The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1855-03-29

Secretary McCleland to Attorney General
Gushing laid before Congress at its late session
will show, that Mr.. Jno. NJ. Barbour of New
York, after the repeal by Congress of the grant
Of land, did, in behalf Of the said Company,
call upon the said Secretary Of the Interior.
and did propose to him trial suit, by which
the validity of the said repeal might be tested;
that the Secretary utterly refused to enter
into any such suit; that notwithstanding this,
the said Barbour did subsequently come to this
territory, and, in the face of the express dec
aration of the L. S. District Attorneys supe-
rior. the Secretary Of the Interior, that he
would have nothing to do with said suit, did
induce with what honor or honesty the world
will judge the U. S. District Attorney for
this Territory, John K. Warren, Esq, honest
and just man as he is, to join in such a suit,
and thus knowingly and willingly bring upon
him all the mischief which such course could
not fail to bring,-his degradation from Office
and the publication of his offence before the
world
THIRD. 1t is fact, that the papers in rela-
ton to the appeal in this suit from the Terri
torial to the United States Court, according
to the letter of Mr.. Warren to the Attorney
General. dated Jan. ID, 1885, were placed i'll
the hands of the opposing counsel, Mr.. Ed.
Rice, who promised to transmit them by a
special messenger" to the said Attorney Gen
era but by some hocus pocus which has char.
acterized the workings of this Railroad Com
pany ever since its inception, these papers new
er were seen by the said Attorney General, ur-
til they were found by him fled in the Supreme
Court where he had been induced to look for
them, by the statement of the case in the pub
lie journals of the Territory. (See Mr.. Cush.
ing's Report to the President, dated Jan. LIST
and laid before Congress.)
FOURTH. 1t is q feet, that the Senate Com
mittee Of the Congress Of United States, to
whom had been referred the joint resolution
which had passed the House Of Representa-
tiyes, repeating the charter Of said Company
in easoning upon said resolution, did introduce
as truth the presentation of memorial
from the Legislature of the Territory to Con
grcss, praying for certain changes in the Or
ganic Act of the Territory, when no such me-
mortal had ever been passed by the Legislature
Surely, here is a series of deceits and contri
vances, which, however they may have beer
successful in accomplishing the designs Of theil
perpetrators cannot but show the whole worlt
that fraud, and nothing but fraud, and that o
the most heartless kind, has characterized thu
agents of this Company from the commence
ment of its history to the present time ant
what now are We to expect from Compan,
which is willing to employ such low and un
worthy means to effect its objects?
TO me, MIR. Editor, confess the fltur,
looks doubtful in regard to the good faith will
which this Company has taken this matter ii
hand; but should it go on, and manfully NEE
the obligations of its charter, that is, build tn
telegraph and the road within the time requr
ed, the facts Of the frauds having been com
mitted by the Company through its agents
will be none the less facts Of history; but the.
may be facts which the people will be willin,
to forget in the advantages which these grea
Improvements will bring them That thi
may he the censummation OF the work whic
the Company has so inauspiciously begun,
the desire of the writer, as it is no doubt G
all those who, like him, have opposed it on az
count Of the frauds, by which it was brought
and has been continued, in existence
ARISTIDES.