The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-02-23
Mc,srs. GRAHAM, WORD, PEspIEros, KEEL

from Messrs. Maury s Co., in when
Messrs. Branch & Sons concurreu, ss"'ns
that the company at this time could not
negotiate loan. ru,. IT,
Mr.. PESpLEToN stated that Mr.. Ellis III,
formed him that Lancaster 20. assureo
him that the loan could be made.
At / o'clock, before the disposal Oh tue
hill the order of the day, on the Dill LOT
the payment of the public DEBT, came
up and that bill was postponed uhtii To-
morrow. .oord
The House then proceeded to the secona
order, upon the bill providing for through
lines from the Atlantic to the Ohio ana
Mississippi rivers by facilitating the COLL
pletion Of the
CUMBERLAND GAP RAILROAD.
Pending the question upon Mr.. PENDLE-
TOYS amendment requiring that the prl-
vate stockholders of each of the four COM
NAMES named in the bill-the Norfolk and
Petersburg, the Southside, the Virginia
and Tennessee, and the Cumberland zap
railroad companies-shall concur before
the proposed consolidated Atlantic, Misss-
sippi and Ohio company shall be formed.
The bill only required the concurrence OF
three ofthem.
Upon this a very protracted debate oc-
Cured, in which the amendment was OPP
posed by Messrs. BALDWIN (Speaker) and
GooDE and sustained by Messrs. PENDLE-
TON, CLARKE of Campbell, and EVANS.
The question being about to be put, Mr..
CaUMp was permitted to read, by way of
argument, an amendment which he desired
to offer TO the bill, in the following words ::
Provided that said Atlantic, MisSis-
sippi, and Ohio Railroad Company, and
the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad Com
pany, in the event that the said last named
company shall not become consolidated
with the ether companies herein named
as processing to form the said Atlantic,
Mississippi, and Ohio Railroad Company,
as provided by the bill--shall allow the
Richmond and Lynchburg railroad, or any
other railroad, which may be constructed
or extended within the next ten years
from any point at or near Richmond, to
any point at or near Lynchburg, to unite
and connect with either of said roads, or
any Improvement of either of them at or
near said city of Lynchburg, and run
their engines and cars over the said rail-
roads from such point Of connection west
ward, and the said engines and cars shall
have all the facilities for passing and re-
passing over the said railroads as atore-
said, as shall and may be enjoyed by the
engines and cars Of the aforesaid railroads
themselves and provided further, that
these aforesaid railroads shall have the
same rights and privileges of passing and
repassing like trains over the Richmond
and Lynchburg railroad to and from Rich
mond but neither company shall be enti-
tied to take any local freights or passen-
gers along the line Of the other.
"The Board of Public Works shall have
the right, and it shall be their duty, to pre-
scribe the rules and regulations under and
upon which the privileges as aforesaid shall
be exercised, unless the companies them
selves shall agree upon proper terms. !"
The question having been ordered, Mr..
CRuMPs amendment was not in order.
The vote on Mr.. PENDLEToN's amendment
was then decided in the affirmative-ayes,
43; noes, Al.
The hour of recess arrived, and the
House adjourned.
NIGHT SESSION.
The House did not enter upon any mea-
sure exciting debate. Several bills were
passed. None of them Of very general
Importance. Among the bills passed were
a Senate bill "to authorize the Danville
Railroad Company better to provide for
its liabilities by the creation of new
mortgage :" Sustained by Mr.. EVANS, and
explained and supported by Mr.. GARRETT
passed, ayes, 63 noes, l5) House bill
ho oh pf Roanoke
Valley Railroad" Sustained by Mr..
TowyEs, and passed by Y ayes; and
House bill "to incorporate the Shenan-
doah Valley Railroad" The bill "to in
corporate the Potomac and Alexandria
Railroad Company" was upon the ques-
tion of its passage rejected. 1t was sus-
tanned by Mr.. DUNNINGToN, and opposed by
Messrs. ROBINSON and LEONARD.