The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-08-05
From the sLinnesotian of Aucu;

from the NInneSo'lal OF august run
THE CnARrER--In order to aid the public
in arriving at correct information iii regard TO
the passage of the much-traduced Railroad
charter through the Minnesota Legislature al
lis last session. We give below the yeas and
nays in both Houses on its final passage:
In the Council, the vote stood
Ie1s-Mcosrs. Brown, Freedom, Mower,
Murray and StcarnS.
NaLs-Messrs. otimson, Van Fttcn and Ohm
stcl, pres dent.)
In the House, the vote was as follows:
feas-MesSrs. Bartlett, Davis, Day, Morri-
son, MOBILES, Moot Richardson, Rolettc Roy,
Sloan and Taylor. (Speakcr.)
Noys-McSsrs Fisher. Fletcher, Gardiner,
Mckusicil, Plumer and Watson.
Mr.. kttSon was absent from the Council.
and Mr.. Lord from tue House, at the time the
bill passed.
Tie Pioneer c}tay@es the men r+ose names
GPPeor n tie affirmative as obore IS hari"g
been tnfuencci dy CORRUPT menus to cast tiejf
then and now proprictors Of the Pioneer is one
Of them He also is the member who origin
ally introduced the bill He, of course, is not
exempt from the PioaeerS Charge Of corrup-
ton As the bill, then, originally came cut
of tie Pho icer Office, ii is the duty of that es
Establishment, ROW that it has commenced the
work, to let the public know all about the
bribery Of those members who voted for it,
Let the editor call his business partner, Mr.
Brown, as the first witness to testify.
1t will be a subject Of establishment to
those unacquainfcd with the editor Of the
ltnaesotian, to learn that the sentence We
have italciscd above, is an utter, ncxcusa-
BE lie that we have never written or spc-
ken an opinion, rejecting upon the integrity
Of the members Of the last Legislature, in
reference to any matter whatever. This
JOHN P. Owens is, beyond all question, the
very Prince Of Prevarcation. -MAcAULAY
we think it is, who III scorching review Of
the lemoirs Of Barefe, a noted, but utterly
graccless character, who tlouriShed durin-
the French Revolution, places him in the
position we have allotted to Mr.. OWENS
Considering the exceeding similarity of the
two characters, we may be pardOncd the
liberty Of parodiz;ng a few sentences, to
suit the notorious subject under treatment ::
AS soon as he ceases to write trilles, he be-
gins to write lies and such lies a man
who has never been within the tropics does
not know what thunderstorm means a
man who has never looked on Niagara has
but faint idea Of cataract and he who
has not read the MinnesOtian, may be said
not to know what it is to lie. Among the
numerous classes which make up the genus
Mendacium, the llendaciam Tascomcum, or
Gascon lie, has, during some centuries, been
highly esteemed as peculiarly circumstantial
and peculiarly impudcnt but among all
llendacia, the Meadactum O,reniamum is,
without doubt, the finest spccies-so superb
a variety, that it quite throws into the shade
some Mmacia which we were used to re-
gard with admiration.
But, parody aside ; it is to us daily
marvel to witness Mr.. OwENs's wonderful
fecundity Of falsehood So great talent
does he display in mendacity, that indig-
nation, and even contempt, SO univer-
sally associated in our minds with a liar, arc
swallowed up in pure amazement at the
mans capacity. He stands out, beyond
all others, as the type and representative
of his class ; unexcelled by the H1arhaHs,
Bareres, and MachiaraHs, whose names have
become historical as synonyms of splendid
liars and as one who has been barely beat
en-, if at all, so far as the records show,
even by the DerI himself.
so far from traducing the gentlemen
who represented the people in the last Leg
islature, we have uniformly spoken of them
in terms of respect. Some of their acts we
cannot ENTHUSIASTICALLY that granting
the extraordinary charter to the Schuyler
Company but we never questioned their
integrity. We are especially glad of the
opportunity which the Mianesotian has Civ
Ell US, to offer our testimony in this behalf