The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1868-08-06

would not permit that bin to pass until ours
was out of danger, and so the Northern Pacific
Road was an accomplished fact, despite the
Union Pacific Road and tho Washburnc fam
lily. Tremendous applause.
This was the foundation on which we built
We then undertook to obtain u money SUBJ
sidy, and we came within twenty votes of pass
lug bill granting Il subsidy to tho road during
the 3oth Congress. and with the help OF God,
the next Congress will sec that also an accom-
plished fact. We have canvasscd both Houses,
We know our friends, and we cannot be do
fcatcd.
Wcll while was laboring for the State
with I'LL the zeal which l could command, in
tho prosecution Of these great measures, some
poor, God-forsaken creatures here at home
have been industriously engaged in mis-
representing and bclicing my record in almost
every particular. Among the many falschoods
told about me is one that did not support the
Northern Pacific Railroad Bill. A friend of
mine temporarily in Washington, seeing a
statement to this elect in the Minneapolis
Tribune, wrote to J. Gregory Smith, President
OF the road about it, and received the following
reply, completely vindicatin, me from the
charge:
ST. ALBANs, W., June22 1865.
Maj. d. Z. Doughty:
DEAR SlR:-I have yours of the 18th inst. mailed the
1t enclosing the the following extract from the Mime
neapolis Tribune of May 9th, 1865:
'Mr Donnelly's auson to the Northern Pacific Rail
road is an unfortunate for himself 1t necesstates
the rakng greeable facts in regard his
record on that measure. When the first proposition for
land grant to that enterprise before Congress in
by gentlemen who in Washington at the time-and
who were instrumental in securing the final passage of
the Sran-that Mr.. Donnelly, by foolish and ntenper
ate speech-not so nasty however, the under
disguised the House, that he actually
killed the measure. Three weeks afterwards subsan-
TALLY the bill brought forward again by other
carried-iGto So"
You ask me if the statement is true
In reply would say that my connection with the
Northern Pacific railroad did commence till anua-
1885, at which time became President of the road OF
the anecedant history of the enterprise am therefore
entirely ignorant except as learn from the published
proceedings OF Congress in its official paper the G0Je
In the spring of 1866 the enterprise was before Congress
asking for aid and from that time 10 the present
friends have been and still seeking the assistance of
the government in the form Of subsidy the same as
granted to the Union and Central Pacific railroads.
Since my connection with the road Mr. Donncllv has
abored earnestly with It's other friends to secure the de-
sired legislation,
In 1856 he made able speech favoring the BILL and
with the exception of the Hon. ThadGeus Stevens it had
no warmer or jealous supporter than he.
every succeeding session of Congress- he has been
and strongly relied upon by the friends Of the
which he is a member, and before the House.
While am therefore unable to speak from personal
knowledge of what TRANSFERRED in the House in 1864 as
Mr. npo1ly, E,,I
on that occasion as published thatuses the assertion
of the Tribune nor have heard either from the
friends of the enterprise in Congress- those who
were its outside friends and managers any but express
sions of confidence and reliance upon him Of its
warmest friends and supporssuch at any rate he has
proved himself to be- snceI have been with
the mana cement of the road.
" 'S' J. 1 GkE HSods SMITH.
So much for that question.
PROTECTION OF SETTLERS.
had perceived, as you must have done,
that while railroads arc indeed great public
blessings, land grants for railroads were at
tended with many and considerable evils. The
Illinois Central Railroad, for instance, has kept
lands out Of market for nearly forty years, un-
til their price reached very high figure.
therefore labored in the public land committee
and in the House, to provide that in the grant
Of lands to all future railroads the lands should
be held by tho State, should be sold to actual
settlers at a fixed price, while the money for
their sale to be given to the roads, and not the
land. This would give capital to the railroads
while at the same time it would give cheap
lands to the settlers. This provision I have
succeeded in appending to several land grant
bills. [Great applause.
The Agricultural College scrip was another
evil to our State. In the St. Cloud land dis
trict enormous areas were being occupied to
be held wilderness for years by SPECTATORS
presented and procured the passage of bill
preventing the location Of more than three Sec
tions of agricultural scripin any one township
This will save our own State and all other
western States from this great evil Applause.
AID FOR 1MMlaRANTs.
For another. measure I also labored I saw
when 1 looked round on the people of this
nation that we were all descendants Of imme-
grants from the old world. Some were
here here but generation, others, perhaps,
for several generations. I made the first and
only speech ever made in the House of Repre-
sentatives on the value and Importance of for
eign immigration, a speech that contributed
not a little to the formation of the Bureau OF
Immigration, and which paved the way for tho
bill I introduced during the last session to ap
point Commissioners Of immigration all over
Europe, to furnish information to immigrants
about this country, as to the rate OF wages, the
productions of the country, the cost and routes