New Ulm review., 1900-10-24
Happily Married.

| to Miss Unice Cutting of Home. s
Neither Of the contracting people need
introduction to the readers of the Her
aid. Mr.. Grimes is Brown county
| boy, son OF Mr. and Mrs. Edward Crimes
Of Eden. A young man who has always
beenya leader among the boys as we'll
as being one of the most prosperous
among the young farmers. /
The bride, Miss Cutting, is the daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. G. P. Cutting Of
Home, we'll known among local young
ladies as we'll as prominent among Home
young people.
The young people and large number
of friends were given reception Thurs
day afternoon aud evening by the brides
parents at their pleasant home north of
town, at which large number of pres
ents were given to the bridal cauple.
MIR. and Mrs. Grimes .will make their
home on their farm it Eden.-Sleepy
Eye Herald.
The republican press bureau which
has been, established for the purpose
of manufacturing alleged facts for use
in the campaign il this state has sue
ceeded in persuadiny considerable
number of the county papels that some
good might be done at this time by the
publication of certain falsehoods con-
cerning the present administration Of
the state grain inspection department,
and the Pioneer Press and other leading
republican organs are taking up the false
charges, knowing them to be such, and
endorsing them. In effect, the statement
which has been sent out is this: When
MIR. Clausen WAS chief grain inspector
the inspection Zee was only 15 cents per
car load. Under the present admins.
tration the fee Was raised to 20 cents,
then to 25 cents, aud now it may he
raised to 80 cents. From these alleged
facts tue farmers are asked to draw the
Inference that the department is man.
aged less economically than it was under
the old regime.
The republican campaign managers
know the charges to he false in every
essential features; but some who are
publishing them may regard them as
true. 1t may, therefore, not be amiss
to give the exact facts in the case and
| put the falsiliers down. The figures
are taken from the officials records of
the raiiroad and warehouse commission
and their correctness ma; be verified
by anyone Interested in learning the
| truth.
During The greater part of the time
hen Mr.. Ciauseu was chief grain il =
spectnr the fee Was 25 cents. This Was
the case in 1895 and 1896 On Jan. l,
1897, the fee Was reduced to Is cents.
This reduction could be made because
there was Il large amount Of money
standing to the credit Of the department.
On Nov. 80, 1896, this amount was
$l23, ,26S.54. The fee of Is cents was
entirely inadequate to defray the .ex pens
es AS d result the cash IN the grain
inS FINN -, =
half years from $l23, 3,26S.54 to $2l,-
236.l0. The last session of the legisla-
ture having created board of appeals
and thereby increased the expenses of
the department by about $4,000 a year,
it was necessary to increase the inspec-
ton fee. 1t was raised to 20 cents and
then, after most of the crop of 1899 had
been marketed, to % cents. This action
had to be taken in order that deficit
! might be nvu,,ed.
The mai'' point is that there was
loss Of $40.UUO Year when the fee was
Is cents. The department could stand
tlis i"r two years by using up more
than 100000 "f :he cash standing to
its cr dit IN the Treasury. Bnt the drain
could not 90 on any longer without
nl"nsing the department into debt. The
actual c"s, of the inspection and weigh
ing service VAS. according to the official
accounts, lowe, i'll 1900 than in any pre-
vious year except 1892. IL 1896 it was
$174,SoS "a for 179.307, ITO bushels; I'M
1897 it WAS S176,2 ,22O97 for 1856, ,167,2O
bushele; in 1898 it was $191,6S1.12 for
15S.092,600 bushels. and in 1899 it was
$213,764.5+ for s13, 3,133,1OO bushels.
1t will be necessary for the republican
bureau and the Pioneer Press to invent
new story, for the one about the al
legged extra vagauce in the grain inspec-
ton depar tment is TOO plainly at var
lance With the demonstrable facts. !
Notwithstanding the fact that the
Minneapolis Tribune, as daily stated on