The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-03-08

CONSTITUTION OF Cne MlnueSOta ana facluc
Railroad. 1t restores to the old COM.
pany all the rights, franchises, &C., acr
quired by the State under the foreclosure
and sale. One of the conditions imposed
upon the old company is that it shall com.
commence the construction of that portion
of tho branch extending from St. Paul to
st. Cloud and Sank Rapids on or before
the LIST of July next, and put the same in
full operation within eighteen months there.
after; also the branch westwardly from
Minneapolis to the west line of range thirty
within fifteen months thereafter, and there
after thirty miles annually. All the rights
given are forfeited il the company do not
construct and have in operation by the first
of January next that portion of the line
between st. Paul and st. Anthony. AM
other condition is that the company shall
pay all the expenses of the foreclosure, and
deposit with the Governor of the State ten
thousand dollars, also to be forfeited for
non-fulfilment of the conditions. The above
are the main provisions OF the bill .
SUPERIOR RAILRoAD.-The bill for an
act to amend an act entitled an act to incor-
porate the Nebraska and Lake Superior
Railroad Company, passed the Senate yes.
terday by the following vote:
YEAs.-Messrs. Barney, Cleveland, Cook,
Galbraith, Holley Jones, McLaren, McRoberts,
Pell, Reiner. Smith, and Watson.--l2.
NAYs.-Messrs. Bald,cin. Bennett, Fake,
Gibbs Heaton and Lynd.-6.
Mr.. SANBORN was absent, and Mr.. NOR
TON did not vote. The corporators named
are LEVI BUTLER, THOMAS CLARK, SIDNEY
LUCE, and E. 0. HAML1N, of the State of
Minnesota ANsoN BLAKE, ORvILLE CLARK,
and ERAsTUs CORNING, of the State of New
York; and EBER B. WARD and A. H.
HANCHETT, of the State of Michigan. The
title of the incorporation is "The Lake SUI
perior and Mississippi Railroad Company
The bill gives the Company grant of all
the swamp lands for seven miles on either
side of the line of the road, and along its
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matter of regret that this bill, which will
benefit the whole State more than any other
road in the State, should have met with so
much opposition on the part of some men,
bers, merely because they could not control
its termini for the especial benefit of their
own localities.
MINNESOTA AND PACIFIC RAILROAD
The bill to facilitate the construction of the
Minnesota and Pacific Railroad, came up
on its third reading in the Senate yesterday.
On the first call of the roll, and before the
vote was announced, the vote stood ten yeas
to ten nays, when Messrs. GALBRA1rH and
BALDWIN changed their vote to "yea," and
and SO the bill was passed-Mr. Jones be-
ing absent. Messrs. SMITH and SANBoRN
of st. Paul, voted against the bill. MIR.
SMITH, in explanation of his vote said that
he voted against the bill for the reason
that he believed the State was not properly
protected in any of these Railroad bills that
had passed the House and Senate. Yet if
the interests of the State are not to be
protected he would as soon see the gentle
men connected with the Pacific road &C.
quire the interests of the State as any other
persons. However, sense of duty i'm
PEELED him to vote against this bill.
The yeas and nays on the passage of the
| bill were as follows:
YEAs.-Baldwin, Bennett, Cook, Fake, Gal
braith Gibbs, Heaton. McLaren, Norton, Pell,
and Watson.
NAYs.-Barney, Cleveland, Hayes Holey,
Lynd, McRoberts. Reiner, Sanborn, and Smith.
We learn that strong assurances are
given that work will be commenced upon
this road as soon as navigation opens, and
that no doubts are entertained of its being
constructed as far as st. Anthony at least,
during the summer.
RAILROAD BILLs.--After an earnest de.
bate, occupying nearly the whole of Sat-
urday, vote was had at late hour on the
Omnibus BILL" so called of Mr.. JONES,
which is substantially that introduced by
Mr.. SMITH at an earlier day. 1t was lost,
and afterwards indefinitely postponed. The
bills to facilitate the construction of the
Transit and the Cedar Valley Railroad
we're then taken up, and passed by ma.
jority of one vote. So majority of both
Houses have resolved to entirely disconnect
the building of the roads with the settle
ment of the bond question--in other words,
not "to make the indebtedness of the State
subservient to building the roads,"
A COMMITTEE of the members OF the Vir-
ginia convention, which is now in session,
consisting of Douglas Democrats and ad-
herents of the Constitutional Union party,
arrived at Washington Wednesday to invite
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