Bismarck daily tribune., 1903-12-09
FEDERAL GRAIN INSPECTION
Text of Senator MCCumber's Bill Providing
for System of Federal Inspection of
Grain Products.


for a uniform system Of national grain
inspection will lie Of interest to the
grain growers Of this state. This bill
is now before the committee of agri
culture in the senate and Senator Nc
Cumber will endeavor to obtain its
passage, In the interests of fairer
grain inspection. The tri-state grain
growers of the northwest will prohab
ly have the matter up for discussion
at their meeting at Fargo in January
The text of the hill is as follows, and
reading of 1t will show Senator Nc
Cumber's plan for national inspection:
THAT the Secretary of Agriculture
shall organize in his department
bureau of grain inspection, and shall
appoint chief who shall have had at
least three years experience in in
specting, buying. and grading Of grain,
and whose duty it shall be to report
upon the condition of the interstate
trade and commerce in grains Of tho
United States, their grading, weigh
ing, and inspection, and also to in
quire into and suggest means for the
prevention of defects in the present
systems Of weighing, grading and in
specting Of grain which is an article
of interstate commerce, and to collect
such information on this subject as
shall be valuable to the agricultural
and commercial interests of the
country; that the chief Of said
bureau of grain inspection shall re-
ceive a salary of two thousand dollars
per annum; and the Secretary of
Agriculture is hereby authorized to
employ a force sufficient for this pur-
. pose, not to exceed. 49,. persons, to
be known as grain inspectors, one of
each of the leading centers of inter
state trade and commerce in grain In
the United States, said inspectors to
have had at least two years practical
experience in the grading and handl-
ing of grain of the quality commonly
marketed at the place where his du
ties are to be performed, which said
inspectors shall be subject 70 the
rules of the civil service and receive
a salary to be fixed by the Secretary
of Agriculture That the said inspec-
tors are hereby authorized to appoint
deputy inspectors having the same
qualification as inspectors, who are to
be paid for their services, in man
ner to be provided for by the Secre-
tary of Agriculture, from the fees col
lected for the inspection OF grain at
the place where the duties Of said
deputy inspector have been per-
formed.
"Sec. 2. That each inspector OF
grain shall hold his Office subject to
the rules of civil service, and he shall,
before entering upon the duties OF
his Office, take an oath Of office, as in
the case Of other United States Of
ticers and shall execute bond to the
Government of the United States IN
sum to be fixed by the Secretary OF
Agriculture, with good and suffl-
cient sureties to be approved by
the Secretary of Agriculture, con-
ditioned that he will faithfully
and impartially discharge the duties
Of the Office of inspector accord
ing to the law and the rules ano
regulations Of the Agriculture. De
partment, and that he will pay al
damages to any person or persons
who may be injured by reason OF MI
neglect to comply with the law o.
rules and regulations aforesaid. ina
each deputy inspector appointed a.
above shall he required to take lik'
oath and give such bond as may D.
required by the inspector for the pro
lection of the latter. That each In
spector shall have the power to re
move any deputy inspector actin
under him upon good reasons shown
and said deputy inspector shall &C
under The immediate control an
supervision Of the inspection immed'
ately over him.
Sec. 3. That 1t shall be the out
Of said inspectors and their deputie
to inspect and grade all grain whic
at the time OF inspecting and gradln
Of the same has been shipped fro'
any other state, territory. or couhtf
than the state. territory. or counti
In which the same Is inspected. or
intended for shipment into any otn'
state. territory. or foreign country o.
fore the same IL unloaded from II