wheat sold in
the state of Minnesota by the ele vator
ring.
The state elevator would end all this.
The ring knows it. Are you ready to
submit? Have you the spirit of tree
men or the souls of slaves?
Don't let them tell you in Southern
IhlllutSOtd th1O IuO oIotO Ci0 0'otVl OiitJ
concerns the Red river valley. If the
price Of wheat is raised at Duluth 1T is
raised at Minneapolis and throughout
the whole Northwest.
Let the farmers arise in their might
and denounce this rascality.
The Minneapolis Tribune, published
in the rings headquarters, un lerstands
this thing as we do. 1t says:
This CONSTRUCTION Of the law will IN