The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-09-04

raised. it-and he is responsible for this dis
turbancc of the public tranquility"
So reasons Mr.. Attorney WHITE who didn't
become Millionaire, as he walks up and
down The dcsolatc shores of his Lake Superior
rcsort; SO reason all Mr.. Attorney WIRES
friends, WHO didn't get the slice they expected
cat Of o'd SMITHS estate they all echo and
re-echo the charge Of Mr.. Attorney WHITE,
that il Is the rascally, babbing BEowS, who
is the author of all their calamity, and upon
his head should be visited the public indigna-
ton. just 50 reason the members ofthe Schuy-
Ter Railroad Company, at whose instigatlon,
and under whose direction, the enormous fraud
was pcrpctratcd upon Congress, Minnesota,
and the whole country; just so reason their
hangcrs-o on, their eXpectant bcncficiaries, and
Subsidized, vcnal presses 1T is not us, who
only erased =" the little word cnd" and sub
stitutcd 1.-THE still smaller word or" in the bill
before Congress, who are responsible for the
repeal Of the law, but it is you, GoRMAS, SIB-
LEY, land RossER, who stuck your noses into
our private affairs, where they didn't belong
who pccred among the files of the Senate until
you found the slight alteration slightly done
in the faintest Of pcnci,-who thercupon blab-
bed the thing before all Congress, and the
rcop'c The law making the grant would not
have been repealed, had not the slight alter
atom been revealed; you discovered the
fraud; ergo, you arc responsible to the people
of Minnesota for TIE loss of the grant" This
is the kind of talk we hear in the street from
the friends of the Honorable HENRY NJ. RICE,
and the apologists of the Schuyler Company :;
it is upon this basis that the Dubuque Express
frames its article and this doctrine has been
distinctly set forth by the Minnesotian of this
city-a doctrine that permits crime and the
criminal to go free, while visiting its penalty
upon the heads of those who have the watch
fulncss and industry to discover fraud, and the
honesty to dcnouncc and expose it, A doc
trinc like that, so monstrous in every rcspcct
can require 10 serious refutation, yet the fire.
qucncy with which it is advanced, and the per-
sstcncy with which it is maintained, have
forced us to an exposure Of its l;lllacy.
The remainder of the article from the En-
press, which We have quoted, is false in its
whole tenor. The history of the efforts to OBJ
tain land grants to Minnesota for Railroad
purposes is found in the following facts. Last
winter our Legislature granted a charter for
Railroad from the iowa line to Lake Superior
giving the company a lien upon all the lands
which might thereafter be granted to the Ter
ritory for Railroad purposes, and comforting
thercupon sundry other extraordinary privi-
leges. At an early day during the last session
of Congress, a bill making an immense grant
to the Territory passed the Senate, without re-
strction, so that had it become law, it
would at once have vested in the company by
the terms of thciy charter. This bill failed in
the House by a large majority. 1t was asccr-
tanned to be beyond all rcs,lscitation there. AT
this juncturc of affairs, certain gentlemen, of
our Territory, visited Washington, where they
were informed, by our Delegate, Mr. RICE, of
the desperate condition of affairs. He
requested their assistance, and help was rem
dercd him by Mcssrs. SIBLEy, GoRMAS, STEELE,
and others. The bill permitting the grant to
go into the hands of the company chartered,
had already failed, beyond the possibility of
passage and it had failed because Congress
had objections to making a grant either d-
rectly or indirectly to any private company
They, therefore, saw that it would be the ex-
trcmc of folly to prepare new bill containing
the same provisions.
But it was found, by a canvass of the Housc ,
that bill making grant absolutely to the
Territory, and subject to the disposal of flu.
ture legislature, anu excluding all companies
already constituted or organized, would stand
a strong likelihood of passing. Such bill
was therefore drawn and introduced. 1t was
concurred in by our delegate, and by all in
Washington, interested in the contemplated
railroad. The bill passed. Mr.. RossER visited
Washington. While there he received word
from Minnesota that different versions of the
bill had reached here, and he was requested to
ascertain which one was correct. lie went to
the proper clerk, asccrtaincd that fraud had
been committed, and like an honest man, he
exposed it. The talk about antagonistic in
forests between Messrs. SIBLEY, GoRMAN, and
RossER, on the one hand, and RICE on the
other, On the railroad question, is all bosh-a
pure fabrication. Congress saw fit to repeal
the bill in vindication of its honor, and in
rcprobation Of the forgcrs. The responsibility
of that repeal the people of Minnesota are
able to afix where it belongs, and will do so,
in spite of the ialsifcations or protests of We
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