The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-31
HILLS TO ANDREWS
STATE RAILROAD COMMISSION AN
SWERS DIR. ANDREWS LET
TER AT LENGTH
FILES A GENERAL DENIAL

Judge Mills Intimates That the
Moorhead Man Figured From
False Premises to False COnclu-
sions-He Thinks His TOWnsman
should Have Come to the Recent
Hearing With His rIalnt.
After several days earnest thought,
the state railroad and warehouse COM
mission has answered the letter of DR..
.. K. Andrews, of Moorhead, and that,
100. Voluminously. The answer is over
the signature of Judge Ira B. Mills,
but occasionally there can be detected
the fine Italian hand of Chief Grain
Inspector a. 9. Clausen.
The letter follows:
JUDGE MILLS REPLIES.
State Of Minnesota, Office of the Railroad
and Warehouse Commission, 612-616 Enid
colt Building, st. Paul Mimi, Oct. 90 1898.
DR.. Q. e. Andrews, Moorhead Minn.-Dear
Sir: am in receipt OF your letter of the
1t is not my intention either now or in the
future 10 enter into any controversy with
you on the subject of your letter. You made
some statements therein which l am quite
sure you would not have made if you had
more fully investigated the questions You dis
clSS.
AS to the character of your committee,
Ieither myself nor any member Of the COM
mission have said anything publicly or pri-
N3tely upon that question know you all 10
he men of character and standing; at the
same tine l am not prepared TO say that you
personally know all the facts set forth in
YOUR report. On the contrary, l am or the
opinion that you did not know all of such
facts and I base this upon the proposition
that you confined your Investigations TO a
very limited area and did not take the trouble
TO go TO the terminal points or ask OF this
commission any information whatever. 1t
would be quite impossible therefore for the
committee to personally know all the facts
stated in your report.
You complain about the commissioners re-
port but do not contradict any fact therein
stated SO far as the facts stated are re-
ierred to by you, they are admitted, either
expressly or by implication, to be true.
l ought to- correct misrepresentation under
which you appear to labor as to the scope OF
our Investigations and as result OF the near
ing held at this office on the 18th Of Septem-
Der. The commission up to the time or the
receipt of your letter OF the goth OF October
have never received one word OF complaint
either from you or from any members of your
committee or from any one who attended the
meeting at which your committee was ap-
pointed on the subject Of grain inspection
LOOKED FOR VOLUNTEERS.
AS the law delegates to this commission the
power to make a legal investigation Of all
abuses connected with the inspection Of grain,
We had a right to believe, from the extent
to which our hearing advertised, that il
you or any one else had any complaints
which ought to be investigated, they would
be presented either in person at the mest-
ing or by letter through the mails. AS this
was not done, we did not advert to the COM
plants before the committee further than &c
say that the complaints which resulted il
the calling Of such meeting, not being laid
before this commission, could not be erectu-
ally inquired into
/ wish TO say further that up to this tim:
you have not honored this commission wi
a copy Of your report, and the only informa-
ton l have OF its contents has been objatnei
from the daily newspapers.
Wheat is grown in all parts Of this state
and our meeting of SEPT. Is was held fol-
the purpose of hearing complaints from wher
ever they might come and st. Paul, by rea-
son of its railroad facilities, is much more ac-
cessible to the larger number of crested
parties than any place in the Red river val
icy. The law authorizes the inspection OF
wheat at the terminal points in earl al lots
and the inspection department has no au-
thority to inspect it in the country, in the
farmers granaries or other sto. ehouses.
In your letter you state that STATES south
of US have no officials to inspect wheat; in
another place every other state in the Unioc
gets along without any such law" In thi;
you are mistaken. There is state inspection
III the state of Illinois at Chicago; in tn;
state Of Missouri at Kansas City, S.. Louis
and St. Joseph in Kansas in Kansas City;
in Nebraska at Omaha.
The above named places are the terminal
markets in rthe states south of us, and all
grain marketed in them is subject to s a e
inspection of the several states indicated
There is also state inspection in the state OF
Washington, and in every terminal market
city in this country where any considerable
amount of grain is marketed, stored or han
died through elevators there is either state
or board Of trade inspection, and all grain
marketed in the West is subject to some one
Of these inspections.
AS TO THE EXPENSE.
If you intend in your letter to say you
pay 80 cents a for Inspecting, you are
mistaken The fee for inspection is Is cents
per car and 10 cents for weighing, while that
charged by the states furnishing similar serv-
ice is much larger, viz: Nebraska, 35 cents
for inspecting and % cents for weighing;
Washington, 80 cents for inspecting: Mis-
souri,, 30 cents for inspecting and 20 cents for
Weighing; Illinois, 25 cents for inspection
Kansas, % cents for inspection and % cents
ior weighing. The weighing in Chicago Is
done under the supervision Of the board of
trade. / make this comparison for your in
formation and for the purpose of removing
any impression CT extravaganza in the depart
ment that the statement in your letter of the
expense of the service might create.
Nearly half of the receipts of the depart
ment is from inspecting and weighing out of
terminal elevators, and is paid by the owners
tiCn.
You charge in your report q quote from the
printed report in the Minneapolis Times)
The truth is that wheat graded No 2 north
ern and below at Duluth is No. hard in
Buffalo" Here again you have been misin-
formed. / have before me a telegram dated
Oct. %, 1885, from C. w. Ball, chief inspector
Of the Buffalo board of trade who super
yises the inspection of all the wheat which
arrives in Buffalo from Duluth, in which he
says: Would state the report that No.
northern wheat at Duluth is graded No. /
hard in Buffalo is absolutely untrue
COCKLE IS BLAMED.
The commission is advised by the chief in
spec;or that there has never been a time
since the creation of the inspection depart
ment that cookie has not affected the grade
of wheat; there may, however have been
years when the whole crop marketed at our
terminals was SO free from cookie that ii
would carry the wheat received containing