The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-06
FUSILLADE BY REISHUS
CHIEF GRAIN INSPECTOR RAPS
OLD METHODS AND THEORIES
OF THE DEPARTMENT
HIS FIRST ANNUAL REPORT

Reign-StOp Put to Practice of
Allowing Deputies to Keep the
SampIes-Why Higher Fees Arc
Necessary-LOng Service in ONCE
Not the Only Requisite.
An accurate idea of the tremendous
bulk of the grain trade of the Northwest
is given In the annual report Of the state
grain inspection department, issued yes
ter6ay by Chief Grain Inspector e. S.
Reishus, covering the business of the
department for the twelve months pre-
ceding the close Of the grain year on
August 81. The retirement of Inspector
! Clausen occurred when eleven months Of
the department year had passed, leaving
Mr.. Reishus in charge of the depart
ment during only one month covered by
the report. With 1872 employees, the de-
partment inspected 279, LIZ cars during the
Year, an increase of 59.371. Considerable
attention is given by tho report to the
fees in effect during the year, which were
| changed several times for various
reasons. The report says:
| The total number of carloads of grain
| inspected "on arrival at the four termi-
nal nal pointsrSt; Paul. Minneapolis, Du-
| CIOuQ-dI1lOunLGQ
cars. divided as follows: Wheat, 217, 924
! cars; corn, 2l,519 cars; oats, 1851 cars
rye ,9OS cars; barley, 6,727 cars; flaxseed,
There was inspected "out of store" for
the same period as follows: Spring and
R w1nber wheat I 5;O38 cars and 1855, 1876
ing corn ao oats, rye and barley, 13, 231 cars
and Il S9,97S bushels into vessels; flax
seed, 1887 cars and 6,76S,27 bushels into
Compared with the number of carloads
inspected 'on arrival during the pre-
cealng year 1t shows a very material in
| crease In the volume of business of the
| inspection department The number of
| cars Inspected at the four terminal points
nelng b9,Sn carloads more than during
Then follows a table indicating the rel
| at1Ve receipts at the terminal points of
the different kinds of grain during the
" the 2l7,s24 carloads of wheat received
during the year. 1,0O8 cars contained
northern white wheat (from Montana and
| Eastern Washington, GO cars were red
winter wheat from Kansas, and ZIG, S53
| cars We're Northwestern spring wheat.
FINANCES.
Inc amount of revenue received from
| al sources during the year was as fol-
| $780, 767.05; interest on deposit in state
| treasury, $7O2.25; country elevator licenses,
I,ZS2, amounting in all to $1SS, 80, an
year of $35, Az The disbursements foT
the season were $2i9, 764.54, resulting In a
net JOSS Tor the year of S24,S38.2 "a. The
| son was $46074.34, leaving a net balance
on hand Aug. 81, 1899, the close of the
c eJs p year covered by this report, of $21,-
%, or the 247, 1856 carloads of spring wheat
| inspected into and "out Of store q. 779
ears were held out for reinspection, re- =
suiting as follows: In 1925 cases the
original grade and dockage was confirm
| ed; grades were raised in s, 731 cases. low
cred cred IN 6o4 and in 2,416 cases the dockage
| was changed. Appeals to the railroad
| and warehouse commission were made in
% cases. in 80 of which the decisions of
IN ne ehlef deputies We're changed and in
IS cases confirmed. The total changes
from original inspection or dockage We're
| 1855, or l car in Is.
! BAD ORDER CARS
I The number of cars arriving at the
fermnd POI points found in what might be
total of 27s.112, Ofathese 1,040 were found
3ot sealed, 532 seals broken. 226 with end
3 ao9r open, 159 with leaky grain doors %
leaking at side of car, 21 leaking at end Of
| car and leaking at center pin "a
| DOCKAGES.
Of the 216,853 cars of spring wheat IN
spected on arrival at the four terminaI
| points during the year, 20, AT were locked
0 0nfr9 90 Pc pound per bushel, 1927 one
A. S9 two pounds, q, 961 two and one-haif
pounds. 14,113 three pounds, Is. 4O5 over
! three and at an average of four pounds
ana IS'gl8 without dockage. The net av-
| erage dockage on total receipts at ell
points was 26.3 ounces per bushel
DEPARTMENT FORCE
The average number of employees dur
ing the season was 1S2 against $50 during.
me previous year. Additional help is al
| months of the season, when REGENTS are
| large, so that during that period the ex
penses are materially increased. This ia
f GItset' However however, by the increased earn
| Ings. The largest number employed was
| 49, IN the month of November; the
smallest number was Isl, in the month
! of March.
INSPECTION FEES.
| On Nov. 80, 1886, there was standing +o
the credit of the grain inspection Depart
| ment the sum of $123, 26S54 the largest
surplus in the history Of the department.
| upon reduced from Is cents a car to Il
cents. On Aug. 81, 1899, one month after
l came into office. this surplus stood re-
015 lee TO ~, 10, shrinkage of $1O2-
| 03244 in th1rty-two months. In other
| words, during the last thirty-one months
| of the administration of my predecessor.
the finances of the department, with a
about $100, 900.
Attention Is called to this fact In order
that the grain growers and the grain
trade may appreciate and understand
the necessity of restoring the inspectfon
fee to the former rate of % cents per car.
Inc cost OF administering the depart
ment has not increased; indeed. the
| changes made have been in the direction
| OF economy. The increased rate was
| necessitated simply by the plain and bald
| fact. as shown by the books of my pre-
! decessor during the last two and one
| half years of his administration, that the
continuance OF the Is cent inspection fee
would speedily reduce the department to
| bankruptcy.
| Additional reason for increase in the
fee, II other reason We're required lies
! IN the act of the last legislature in Great
ing the board of grain appeals. which
calls Tor further drain of about $40 900
year upon the fund of the department.
Had the cost of maintaining this board
been enta1led upon the department dur
Ing the two and one-half years the Is
cent inspection fee was in force. the de-
partment resources would have run behind
! $l5O,O0O instead of 100000. and on coming
into office at the beginning of the present
crop year, | would have found deficit
OF about $50, coo confronting me, instead Of
the small surplus which remained
Therefore the buSineSs-like administra-
ton of the department, indeed, the main
tenance of the entire state grain and
warehouse system, not to mention the
support or the new board Of grain ap>
peals, demanded the restoration of the
fees for inspection and Weighing
Moreover the law REQUIRES that the de-
partment shall be self-supporting, and
that the expenses of the administrator
shall be borne by the shippers of grain
without throwing any additional burden
upon the general taxpayer. This require
ment of law and good business sense, In
the light of the $100, 900 shrinkage in de-
partment resources, which awaited my
| entrance into office and the prospect Of
| the additional requirement of $4,000 a
| year for the appeal board, allowed no
| alternative but increa In feaa