Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-04-16

a bride in that matter, but also of committing
perjury in his reported evidence before the
Congressional committee last year.
AND WHEREAS, The legislature of Minnesota,
speak both for the voters OF the Third district
and the people of this State; therefore,
G RESOLVED, BY the Senate and House Of Repre-
sentatatives of the State of Minnesota in legis-
lature assembled ga
That William s. King, who was elected to the
Forty fourth Congress, by the electors Of the
Third district of Minnesota, at the general cleo
ton of November, 1874, be and is hereby re-
quested, either to make full and satisfactory
explanation of his connection with said Pacific |
Mail subsidy business, by promptly appearing |
before the committee of ways and means at
q complete statement of his knowledge of the |
matter; or, failing in this, that he promptly |
tender his resignation of the Office to which the
people of the Third district elected him, with
out knowledge of the crimes of which he IS now
accused, and believing him to be, despite accu-
Stations to the contrary. an honorable and honest
man.
A motion to lay the resolution on the table
being made, it received but seven affirmative
votes, and subsequently series of resolu-
tions offered in the House, making similar
request for his resignation, passed both
Houses with but one dissenting vote.
Ills notorious that he purchased his seat
in Congress by the most shameful means,
his conduct being so outrageous that his
present first subordinate thus assailed him
IN the columns of the Press in 1874:
The present Congressional contest is likely
to pass into history as the most rotten and dis-
graceful one achicA stirred the Shiny depths
Of political corruption. No such unblushing
pd effort made to de.
bauch the primaries. and purchase votes and
delegates auih open bribery as has been witnessed
in various parts Of this district during the past
few weeks. 1t has become so loathsome and
sicken,ng a scandal that all honest men turn
a,pay from 1t in disgust. If not an entirely
new feature to our politics, it has heretofore
been yelled in prudent secrecy. But now the
styunepet Of corruption bill KingI strides IN
naked horror ouer the district, and opens her
shameful, maarket at eperg caucus and convention,
and bugs men bg the herd like cattle and Sheep
As the pal and confident of Senator Bill
Window, with that PERSONS Congressional
vote always at command as the foundation
for trading capital, Bill King conceived the
plundering ring which stole the Northern Pa
cifc into bankruptcy and allowed two of his
present subordinates to blackmail him out
of $4,000 rather than run the risk of ex
posure. We might fill columns of space
with details of his disreputable career, but
let this suffice for once. And this is the
leader of the quadrangular gang of scoun-
drels, who set themselves up as censors and
critics of honest people.
| As first assistant to the chieftain thus de-
scrioed we note Joseph A. Wheelock, man
who is tho personifcation Of beggar on
horseback. Coming to this country as an
alien and an enemy of our institutions, he
never even became citizen until year
after he was appointed postmaster of st.
Paul, and committed perjury in order to
qualify in that Office. He began his Mime
sofa career as bar tender for Franklin Steele
at Fort Smelling, subsequently spent some
years in a rowing and dissolute life
among the Indians, and finally, against
the express orders of Gov. Ramsey
| (ex-officio superintendent of Indian affairs)
stole party of Indians across the st. Croix
at Saltwater, and started on tour through
the East as Snowman. Even in that early
day the scoundrelly characteristics of the
peripatetic Snowman were developed by his
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and the Interior Department was obliged to
send an agent and pay the expenses of trans
porting the Indians to their Minnesota reser-
walton. Sneaking back to the State pauper,
he was employed at pittance as writer on
the Press, and taking advantage of Gov.
Marshall's absence in the army he black
mailed that gentleman out of one-fourth in
terest in the paper, for which he never paid a
dollar. From that time on his career has
been a continuation of Matchmaking and
peculation. AS postmaster of St. Paul be
drew an annual salary Of four thousand dol
lars for five years, without in all that time
combined doing oneweek's work. Not only
this but he put in his business partner as
deputy postmaster at the extravaganza salary
of $4,000 per annum, while the actual work
was performed by Pat. O'Brien, who was
transferred from the position of clerk in the
Press office to the postof6ce, where for 9
mere tri1e he did the labor while the partners
in iniquity robbed the government Of
$1,000 per annum. More than that. As
! the government allowed $4,000 for the ex
penses of the st. Paul Office these rascals
by compelling the clerks to sign vouchers
for pay in blank, were enabled to make
them certify to larger sums than they re
ceived, thus putting the difference in til.
pockets of these public thieves. Conse
quently the government paid $4,000 pc
: annum for less than $4,000 of service. His
, partnership in the scheme where Bill Win
dom and Bill King were blackmailed out o
$4,000 is notorious, as we'll as his secre
!. divides with contractors for public surveys
! his billiting of his relations upon the public
, crib, and in every way earning the endearin!
7 title of public robber. And this is anothe
l of the quadrangular gang of scoundrels VIII
set themselves up as censors and critics o
honest people.
Mr.. Bill Kings first assistant in the bust
ness department is an unknown adventure
: named Frederick Driscoll. Whence or VIII
he came no one knows. His first appearance
worthy of note was as an agent of gang 9
y Indian thieves, who hired an old printin
Office of Major Newson some seventee
years ago and set him up in newspaper
l advocate the interests of the plunderer
. =
: The thieves who robbed the Indians unit
they turned and perpetrated the terribl
massacre of 1862 were the men who estat
) lished Mr.. Driscoll in business. He wa
}. wont to call on the superintendent of India
affairs for Minnesota IAN Office since abolish
$ ed) for his Saturday night pay-rolls, an
8 on these stolen funds we trace his rise to til
9 proud eminence of partnership with Bi
King. There has never been a change i
! his career. It has been one long successio
}, of greedy dishonest rapacity, determine
I ton to steal himself rich and destroy,
: possible, all who stand in his way. -
He inaugurated most shameless system
8 of bribery of county officers throughout tn
State, whereby he paid them for giving hin
huge orders for books and blanks, order
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