Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1917-01-31
LETTER FROM. THE
STATE LEGISLATURE
Note of Discord in Lower House
Over Resolution To Probe
Grain Exchanges.

Gfd1n Exchanges.
st. (SpeciaD-Three weeks OF
harmony--harmony of the kind that
has the senate distanced in respect to
unadulteration-seem to be too much
for the house and already rumblings
that indicate break are being heard
in the distance. The new members
simply cannot stand it any longer.
while as to the old heads quite few
OF them are nursing grievances the
settlement of which will no longer
brook delay. They are eager to get
at each others throat Added to all
this, and which concerns new as we'll
ity back home. They want something
that will get them into the public
prints and three weeks of official life
has been sufficient to show them that
the simple life and the spotlight do
not hitch. The first note of discord
was, struck when the farmer contin
gent clashed on a resolution fathered
by O. F. Teigen of Montevideo direct
ing a thorough investigation of all
grain exchanges operating in the state
The desired probe even included the
Equity Cooperative Exchange of St
Paul, which is the chief pet of Magnus
Johnson of Meeker county, and quite
a few other farmers in the house.
They naturally resented the whole
thing and hard words were passed. If
publicity was aimed at, which several
charged, then Teigen got what he was
after. as it followed in goodly chunks.
That row is still on and is growing
The early part of the week the house
for the first time went into committee
of the whole 1t is here where the
merits and demerits of the various
measures offered are threshed out. and
while the proceedings during the first
two or three sittings were compare
lively tame, enough i'll feeling was en-
gendered to make it certain that the
bricks would fly before another week.
New members, shy on the knowledge
that legislative success after all is
simply a proposition of '.You tickle
me, ! tickle you," voted without think
ing, and what the other fellows come
back will be can easily he snaggin.ssls n.sgl: :
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When this letter was in the making
the question of dry or wet Mime.
sofa was up in the house and the op-
posing leaders were busy marshaling
their forces Whether or not the con
stitutional amendment putting Mime
/ sofa in the dry column would prevail
was a disputed question. though the
dry leaders were confident enough to
claim a victory in advance They
were willing to admit. though, that
| the margin was not the biggest in the
world. Without impugning the hon
esty or sincerity of those concerned
in putting the North Star state into
the dry column the amendment as re-
ported out by the house temperance
committee is everything but dry Who
conceived the idea / do not know, no,
can l advance a reason for the steI
taken, but the amendment under con
sideration and which bears the Stang
of approval of the Anti-Sa1oon league
and the dry leaders, permits the i'm
portation of liquor into the state, but
prohibits it's manufacture or sale
within the state This was brought
about by striking the word "transpor
tation'' from the original bill and wa:
agreed to at a secret meeting of DIR,
leaders held few days before the
bill was reported out for passage
While such an amendment may ge
by in the house it is doubtful if it will
prevail in the senate. If it does fail
the bill mentioned in previous lette
permitting the manufacture of ligh
wines and beer in the state and thei
sale to consumers direct will be intro
duced.
Potato growers of Minnesota will
learn with pleasure of the introdue
tion in the senate of a bill designed t
protect them from INSCRIPTIONS buy
ers and concerns dealing in their con
modify The bill is fathered by Sens
tors T. G. Bloomgren of 1santi count
and j. A. Rystrom of Chisago count
and provides heavy penalty for wha
is known as unfair discrimination j
fixing prices to be paid for tuber!
and in the. language Of the oldest cit
zen fills a long. felt want 1t define
and penalties a practice that is TIL
one sore spot in every potato raisin
section and wipes out an evil tha
mas long been detriment to the su,
cessful and increased acreage of pot;
toes in Minnesota. BY its terms an
firm, person or co-partnership engage
I. in the buying of potatoes is forbidde
? to discriminate between sections an
localities by purchasing such potatoe
l at higher price in one locality tha
I is paid for such in another. Of cours
$ provision is made for any difference
$ in the cost of transportation or othe
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