The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, June 1, 1916, Page 13

{ | The Leader’s Washington Bureau 302 Riggs Building ASHINGTON, D. C., May 80— In spite ‘of Senator Gronna’s sharp fight the senate commit-- {tee adopted without amendment the 'house grain bill, which was tacked on OF /'the agricultural appropriatxon bill as a rider. Senator Gronna is warning the At farmers of the wheat section that a ‘dangerous situation is likely to be ' |'created if this measure is adopted in its | present form. He will attempt to kill Mr. Ge Dear jate, \ )sam £ Nom teferen subscri lion, COUR] agreen signed, printed say th membe © It 15 of that pmouny ! ific de yoursel debts the tex ship in L916. that tk membe tion m fo me: your o Any ppinion liability tisan 1 which® ts limit . The ! forth i1 tion fo: FARM! DO W1 It we of the ganize other i« have. should . tion. My legislat for abi while't express enact ] farmer kota w membe: semblie measur selves ] had no legislat and pri DRGA1 WAS 1 It is the measure on the floor of the senate. The. grading bill is now known as Part B of the appropnatmn bill, H. R. 12717. Following is an analysis of the measure, section by section: Section 1.—Names the measure the “United - States Grain Grading Act,” . Section 2.—Authorizes secretary of agriculture to -establish standards “of quality and condition” for com, wheat, lrye, oats, ‘barley, flaxseed, etc., giving him power to alter grades when neces- sary, and giving at least 60 days’ notice dates when standards - become effective. : Section 3.—Provides that these stan- dards. shall ‘be official grain standards. Section 4.—Provides that when grain is shipped in interstate or foreign com- merce it must be “inspected and graded” by -a licensed government inspector and the grade by which it is sold must be one of the grades fixed in the official standards, Grain, however, may be.sold by sample or type. Inspection my be either at the shipping point or the des- gination. The shipper can appeal from the first - inspection. When grain is shipped by grade between points where no inspectors are located, secretary of ° agriculture is to decide any disputes as to the grade. In contracts, invoices, bills of lading, etc., no grades shall be used other than grades fixed by the United States. HEAVY PENALTIES FOR MISTAKES IN GRADES Section 5.—Forbids representations that grain shipped, “or delivered for shipment” in interstate commerce is of —any other grade than the one given to it by the official inspection. In alleged violations of this section shippers must be given a hearing, and if the secretary .of agriculture finds that the grade has . “beer« misrepresented his findings.” . It is this ‘'section which Senator Gron- na_declares will put every wheat grower of the northwest in danger of the peni- ‘tentiary if he ships at points where no inspectors dre located. The shipper in ‘such cases will often notify his broker or commission man that he has wheat “he may publish whatey ,,:of a certain grade, and if, upon arrival the far . benefit - at the terminal the wheat is not given that grade by the inspector, the shipper is: liable to the heavy penalties pres- cribed further along in the bill. Section 6.—Provides that the appeal from _an inspector’s decision goes directly to the secretary of agriculture. ‘Pending such appeal, the grain cannot leave_ the inspection point or lose its ‘identity. "The appealing shipper must’ put up a “reasonable fee” .which is refunded if the appeal is sustained. " Provides that the secretary’s decisions “shall be prima facie evidence in lawsuits. Section 7.—~Inspectors are licensed directly by the secretary of agriculture. ‘No other - inspector, employed by any state, county, city, town, board of trade, “chamber of commerce, etc., can certify to grades unless he is licensed by the secretary of agriculture. The secretary, however, in appointing inspectors, shall 3 : give preference to inspectors’ authorized ‘by. states which have official grain ' inspection. The pecretary:can - revoke ‘inspectors’ licenses after giving an op- portumty for hearings. ‘Section 8.—The secretary -of agncul- ‘ture presen’bes the rules for the mspec- non service. A THOUSAND DOLLARS JArShEy FOR “CARELESSNESS” Section: 9.—-A penalty of 31000 fine" and up to a year in prison is provided for violations of Sections 4 and 7, and for ins| rs who -“knowingly or care- lessly” grade 1mproperly or who accepts bribes. Any person bn"bm.g or attempt- ing to bribe an- mspector is also ha’ble Gronna Will Attempt to Kill Measure, Thinks It Dangerous; News of Capltal ‘ By Willts J. Rutledge Sectign 11.—Technical administrative, details. X Section ~ 12.