The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-19
TEMPERATUREs.
AS TO SOME REPUBLICAN MISREP-
RESERVATIONS

Since Chief Grain Inspector Reishus
published his first annual report SOME
Republican newspapers have made it the
object of bitter attacks and Mr.. Reishus
and the inspection department the objects
Of calumny and misrepresentation of the
most preposterous kind. The Pioneer
Press led the chorus, and several country
papers have given more or less feeble
limitations of its snarl, one of the latest
being the Rock County Herald, which is
a type of the lot. The Herald's editor
Is State Senator Miller gentleman
whom the G o e has heretofore imag-
lned was superior to all unfair methods
ard above copying the peculiar manner
of the Pioneer Press when intent upon
lnjuring a political opponent. But, sad
to say. Editor Miller has boiled down.
several P. P. editorials into one acrid
mess which he serves up to his readers
In this wise:
Some of the admissions in Mr.. Reishus'
official apology are especially notewor-
thy. For instance, his statistics show:
No l. That the inspection and weigh
istlaton was Is cents a car;
NO. :. tt at I'm ',r the new reform adj
rninistration, since Mr.. Reishus took
charge of the department, the inspection
and weighing fee has been increased to
% cents a car:
No. 3; That, with 15-cent inspec-
ton fee in force, under Republican man.
agement. the grain inspection depart
ment had balance On hand at the close
Of the last crop year, Of S46074.34;
No. 4 That, with a 25-cent inspection
fee in force, under Demo-Pop manage
ment, the total receipts for the year were
SS8,9-6 so, while the disbursements were
$2l3, f6i.a4, leaving a net loss for the year
of 1874 S3S.24
NO. ;. That the average number Of
employees in the inspection department
during the last year under Republican
rule, was 100;
No. 6. That the average number Of
employees in the inspection department
during. the year covered by the report Of
the reform inspector, was 1S2.
NO I. Against an increase of 66 % per
cent in the cost of inspection and total
loss for the year to the grain producers
of $24,S5S.24 as the result of reform man
agcment. Gov. Lind's chief grain inspec-
tor offers a saving of So, 600 on samples!'
The above quotation is a somewhat
crude sample of the art of suppresslng
the truth, and 1t indicates that the editor
= Of the Herald IS young and inexperienced
at the trade, and if his case is taken
in time there might be some chance
for his reform. As a possible cure
< for the CONFUSION from which he is
now suffering he might take one copy
: OF the report of Chief Grain Inspector
Reishus and read it carefully, and to
effect a complete cure of his trouble
Mr.. Miller must carefully abstain from
reading the editorial columns of the Pio-
neer Press. A single indulgence is LA
BILE to bring on another attack
The presentation of the main points
of Mr. Reishus' report completely dis
poses of the tissue of nonsense served I'D
by the Rock County Herald In that re-
port Mr.. Reishus states that it was neces-
sary to raise the grain inspection fee
from 10 to % cents, an increase of 10
cents, for the reason that the depart
ments surplus fund had shrunk $1O2.-
tSS.4f in thirty-one months under the ad-
ministration of his predecessor, the fee
of Is cents not being sufficient to meet
the requirements of the department. and
If continued would have resulted In def
ring was increased by the last legislature.
which created the board of grain ap-
peals, entcilfng an additional drain upon
the grain inspection fund of $4,000 each
year. On Nov. 30, 1896, the department.
had a surplus of $12S, 26S.54, acquired I'M
der 25-cent inspection fee, and on Aug.
81, 1885, the surplus had shrunk to sN.-
2S616 owing to the reduction Of the fee
TO Is cents.
The statement of Chief Grain Inspector
Reishus further shows that whenever a
157cent Inspection fee has been charged
the DEPARTMENT has run behind from
$4,000 to $4,000 per year, and in 1893. with
a H)-cent inspection fee, the fund lost
$4,000. Under a 25-cent fee the denart.
ment fund gains little less than SIG 600
per year, and this gain, owing to the
added burden of expense due to the
creation Of the board Of grain appeals. ia
only about sufficient to meet the needs
Of the department.
For convenience the statements made