The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-01-04
More about the Pacific Railroad.

|, for in the bill which has just passed the
House, will terminate at San Diego, Cali.
fornia in the extreme southwest corner of
the State. San Diego has a splendid harbor.
Although we have not seen a copy OF the
bill, we have more satisfactory synopsis
by the last mail than that published yes
terady. In regard to the Central route,
the bill provides for chartering the COM
pany, and grants the usual powers with the
right of way through the public domain,
and 200 feet of land on each side of the
road also every alternate section of land
for six sections in width on each side for
200 miles from each terminous, and every
alternate section to twice that distance for
the remainder of the route-other lands to
be selected in case those designated shall
have been pre-. empted. On the completion
OF the railroad and telegraph for fifty con-
secutive miles, Messrs. ERAsrUs CORNING,
SAMUEL r. CURTIS, and SAMUEL M. FELTON,
are constituted Board of Commissioners
to examine and report upon the work to the
President of the United States, who is
thereupon to issue patents for the lands
granted, and so on as each fifty miles shall
be opened. AS soon as $50 miles are ready
for opening, the Secretary of the Treasury
is directed to issue United States bonds to
the amount of SIS 900 per mile for the last
fifty miles, and thereafter at the same
rate for every mile of road construct
ed. These bonds are to be of a de-
nomination of not less than 81 900
each, to bear interest at the rate of five
per cent. per annum, and be redeemable at the
expiration of thirty years. On completion
of the entire work an additional sum in
bonds of $4,000 per mile for the whole
line is to be given by the general govern
ment, the whole to constitute a first and
only mortgage on the road, its equipment
and all other property. These grants are
made subject to the conditions that the
company shall transport, to the exclusion of
other business, whenever required, mails,
troops, munitions of war, stores, &C., be-
longing to the United States, "at rates of
compensation adequate for the service per-
formed, as from time to time determined by
the several departments to which service is
rendered. All compensation therefor shall
be applied in satisfaction,
pro tanto, OF the bonds of the United States
issued as aforesaid, until the total sums and
interest thereon are fully paid and satisfied"
The work is to be commenced within one
year from the passage of the act, and built
at the rate of not less than 100 miles per
annum, the whole to be completed by the
4th of July, 1876, the hundredth anniversa-
ry of our national independence. t
Assuming that with the aid. sought from
government, sufficient means can be raised
to build the road, and that the central,
inclding the fork lines, will be 1000 miles
long, its cost to the nation at large would
be about as follows
Right OF way. SOY 900
$500 sections land for 600 miles. 1850 900
$4,000 sections land for 1000 miles,. $500 900
Bouds for l4OO miles at sl5, 900. go. q, 900 900
Bonds for 1000 miles at $40, 600. 800. 5000 900
,ea .s.. a.- s49,5s7 900
This, IL will be seen, is equal to $31 900
per mile, in round numbers, three-fourths of
it being simply a loan or payment in ad-
vance for services to be performed by the
company. .... .ta. -a
The Commissioners named for the South.
ern road are j. EDGAR THOMPSON, JOHN
w. GARRETT, and F. w. LANDER.
All, Messrs. Republicans, are you not
proud of your Representatives? One hun
dred millions of dollars for two lines of Rail-
road to the Pacific, in the Southern half
of the Republic, and not one cent for the
great Northwest. "There is a North" is
there not? And your Representatives,
have backbone" too! 4-.! p.
The following are the yeas and nays
upon the passage of the bill. 1t will be
seen that nearly every Republican in thu
House, voted for the bill, and that the op-
position vote came almost entirely from the
Central and Atlantic Southern States: 81
YEAs--Messrs. Charles F. Adams, Green Ad
ans, Allen, Thomas L. Anderson, Avery, Bah,
bitt, Barr, Barrett, Bingham, Blair, Blake,
Boteler, Brayton, Briggs, Bristow, Burlington,
Burch, Burlingame, Burnham, Butterfield,
Campbell, Carter, Case, John B. Clarke, Clark
B. Cochrane, John Cochrane, Colfax, Conkling,
Corwin, Covode, Cox, James Craig, Curtis,
Duel, Dunn, Edgerton, Edwards, Eliot, Ether.
idge, .Fenton, Ferry, Florence, Foster, Frank.
Gooch, Grow, Gurley, Hale. Hamilton, Hell.
mick, Hindman, William Howard, Hum phrey,
Rutchins, Irvine, Junkin, Francis ". Kellogg,
William Kellogg, Kenyon, Kigore, Larrabee,
Lee, Loomis, Mallory, Charles D. Martin, Nc.
Clernand, Mexican, McKenty, Mllward, Mont
gomery, Moorehead, Edward Joy Morris, Mel.
son, Potter, CHARLES, Rice. Christopher Rob
inson, Scott, Scranton, Sickles, Spaulding
Stout, Stratton, Tappan, Theaker, Tompkins,
Trimble. Vandeyer, Verree, Wade, Cadwalader
G.. Washburn, Wilson and Woodson-95. %
NAYs.-Messrs. Aldrich, William G. Ander.
son, Barksdale, Beale, Bocock, Branch, Carey,