Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1903-02-27
TWO REPORTS ARE FILED
TWO REPORTS ARE FILED ON
THE GRAIN INSPECTION sys.
TEN MATTER.
MAJORITY OF COMMITTEE NOT
ENTHUSIASTIC FOR THE
BILL.

Representative Young Files a Minori. !
ty Report, Commencing the WIseon-
sin BilI-Majority Of Committee Not
of the Opinion That North Dakota
is Assured Of Any Representation on
the Board.
The reports of the special committee
on grain grading. that went to Wis
consin, were filed with the senate
by Senator Sharpe. The majority
report was signed by Senators Sharpe
and LaMoure. Representatives Matt,
son and Leech and Commissioner Tur-
ner. The report goes at some leiO,th
into the matter. quoting the resolu-
ton under which the members of the
committee visited Madison. The
members of the committee majority
state that all the Wisconsin measure
purports to institute is a grain and
warehouse commission for the city of
Superior. Section = of the Wisconsin
bill is quoted. providing for the recon-
mendation of a person for appOint-
ment from North Dakota and New
York. but objection is taken to the
last sentence of the section which
states that the governor of Wisconsin
shall not be confined in making such
D - ~, ot,,t,oa ants tn thn nnpcnnc On r0o-
commended. This optional provision
in the bill was explained to the COM
mittee on the ground that 1t was to
overcome a constitutional objection.
The Wisconsin committee on state al
fairs, so the committee says, did not
give any assurance that they would
recommend the passage of the meas
ure, and that Governor LaFollette OF
Wisconsin would nOt commit himself
+. positively as to whether a man from,
North Dakota and New York would be
:, appointed on the commission, but did
state that if the bill became a law
he would give any recommendations
due and careful consideration. The
: committee reports that they consider
( the appointment of a nan from New
/. York as Of equal importance as
the appointment of a man from
[ North Dakota, as guaranteeing hon
est inspection out of Superior. The
very sensational articles sent out by
interested parties that one mem
: Der of the committee was avowed
ly against the proposed Legislation
+ and that he had been forced
: to give up his credentials. the
/, committee declares to be false and
without any foundation in fact.
In conclusion the members Of the
majority state that they are in favol
q of a grain or warehouse commission
f for the city Of Superior but for thu
reasons given them cannot recommend
S the expediency Of further requesting
d the legislature of Wisconsin to pas
n the proposed bill. until there is assur
e ance that the states Of North Dakot;
n and New York are represented on tn
board. The committee declares itsel
in favor of a free. fair and open mar
ket for the products of this state an,
if the establishment of a system .
S grades and inspection in Superior will
enhance the interests Of the state o
q North Dakota, the committee says. |
favors the same and to this end the
offer a concurrent resolution that
the governor of Wisconsin or an
other state having such an object i
n view. request the governor of Mort,
Dakota, to recommend a nan for ar
pointment on the grain and warehous
: commission or other legal body hav
n ing for its object the free, fair an
open disposal of the products Of tn
state, then the governor of this state
!, requested to make such recommends
j., ton.
- Representative Young takes an or
posite view. and in a long report dea'
ing with the matter of grain gradin.
" says:
Is II interviewed several of the SEM
tors and representatives. among thel
Senator Hatton, of the state affair
'c committee, and from them l learne
% that the bill had a good chance Of b.
coming a law. but that it was being Of
posed by csrtain elevator interests an
that one of the attorneys of the Ores
Northern had asked for a hearing b.
fore the committee. | also had a
interview with the governor and aske
: him to make as definite a statement 1
: possible as to what his action wOul
~ be if the bill wa passed by the sena'
. and house of Wisconsin. My rule hi
81 been not to promise to make appoin
- ments and if it were not for this
&c, >" might make my reply more definit
- But | will say that the spirit and II
tention of the law is that the executi'
% should appoint two members Of II
board recommended by the executiv'
Of the states of North Dakota and Ne
10 York, and IL the bill becomes a law
will be my purpose to carry out Il
intentions of the law. will say flu
~ Their, Mr.. Young, that l will appoil
- any man named by the governor
"a North Dakota unless the people Of yo1
III state protest against such an appOin
10 ment, in which ease | thinl. it won
is be my duty to consider the protest
Il therefore feel confident that
r. the proposed bill becomes a law tn
North Dakota will be represented upt
the board Of grain commissioners, {
because OF the governors assurance
st me, CD becaure the people of Wisco
A. SIN want our grain and it is n busine
proposition to them 10 give IFS repl
s~entatiOn upon the board.
What we want is an honest i'sLt
to ton and a board so constructed as
L.