The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-02-02
DEMANDS THAT
S0L0NS ENACT
HIS MEASURE
Governor Emphatically De.
clares For Terminal Ele.
vator Marketing Plan
MAY BE COMPROMISE
Proposal to Put All Response
bility on Governor Is
Being Advanced
MAY BE COMPROMISE

The mill and elevator legislatiy
program of Governor A. G.. Sorli
embraces three measures. and tn
Governor is insisting upon passag
of such legislation by the legisla
ture. The chief executive, VIII
adopted IA "hands off" policy with re
gard to legislation after deliverin
his inaugural address, has entere
into active support of his measure
and has let it be known to associ
ates that he is willing to use tn
force of his power to get these pro
posals into law.
includes:
Mill and elevator reenactinr
bill, which abOlishes the board
Of managers for the Grand Forks
mill and elevator.
Law to place state warehouse
receipt. particularly As it would
affect the mill and elevator at
Grand Forks. on a parity with
the federal warehouse license.
Measure creating terminal mar
ket at Grand Forks. designed to
permit the state railroad COM
mission to make freight rates
based upon terminal markets:
permitting state elevator to mix
various grades of wheat to con-
sistency desired by millers and
sell 1t from Grand Forks eleva.
tor.
The Governor, in conferences,
also has made known that he
desires the measure introduced
Saturday, appropriating $25.000
for employment Of an efficien.
cy expert to make a survey of
the state departments and insti-
tiOns. with view of economy,
to pass.
Mixing of Wheat
The most important planks in thu
Sorlle administration mill and ele.
vator program, as made known by
him today, include the creation of 3
terminal market at Grand Forks. y,
far as it can be done by law, and
making it possible to mix wheat in
the elevator and sell it to millers
in addition to supplying the sta.<
flour mill at Grand Forks.
The Governor has pointed out that
the freight rate on wheat from Will.
liston to Minneapolis is on 16-cen,
basis and from Williston to Grand
Forks on a l5-cent basis. Freight
rates, he holds, are based upon ter.
minals in the Twin Cities and Du.
luth, and should be based with 8
view Of permitting terminal market
at Grand Forks.
Fargo also, when the Equity Pack.
ing Plant is placed in operation
will desire such an arrangement,
with respect to terminal market
rates, the Governor believes.
He would, as far as possible by
law. give the state elevator at Grand
Forks the status of a terminal mar.
ket. permitting the state railroad
commission to fix rates from vari.
Gus points within the state to the
state mill at Grand Forks. When
wheat is loaded on car at the pre- S.
ent time it is Immediately subject tc
the basis of rates and authority OF
the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion, he holds, whereas under hi.
plan he would increase the power OF
the state railroad commission with
regard to rates, if possible.
Would Make Big Market
The Governor would make tn,
Grand Forks elevator a market poin,
for wheat. His view is that wheat
of different protein content, obtain
ed from various parts of North Da
kota. could be mixed in the elevator
to the right protein value to NEE
requirements, and could b,
sold from the Grand Forks elevator
to millers in other parts of tn,
country.
The Governor holds that by thi
method buyers of wheat could b,
made to come to North Dakota t,
purchase the hard spring whea
needed in flour milling, instead o.
buying it at Minneapolis or othe
terminal points where it is mixe'
at present.
The warehouse receipt law, he be
lieves, would make the North Dakot
storage receipt issued by the stat
elevator as good as the receipt issue
from federal warehouse, and none,
could be borrowed on it. It is know,
that the Governor believes that op
erations of the Grand Forks eleva
tor. in purchasing wheat, mixin
and reselling it, could be lareel
done on borrowed money, with tn
grain as security.
The bill which passed the hous
abolshing the board Of managers o
the mill and elevator at Grand Forks
and placing control of the mill Il
the hands Of the Industrial Commits
sion. is being vigorously favored b,
the Governor. He is demandinl
passage Of the measure by the Sen
ate. where independents now have
majority Of one.
He also is confident that the hil
will 60 through the Senate.
Calls e. 0enafoes
The Governor, In : ssFias ef seu
ferencss with vaxieas net6A Aess " :
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