St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-01-07


at all stations platforms for the con-
venience of shippers desiring TO load
carloads of grain without any previous
warehousing, and to take and transport
all grain SO offered and as offered.
Receipts for Grain.
"Fourteenth-We demand OF the state
administration to enforce the existing
| law, which provides that the railroad
companies shall receipt for the exact
| amount Of grain in each carload, and to
account for the same at the place or
| destination, less forty-five pounds per
| car for wastage.
"Fifteenth-Thatw we favor the initla-
| tive and referendum, whereby the peo-
| pie may have the privilege of introduce
| ing and ratifying all legislation.
"SiXteenth-We demand that tie gen.
eral government shall build, and operate'
| in the interests of the people, q
Railway Trunk Line
| from the head Of Lake Superior to Gal
weston, Tex. And we further demand
that deep-watrr navigation be provided
| by the government from Duluth to the
Atlantic ocean without any unnecessary
delay.
Observation-Disclosures we are opposed
| to the assumption of private obligations
by the state, or any further appropria-
| tons for worlds fair purposes.
"Eighteenth-Tha we favor the eX-
tension of the right of suffrage to
| women"
supplementary Resolutions.
A separate resolution was also pre-
sented, demanding the opening Of the
worlds fair on Sunday. This resolution
was fought by few on the ground that
| the Alliance had nothing to do with the
fair. 1t had declared against further
appropriations for MinneSota'S worlds
fair exhibit and could not, therefore, as
sumo to dictate to the worlds fair man
ayers. Our members OF congress-"
PETER and Simpson, had voted to close
the fair or Sunday and should not be
| slapped ill the face. After long de-
bate, the resolution demanding an open
| Sunday went through with a Wh00p.
A resolution commencing the work Of
| the tax convention and indorSDg all its
recommendations, save the one for tax
commission and the one relating to
| taxation OF personal property, was also
| presented. The farmers were so haZy
OH the tax conventions work that the
| question was referred back to the com
mittee. A resolution on oleonargerine
and butterlne went back for correction.
n. 5. Edwards presented resolution
of protest against John S. Pillsbury's
| pet scheme-the creation of two more
supreme court judgeships and the APP
| p0IntmenJ of supreme court judges ny
the governor. DOnnelly explained that
this Pillsbury plan was scheme OF the
| mOnOpOiiStS to lessen the influence OF
! the two supreme court judges elected
last fall. Edwards resolution was
unanimously adopted.
The Alliance also adopted a resolution
calling for public debates OH important
questions. The Alliance, through its
executive committee. will challenge all
the political parties 10 debate the pOlti-
cal questions now demanding attention,
| the debates TO occur in st. Paul this
| winter.
For ana Open Market.
r. j. Hall, representing the state
grain growers association, presented an
Important question to the convention in
the form OF q memorial and petition TO
the state legislature. This memorial
| protests, i'll the beginning, against the
erection OF a S3,000,000 capitol at this
! time. The present capitol is good
enough, it says, ard the resources of
the state and the condition of trade and
| agriculture do not warrant any such
| outlay. The meat of this memorial,
| however, lies in the passages devoted
TO railways, elevators and markets.
The great need of the state, the
memorial says. is a free market. The
| right of the people to access to the rail
and waterways of the state on equal
terms has been practically denied and
trampled under foot. During the season
of navigation the commercial advantages
Of Minnesota should be nearly equal
those OF Illinois. Under free market,
the prices at local stations in Minnesota
should be nearly, ii not quite, equal TO
prices at local stations i'll Illinois. AS
matter of fact, the difference is so
! great that the legislature should con-
slider it. The opportunities for reach
| ing the markets of the world from Du-
! luth and Chicago are almost identical.
The market price of wheat at Duluth
and at Chicago should be almost the
same. On the contrary, the Chicago
price for wheat averages six cents a
bushel above the price in Duluth and
Minneapolis. The memorial adds:
Elevators at Suluth
at is proven fact that the rate of
| freight on wheat from the interior OF
Minnesota (say Moorhead) to the sea-
board for expert during navigation is 10
cents per hundred pounds less by way
of d uluth than by way of Chicago. Yet
the farmer gets no benefit from this
shorter and cheaper route. 1t is clear
that Duluth ought TO make the price;
whereas, Chicago does make the price,
and of course bases it on the longer
route. This fact alone accounts for the
difference of six cents per bushel be-
tween the price of wheat at Duluth and
Chicago. While at the same time it
procaims to the world that the market
at Duluth is not free. 1t follows natur-
| olIy if nuinth TnarIyat lie
not free and open, no primary
market tributary thereto can be
free and open. Lake Superior is,
therefore, the true objective point.
There are no public elevators at Du-
luth. The law providing for public
warehouses is entirely ignored by the
corporations owning and managing the
elevators, and who assume to provide
storage for, and control shipments Of all
grains passing through the port of Du-
luth. We therefore petition your hon
Orable bodies to provide system of
warehouses on Lake Superior. with a
storage capacity OF not less than 10000
600 bushels, in which all gram shall be
stored at cost. and the warehouses so
arranged that each shippers grain shall
be kept separate when presented in
quantities OF not less than one carload,
so that each owner can control his own
identical grain while in store.
HOW Operated.
While the state is asked to erect, own
and control the said system of ware
houses, we propose that it shall reim-
burse itself Tor every dollar it eXperds
Tor constructing, operating and main
tanning the same, by a system of fees
upon all grain passing through the said
houses, in manner similar TO the
method now prevailing in the weighing
and inspection department. of the state.
We Furthermore ask that the rules
and regulations to be adopted for the
management of the said warehouses,
Shall be so framed as to foster individ-
nal buying and shipping, and toprevent
it being diverted to the uses of those
whoses aim is to obstruct free market
for their own gain.
We also request that it be made the
duty absolute of all railway corporations
to provide at all stations side track
facilities sufficient to accommodate all
persons desiring to erect and maintain