St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-01-19
NORTH STATE KICKS.
They Are as Numerous as
Those Of a Georgia
Mule.
WHATEVER is, is WRONG.
The Millennium Would Have
to Skip North Dakota
This Time.
COAL RATES ALL AWRY,
Likewise Insurance Rates and
a Bookful of Other
Things.
COAL RATES ALL AWRY,

BISMARCK. N. D.. Jan. 1S.-The joint
committee on compilation organized to-
day and agreed 10 take up the civil code
first. They assure your correspondent
that they will give all of the seven codes
full consideration and report them in
ample time for suggestions from the at
torneyS of the state after the changes
from present laws are published. In
mentioning the clerks of the committee
yesterday, it was said Hamilton was
secretary of the first compilation COM
mittee. He was its chairman. and is
therefore specially familiar with every
feature of the work of the committee.
During the five years of statehood the
insurance companies have paid into the
state treasury the sum of S103, 1852. while
the expense of the commissioners office
has not exceeded 25 per cent of this sum.
The bill introduced by Representative
Twitchell in relation to the valued pol
icy is causing much excitement in in
surance circles, and it is alleged that
the companies will pull out of the state
if it becomes law. In Ohio it is claimed
the risks written increased rapidly I'M.
der such law. but the losses also in
creased in proportion of 60 per cent un-
der the new system TO 40 under the old.
The new coal rates adopted by the old
board of railroad commissioners are also
meeting with much comment. They
were adopted Dec. 20, but not placed
in the hands of the railroad company
until the last day of the old administers
ton, Jan. Z. Jan. II the new commits
sioners protested against the rates as
being most unsatisfactory, but were in
formed that they were put in force Jan.
10. The Old board expressed the belief
that the
Rates Were Reasonable
and fair to both the railroad and to the
public. Aggressive railroad legislation
is threatened the ditferential between
Dickinson and Sims from 25 to 80 cents
per ton at many points, practically de-
stroying the trade OF the leading coal
interest in the state at all points where
the difTerential is greater than % cents.
They also claim it increases the rates
formerly i'll existence at jamestown 10
cents per ton, making difference of
$500 on a contract to supply coal at
Jamestown, largely to public inStitu-
tons. The legislature OF 1898 fixed
rates, but no attempt was made until
late during the past year to enforce
these rates, aud without waiting for a
decision Oh the case pending in the leg-
islature, which was 10 meet the next
day to take further action, the board
adopted rate actually increasing the
rate to the point receiving the greatest
number of tons of any point on the road.
The board of university and school
lands adjourned today after fou -days
session. They took no action upon the
resignation of Commissioner Williams
nor as to other appointments in his of
flee. They meet again on the last
Thursday in January, when the subject
is likely to come up. They authorized
advertisements for the leasing of cult
waited school lands, aid took necessary
steps for the collection of interest. The
school funds produced over IS per cap
ita during the past year.