New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-11-08

return route and the return voyage is always the
important one as 10 time
The distance from New York TO China by Pana'
mn is .l3s miles; by the Cape OF Good Hope 1t
Is 1928 miles; time by sails 100 to 100 DAYS
From Naw-York to Shanghai in emma, by the
urouoeed railroad is 9,3tl miles; time by steam
IS daya From Canton to London, By the Cape
Of GOOD Hope, is 1880 miles, By Panama laps
miles; time by sails 100 TO 100 days voyage oot
ana home, average, over year From LONDON
to Shanghai by tine proposed road. Is ll,3ti mics
timc bv steam 81 daps From New ork 70 the
month of the Columbia River by steamers andhy
the Isthmus, is $500 miles time about 50 days
distance for sail vessels would, owing to the trade
winds in the Pacific, be much greater ana tlmc
would be three or four months From New- fork
to the mouth of the Columbia River By The pro-
posed road would be but 1901 miles, and time
| from to days. The results would be similar to
San Francisco or to any OF our PACING coast pos
| sessions and the expenses Of transit would al
ways be in favor Of the railroad route when,
with the great saving Of time it being the great
ard controlling law Of trade, would settle the
question forever as your committee believe, as to
the OF all or the principal part OF the com
| nerce between these great parts OF tle world.
With these facts to time and distance,
which have been adopted and published in the
! reports Of committees on this subject IN both
I Houses of Congress, and authenticated from I'M
| doubted sources, your Committee cannot doubt
| that the execution OF this road as proposed, IS
| destined 10 reyolutionize the entire commercial
world and its social and political influences can
not fail TO be equally important. II the Immense
! commerce Of Europe with Asia, amounting, rs
| YOUR Committee are informed, to an annual aSgre-
gate of imports and exports of $3.50 900 600, can,
| as has been urged, be changed from It's present
route around the Cape OF Good Hope TO tlls pro-
posed road, it appears evident that the number OF
! vessels or tunrace then required TO carry on the
| same commerce would not be more than 0ne-t third
OF the present nun Der or amount; and as this is
commerce in which we do not now participate 20
the amount of one dollar, the change would, while
| diminishing the marine OF Europe lneVitably
greatly augment our own between us and Europe,
! and we could have no rival on the Pacific. Tnet
vast ocean, hitherto almost vacant waste OF
waters would become our appropriate domain,
covered with merchant marine bearing our nag
! aud controlling the commerce OF the world.
Your Committee have shown
Fir1t. The great Importance and necessity OF
! this work. and that the people generally through
ont the whole Union have decidedup It's neces'
sity, and on the plan proposed. The Committee
now further urge It's Importance and aosoiute ne
ceksty as the means OF communication with our
! Pacific possessions and Us beng at all likely to
bind them to ms, and prevent the formation on that
coast of a separate Independent Nation.
Secondly That to attempt the Accomplishment
of this work from a dependence on the FuOslc
Treasury, either directly or indirectly or on 70
vernment credit for means, is impractlcabe. nor
can IT, as your Committee believe, be done from
individual capital ana individual enterprise alone
because no man would subscribe to stock Wh'cn
premises no re turn during lite time tieast Ana
| yaur Committee have shown that even 1t 1t were
POSSIBLE to accomplish it on any of these pnns
| the necessarily heh tolls 10 provide Tor the inter
est on its cost would exclude business, the WORK
could not be sustained, and it would fail to accom-
! plish the great objects aimed at But
/ Th1rdiY. Your Committee believe 1t has been
! shown that the plan proposed creates It's own
means, requires tolls tor interest on It's cost,
imposes tax or debt on the nation or people,
involves no constitutional OF sectional question or
difficulty and, if executed will, as your Commit
tee believe, accomplish the ends and objects III
| view.
And now come the important practical points to
be decided on by your Committee and by Con
gress:
bill, for q sum exceeding, az your Committee be-
ieye that which the Government can expect to
receive for the same tract III any other manner,
and with such other restrictions aud conditions as
shall guarantee to the nation the execution and
accomplishment of this great highway for nations
| without the outlay of one dollar by the nation,
without one penny OF tax or burden upon the poo
pie, and no tolls except sufficient only tor the eH'
| penses If repairs and operation, binding our Az
| antic and Pacific possessions together, and max
ing the commercial world tributary to US
Or viii we decide against this great WORK,
| promising these vast and important results
abandon Them all-let our Pacific possessions sep
arate and form an Independent nation, controlling,
as thew " ill., the immense fisheries and commerce
! Of the vast Pacific with the commerce OF japan,
| Gina end Gil Aaia =? VIII we decide that the
! anGs which can now De applied TO and effect tue
accomplishment of this stupendous and truly ua-
tional work shali be wasted away for party po-
htical capital and other purposes, whereby the
nation can never receive any direct benefit
when, too, the objects urged by those who wish
to disposc OF the lands to settlers without pay
would be more Immediately effected IN the &C.
complishmeAt Of this work, because It's construc-
ton would give employment to settlers, and ere
ate the to pay for their lands, ard place
them hundred fold better oil than to have the
lands free of cost without the road, which is the
| only means by which their products c0nd reach
the markets, SO as to yield q return Tor their
labor
Your committee cannot hostatein forming de-
cision upon this subject not doubling that those
who examine it will be impressed with the same
| views, and form the same conclusions as your
committee have done. Therefore, your committee
recommend the adoption By Congress of the bill
proposed, and urge its immediate adoption by
Congress Of the bill proposed and urge its lmnle-
date adoption. The various plans and bills now
! before Congress for disposng OF very large
amounts of the public domain together with the
constant demand for actual settlement, particularly
at the first part or commencement OF the proposed
route, are rendering lhe execution OF this plan
more and more difficult every day. and your com
mittee believe the time must soon arrive when
these lands the first part of the route, so desr-
able for immediate available means, and possess
Ing timber materials and facilities for commencing
and carrying on the work into the Wilderness will
be so lar disposed OF for other purposes to rem
der the accomplishment of this work doubtful or
impossible And to wait for further surveys and
explorations, as has been proposed by sone
would, in the opinion Of your committee, be the
Geie at and Abandonment OF this plan forever; and
besides the authorization OF surveys for railroad
to the Pacific would justiy be considered by the
people as sanctioning the commencement of
government work; which your committee cannot
recommend, nor would it be sanctioned by the
! people, as your committee believe; neither do
| your committee think it at all necessary, nor does