The Saint Paul globe., 1899-03-21


The chamber of commerce stood for
the maintenance of the beauty of White
Bear lake yesterday at it's meeting. Pres
ident Lightner, J. B. Sanborn, E. H.
Morphy, w. P. Jewett and L. w. Rund
lett were appointed members of a commit
tee to appear before the Ramsey county
legislators and ask them to favor the bill.
According to H. T. Drake, the lake
would soon be ruined unless something
was soon done to improve it's condition.
Gen. Sanborn thought measures should
be taken to restore the Washington
county watershed to It's old condition,
otherwise the level Of White Bear lake
would be lowered ten or twelve feet, so
that two-thirds of that body of water
would shrink away.
ON MEAT INSPECTION.
r. A. Kirk, from the special committee
on meat inspection, made a report which
was adopted. The main feature Of his
recommendation are as follows:
Your committee has considered the
subject in connection with special
committee of the Jobbers' union and
agreed upon the following:
FirSt-That official inspection of all
meats for food is desired.
Second-That federal inspection be
recognized and accepted.
thorized for all meat offered for food
that has not been inspected by United
States officials.
Fourth-,That state inspection be paid
Resolved, That this chamber disap-
proves of the passage of the meat in
spection bill now pending In the legisla-
ture as the same Is drawn.
That while f3UOrinU rio inc
of meats and other food products, state
inspection. is unnecessary where gov
ernment inspection is in force.
Therefore, in order that all parties he
placed on an equality, we favor such
amendments to the proposed law as shall
exempt from state inspection all ami
ed by the United States officials. and
that whatever state inspection shall be
had shall be done at public expense and
sufficient appropriation be made to pay
the cost Of such inspection.
J. T.. Mcmillan, a packer, thought If
large packing houses were exempted and
small ones were obliged to pay big fees,
all the butchers in the little towns would
have to go out of business. He thought
packers would raise the price of meat so
as to take 100000 out of the customers
joint committee to take care of the
census Of 1900 was discussed. AS in 1890
1t will comprise the members of the ex-
ecutive chamber and delegations from
various organizations in the city
The chamber decided not to increase
the salaries of the Ramsey county COM
missioners from $500 to $500 year. 1t
was deemed best to keep these offices out
of politics, and, although pay was small
honor in serving was considered of value
THE NEW POSTOFFICE..
A letter was read from H Knox TAYLOR
supervising architect at Washington in
which he said:. re
am in receipt of letter of the 18th
instant from Hon. F.. c. Stevens relative
to the prospects for the completion of
and custom house building, ST. Paul,
Mimi, which is now erected, and in re-
ply have to advise you that both the
heating and interior finish drawings and
specifications are now complete and the
drawings for the heating and yentilating
have been partially duplicated
But. owing to the great pressure of
work IN the photograph gallery of this
ohlce and the extremely wet weather in
this city for the last few weeks, the
work has been delayed. You will un-
all drawings have to be made and the
lack Of sunshine causes serious incon-
yen1ence to our work. I regret that this
building has not before this been placed
on the market, but, as previously stated.
II Is only matter now of a few DAYS
before copies enough will be available to
publicly advertise the work
The municipal court bill was made a
special order for next Monday when the
municipal court judges will be asked to
give their views on the subject