| Show AM objectionable dav ft orak IIer ilir xea protest adit ersy march 10 the elevator complies comp nies doing business in north dakota are far from pleased with the laws passed by the recent legislature of that state regulating their business and bya bome means or other they are modified the result will undoubtedly be that the companies compan iea will celisa running public elc vaters in that state during the next two years they will run private storehouses instead buying and selling wheat in the state just the same as private individuals do and cease storing or handling grain for the farmers as they have done to the mutual benefit of both cartiea part iea in the past A talk this morning with a gentleman who represents the ideas and views of all the elevator men on tha dakota legislation brought out the following statement of facts the objection to the law is that it fixes the handling charge at below the coit of handling the wheat taking into account the present acreage heretofore the charge has been ac for receiving ce inuring delivering and fifteen daya As this includes insurance lor twenty days it is cheaper than either farmer or elevator can handle the wheat and considerable power is granted to the railroad com missi onera in the law the decision ot the companies will depend somewhat their attitude this statement nay be accepted as juat about the law and the gospel according to the elevator companies arc the new law define the of the railroad commission and give to it the general supervision of the grain trade dakota section 4 is a rare definition of public warehouses kit is pronounced constitutional which hardly anybody believes it will bo it will make everybody who buys and soils wheat in aoah dakota through a house a public ware houseman in other words it aftem apts warehouses public ware make all to no matter what the wish of the may be the law was pro bloew by G A spencer general of the icea state the attorney all the ame the law but unconstitutional the law considered miff nally drafted each ware M to pay a and houe public but thia was cut out by the senate i ina in nunra 8 provides nub elevator the and not a sile to ia a bailment and the elevator receiving instead of being the the wheat considered is bailee this owner is the a goodjoint good point one on section 11 la the which it at of the low price account the avana handle commela eleva torB to violation of the section any with afine of law misdemeanor imprisonment for not to 1000 and more than one atu |
