The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-12-20
M'G0VERN TO
SHOW CAUSET0
HOLD LICENSE
Elevator Men Attacked by Chief
Deputy Inspector Come
Back.
ALLEGED He IS NOT FAIR
Railway Commission Urged to
Call in EmpIoye I'm.
.,. mediateIy.
ALLEGED HE IS NOT FAIR

J. A. McGovern, chief deputy in.
spector of weights, grades and meas.
ures, under North DakOta's new grain
grading act, is cited by three of the
elevator men whom he recently at
tackled, to appear before the North
Dakota railway commission to prove
his wholesale charges of fraud against
the elevator buyers Of North Dakota
or to show cause why his license
should not be revoked. .-
Formal notice to this effect was
served on the railway commission this
morning by N. G. Nelson, manager of
an Independent elevator at Stanley;
H. J. Arnold, another independent
Stanley elevator manager and buyer,
and r. A. Rasmussen, manager and
buyer for privately-owned elevator
at PalermO.@si
~, These are three Of the six buyers re-
Gently cited by McGovern to appear
before the state railway commission
20 show cause why their licenses as
deputy inspectors should not be re.
voked. McGOvern filed against them
charges of intentional misgrading, al
ways to the advantage of the elevator
and to the disadvantage of the grain.
grower. A full hearing was given
before the railway commission, which
found McGovern's charges unsubstan-
tiated, and declined to revoke the
buyers licenses.
The elevator buyers in coming back
at McGOvern assert that there is no
Statutory authority for the creation of
his office, and that he is seeking to
advise and discipline and reprimand
the elevator buyers of the state with.
out any legal authority so to do.
They set forth the "said J. A. Nc.
Govern, pretending to act as afore.
said, has willfully and maliciOusly
Disseminated between licensed grain
buyers operating and conducting pri-
vate warehouses in the s:ate, and
has, in furtherance of such willful
and malicious discrimination caused
to be filed with your hono.ar!3 hoard
against your petitioners and others
where in he pretended and purporte1
to charge your petitioners and others
with willful false grading of grain SO
purchased by them, and in pursuance
of such willful and malicious discri-
mination, said ]. A. McGover.l caused
to be published in the newspapers
throughout the state the statement
that your petitioners and others were
in fact guilty of fraudulant practices
K in the buying of grain and were guilty
of willful and deliberate false grading
and false weighing in AMI a5ou. ,h''
purchase of said grain. AMI attempted
in furtherance of such willful dsCri-
mination to cause the licenses of your
petit .. RS 'r be clMen.i hy yCrr
honorable t.. rd, altho nu we'll knew
that your said petiti0Ie 5 were ,,C'
guilty of fTaudulant practices and ha'!
not delib .,rately and wilitully made
false grades or false weights Of grain
purchased ~ them; and ,|tao he well
knew that other warehouses; an
licensed buyers operating III tn" same
region of the state were buying the
same quality of grain produced in tho
same section upon the same basis as
used by your petitioners
The petitioners ask first that the
license of Mr.. McGovern, if any he
has, to act as deputy inspector OF
grades, weights and measures be can
celled; Second, that he be required
to appear before the railway commits
sion at Minot, or Stanley, or some
other convenient point and show
cause why his license shuld not be
cancelled and to further show cause
why he pretends and purports to act
as chief deputy Inspector of grades
weights and measures" and if the
board finds there is authority for his
so acting. and that such Office exists
that it's duties and powers be defined
to the end that all persons interested
may be fully instructed thereon
Third, that the petitioners be permit
ted to appear at such hearing and sub
nit to the board such proofs and evi
dence as they may have in support o
| tho p,o<fora on6 thin0e oot forth