St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-01-23

state at least $4,000 to get an estimate
on such an amount OF timber that 1t
would consider safe enough to make an
investment on, and after getting it the
company would consider 1t a miracle OF
accuracy if it came within 100000 GOO Of
the actual amount cut. Yet this man
of the OmniScieut mind and the granite
gall graYely submits that within few
days, or weeks at the most, he has
figured out to nicely the amount OF
timber which has been filched from the
public lands III ali this time.
Before this branch OF the subJect is
dismissed the report of the committee
commencing itself should be given in
full. On this branch of the subject the
report eXclaims:
The amount of labor involved in COL
lecting reliable Information upon which
tho foregoing tables are based must be
experienced to be appreciated.
To fail to mention the honest, faith
full service of the woodsmen who have
done this work for US, in many in-
stances at loss to themselves, for the
reason that they could get better wages
from private parties than we were al
lowed to pay, would be doing great in
Justice TO worthy citizens.
How much of our success has been
oCHlChCu lulOuRn LHc pdllSIlts uutlIluS
efforts of Senator w. 5. Dedon. at the
expense of much personal sacrifice and
neglect Of his own affairs, none but The
committee will ever know. To him we
freely accord fall credit for his share OF
the work, and can truthfully say, "Well
done, good aud faithful servant"
And iii view of the item of S4.S3029
for estimating and sealing it might
have pursued the Scriptural quotation a
line farther and added, Enter into thy
reward"
1t may be thought a strange thing
that practical iumOeTmen should have
abandoned their profitable employment
to work for the beggarly pittance paid
by the committee, but the inducement
10 such course will become I'm medi-
ately apparent when it is remembered
that they were TO work in the company
and under the Christening influence of
that patient and untiring genius, Dedon.
1t is a great comfort to reflect that in
these unregenerate days there are still
man VINO are willing 10 quit profitable
employment and work for next TO moth
lng Just Tor the fun of the thing and 10
help DcdOn work up evidence" show
ing that all lumbermen are thieves,
smuggiers and plunderers. These per-
sons should be cherished; there are only
few of them left.
About sixty of the eighty-six pages of
the work are devoted to the work of de-
flaming Matt Clark. who had charge of
the stumpage sales during the admin
lstratiOnS of Auditors Braden and Bier
mann. MIR. Clark does not need, and
probably does not desire, any defense in
this connection. During his iucumben-
cy of the office he collected over 81, l,000,-
600 for the state. and during that lime
the loss to the state by bad debts was
less than half of l per cont of the
amount of sales. During tie commits
tees existence OF two years it
has lost for the state $4,000,
and spent about $4,000 more in deylsing
ways and means of losing the amount
stated This would make q total of
about $40, 600 which the state pays for
the experience acquired by the commit
tee. To be accurate, the amounts are
as follows: Loss by the Itasca Lumber
company case, $500; by the Sheveiin-
Carpenter case, s., 800; expenses of COM
mittee, IS, Sg2 90; total, $2U. S92. 80. If
the committee had been In existence rs
long as Clark was in office, and had been
as active as it was during the two years.
ii would have cost the state close on 10
Si00. 600.
EIie Financial statement
of the committee Is also an interesting
feature of the report 1t does not &C
cupy as much space as some of the other
branches. but it observes that same
nicely as to the odd cent that pervades
the entire work. The statement is as