The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1869-03-25


authorizing our corporations to subscribe
towards the completion Of the Loudoun and
Hampshire railroad and Its extension to
within Georgetown's and washington's cor
porate limits. The project involves getting
the consent Of Congress to permit tax to
be laid on real estate here to secure the In
terest and the eventual payment of the bonds
that will represent the proposed subscrip-
tion of million and quarter dollars re-
ferrcd to above.
As the desire of the property holders of
the District to be subjected to such a tax to
tho end indicate Is well nigh unanlmo us,
there can be no doubt, apprehepd, that
when reached, Congress will promptly pass
the necessary bill. But the question Is, will
1t be reached this session. There is no con-
ceivable reason why Il cannot be reached IL
Congress will transact any business to speak
of, ere terminating the session.
TUE GREAT IMPORTANCE OF THE PROPOSED
LEGISLATION.
No other subject connected with legisla-
ton concerning the District Of Colum bia is
of more pressing Importance to its future, or
Of such immediate Importance to the econ
omy of the Senators and Representatives
themselves, who will find their personal ex-
penscs here considerably diminished by the
completion of railroad that will vastly de-
crease the cost of living in this city. To the
country ut large it will open a channel Of
railroad communication to the great West
and Southwest much shorter than via the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad, that can be
run at much less cost per mile, owing
to the fewer difficulties of the route and the
better climate Tin which to work railroads)
in which the new line will be located. Be-
sides, its competition with the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad will inevitably lessen the pas
scngcr and freight charges of the latter,
which cannot charge two prices to those
patronizing it while the new line Is charging
but fair rates.
WHAT the PROPOSED DISTRICT SUBSCRIPTION
WILL EFFECT.
A District subscription of a million of dol
lars by Washington city and a quarter of a
million by Georgetown will so strengthen the
enterprise as to carry 1t to the coal-felds of
Virginia in one direction, and bring 1t into
our own midst in the other. Once so far
constructed, its national and State import
ance will insure 1t the necessary connections
to make II an additional through route to
the Ohio river.
TIL DISTRICT ASKS RUT LEAVE TO HELP
ITSELF.
cannot conceive that Congress will end
this session without allowing their wards
people of the District Of Columbia-to help
themselves as the bill proposes. Being a
firm believer that this proposed improvement
will, Immediately on its contamination, quad
ripple the amount of merchandise sold in
Washington for use and consumption be-
yond the District of Columbia, and greatly
decrease the cost of the city's fuel and pro-
visions, and, besides, induce the investment
of much Washington and foreign capital in
manufacturing here, confess to being
| quite as nervously anxious for the necessary
| Congressional legislation as any other man
in Washington.
| A LOUD CALL PROM THE PRESS OF THE
COUNTRY.
The press Of the country is commencing
to urge with Commendable earnestncss that
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tested almost unhcard-of patience and rcsig,
nation under the cruditcs of the current
law. No other advanced people live under
a system Of taxation Gas to the law de-
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LABOR IDENTIFICATION WITH OUR GOVERN
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least obIc to hear il. nv which other nation
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We're our public aught but the most patier
ass ever ridden by needless and lin to
MANY cascs) incompetent riders, II woul
long since have SO brayed aloud as TO war
Congress of the necessity for reforms i
this connection. Grants admlnistratlo
cannot, without much careful legislation b
Congress, relieve the necessitous from a Sill
gle burden OF the existing revenue laws. .
the contrary, as those laws now stand,
must inevitably increase those burdens
them, practically. That Is, in executing Il
revenue laws to the letter, 1t must cole