St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-04-12
might have ascertained, had il asked for
the information.
COMRINE AdNAD AGAIN,

When the governors bill" was being
dis 'uSsed, fierce onslaught was made
it by the farmers of the house, who
de Jared that the seat of the trouble was
at the terminal elevators. The act of
1885 was in terms, but not in fact. in
tended to apply TO these, but as it was
left optional with their owners TO say
whether they would make their elevators
public or not, the result was that about
all of those which did take 4 license
soon dropped it, and were thus without
the supervision of the state commission.
In reply TO the attacks of the oppo-
nents OF the country elevator bill, the
assurance was given tnat bill was be-
ing prepared which would subject the
terminal elevators to the regulation of
the grain and warehouse commission,
just as the pending bill put ali the in
terror elevators. This Silenced that OBJ
lection, though it did not remove the
opposition TO the governors BILL"
When the terminal bill was taken up
an opposition to it from unexpected
quarters sprung up. Some of the sup
porters of the governors Dill suddenly
discovered that this bill was an outrage
on the rights of men to pursue unbin-
dered any egitimate.vocatiOn. The bill
was unconstitutional. too. The man
aver of one of the terminals, who has
had a good deal Of experience lately
with Legislators, entered actively into
the contest to secure its defeat. His
companies would fight the law if en-
acted, because it infrlnged their conSti
tutiunal rights. Just what these are, he
did not mention, but the GLOBE, recall
ing past experience, surmises that they
are the right of d0ckage or the right of
average. Possibly it was the right to
play the mock philanthropist by ship
ping out the averages and calling them
''bin-burnt" grain, shipped out clan
destinely ''to save the reputation of the
wheat of the state"
Good care was taken to hold back the
terminals bill until the governors
bil' was safely housed in the secretary
of states Office with all the signatures at
tached that would make ii statute; and
| then JACOBSON, who had been playing
cat to the governors monkey, was al
lowed to bring Oh his bill. 1t was cod
died along smoothly until it got onto
the calendar, and then it was taken
down and stranglcd in the orthodox
manner, lacking seventeen votes Of
enough to permit its passage.
The combine has now what it has
been working for ever since 1888. 1t
then wanted to put the country eleva-
tors under supervision, but the farmers
in 1885 were strong enough to defeat
that, and put the terminals in their
place. Now it has succeeded. The
terminals are as free as they wish to be,
! and the country elevators are tied up a
little tighter than ever in the grasp of
the combination.
The farmers of the state last fall were
set in revolt by the assault of the Demo
Gratis on the grain ring. They were
placated by the promise that the Repub-
licans would fix things for them. The
elevator interests became alarmed.
They put their men and money into the
legislative contests. They won. They
have given the farmers now the PROM
ised remedy-free terminals, tied prl-
maries. How do the farmers of the
state like it? Can they be fooled al
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