—Appropriates = $125,000 for carrying out the act. . Senator Gronna declares that although the penalty section specifies only sec- tions 4 and 7, violations of any section of the bill will incur the same penalty. He calls attention to the fact that the inspector must “knowingly” grade false- ly to be liable for pumshment whereas no such loophole is given to the farmer in section 5. All in all, Gronna declares that the measure is drawn purely in favor of the - millers, giving them the government’s. guarantee that the wheat will come in according to the official grades. The bill does not specify how these grades shall be determined. The secretary of agriculture can accept the miller’s grades,” if he’ chooses, and the govern- ment inspectors will hold the farmers-to these "grades. Gronna declares that every miller in the country is urging the passage of the bill. The most scientific method of grain grading has been discovered by Prof. Ladd of Fargo, namely, grading by flour ‘and by-product content as deter- mined by chemical and bakmg tests, and not grading as at present by the eolor, texture ' and “other physical character- istics. - Even if the bill is adopted there is a chance that the wheat growers, by mak- ing a united effort, can prevail-upon the department of agriculture to accept Dr. Ladd’s tests as the basis for the new grades. WHAT AGRICULTURAL BILL HAS FOR THIS STATE The agncultural appropriation bill has been reported to the senate by the com- mittee.- It is now in practically the same form in which it will pass. It carries a total appropriation of $23,929,~ 320. The following are the provisions of most interest to North Dakota: An. appropriation of $50,000 for study- ing the prevention of the .disease of contagious abortion among .animals. For the eradication of dourine $75,000. For investigating the handlmg, grad- mg and transportation of grain and fix-- ing definite grades, $109,920. For the fight against black and stripe rust in. wheat, oats and barley, $20,000. What They Think of Frazxer (From the Carrmgton Record) Lynn J. Frazier, of Hoople, the Nonpartisan League candidate for gov- ernor, was a‘ Carrington visitor last’ Saturday.. Mr. Frazier is making the race for the nomination on the Republican ticket, havmg been a lifelong Republican but bemg indorsed by the Nonpartisan League. Mr. Frazier is a farmer, and has made a success of his work. In his home county he has stood for everything that was good, and has been particularly active in temperance work, and has done his best to help in the work of law enforcement, especially the prohibition law. g He graduated from the state university with high honors, and also from the Mayville normal, and when a young man taught school for several years. He had planned to enter the law, but upon the death of his father when he was still a young man, he gave up this career and returned to the farm, to take active.charge of-the same, and do his best to take the place in the family made vacant by the death of the father. And he has done well his part. He is not a politician, and has never sought political honors, and three months ago had no more idea of rumnning for the highest office in the state than you or I. This is one instance where the office did actually seek the man. As a Republican he has always been an active ;progressive, and has been, as is natural, very much mterested in all legislation pertaining to the welfare of the farmmg class. He is clean and honest, and full of good common hard sense, and is a man that if elevated to this high office, may not shine particilarly at the inaugural ball but he will bring to bear on the questions of state the same good common sense that has made him a successful business farmer. He has spent his whole life in North Dakota, and is earnestly and intensely interested in the welfare and advancement of the whole state, town and country alike, not\mthstandmg the contemptible knocks of a certain ‘class of newspapers. He believes in constructive and not destructive measures, so far as laws are capable of this work. ‘He is a North Dakotan in the best sense of the word, and is for North Dakota and all her people. | Cooper Plana Study of Marketé HOMAS P. COOPER, director of the North Dakota Agricultural Ex- .periment Station, has obtained per- mission of the state board of regents, the new governing body of the state educational institutions, to enter into a new and important branch of research work. The board ‘has author- ized the immediate: expendmlre of $3000, to be collected from various unexpended balances of experiment station funds, to ‘ establish a department to investigate marketing of “ farm products, farmers’ cooperative institutions, farm finance and Tural credits. In addition to anthorizing this expen- diture the board has promised Myr. Cooper ’ to. recommend to the next legislature an appropnatlon of $7500 for the mext biennium to carry on the work. This is -an’ entitely new line of activity for the _experiment station, which has- hitherto confined itself to investigations along the line of incre 4more profitable crops, etc., with little. in. regard to marketing and