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Show THE WAY 'N MINNESOTA. Report or the Committee lnreitlg&tlng; the Alleged Jobbery. St. Taih., March 20. The house com luittee to investigate the (lata! prison nnagement made a voluminous report. re-port. It goes back ten years on tha contract system and finds that by letting let-ting out convict labor at a low prica and then paying out big prices for wort to the companies employing the convicts, con-victs, the state paid $00,i)()0 more than it received from the costractors. In a discussion of the purchase of binding twine machinery, crooked methods are alleged against those securing se-curing machiuery for the penitentiary. |