Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-11-01
TIE NORTHERN PACIFIC CREDIT
MOBILIER.


Every citizen of the State of Minnesota is
interested vitality in the completion of the
Northern Pacific railroad. That great high
way to the Pacific ocean is absolutely essen
tial to the development of our farming, man
ufacturing and commercial interests. The
national legislature is to be asked to extend
the time for completing the road for few
years longer. A bill for that purpose is now
pending in Congress, but before it shall pass
the members will want to know how the
affairs of the company have been managed
heretofore, and a committee to ascertain the
facts will pr badly be appointed. The first
thing that committee will have their atten-
ton called to will be the operations of the
Northwestern Construction company, which,
according to the st. Paul Press, was a
Gigantic ring which was got up at Mime
apolis to pl1,ldsr the Northern Pacific Rail
roud co,npany-the Northwestern Construc-
ton company, 80 called, which pocketed over
a masllion dollars from one contract to be
divided among dozen men," They will
find that the company was organized on the
plan of the infamous credit lnobilier CON
struction company, which robbed the gov
eminent of many millions of dollars, and
buried score of prominent politicians be
meath load of disgrace from which none OF
them have since recovered. They will fur
Their find that among the men who compose
that c. mpany were Bill King, Bill Window
and Bill Washburn. If such thing was
possible as that Washburn should be elected
to Congress happily the prospect is very re
mote-his first official experience would b.
to answer at the bar of the House to charge.
of conspiracy to detraud, and to show
why he should not be expelled from his seat.
The people of this district made the mis-
take once of electing man to Congress who
could not take his seat by reason of similar
frauds committed. Do they want to make
another blunder of the same sort? The of
Tense for the commission of which Bill King
fed to Canada to avoid playing chequers
with his nose in penitentiary, was similar
in nearly all respects to the oFense commit
ted by Bill Washburn in connection with
the Northern Pacific credit mobilier. Can
the most important commercial district OF
Minnesota afford to send men to Washing
ton who are bound to be kicked out of their
seats because of their plundering of the pub
lie? One would suppose that one experience
such as this would suffice.
If the inside history of the Northern Pa
cific credit mobilier company was known, i,
would be found that Bill Washburn and his
pals who composed it were really instru-
mental in preventing he completion of the
road to the Pacific coast. Their robberies
We're conducted on a gigantic ecale. On
contract, according to the Press, brough
them hundred thousand dollars each, and n,
one outside of the ring can tell how
much more was flched from the
shareholders and bondhoIders by the same
means. It is almost certainty that
the full extent of this iniquity will be ex
posed before the Forty sixth Congress con
venes. In that case Mr.. Washburn's mail
will have to be direc: ed to soi1e convenient
point in Her Britannia Majesty's dominions,
and he, like s'Little Villain'' Fletcher, will be
s''n a hell of a fix Unless the people of
this district wish to be DISTINGUISHED in Con
gress, however, they will never consent to the
election of the ring chief next Tuesday.