The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1855-01-18
SAINT PAUL. TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY Is, 1855.


York; surely unreasonable
satisfactory evidence mind presume yours
that their hot haste intended avail themselves of the alteration made
thus
And totally
who the officers and directors elected this y meeting said
the history conpans
the language of the third section of the Congress approved
by the President IL reads as follows Sec Ana 'e further enacted that the
said lands hereby granted to the said Territory shall be subject the disposal
company heretofore constituted an" organized 1t evident and inhnalc that
previously
the granting
company heretofore constituted The r part OF the section eos upon our
thereby granted purpose constructing
commencing
ranges and thence by way 81 PAUL. to the eastern line OF said Territory in the
Of
constituting company along specifically
ne
The that
railroads had been gane 0nt none Oh Sh lines as the act Congress a
pated these lands aid constructing Thus the question plainly What
of
was there to be exclude" but the Minnesota and Northwestern Railroad Company!
BY the 18th section their re "A" of acts that
hereby granted hereby repealed
~ Said this charter and form provided
Ana prod tr That the this shall vat
heretofore by this Assembly Territory
The repeating clause herein makes manifest that Congress intended exclude the
Minnesota and Northwestern Railroad Company and all Others BY further
the Sd section Of the act Congress- will observe that
be disposal anything
disposal y other words would have employed
sss the disposal off, evidently pointing future past
1t would have been for Congress have said that said lands shall be
disposal of any legislature equivalent
sn had been unless
o that Congress was egatng expressly Minnesota and North
Company the Territory of Minnesota!
which no rational mind would entertain for moment
suppose
past Legislature Minnesota following they
and do eo the past action of the body they authorize dispose
And the words used exclude previously chartered companies explains qualities
lands thereby excluding the that
take the lands without subsequent action Of the Legislature.
the alteration which the
Company procured in
investigating ay) grant
hands thereby avoid the future action Of Legislature
The rule all that shall
the Minnesota ue intended by the gran be excluded from the benefits
of the al the inquiry is forced upon
having supervision Territorial acts
evidently intended from the manifest protect
from any former hasty improper legislation.
After the House of Representatives
text the said railroad bill had been made by which
that which they did not intend to investigation ordered by that body
certain possible where and how appointed
of of the highest character for integrity ability They discharged
them, and reported that there had
text heHl which "~e1 recommended Sd
amended conform to the exact language the bill passed the House Repre-
snat and the minority Of the committee took grounds against the a
on and also recommended substantially amendment of the Sd
some other parts of the bill This investigating committee reported to the House on
the 81 day of August which report the table and ordered printed
that the 4 day August the House repealed the law making the Which
p the Senate the day passed that body almost Immediately
by all majority
of alteration regarded
f2ga attack the purity national legislation that deserved the most
marked relukc
the United States and House Rep
composed statesmen who bear favorable comparison for ene n
ct and Judgment with body men IN the civilized world and
repeal promptly the be
proper integrity requires it. 1t due to the people Of
Territory history this railroad transaction should be given fairly; that
the United States they erant to our Territory that which they
took back from u.s. To do this it will Mime
the act which caused the repeal of the
evidently intention OF Congress this
believed do yet could hardly have expected
repeal order reke
affecting purity their legislation Now that they have
why the members
repeal the repeating and rensta the approved the Goth of june
and the Sd section passed the House of Representatives 1t
the people of Minnesota