The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-02-18
MILL CITY FIGHTS IT.
OPPOSES THE GRINDELAND BILL.
TO REGULATE PRODUCE
COMMISSION MEN
FIGHT is Deferred A WHILE


FIGHT is Deferred A WHILE
Judiciary Committee Is Given Three
Days In Which to Look Into the
Legal Technicalities Involved in
the Biii-Forestfy Reserve Bill
Slipped Through-General Or
ders Were Cleared Up.
* OLE
| Beyond the railroading through of a
memorial asking congress to withhold
Indian lands in Northern Minnesota
from sale until June !. 1902, introduced
by Senator Wilson Rep.) Hennepin,
and the opening of a fight on the COM
| mission mems license bill, introduced
by Senator Grindeland Rep), of Nor
man, there was little to relieve the
tedium of the senate session.
The Wilson bill is ostensibly for the
purpose of holding the forestry lands
in the vicinity of the proposed reserve
until it's completion can be accom-
| plished.
Senator Grindeland told why he re-
tanned the stringent provisions with re-
gard to grain men and eliminated
them with regard to produce dealers.
There was no reason why the commits
SIGN men should not give bonds and
come under the jurisdiction of the rail-
road and warehouse commission 1t
was no reflection upon their integrity.
In all business occupations, persons oc-
cupying positions of financial respon-
sibiity were required to give bonds.
There was precedent for the bill in the
act requiring warehouse men. to give
| bonds. In his opinion the bill was an
entirely just one. 1t afforded ADEQUATE
protection to the shippers and would
| not prove irkSOme to the commission
men.
Senator Wilson (Rep), of Hennepin,
said the bill was one of several which
had increased the power and work of
| the railroad ard warehouse commits
sion. There was no justification, either.
for compelling a man to make a pub
lie report of his business 1t was i'm
practicable for the elevators and mills
| buying actual wheat to make the re-
ports which this bill would require The
elevator and grain dealers of Mime
apolis We're honest men. The losses
sustained by the farmers of the, north
| ern part Of theh state were due. in
chief, to the failure of a former Repub-
lican governor of, North Dakota who
had gone into the grain business at
West Superior without knowing any
thing about 1T.
Senator DAILY (Rep), of Otter Tail,
said that the statement of the senator
from Hennepin as to the honesty of
elevator men in Minneapolis was a
revelation to him, and did not agree
with his office files which showed a
number of cases against these dealers.
Senator Meilicke PopD, Of Cotton
wood, said that the bill was asked by
the farmers, who had lost thousands
of dollars through rending their prod
ucts to alleged dealers, who, when they
came to collect, could not be found
| At the suggestion Of Sena tor Shee
han (Rep), Ramsey, the bill was re-
ferred to the judiciary committee for
consideration of its legal aspects, with
instructions to report within three
days.
CHANGED IT SLIGHTLY.
The bill Of Senator Greer Rep), Of
Wabasha, providing for a board of
equalization was amended so as to in
clude cities up to 5000 population.
TANGLED BOND BILL
Senator Buchanan Rep), of Morri-
son, made an eloquent appeal in be-
half of an amendment to the Hennepin
county delegation's bill for the legal
izing of the bonds issued for a bridge
near Shingle creek. He said that, if
the word bridge was struck out, 1T
would afford great relief to the people
of Little Falls, who were endeavoring
to secure the issuance of bonds which
We're being opposed on the ground that
the law was unconstitutional.
Senator Wilson Rep), Hennepin,
said the bill was supposed to apply
merely to the Minneapolis bridge as
did Senator MCGOWAN Dem), Henne-
| pin.
Mr.. Buckman's amendment was lost
16 to 49,
WHEATON BILL FAVORED.
| The civil rights bill introduced in
the house by Mr.. Wheaton Rep), Of
| Hennepin, was recommended for pas
sage on division, without debate.
NO MORE GEORGIA MARBLE.
Senator Brewer Rep9, Of Stearns
made a speech for his bill to compel
the use Of Minnesota stone in build
ings hereafter to be built by the state
of Minnesota.
Senator Benedict Rep9, Of Blue
Earth Senator Ives Oem.), of Ram
sey, and Senator Baldwin Dem), Of
! ST. Louis, also spoke in favor of the
bill.
THESE FOUND FAVOR.
Other bills recommended for passage
were the Wilson bill, fixing the penal
| ties for offenSes against women; the
Wallace bill, to protect bicycle paths;
the Hennepin bill; the Schaller and
McNamee bills, to put the Sons of Her
mann and Modern Woodmen on the
same basis with other fraternal COM
panies; the Brewer bills, relating to the
rules of the state reformatory, and the
Baldwin bill, providing for the parole Of
men convicted of non-support of their
wives and children.
TO RETIRE TEACHERS.