The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-04-16
COL. BILL KING.
His Answer ts the Minnesota Legislature
An extraordinary Communication.
To the E.ssislafure of sTinnesota

4A1S Answer tB tNe MINNESOTA Legislature
An extraordinary Communication.
To the Legislature of Minnesota
VESTIEMEN, SENATOR'S, AND REPRE-
sESTATIvEs It has been my good fort
une to come into possession of copy OF
certain joint resolutions relating to my
self, which resolutions are said to have
been passed by the House of Represent
| atives on the Both day of January last,
and by the Senate on the 9TH day of Feb
r1lary, 1875. Aside from any bearing
| these resolutions may have upon myself,
they are, as coming from your body,
very extraordinary in character. They
are, gentlemen, very extraordinary in 50
for as they correctly illustrate your lack
of knowledge of the common proprieties
and decencies of official position, your
painful disregard of truth In your official
action, and your false and hypocritical
pretenses of virtuous regard for the
honor of the State of Minnesota. In
dealing with you and your joint resolu-
ton, therefore, [ shall, gentlemen,
speak of you as know and understand
you, paying no regard whatever to that
official greatness you SO pompously as
sumo during the brief sixty days allotted
you wherein to fit and complete yourself
for tssat undyiag political fame and iu-
mortality which each of yea no doubt
AS for your joint fese4aticns, gentle4het2,
in which you SO iadecently assume the
falsehood thai have accepted mcssy as
considerati6h FOR my services ih.ss. ding
the passage ~ subsidy bin -ii5Fne in
terests of Che Pacific Mail StA amship
Company TREY are interpreted ind ther and
more coi7Inen language, Iefyisst.tiye lies.
They are lies IN double seeSsa inasmuch
as they nottsaly charge me fz the broad
est implios4son with hav7zsss 60 accepted
money for nay services, g., but in as
exting, by6aet same btssas9 implication,
that haf e reHisetf to aE 1ear before the
Committ,e of'EeXS j ti1s{l Means to testify
as to my connection w Il and knowledge
of the Tassage of Tic Pacific Mail sub
sidy Bit !; foliT now = gain assert, what I
two yesrrs ago ttuf heeS " stated under oath,
that Iinever accepted or received dollar
as q aolss;tlera ti8lsteo or my services in aid
ing Ate. .passagease the bill, while took
grefl pleasure I'm appearing before the
committee at the very opening of their
Investigation, and testifying fully as to
ali hnew;eancernin the matter. There
fgre, it is, gentlemen of the Legislature,
Ahat 4 distinctly charge you with having
sa1Reatlsapon the records of your respec-
nT9e hNs1ses fragrant, audacious falsehoods
concerning myself-an act which, to use
F0ttrGown language, is calculated to $. cast
salishonor" upon the eseutcheon of Min
nesota unless you shall have the decency
'ts TO at once rectify your position by
sexpunging these disgraceful falsehoods
from your Journals.
Under what arrangement did receive
o large sum of money about the time of
the passage of the Pacific Mail subsidy
bill is matter which I do not propose
to disclose to the world, except in nay
own good time, nor until the evidence,
which am unable TO reach now, can be
secured, to the end that the exact facts in
the case can be presented to the public,
which will bring to me the fullest and
most complete vindication against the
faIsehood which you have spread upon
your respective journals. Until that time,
which. trust, viii not he for distant,
have only to say that not one dollar OF
the money received by me, of which so
much has been talked and written, was
ever intended or applied to influence q
vote upon the Pacific Mail subsidy, and
no word or line of the evidence that has
been taken during this long and most
searching investigation even s. points to
any such conclusion.
And SO, conscious of my own rectitude
In the matter, and pausing here to tender
to that one Representative who was just
enough toward me to refuse his assent
to your lying declaration my grateful
thanks, I pass on to some other points
which propose to present to your and
the pubic's copsideration. = =
WILLIAM s. KING.