Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1868-04-03
the DUBUQUE & sioux CITY road has

the Dubuque & Sioux City road has
not yet transpired.
Whoever secures it must build IS
miles of road west from Iowa Falls
before being entitled to an acre.
/ When they have built that IS miles
they are entitled to all the grant
within 40 miles of that point: Sew
i enty-five miles of the road is to be
completed i'm good running order by
the first of jolly, 1889. Forty miles
must be constructed each year there
after until the road is completed and
the entire line to Sioux City must be
completed by the first day of Janu-
AIRY, 1872. AT no point can the Com
pany defect from the Land Grant,
and If the company fails i'm any
particulars herein recited, the State
may resume the land again, and hold
| them in reserve for some other Com.
pany, who las the ability and the ,ritl
ITO perform.
The terrible scramble which has
been going on all winter between the
McGregor and Sioux City Rail Road
Company, and the Company known
as the Add parallel Company, has ter
minated in a complete victory for the
McGregor Company. This Company
propose to begin to build their road
at point near Calmar, and run (by
the bill,) within one mile of New
Hampton, Charles City, Mason City,
and Algona.
The Land Grant of this Road con-
sists of $4,000 acres, lying along the
Western end of that route.
The Company are to- build 20 miles
of the Road each year until the ter
minus of the Road is reached in
O'Brien County, where it will con-
meet with another Road, which will
soon be built from Sioux City to the
north line of this State, and in the
direction of st. Paul, Mimi.
The Company declare their ability
and determination to have the Road
completed to Charles City before the
frosts of another winter, provided the
grant is accepted.
Our Legislation here this winter is
considered by Rail Road men as be-
ing one Of an unfriendly character.
First. Your ID. & s. e. r. r. Land
Grant has had 10000 acres of its
lands substracted therefrom and adj
ded to the Bellvue & Sabula Road.
Second. There has been attached
to every bill re-granting lands pro-
vision which declares that the Com
pany receiving them shall besubject-
ed to all the restriction in their tar
ifs on freight and passengers, that
the Legislature of this State may
from time to time impose. .E
Third. There is bill pending
which, If it becomes a law, will COM
pei the Railroad Companies to fence
their roads.
Those who urge these measures de-
clare that the Rail Road Companies
charge extravagantly for both freight
and passengers; that they discrimi-
nate against the citizens of Iowa;
that IL the State does not reserve the
power To- hold them in check, they
will continue to Cypress the people
by consultations, monopolies and
extortions; that no Legislature of
Iowa will ever feel disposed to take
undue advantage of them, and that
the power to regulate may as well re-
main with the people rs with the
Rail Road corporations.
Those who oppose these measures
declare that If the people reserve the
power to dictate terms, that Railroad
men and capitalists will not invest
their money in SO hazardous an en-
terprise.
That those portions of the State
now destitute Of Rail Road facilities
will remain so; that competing lines
of railways will be the better rsgula-
tors of the tariff on freight and pas
sengers; that capitalists win be uriv-
en- from the State or seek some other
investment aud that we have no
more right to regulate Rail Road
Companies than we have any other
kinds of mechanical labor.
The jury have rendered a verdict
for Plaintiffs on the first two counts,
but were unable to agree on the third,
and after being out six weeks, were
discharged. "A
The Senate on Friday passed the
bill known as the Township Collee-
tors bill.n Also the bill to district
all the townships in each County
into three districts and each district
instead of each township to have one
Supervisor. 1t provides also that
any township having 5000 inhabi-
tants may be one districtand entitled
to one Supervisor and when it may
have 5000 inhabitants, two supervi-
sors, and one supervisor for every adj
ditional 5000 inhabitants.
If "Time" and "Inclinationn can
compromise, this bill may pass in
the House. Otherwise--other-
WlSe-------.
Your readers cannot fail to observe
that the Iowa Legislature is a busy
body'--manufacturing at one session
and repairing at another.
On Saturday morning, the Hon.
Charles Dudley, of Wapello County,
received a dispatch that his dwell
ling house was in flames, and three
of his sons, aged respectively 8, ii
and Is years, had perished in the de-
vouring elements. General Reed,
Supt ID. M. V. II. r., ordered an ex-
ira train and within an hour after
the receipt of the intelligence, the
surprised and mourning father, in
company with about 80 of bis honor
able associates Of the House were on
their way to the scene of the disas-
ter.