Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1858-07-10

"But," cries Mr.. SIBLEY, "ths won't DO. l
"have just recommended variety of extra
"oificers to the amount of 5000 per annum,
land non, say, the state of the finances de-
"mands retrenchment in every Department.
" Retrenchment means to draw in your horns
TO cut off the suckers-to lop oft the side
shoots-and, generally, to 60 it slow. There
"fore, o Legislators grant me my $6,OOO-a-
year useless -officeholders, and will show
you hon t. retrench-[ have ron gramde plan
"to save money to the State-I, Monsieur
"Sib- lay, Indian Trader and Governor by for
"gery, and nobody else, have the wonder
'ful 'retrenchment' recipe And these are
&" the ingredients: First-'there is no good
treason why all the legislation necessary for
"a year or tro to come, may not be accom-
"plished at the present session of the legisla-
s ture. Accordingly, in the first place, as
necessary preliminary to my grand retrench-
"ment plan, desire you to do up NOW, all
'the law making work that Minnesota will
"re iuire for about the next taco years. Doesn't
"this look like 'Retrenchment'? Has any
''body aught to say against this proposition!
10 besure there is that reckless .Uinneso'
"tian will deny that all the legislation for so
young 4 State and SO new country, where
experiment in everythingi is more or less the
practice, and where new eXigencies are con-
stantly arising, can be perfected so as not to
require any additional enactments fOr
"year or ttco to come But fig for its carp
ing Have not studied political economy
"and governmental craftsmanship for twenty
"years in the Indian Trade, ana do l not
"know what's best for whito uion as we'll as
+" f., OiouA I.diano: Am not also one, and
q the principal one, Of the Four Wise Men of
"Mcndota, who arc spoken of in Nels His
tory, three of whom were Indian Traders?
"Yea, verify But, perhaps, also, the same
RECKLESS paper and the party of which it is
ian organ, may think, from my remarks, thus
q far that they have discovered my grand
scheme of ecoromy-may imagine it is
"merely to skip one year and have no session
of the legislature at all therein-thus saving
$4,000 or So, 900 to the State Treasury !.
But if they suppose such to be my Retrench-
"ment plan they are wofully mistaken. Not
"having had their minds refined and sublim-
"ed in the soul-expanding influences of the
Indian Trade, they are incapable of con-
"ceiving the mastery originality ofmy genius.
l have no such narrow and limited views of
ECONOMY as they would foreshadow for me.
For-Second-my grand scheme Of 'Retrench-
"ment' is broader-deeper -fuller-more COM
"plete-than any biennial session expedient,
(which, after all, is only sort of saving to
q the pocket by starving the bely-a reduc-
" ton of the expenses of government by neg
"ccting or avoiding the discharge ofits prop
Ger duties. No-you don't catch me at any
''such small-bcer economy, as merely skip
'ping ooer one session of the legislature! l
"am in for a more comprehensive saving of
"the public money. AS I before said, the
estate of the finances demands retrenclmem
ain every department.
"Retrenchment therefore, on heduy scale
L" is what am after And-with this view
& proposals the ne plus ultra of econo-
"my-the Philosophers Stone to save the
"gold of the tax-payers-I proudly suggest
"as the Retrenchment Platform npon which
'my administration is to stand or fall-in a
"word, Il recommcnd,'
"'That the TINE Of the meeting of the meet
session Of The legislature BE f.ced for July or
"AUGUsr of 1852 instead Of for JANUARY,
1850!
"There its out. There you have it. There
"you behold, in all its fair proportions, the
fabric Of Rctrenchment Of which l, with the
"utmost 'di, nifty, claim that am the exclu-
"sivc draughtsman and architect. Do not all
see at a glance :he immense saviag to the
Estate which would result from the adoption
"of this economical arrangement by the leg
'lslature? Doubtless there will be some
" minds so obtusc as not readily to compre-
"hcnd the advantage of having the State
Legislature meet in the hot months of 1859
"instead OF in the winter months of lS:9.-
"ThGre will be even some so base as to in
"sist that in Jan'y, 1859, quorum could be
"better kept together, when other business
"of every kind was slack or suspended, than
Gin the more busy season of harvest in July
cor August There will not be wanting others
" so weak as to contend, that in January and
February of 1859, during the bracing cold,
"when their bodies are certainly more vigor
"ous and the mental powers Of our lawmakers
"are supposed likewise stronger, that more
"work would be done and better done, and
"in shorter space of time, than during the
"summer months of the same gear with the
Thermometer at 90 Q in the shade, and bod
"ies and minds enervated by the heat But
"these objections I hope will not be needed.
"There are always 'mousing owls hawking at
"the shanghai thoughts Of shanghai minds