Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1858-05-22
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| e give III 10 uay 5 paper tue uop"tc IL
the Senate, MAY 18th, on the objections raised
by Senator HARLAN to Mr.. RICES reception
on the ground of charges OF public pecula
tions by him committed in the sale of the
Fort Crawford reserve in Iowa. Mr.. SEW
| ARDS concluding remarks are quite signif
| cant. All must admire the dignified manner
| in which Senator HARLAN bore himself under
the insults Of that pro-sayery bully and
BLACKBOARD TONES of GeOrgia-the same
who the other day gloried in his Galphinisn
| and defended as right that swindlc of past
| d,ys. A fit defender he for his fellow spec
ulator and peculator RICE. STUART, Of
Michigan, to whose skirts yet cling more or less
| Of the odum Of the alteration of the bill foi
| the old North Western Railroad land grant
| which was repealed by Congress; and
BRIGHT, the Indiana Senator who holds his
seat by known fraud and rascality were the
kind Of men, who with little PUGu, OF Ohio,
| rushed to the rescue Of their confrere. Par
ao5i!e .fut,um! The CALLED jades vince.
1t will be noticed also, that neither Of the
telesraphic reports received here of Mr.. RICE's
| remarks were correct.
| So far from Mr.. RICE or his friends being
extremely eager to seek an investigation.
Mr. BENJAMIN, of La, objected to the passage
of the resolution to that effect offered by
Mr. HARLAN. Why delay? To get time
| to fix up the affair with the parties in the
! vicinity of Prairie du Chen We under
stand an agent of RICE has been week or
more at the latter place, trying to cover up
his tracks. Let us have no more smother
ings of investigations. If Mr.. RICE is not
guilty we shall be rcjoiced but the dignity
| Of the young State of Minnesota demands,
that this whole matter should be 1,roJed TO tn,
bottom.
1t must excite smile everywhere in Min
! through his Indian trading and his political
| antecedcnts; and especially more recently,
by his SCH of himsaf to Lecompton to hear
these Senators tall, grandiloquently of that
gentleman's public purity, and that he would
not do such thing as Mr.. UARLAN's constit-
uents charge! This q little too ridiculous
There is not RICE man here who don't
credit the whole matter; which is not new
story either; but they think it can be all
covered up, and they Justify him by the
| JENNY TwIrcnER plea Of ''Vcll vot Of it,
ecayjo3y does it -
'E'sae United States Senate Fzay l2th---
Tzae Reception and Swearing in of the
Senators from IEinnesota.- OIL ciaI R e.
port.
We have received the Congressional GloN
Of She 18th May, giving the official report
Of the proceedings in the United States Sen
ate on the occasion of the pres entation Of the
credentials of tic Senators from Minnesota
The objections made to Mr.. RICE were SO
unprecedented that the debate which ensucd
cannot be otherwise than intensely interest
ing to tie people of this State and We give
! it therefore to-day TO the exclusion of our
usual variety:
| SENATORS FROM MINNESOTA.
| Mr.. TOOMDS. L present the credentials
of Hon. Henry NJ. RICE, Senator elect from
the State OF Minnesota 4; and | move that
lie be sworn and admitted to his seat.
Mr.. HARLAN. Before that motion is
put. | have II statement of fact that I desire
to make to the senate.
The PRESIDING OFFICER, (Mr. STU
ART in in the cnair.) Does the Senator de-
sire to make his statement ictorc the creden-
tas arc read ?
Mr. HARLAN. No, sir.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sec
rotary will read the credentials.
The credentials were read being certi-
ficaie signed by the Speaker of the House OF
Representatives and the President of the
Senate of Minnesota, that at an election held
in the Capitol OF tie State CT Minnesota, at
st. Paul, By the Senate and House of Rep
resentatives of that State in Joint convention
on the 10Th day OF Decembe, 1857, HENRY
N. RICE was daily elected Senator to rep
resent the State of Minnesota of the United
States.
Mr.. TOOMBS. | now move that the oath
be administered to Mr.. RICE, and that he be
admitted to his seat.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The qucs
ton is on the motion which has Just been
made by the Senator from Georgia
Mr HARLAN. Mr.. President, the settler.
on Fort Crawford Reservation, in the State
OF Iowa, allcge that they have been defraud-
cd by Mr.. Henry VI. Rice, as agent of Hon
John b. Floyd, Sccrctory Of War, in the
sale of their claims as settlers on said reser
walton, namely:
J. That said Secretary of War instructed Henr,
| r., snlit S,,1 p,-otn
their claims at $l.25 per acre; that said Rice re
quired said settlers to pay for their claims at tn
rate OF Sl5o per acre, and rcceiptcd to them, Of
the payment of said $50 per acre, for but 81
per acre, and refused to receipt to them for tn
remaining twenty-iiy cents per acre received u
them by him. rs aforesaid.
2. That sundry cases in which settlers applied
to said Rice for leave TO enter their said claims
he referred them to his clerk, who charged then
| fees VARYING from ten to eighty dollars each, il
addition to the said Sl.51 per acre, for leave t
purchase their said claims; that these fees wer
charged and received by the said Rice, corruptly
as said settlers believe, through the interpositio
of his clerk.
8. That said Rice negligently failed to give sal
settlers reasonable notice OF the time of said sale
and thereby subjected them 10 the necessity of boz
rowin" money, az enormous rates OF interest wit
which 10 purchase their sad claims.
, 4. That said Rice defrauded one of said settler
Of his right to purchase his claim under the in
struction Of The Secretary of War by surrcptitiou>
ly securing FROM him qut-clailn TO a part of III
land embraced in said claim
These statements arc contained in sundr
t papers which I have in my hand, including
4 petition from these settlers for redress. Tn
. petitioners ask that the extra tweuty-fiv
. cents an acre may be refunded o them. TIL
C facts are also set forth in verbal statemen
made to my colleague and myself here, an
h to one of our colleagues in the House of RI
t representatives., By an agent of these settlers
sent here to represent their interests. Ikno,
e not what course ought to be pursued. al
informed by my colleague in the other Hous
3 who represents that part of the State of low
that these persons are credible men that h
S would rely on their statements. 1t is &C
tainly due to them, aud perhaps due also /
t the Senator elect from Minnesota, that sorr
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