Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-03-21

ACCOUNT OF the property interests CT
Superior affected by any settlement
plan. However, when Deputy Attorney
General Russell Jackson had explained
the reasons for favoring the appoint
ment of commissioners. and that If
the matter were left to the court Wis
consin might suffer, Senator Linley
withdrew his objection 1t also is I'M
derstood that Speaker Ingram of the
assembly, who some time 40 ex-
pressed forcible objection to the
commission" plan, has changed his
views, and 1t now appears that the
resolution which would be introduced
will be treated expeditiously The
Minnesota legislature will adjourn I'M
der constitutional limitation next
month and it is hoped that the two
boundary questions will be amicably
settled out of court and at a saving OF
perhaps 100000 to the present legis-
latures of the two states.
The failure of Governor McGovern
TO appoint member of the state grain
and warehouse commission at Su-
perior. or to reappoint the present
incumbent, H. A. Johnson, whose
term expired the first Monday in Feb
ruary, is due to local scrap over
Johnson's insistence upon a rigid in
spection of grain. Two candidates
are out for Johnson's place. which
pays $4,000 year. One is the pres
ent weigher for the commission.
Walter Fowler, and the other Is A. N.
Lent. Supporters of both have seen
the governor, and the latter has prom
ised to delay the appointment for
some time until he can get at the bot
tom of the muddle. One of the argu-
ments that is being advanced by the
opponents of Johnson is the fact that
the $4,000 which the commission is
permitted to use from its own funds
annually for advertising Superior in
spection and weighing among the
growers and shippers, especially of
wheat, has been used in ways open to
criticism, although no charge of misap-
preparation of actually wrongful use is
made. This, however, is declared to
be only surface means of opposition,
and that the real trouble lies in the OBJ
lection to the thoroughness of the in
spection. 1t is said that the grain
buyers of Superior would like to do
away with the inspection and leave
only the weighing, although the re
suits of the inspection have resulted
notably in raising the standard of
grain which goes out of Superior.
The chief opposition to Johnson's re-
appointment is now said to be among
the buyers, and that the elevator men
have not made any move against him.
1t is also reported that the fractional
politics of the applicants for Johnson's
place have been urged in their favor.
although Johnson is said to be a pro-
gressive Republican.
After a comparatively short hear
ing, in which some much ex-
pected fireworks failed to explode, the
senate committee of judiciary decided
to introduce a resolution calling for
the appointment of commissioners
by the Wisconsin legislature to act
with similar body already appoint
ed by Minnesota for making settle
ment of the two existing boundary dis
putes between the two states. The
two boundaries are in Lake" Pepin in
the Mississippi river and in the ST.
Louis river at Duluth, Superior.
The assembly committee on bank
ing voted to report two bills for pass
age, both of them as recommended
by the special committee on bank
ing. One has to do with the loans
of bank upon the stock of it's own
bank or of any other bank, and the
other limits loans on real estate to
property situated in Wisconsin or
any state adjoining Wisconsin. The
committee also agreed to a substitute
! amendment for the bill recommended
by the special committee, prescrib-
ing the duties of boards of directors
in banks.