The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-01
WILL TAKE GRAIN
Bill into COURT.
ELEVATOR INTERESTS TO MAKE
TEST OF CASE MEASURE.
Attorneys Decide to File Suit at Madi-
son and Express Confidence that Law
Will Be Declared Unconstitutional
Should Decision Be Adverse, the Last
Hope Of Elevators Will Be Gone.
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal.
Superior, Wis, Feb. Ito find out whether
the Wisconsin grain bill as amended is consll-
not syao
to 1t. The suit will be filed shortly with the
clerk Of the federal court at Madison and will be
argued before Judge Sanborn.
The suit will be in the form of application
for an injunction against the commission and
the court will be asked to restrain the Wisconsin
grain commission or its agents from interfering
with the operation Of the elevators, as they are
being operated at the present time. The argu-
ments for and against the application will bring
out all the contested points in regard to the con-
stitutionality of the law as amended, In the
opinion Of the attorneys for the elevator inter-
ests.
The amendments to the grain law make the
elevators Of the Great Northern railroad public
houses, under the construction that the road Is
a common carrier and Us such Its elevators neces-
sarily become amenable to public service. The
commission has given out that 1t will treat the
other elevators here under the same construction
and the real question involved In the pending
suit is whether or not the amended law allows
the elevators to operate as private houses. The
Great Northern and Omaha roads are not parties
to the suit - 2 - = ~ 'S't:7ts.
On the decision of Judge sanborn in this case
will rest the position to be taken by the elevator
interests. If the judge decides against the ele-
vators their last hope will be gone, and they
will have to operate under the law as construed
by the court This is said to be the last ditch Of
the elevator people in their fight with the COM
mission, and if they lose now they will give up
The attorneys for the elevators, however, are
confident Of proving that the law is uneonstitu-
tional -. st ~ ~, '.ri
Quarrel Over Politics.
Charles Wilson is in the hospital and Victor
IOckart in jail as the result Of stabbing ARRAY
on the main street of the city. Lockart will be
held until the condition of the injured man de-
termines the charge to be preferred against him.
They quarreled over political questions. 1T
.,.,. Stockyards for Superior. -,-
Thomas F. Mooney, a member of the legisla-
He says he is representing Dakota stockgrowers
| in q proposition to establish stock market at
! Superior. 1t is said that Dakota stockraisers
and farmers are dissatisfied with the treatment
| they are receiving by the South st. Paul stock
| yards people. Mooney says that Superior has
an ideal ton for a stockyards and that the
yards would have chance to expand as the
town and surrounding country grows. He says
| North Dakota is standing soltdly with Wisconsin
in grain inspection matters, and that the legisla
ture of that state canNbe depended on to coop
| crate with Wisconsin in any future trouble thai
may develop. #~
The Lake Superior 4 Southeastern road viii
! have its line from Ladysmith, Wis; to this city
completed by next fall according to Information
| given out by one Of the head men Of the com
pany. The Balch Contracting company has
steam shovel ready .to.start work the fina
branch of the line from Stinnett, Wis, to Supe
rior and will soon have two shovels in thi
county, one at Gordon, and another near Soloa
Springs, where q cut ,M several miles is to b
made. - s,.l s s.se
j All options held BY the road are being close,
4 80 that when tie work actually begins on tn
last section the land to be condemned Will be al
that will be feauirgd by the road. 80