The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-12-08
500 MAY COME
FOR HEARING ON
GRAIN GRADING
Probable that Conference Will
Be Held in Municipal Audi
forum Monday.

GOAAuIu 4NO1ludJ.
Casper ]. Brand, chief of the bureau
of markets and grading, Washington,
D. c., will be here in person for the
North Dakota railway commissions
hearings on the federal grain grades
Monday, according to advice received
in the city today.
1--WE anticipate that from 300 to 800
farmers and grainmen will attend the
hearing on the new federal grades 10
be held here next Monday said Sec
rotary ]. H. Calderhead of the North
Dakota railway commission today.
prospects for large attendance are
so favorable that we probably will
ask the use of the municipal auditor
ium, as the only room in Bismarck
capable OF accommodating everyone
comfortably. We have not. to date
been advised as to the men whom
The department of agriculture will
send for this hearing, DR.. E. F. Ladd,
as chief inspector of grades, weights
and measures. Deputy Inspector ]. A.
McGovern and Chairman Andahl and
Commissioner Bleick will he mere"
License Denied.
The first license denied an elevator
buyer under North Daoktas new
grain grading act is one which Her
bert Roberts, buyer for r. A. Ras-
mussen at Shields, was advised this
week must be refused Roberts charg-
ed by Chief Deputy Inspector Meow
ern with incompetency, and by the
latter denied a license on this count,
. had hearing before the commission
a few days ago, and the rail board
determined his case at Darlington.
Charges Not Sufficient
At the Darlington meeting the rail
board also decided that the charges
of misgrading by Mr.. McGovern
against G. H. Sawyer buyer for the
Victoria Elevator Co. at Roach; R. l..
Olson, buyer for the same company
at BerthOld: Il. A. Ramussson, buyer
for the r. A. Rasmussen Elevator Co.
at Palermo; II. ]. Arnold, of Arnold
Bros elevator at Stanley, and y. G.
Nelson, of Nelson Eros. at Stanley,
were not sufficient to warrant the re-
vOking of their licenses. Secretary
Calderhead, however, was instructed
to address letter to these men, adj
vising that while the commission does
not deem their errors OF sufficient
gravity to warrant the cancellation
OF their policies, they must be warned
against similar errors in the future;
and admolishing them that they are
~ acting in the capacity Of state Off
Gals and must watch their step"
To St. Paul Protest.
Commissioners Johnson and Eleick
proceeded from the Darlington ses-
sion to St. Paul to attend meeting
of grain commissioners from sur
rounding state assembled to discuss
the introduction at this session of con-
: gresS Of new grain grading act
which will do away with the features
OF the present statute which are re-
garded as unfair or impossible. The
. technical niceties of the present
grades are held by elevator men and
grain. growers alike to make them al
most imperative. 1t is highly prob
able that out of the st. Paul con
ference will grow model measure
which will more nearly meet the ap
proval of everyone, and it is thought
: that the present is an opportune time
to procure its passage.
At Fargo Today.
All members of the commission are
in Fargo today for the first hearing
in this state on federal grades. Thence
Commissioner NJ. p. Johnson, head OF
the Equity in North Dakota, goes to
Wausau, Wis, to attend the annual
=. meeting OF the national executive com
mittee of this organization.
Minor Matters.
= At the Darlington meeting the
Gackle &l'illigmier Co. of Harvey was
directed to recognize the claim of II
H. Phillips of Harvey for payment fol
: wheat stored with the company on {
= May /, 1917 basis. Phillips claimed
he placed his wheat in storage in
special bin in the fall of 1916 and tina
when he claimed it last May the com
pany advised it had been sold.
Fargo taXi-drivers who objected tt
monopoly given one company il
allowing it sole permission to back it
cars up to the station platform wer
: advised the United States suprem
court recently had upheld such a
agreement and that they had no cast
A Darlington photographer VIII
lives in his quarters and who insiste
that his telephone, used for bushes!
be listed as residence phone los
:, out
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