The Washington union., 1858-03-24
PACIFIC RAILROAD BILL.

The following rs synopsis Of bill intrcnoel into the
House of Representatives, by Mr. Phelps, OF Missouri,
chairman of the COMMITTEES ON the Pacific raoad 10 aid
in the construction Of railroad St Louis TO san
Francisco:
II proposes to pass through Albuquerque the zme VII
las, aud the Ton pass One halt al the road Is To be
built by the State California aud the other half b The
State of Missouri The United States 10 grant money
and lands add in building IL after twenty miles arr
built per cent Unitl States thirty bonds to hc
issued o the State building it, AT the rate OF 81 900 per
ile and for hundred miles west from St Loi,
and cast from Ssn Francisco Then ior two hundred
miles further, bonds 10 be iscd at tho rate OF $40 0oo
per mile Then for one hundred miles further, at thu
rate OF sl2 500 per mile and for the remainder Of th,
way the OF SIS 900 per mile No bonds to be Is
sued until each section OF twenty miles is built the whole
amount II the bonds not to exceed $50 600 oee Twenty
five miles Of the road to be built and equipped the hrs'
year 10y each State aud thereafter not less than hun
dred miles each per The road to he finished IN ten
years The United States 10 have consideration fol
iis aid legal right 10 priority of for all govern
ment purposes. Five yeis after the read is finished al
mail pay and pay for troops, sailors, munitions of war
and Indian goods to he applied To pay the bonds adj
panced by the United States until the principal and in
terest refunded.
IT, when the first bonds due, any Indebtedness
main California and Missouri seyerally to pay the
balance The mail pay for daily service to be 5000 PEI
mile until the road has been finished ten yers gov
ernment pay for its fiegh,s than individuals
and IL the President OF the United States deem that too
high Congress- upon his special recommendation may
by law fix reasonable rate
Twenty sections Of land per mile granted to create
reserve of good lands in Missouri and California, will
which ai in building the road the plains beyond
il is provided that patent shall issue until twenty
miles of the read finished and then the State build
ing it is to have tenth only Of the 10 whcl
that division OF twenty miles would he entitled On In,
building Of another division OF twenty miles patents d
for tenth of the lands TO what that particular d
vision Of twenty miles OF read would be entitled aud alsc
hat lI,hf Inv ft
land is entitled ON the completion OF third section
twenty miles OF road patents to issue for tenth OF the
lands to which each of the preceding divisions oi road
entitled and until the road is finished
Missouri is 10 begin 10 bnild At st Louis, and Caor
mia at San Francisco, and proceed continuously The,
are to meet the losth meridian Of longitude neal
Zune The aid of money j, given upon the princ
pie as the land for two hundred miles. at each end
only 81 re0 per sie ig The neat two hundred miles
$40 600 per mile for the next hundred miles at each
and SIP 800 Thus for five hundred miles at each end
in all one thousand miles, sid is given only to th'
anoun. 80 500 900 The balance Of the $50 600 ogs
Is devoted TO the remaining eleven hundred miles
There are he four branches 4, the road two nortl
an,i two south No all bat Land is given to these nn
southern branch 10 begin Sicksbnr,, running y fui
ton and the other Fort Smith, running up the Cana
dan until they connect with the Pacific railroad at o.
near Auto Chico. One northern branch, beginning a
the mouth OF the Big Sioux the Missouri and run
ming hy the of Fort keniney, and the other nj st
usephs the Missouri river aud both 70 connect viii
The Pacific road at east oi Albuquerque. 1hcse fo
branches are located IT asserted 10 well
m!ate crsrv important road in the United States witt
an easy conicxun with the st. Louis and san Francisco
railroad