The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1868-04-30
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: WASHBURNE..s J
Mr., poNNELLY'S LETTER.

H.. .
Hon. " II. c. Folsom. 7ayio.1 Falls, Man,
I have carefully prepared bill for =
grant, OF lands 20 The State of Minnesota,
10 all in the construction Of q railroad
..from Taylor's Falls, via St. Cloud. to the
western boundary Of the State." a. will ar-
pear by a copy Of tho GLOBE. which l will
send you Tomorrow. Mr.. E. B. Wash
burne. of Illinois, twice objected, and pre-
vented its introduction and reference to
the Commits oa Public Lands. As unan.
imous consent VAS necessary, the objection
m.de by Mr. Wsshburne has delayed for
tho present. al action upon tho bill fear
that this delay will thlow the bjn foewardgl
70 very late period ID thu session, u
The introduction and reference Of bills
are % much ''matters Of course" IL parlia-
mentary proceedings, that am ct . loss to
account for this action Of Mr.. Washburue's.
should regret to think that his oontin-
ual opposition to every measure Of public
and private nature in which I appear to Do
interested. is due to desire to utterly i'm.
pair my ability to serve my constituents.
can scarcely think it possible for any ~
spectacle gentleman to indulge in such AZ
illiberal and ungenerous policy: but the
facts remain that he sesmj detormihed 10
resist in every way, every measure which
deem important to my constituents. l
propose to do my whole duty in spite Of
his opposition. =,
Truly your friend, -
/. DoNNELLY.
Mr.. WAsHBuRNE's REPLI., .+.e.
HOUSE, OF RrPREsExrArlvEs,
WAox1vvcro~ n n Anil m 1910
Hon. ". II: c. Folsom, 7dylors Fails, MINI.
DEAR S1R.-Some one has sent me 4
Minnesota newspaper containing letter
addressed to you by Mr.. II. Donnelly."
This MIR. II. Donuelly"' seems to be in
search Of sympathy from bis co.stitu-
ents, BY making whining complaint
against mo for objeoting to the intro
auciug Of some bill which he pretended
to be anxious to get before the House.
He must place a very low estimate up
on the intelligence Of his constitqsqts,
if he does not suppose they could SEE
through his shallow device to make 4
little local capital, under a pretense
thoroughly false.
He says he had prepared bill for .
grant Of land to construct railroad
"from !Taylor's Falls via st. Cloud to
the western boundary Of tho State"
aud that he attempted 70 introduce it
into the House, and that I objected to
it, andwhich objection he says "delay-
ed for the present all action on the bill"
I As be haa addressed you on the SUBJ
ject, I will ask you to look for = mo-
ment at this JSsuitieol. perfoimasee Of
your member in this regard. He knew
10 the FIRST ,plsoe, that there ~ not
the ghost Of . chance for the passage Of
any such bill, aud in the second place,
if such bill should pass, there would
be little; if any land between Taylor's
Falls and st. Cloud to 60 to the State
under the proposed grant, as nearly oil
the land is either taken up or included
in former grants. And what would
seem strange in the light of this extra.
ordinary letter in regard to this very
inepoftant matter, that your nembs,
should have dslayed t4he >inarodnotiou
of his bill for the long period Of fo4,
months, for he could have introduced
it under the rules, on euery honda,
since Congress met, which was on The
! 31st day of November last. But he
failed to bring it in until tho Goth o.
last month, when .he attempted to &c
it in utof order. This was oH Friday
On the succeeding Monday, Che 90,
ult., Minnesota was called 70, the in
PRODUCTION Of Bills under which cal
: this very bill could have been introduc
ed by your member, regardless of an,
or all objections by myself or by any
body else. But what will . coustitueu
cy think Of q representative who, alto
, paradiny before them the grievance Ga
, ! objected to ha=introdueioa Of hi
bill on Friday. the Goth of March, fail
} ed to introduced the bill on Monday
; the 23d Of March, when there coult
have been no objection to it. As Il
the "delay" be speaks Of, which vii
: throw "'the' bill forward to T. Very lat,
period in the session." it will be per
ccived that he alone Is responsible 70
| it.
The exploits Of your member in thi
matter are akin to another Jesuiti;ca
, T performance of his in the same line y,
the 2nh e January last he introduce,
! = bilFisto the House granting, As nm
;. derstand 1 have not seen the billy tw
{ hundred thousand acres of land to i'm
prove the: Mississippi River between
: St. Paul and Minneapolis. The objec
of his action undoubtedly was to antag
onize this proposition to grant land 70
this purpose e proposition almost IN