Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-11-26

the very ablest men that l have met,
the greatest achievement that any COM
mittee representing any sort OF indus
try accomplished in fifty years.
President Candy, of the Chicago
Board of Trade, stated in his speech be-
fore the Rules committee that they had
been in correspondence with the De-
partment Of Agriculture for more than
three months in an effort to get a bill
suitable to the grain trade.
From this we got the hint as to what
was going on. Chryst, johnson, Solem
and myself went down to the Agricul-
tural department and got the amend
ments We desired and put into the bill.
I We thanked DR.. Galloway, the assist.
ant secretary, and went back to our
rooms happy. We were all ready then
to return to our homes. However, / re.
turned to pay n more visit to DIR.
Galloway, who was in charge of the
bill, before we should leave Washing
ton. 70 my utter establishment he had
taken out all of the amendments that he
had written into the bill at our sugges-
ton the previous evening, O could |
do or say anything tina, would induce
to reipsert them. What power had
taken possession of him in the mean
time, | cannot say.
Had the amendments not been effec-
tive-had they not been so considered
by the power that removed them, would
they have been removed?
No, reader; weigh the puny false
hoods of Nelson against those facts.
The last words that | spoke to DR..
Galloway as | left his office was that /
would use every effort to defeat the bill
as it then stood, that was in my power.
The next NOR ming we went to the Of
fee of Congressman Lever, chairman
Of the house committee on agriculture.
I, as chairman, presented the case to
him, stating that we wanted federal
grading and inspection of grain because
we wanted a square deal; they opposed
it because they wanted the discretion
airy powerivested in the grain inspec-
| tors in their favor to p%reventla square
deal. Consequently, they wanted local
inspection with some sort of federal
control. This they wanted for their
own purpose in the interstate shipment
of grain.
/ further informed Mr.. Lever of the
experience we had with DR.. Galloway
and the bill that morning having been
sent over to Mr.. Lever to be introduced
by him in the house, came Immediately
under consideration. / asked Mr.. Lever
squarely if we were asking for anything
chat was not square and honorable. He
as plainly answered that he did not
think we were, and followed with this
statement: 81 will put the necessary
amendments into the bill to give you
federal grading and inspection, and ]
will see to it that it don't come out"
We then and there agreed upon the
necessary amendments and before IN
sorting them in the bill at my sugges.
ton, called Congressman Manahan or
the phone, He came Immediately. He
was asked for his opinion as to its suf-
~ficiency of the amended bill to give
complete federal grading and inspec-
tion of grain. He pronounced the bill
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all right, and at the request of Mr.,
Lever wrote the amendments into the
bill.
What a chance was here for notoriety
and front page advertising! Here was
volumes of glory, and Mr.. Greeley was
not in washington and knew nothing Of
the transaction. The newspapers woulc
have grabbed at this had they knowr
oft. But no; we were not in Wash.
y ington for praise Or glorification, but
for results.
Here we had accomplished the defeat
Of the schemes of the different boards
Of trade of the United States-what il
took them three months to secure, ir
one. half day. Not a word of it was
given out. Not a paper in South Dako.
ia or elsewhere ever got a line of it.
But, Nelson says that / must have
frant page advertising.
The peculiar thing about this trans.
action was that both the farmers com
mittee and the grain trade was appar-
emily suited with the bill because they
thought andknew that originally it had
been made to their liking, and knew
nothing of the amendments secured by