The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-10

about DIR. Greene'S NerVura so that
determined she should try it. She
a Minnesota corporation, and as such
subject to the control and jurisdiction
OF our laws and of the railroad and
warehouse commission, it was feared that
its absorption by the Northern Pacific.
winch Is fore gn corporation and an
interstate road, might leave the state
and the commission without power to
regulate rates between these two import
ant points. The Northern Pacific com
pany found itself much hampered by the
tendency of the suit and appealed to the
state authorities to have it withdrawn.
explained frankly to the company's
counsel the real grounds that actuated
tne COMMISSION In having the suit insti-
tuted. The railroad company disavoWed
any purpose to withdraw the ST. Paul
ana Duluth line from the state supervf-
sion or state jurisdiction as to rates and
proposed to enter into contract with
the state that the line should forever be
operated from Minneapolis and ST. Paul
TO the head Of Lake Superior wholly
Wltnlh the state of Minnesota, the same
10 regulate rates of transportation the
same as If no transfer had been made,
ana TO further obligate itself to forever
maintain terminal facilities on Lake Su-
per1or, within the state Of Minnesota 70
handle and discharge outgoing traffic, as
We'll as to receive and forward incoming
Inns ms oelng all that the state was in
terested in preserving, or that it could
nope TO accomplish by the suit, it was
agreed that the suit would be dismissed
WTlthout prejudice to its revival in the
future, PROVIDED a contract was entered
Into by the Northern Pacific company in
accordance with the proposition outlined
Such contract was thereupon prepared
ana duly executed and the same being
approved by the attorney general and
niyseH, was, accepted and filed in the Office
OF the secretary of state, and the suit
was dismissed without prejudice" and
L now report these facts for YOUR con-
s!deration and approval, or disapproyaI
II you should think 1t wise to abandon
the guarantees obtained by the contract.
ana revive the suit, nothing has been
done that Will in the slightest degree in
terrere with such action. On the other
nano, II the action taken by the execu-
1--WE department meets with your APP
ture. ~ -: - .
STATE GRAIN INSPECTION.
The management of the grain service
by Chief Inspector Reishus, under the
control and supervision of the commits
sion, has been successful and satisfac-
tory: The maintenance of uniformity OF
grades throughout the season, and the
RUE that grain inspected out of the
Ter t6erm a warehouses should be held to
ne same standard as was applied to the
Shippers grain when arriving in the
market, mas resulted in general satisfac-
9on. BY this means justice has been
done to the producers, and Minnesota
state inspection is accepted with equal
confldeE zee whether it covers a cargo in
Inc harbor OF Liverpool or at Buffalo
the boards of appeal at Duluth and Min
neapois has also contributed to this in
no small degree.
PUBLIC LANDS.
Every effort has. been made by the
e t,2itt I'VE department, in cooperation
WIZ WIN me. state auditor. to secure final
adjustment of the public land questions
that nave been pending for so many
years The claim of the state for school
lands within Indian reservations in the
ine g.n ir5 part OF the state is now pend
ing IN the supreme court for final de-
termination and will probably be decided
at an early date. A reasonable appro-
priat1on should be made to cover the ex-
penses OF that proceeding.
Inc last acre which, in nv Judgment
any iand grant company in this state is
een emu to; has been conveyed A suit
mas been brought to recover the lanjs
conveyed to the Little Falls &, D3ko4a
company in excess of the amount earn d
ny tnat company and will shortly be de.
t teri9ained; The litigation which has been
penang between the STATE ana The Du-
luin q Iron Range Railroad company.
relative to IL land grant was TERMINATES
oE the entry of final Judgment in the
a. year ago, adverse to the contention Of
the state. The grant was held valid. I'm
Ger me granting act, the company has
Commenced that It is entitled to select the
remainder of the lands accruiner under
the grant at its own pleasure aad in its
own good time, without any power on the
part OF the state to limit the time or
bring the matter to a final adjustment
ms contention has seemed to the s a q
auditor, the attorney general and nv
sen absolutely untenable. The courts wi
not hold that the grant oy the state of
the right to select certain quantity of
land within, prescribed territorial Limits Il
privilege that may exercised entirely at
the discretion of the grantee, SO far as
Tune is concerned. Such contention Ia
wolves the absurdity that the lands re-
naming TO the state in EXCESS of the
grant and which, of course, are not SUBJ
ject to be disposed Of for any other W.
pose until the grant is flied, are to be
held in abeyance-in the air you might
say, forever, without being subject t.
sale Or taxation and solely to enable The
grantee to select such tracts from time to
time az exploration may determine valu l.
pie as mineral land or for the timber
thereon.
careful consideration of the subject. az
rived at the conclusion that this Fight of
the company to select the lands, no time
being fixed, must be exercised within
reasonable time, the same as any other
act for the performance of which no spec
flied time is fixed by law, and that IL the
company refused to select after demand
and the lapse of reasonable time, then
the state might make the selection aNl
the state auditor accordingly, in the
month of June last notified the railroad
company to select its lands by The 1st Of
September, 1900. The request was NOT
complied with After the expiration of
what was deemed by the executive de-
partmcnt most ample time for the selec-
ton OF these lands the state auditor pro-
ceeded to make selection in harmony
with the provisions of the granting act,
and I executed and delivered to the pre-
ident of the railroad company a convey
ance for the same in due form. The deed
has since been returned to the aulit5rs
office, with objection that the auditor did
not have the right to select the lands for
the company We believe the position
taken by the state On this question cor
rect and that the interests of the state
demand that the executive action Of the
state officers be sustained by tne le2isla.
ture.
LABOR LEGISLATION.
The relations between capital and la
Dor have on the whole been harmonious
during the time CT my administration.
This in no. small degree accounts for
our wonderful development and indus
trial progress. If production were so
intelligently directed and the distribU-
ton Of earnings were such that the
consumptive ability Of the peo-
pie more nearly Appropriated the
constantly increasing production, the peri
DDS of stagnation and hard times to
which civilization IS now periodically
subjected, would become rarer and the
incident economic and social disturb