Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1858-07-10

"tion are selfevident. Indeed may say,
"arc incalculaUe. Yes,-I defy any man to
Calculate them-tLey are SO immense If
" the amount saved by session in the sum-
mer of 1859 over session in the winter of
"lS59, does not exceed the round sum of
"$5OOOOOO then know nothing about it
"that's all l. And as have been an Indian
Trader for 'ovcr twenty years. and am be-
"sides the author of four veto messages, one
inaugural, one special message, of the pro-
test against counting $500 of the peoples
honestly cast votes, and of an unpublished
"novel of thrilling interest, entitled the 'Three
"Dakotahs' by Hal the Dakotah,' such a
suppositiOD that am Know Nothing of
the Independent order of Nature, is not a
'supposeable case"
No, indeed--we suppose not, Mister
SHELLEY. And it must be conceded, more
over, that there are few men in this world
who could have conceived such a plan of
Retrenchment in every department" This
much at any rate, is fairly your due And
after the above full and free translation of
Mr.. SIBLEY's views on the subject of this
Great Retrenchment Proposition, we think also
that our correspondent cold Settler" will
acknowledge that We have been both "just
and generous to his friend. In truth, we
thank him for calling our attention to the
"Retrenchment" paragraph of the Special
Message; for otherwise we should certainly
have overlooked the mighty scheme for saving
the public money, which Mister SIBLEY has
therein evolved from the recesses of his
mighty brain. The members of the Legis-
lature should at once take to cyphering up all
the immense sums which the adoption of
SIBLEY's proposition may possibly save to
our vacuous State Treasury Our arithmc-
tic is defective, and We fail to Sc it, in the
light His Indian Trading E,oellency unques-
tionably did. With him, however, we agree
in general way, in thinking that the soving
to the State by the adoption of his plan would
most certainly be beyond colculati0a!
We should not be surprised if amongst the
people, however, there should be found some
who will regard this whole proposition either
as deliberate insult to their common sense,
or else a woful exhibition of inanny and
folly on Mr.. SIBLEy's part-perhaps both
But this is not to be regarded, for greatness
like SIBLEY's must always have its enemies !!
| There is one point, however, that even me are
little puzzled 20 understand. This is, why
the present session of the Legislature is to do
up "aN the legislation that will be necessary
for year or taoo to comc," when Mr. SIBLEY's s
| proposition is for anotLer session in Just a
year Isn't this part a little lame? So, of
his hint about calling an extra session in
case any unexpected exigency should arise to
demand legislation in the meantime: we arc
of opinion that this extra aourish might have
| been omitted for q gear is the ordinary in
terval between Legislative sessions, and the
contingency requiring an extra session would
hardly arise in this period, and it was entire
ly unnecessary, therefore, to cut the extra
swell of announcing that he, the "GOvernor"(?) },
had the power to convene the Legislature by
proclamation The State Constitution was
beforehand with him. in communicating this
interesting piece of information!
In conclusion, we feel like taking Mister
SIBLEY's part, just little. One WILLIAM
SHAKESPEARE records of certain government
officer, named DoGBERRY, that on certain
occasion he requested a scribe to "wri,e him
doaoa an ass" But we maintain, that the past
abundantly proves, that Mr.. SrBLEY's resour-
ces are superior to DocHERRY's in tho writing
line. He can do the business for himself
without any assistance, and, what is more, has
frequently done it, as all will freely acknowl-
edge.