The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-04-22


understand, are likely to undergo a
have the following bills, Il selection
from numerous list, reported by con-
mittees in the Senate or House, and the
most of them likely to pass. in some
shape:
Expenses of the impeachment trial,
and other contingent expenses OF
the Senate. Observation-Disclosures Sllo,oOV
Relief of certain Government con-
tractors. lsLUUv
Deficiency in survey Of Indian re-
ServatiOnS S-----.----...-.-----.--- lNu,OtO
|a' Of the District of ColumGia,..... 266. los
ColuIn bia Institution for Deaf and
Erection Of school houses in Dis
trict Of columbia. 10000
PAYMENT Of lUs,"s I" Indians in Or
egOD D..----.......... .--...--..... O,OOO
To rebuild levees on the Mississippi l,OOO,UOO
Relief of the Navajoe Indians. lJO,OOO
Marine Hospital at Cairo, Illinois. 1900
Brooklyn POst-Otfice and Court
House OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. t'J V"V
Harbors in Michigan n.........-.. 2S5 900
land Cana. a33,5gO
Besides guarantee of bonds for the
same 10 the amount of 81 567 900.
Relief Of destitute peoplein the Dis
trict of Columbia ............... 25,O0O
Next, we have a formidable list of
land grants, from which the following
is mere selection:
For the benefit of public schools in
the District of Columbia, ,OOO, 600 acres;
for bounty land to soldiers serving three
months or longer in the war of the re-
bellion, at 40 to 160 acres each, and
requiring any where from 2O0,OOO,0 900 to
500 900, 900 acres; for the State of Min
Besota, to aid in improving the naviga-
tion of the Mississippi, 100000 acres;
Western Pacific Railroad Company of
California, an unestimated quantity of
lands; State of Oregon, an unestimated
quantity of lands; Northern Michigan
Railroad Company, an unostimated
quantity of lands; Union Pacific Rail
way Company, an unestimated guam
tity of lands, in addition to
hundred of thousands of acres before
received; New Orleans and Mobile
Railway Company, an upestimated
quantity of lands; Idaho, Oregon and
Puget Sound Railroad Company, an un-
estimated quantity of lands; Oregon
Branch of the Pacific Railroad COmpa-
ny, an unestimated quantity of lands:
Port Royal Railroad Company, an un-
estimated quantity of lands; Northern
Michigan Railroad Company, ten alter
nate sections to each mile; Iowa and
Missouri State Line Railroad Company,
ten alternate sections to each mile; Mis-
souri,, Fort Scott and Sante Fe Railroad
Company, ten alternate sections to each
mile: San Francisco and Humboldt Bay
Railroad Company, ten alternate sec
tions to each mile; Humboldt and Colo
RADIO Railroad Company, ten alternate
sections to each mile.
If Uncle Sans farm should not all
suffer incontinent distribution among
these great corporations, until nothing
is left but the icebergs Of Alaska with
which to reward our army veterans, it
will not be they fault of Congress.
But the most startling of all these
proposed methods of impoverishing the
nation remains to be noticed. This is
the national bond subsidy business,
which began some four years ago with
the first chartered Pacific Railroad, and
has since been. extended until it serious.
ly threatens, unless arrested, to bank
rupt the national treasury. By this in
genious system, tho railway or other
corporations that are lucky enough to
get Congress to guarantee their credit,
borrow millions upon millions of nation
al bonds, on which they agree to pay
back the interest when they shall be in
paying condition, and to secure the
principal by second (D mortgage upon
their roads. Look at the figures of a
few of these schemes now before Con-
gress, with the approximate amount OF
bonds which they call fer:
Subsidy demanded.