The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1855-01-20
A Memorial TO Congress.

We publish below Memorial to Con-
gress, introduced into the House by DIR.
Andross, of Cass County, asking the mega
ton of the Charter of the Minnesota and
Northwestern Railroad Company. We
have already discussed this subject so fully
lii our columns that we cannot now realize
the necessity for lengthy comment. The
passage of the memorial, in the shape il
was introduced by DIR. ANDRoss, is due the
people, in vindication of their honor and
interests; and We trust it may be acted on
properly and promptly
Memorial
To Congress- asking disapproval the Act of the Iegs
iative Assembly of Minnesota passed March L. 1854
Incorporating the ~ & n. W. R. r. Co.
TO the Honorable Senate and House of Repre-
sentatires Of the United States:
The memorial Of the Legislative Assembly of the
Territory OF Minnesota respectfully represents, that
the last day Of the last session of the Legislative
Assembly Of the aforesaid Territory, to wit, on the
fourth day of March, 1854 said body then passed and
enacted law a certain bill entitled A bill TO in
corporate the Minnesota and North Western Railroad
Company" that the passage of said bill was pro-
cured by misrepresentation the part of its advo
Gates, and that the powers and franchises therein
granted to the said Company, considered by youl
memoraliss as inconsistent with, and dangerous tc
the best interests OF our growing and prosperous Ter
rtorv.
Your memoralists would further state that at the
time the said bill or charter passed bv the Leg
slativc Assembly, it was represented, and believed
that The said Company was composed of honorable
and responsible business men, who were willing and
anxious to invest their capital for the improvements
contemplated by the aforesaid charter; but since that
time it has been ascerained Satisfactorily to us)
that this opinion falsely grounded and that the
action of the individuals who claim the benefit OF
this charter, in rauduenty procuring the alteration
ct the act OF Congress, approved June 29th 1854
titled An act to aid the Territory of Minnesota in
the construction Of a Raroad,' after its passage b,
the House Of Representatives, and their subsequent
endeavOrs avail themselves Of the benefit of the
forgery, by legal technicaies are alike insulting to
yonr honorable bodies and the people of this Ter
rtory, and deserving of the severes censire 81
Your memorialists ale therefore convinced that
public policy and justice require that the technical
hold which SAID Company now claim either under,
or ny reason Of the charter aforesaid BY the act
OF Congress approved June 29h 1854, entitled An
act to aid the Territory of Minnesota in the construc.
ton Of Railroad be dissolved by the action Of
Congress; acting under the authority reserved to
your honorable bodies by the sixth (6th) section OF
the act organizing the said Territory of Minnesota,
approved March Sd, 1S49.
Therefore, your memorialists would respectfully ask
that your honorable bodies will, by the exercise of
the prerogatve reserved in the said organic act re-
licve the Territory of Minnesota from further annoy
ance by reason Of the charter claimed by the aore-
said Minnesota and North Western Railroad Com
rany.
And your memorialists absolving themselves and
their constituents from all sympathy with the unprin-
cped forgcrs, their advisers and abettors would ask
as an act of justice that the sins of the guilty be not
VISITED upon the innocent, and that the people of
participation; and that your honorable bodies would.
IN the act disappearing the aforesaid charter repeal
the act repeating the grant, and rensate the act of
June 18th, 1854, withthe third section thereof as it
passed the U. 5. House of Representatives, before
The alteration OF the word Or to the word sand %