The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-02-13

rejected. They were called for again
and again rejected on the following
April 5th. When they were resubmitted
on May 3rd they fell from the high of
$1.30 to $1.70 per square yard to low
of "a cents to $102. On nine offerings
the identical bidders of December 22nd
made reductions on May 3rd ranging
from $4,000 to $4,000 on contracts
ranging from $4,000 to $4,000.
Public officials whose duty it was to
defend and protect the state--the gov
ernor, the highway commissioner, the
Big Three fought hard and spent large
sums of state money in an attempt to
defat the recovery of 1892, 980.37.
The supreme court said that the situ-
alton was one where there was not
only conspiracy and collision among the
bidders but a constructive participation
therein by state officers whose duty it
was to protect the public from the re-
suits of such conspiracy"
The same administration controls the
highway department today as that
which controlled it when these events
took place, and events since that time
have not encouraged the people of Min
nesota to believe that this administra-
ton regards the highway department in
any different light now than it regarded
it then.
The pot is calling the kettle black in
the oil inspection department. In
Spector Griffith says that Supervisor
or-Something McGovern is an incubus
and McGovern says that Griffith is a
"tittle-tattler"
George H. Griffith, one of the prom
inent Non Partisan League importations
from North Dakota, following the crash
of the Soviet regime there, is head of
the state oil inspection division and
power in the farmer-labor party. Syl-
vester McGovern, mysteriouSly on the
oil inspection divisions payroll at $3.50
per month, is the loose-tongued male
Mrs. Grundy who broadcast juicy bits
of personal political gossip over the
radio under the pseudonym of Rome
Roberts last winter
Complaining to the legislature that he
had not been allowed enough money to
properly maintain his department,
Griffith was asked what useful purpose
McGovern served in his division at $3.50
per month Mr.. Griffith said he had
vainly tried to get rid of McGovern, but
every time he erased the McGovern
name from his payroll, Commissioner of
Agriculture Trovatten wrote it right
back in again. Whereupon the loose
jointed McGovern's tongue began back
firing again. Griffith is a little tell
tale and is betraying executive and adj
ministrative political secrets" McGov-
ern, alias Roberts, said. Once started
on this line, the broadcasting fever
mounted in the McGovern veins and he
became once more Rome Roberts, to
sheer about Griffiths employees paying
too much attention "to private law
practice, the publishing of weekly news
papers and the scurrying around on
bizarre political missions"
In the matter of "tittle- tattling" and
betraying political secrets" the pot
seems to be running the kettle close
race.
1t is a good bet that Joe Wolf, demo-
cratic national committeeman for Min
nesota, is biting his tongue over the
slip about the Bremen brothers being
more to him than the democratic party.
81 love the democratic party" said
Committeeman Wolf, but, oh, you
Bremen brothers!" This is stripping
the truth almost too naked, and that
right in the midst of bitter demo-
cratic winter of discomfort.
Look at this picture:
1.-The Agricultural Adjustment Ad-
Act, now under considera-
ton, would call for an administrative
staff no larger than fifty persons.
by Rexford c. Tugwell, under
secretary of agriculture, before the Sem
ate Agricultural Committee, March II,
1888.
And then on this:
On May 81, 1895, the AAA had 5,504 en-
ployees in the District of Columbia and
Q ,370 in the 48 states, total of 1874
from the official figures of the AAA.