The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1855-03-08

piled for soon.
Governor German and the Apportion-
ment.
In his annual message to the Legislature,
Gov. German evinced q desire to do away
with inequality of representation from that por
ton of the Territory west of the Mississippi
river, but his course during the last few days
Of the session, has clearly demonstrated that
there was no sincerity in his professions OF
sympathy for the people west of the MISSISSIPPI
pi, and that if he could have defeated the Ap-
portionment Bill without sending in veto
message, he would PROFESSIONALLY have done
80.
AShe did not dare veto the apportionment
bill, he has accomplished his object partially,
by refusing to sign the bill attaching the unor-
ganized counties for judicial purposes to coun-
ties that are organized, and thereby leaving
eleven counties without any legal authority to
take the census.
was one of great Importance to the people
west of the Mississippi; it was introduced by
Mr.. Brown, the councillor of the 9th district,
especially to cover the requirements Of the
law providing for taking the census, in refer
ence to the unorganized counties laid off this
session, and was deemed of so much impOr-
lance to the people West OF the Mississippi,
involving as it did the power to make legal
enumeration of the population in large por-
ton of the new counties west of the River,
that Mr.. Brown made personal appeal in be-
half of the people west Of the Mississippi, cal
ling the attention OF the Governor to the fact
that unless the bill before him becomes q law
the apportonment bill would be nullity, and
full one half the population of the Territory
would remain unrepresented in the Legsla-
ture.
But arguments were useless, an opportunity
was here presented, where the right of large
portion of the people could be trampled on
with impunity, and with that imbecile POM
posity SO peculiar to His E1eelleney the de-
cree was promulgated, the bill was consigned
to on inglorious grave, and his excellency the
Governor stalked from the chamber, gratifed,
no doubt, that he had done all in his power to
disfranchise Que half Of the population of the
Territory.
The above characteristic article we copy
entire from the Democrat Of the 9th instant.
It bears the ear marks of the Hon. JOSEPH
Il. Brown, aud was undoubtedly from his
pen. Indeed, we are charitable enough to-
ward the majority in the Council, to believe
that no other member of that body would
have apologized for the fraudl connect-
ed with the bill above alluded to- But Mr.
Brown, and his associates, having become
the open apologists of the forgery of the
records of Congress, by which Minnesota
lost her grant of lands for railroad purposes,
now appear determined to out-Billings Bill
lings, and are even so lost to shame as to
openly denounce the Governor because he
refused to become a party to forgery, and
sign bill which Mr. Brown himself will
admit was materially altered after 1t had
passed both houses, and it was presented to
Gov. GoRMAN for his signature.
The bill i'll relation to the judicial organ.
ization of the new counties passed on the
last day Of the session. About IL or II
o'clock Of the same night, Maj. FRDLEY, who
had obtained possession of it, (by what
means we know not presented it to the
Governor for his signature, without even
comforting with the chairman of the enrol
ling committee of the Council as the rules
required. Gen. VAN ErrEN, of the Coun-
ell, happening to be in the Executive Room
when the bill was read, detected the fraud
and informed His Excellency that no such
bill had ever passed the Council. The Gov
ernor immediately sent the bill back to the
Council, where an examination of the en-
crossed bill was made, and it was found
that an important amendment, which was
inserted in the House and passed the Coun-
ell, had been erased and omitted from the
enrolled bill which had been presented to
the Governor foa his signature. That the
alteration was made, Messrs. Brown and
FRIDLEY both admitted, though both pro-
fessed the utmost ignorance in regard to the
person who had been guilty of the forgery
But, because the Governor refused to sign
a bill which he knew had never passed eth
er House In the form that it was presented to
him for his approval, the Democrat seizes the
occasion to prate about the Acknowledgement
Of one half of the population of the Terri.
tory: Now We venture to say, that there