The Saint Paul globe., 1899-03-28
STATE MILITIA BILL
CONSIDERED BY THE HOUSE COM
MIT'rEE ON APPROPRIA- ~
TIONS .r3 ..,sse....e. !.
TO HAVE THREE REGIMENTS
A Substitute Bill for That From the
Dairy and Food Department.
Mr.. Staples Takes Hard knock
at the Condition of Things In
Secretary of State Berg's Office
In "a Chaotic State.

The house committee on appropriations
took up the bill relating to the dairy and
food commission department last evening.
AS introduced the bin provided for an
annual appropriation of $1,000, with a
salary of $500 to the dairy commissioner
the remainder of the salaries of the en-
ployes being left to be fixed by the COM
missioner. t..
A subcommittee consisting of Messrs.
Staples, Thauwald and 3 Deming took
charge of the measure and yesterday re-
ported a substitute, The substitute as
explained by Mr.. Staples, chairman of the
subcommittee left the annual appropria-
ton at $4,000, but it fixed the salary of
the commissioner at $1,000 and fixed the
salaries of the other employees at the fol-
lowing figures: Assistant commissioner,
81 $50; chemist, s., 500; secretary, $1,000; in
spector, 500 per month and expenses, the
number to be appointed to be left to the
commissioner.
The matter of salaries Mr.. Staples said
was the same as paid in the past and
While no increase had been made neither
had there been any reduction
Mr.. Staples said he was perfectly famil-
lar with the affair of the department and
that beside the $4,000 which had been
heretofore appropriated for the dairy end
Of the department there had been a
IS, 900 appropriation for the prosecution of
cases for the adulteration of food pro-
ducts. Another source of income was the
licenses paid for the sale of milk which
reached large sum annually.
The substitute bill also provided for all
chemical analysis to be made by the de-
partment at the Office of the department
in st. Paul and not in Minneapolis, as had
been provided in the bill drawn and pre-
sented by the department.
The committee will also report a sub
stitute for the bill amending the mill
tary code. The original bill provided for
four regiments and an appropriation of
$7S,C COO. The substitute bill as prepared by
the committee provides for three regi-
ments and an appropriation of $50,0O0.
The maximum under the new bill will
be three regiments Of ten companies
each, the minimum to each being forty
and the maximum eighty privates.
Gen. Bend appeared before the COM
mittee and suggested that If the COM
mittee could see it's way clear to appro-
pirate $4,000 more It would provide for
three regiments of twelve companies
each, which would place the national
guard of the state near- to the army
IcS SuidtioIlS. L Ills WOulO ailOW three Odl
talions of four companies each to a regi-
ment. If the additional $4,000 could not
be appropriated it Would be much better
to have thirty companies cared for all
right than to have thirfy-six companies
with nothing for six Of the number. The
present appropriation was barely enough
for the three regiments
In answer to questions Gen. Bend said
that the new bill would mean the con-
solidation of Col .Bobleter's and Col.
Van Duzees regiments and then what
was left over aftor' fofming ten COM
panies in each of those regiments would
be put into the present Fourth regiment.
1t was possible that this would make too
many companies for the Fourth regi-
ment. If so then under the new bill
those companies left over in the Fourth
would have to disband.
Adjt Rukard Hurd said that all the
frills had been eliminated In the new bill
and there was no provision for chaplatns,
Judge advocates or small arms inspectors.
The bill, he thought, was fair one,
especially as there was but an appropria-