fmanqu] mvest- igations affecting the farmer. “I" have ‘started ‘to look for an expert _to ‘have charge of this new work”, said pmduchon, ‘better and- - of agriculture to put me in touch with a good man familiar with marketing and _farm® finances and expect to land the right one shortly. I-have long desired to initiate this department but have only just got authorization from the board to spend the money. “While I am not ready to announce in detail the scope of the work, in general it will include an investigation of mar- kets for farm - pmducts, railroad rates affecting farm product pnces, other infiu- ences that enter into or‘'fix prices for farm productsy cooperative methods of marketing, their successes and fallures, * with information on how to organize for. cooperative maketing and buying; farm - finances and rural credits. “These things, I believe, are of the ut- - most importance ‘to the farmers- and information sould be obtained concerning them as well as concerning production, _etc.. We expect to be able to- publith well as consumers. It is only by getting accurate ‘and fair information on’ these subjects that intelligent action can be bulletins ' of nnpo!tanee to producers as For the North Dakota Agncultural . college for the testing of flax straw for paper making and testing flax fibre in the manufacture of crash and linen, $10,840. : For. the ‘distribution’ of shade trees - from the Mandan experimental statlon, _$160,000. , For the Dakota National Forest, $201.. For improving™ Sullys Hill National Park at Devils Lake, $5,000. : For experiments in dan'ymg and live- stock production in sem:-arid and irri- gated dxstncts, $8'7, Acting on the appeal of Representa- tive H. T. Helgesen, the department of agriculture has at last moved to give some relief to North Dakota ranshmen who are suffering from the ravages of dourine among -their horses. . It. ‘will send an additional veterinarian and an extra range rider to the state to find horses” “that have “the disease. ~The department has also arranged for quar- antine stations to which diseased horses can be taken for killing after July 1, wheri funds will be available from which ranch owners can be. reimbursed for their horses that are killed. HELGESEN 'STANDS OUT AGAINST SHIPPING BILL Represaentative Helgesen was ' the . only ‘member-of the North Dakota dele- gation that voted against the shipping bill, but he did so only on conscientious objections after. long = deliberation. He satisfied himself. of the fact, of which - all the Washington conespondents have- been aware from the beginning, that the bill is fraudulent and. will never achieve the purposes that he pretends to seeks Its - real object is to purchase now with govemment money a collection of ships that in five years ‘are to be sold. to the shipping combine for a song. In other words it is to. provide the big combine with ships at a nominal price. A great many members that ought to know better were fooled by this device. Representatwe Helgesen declared that = ‘he is in favor of an enlarged mercantile marine and will support an honest meas- ure to that end, but he is against using the United States treasury to supply private corporatlons with ships. The bill is a fair sample of a class of legislation of which there has been more at this session than in all my experience in Washington. Representative P. D.' Norton today. made the Memorial Day address in one of the parks in Philadelphia. John Burke, treasurer of the United States is about to shed his coat and jump into the North Dakota campaign in earnest in his campaign for the Demo- . cratic nomination for senator. He has left Washington and will arrive in Fargo Friday. He will campaign until the primaries. The postoffice department last week closed the Stewarxtsdale, Burleigh coun- ty, postoffice on the ground that no one has volunteered to act as postmaster. Representative George Young has had the discontinuance order held up until he can communicate with the patrons of the office to see if they wanted to have it closed. The treasury department will adver— " tise for bids for the construction of the Jamestown, N. D, postoffice ‘building in August andmubereadyboaskfor. bids in September for: the chlnnson postoffice building. Each bmldmg is to cost $75,000. —— Representahve Young has appomted . Harold U. Thomas of Oberon, Benson college, .county; mow. a student in: Fargo as principal candidate for the additional ‘West Point cadetship’ in Young’s dis- tnct created by the recent law increas- ing the size of the scademy.. John W. Ackerman of Ashley, McIntosh county, nOW 2 no _is:the first “will be held-at Fort Snellmg, Mum., i June 6. 2 taken toward solving these problems. : gptflnenevworkudltu.,mpomflw “ course ot a few weeks". . will make a moreextended announcement ,sehool pupil at Ellendale," : te. The examination P Py e R ‘o -] =Tl IR I = R B - | paredy FETC o AN Sl R n G e