Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-03-25

cSQLly T6luLGIE6ut anu VIII D6 SiJQuSuS
| till time is no more, in that connection.
Price is Clsyton's hencbman.
| Those who oppose them, those who
would shear those men OF their power to
repeat these horrOrs-GOv. johnson,
Judge Smith, Ray, WhitsOn, Ports,
Hodges, OF Crittenden-are Arkansas
/ men, or men who strike for her or her
people, and they have as much right to
credit for sincerity in their opinions about
| questions now dead, but lately living in
/ TOO fatal vigOr, as We claimed for our
selves, and we confess that our prejudices
heretofore have caused US to withheld
it but we are for them; they are cur
men and we wish that they may each
one prove q Hercules, if il will enable
them as ably and honestly as he to
cleanse the Ausean stable OF public cor
ruption which now disgrsces our race in
Arkansas.
GOVERNORS MESSAGE STATE AID TO
RAILROADS.
The following communication was sent
to the assembly yesterday by the E. xecu-
tive, notifying that body of the award
of State aid to railroads. This action on
the part CT the commissioners is viewed
with great dissatisfaction Uy the friends
of the bill which passed the Senate last
in the Western 0istricts-sveTy e0ntem~
plated road running in that direction
having been ignored. This makes the
breach still wider between the two Op-
posing factions, and il we mistake not,
will cause no little squiIming, twisting
and WiFo-puuing. A5We remarked on
! former occasion, il is q matter in which
the people feel but little Interest," ss to
who shall award the aid. Tney want
railroads, as speedily as they can be built
compsti5 BE with the interest Of the State.
Here is the message;
EXECUTIVE DEPARsMENT, J
STATE OF ARKANSAS,
LITILE BuCR, March 10, lS69J
Mr.. Speaker: I am directed by his Eix-
celleucy the Governor, to inform your
honorable body that, at a meeting Of the
Board of Railroad Commissioners, held
March Is, 1859, he was instructed, as
President OF said Board, to report to the
General Assembly the result of the ae-
tion Of the Board in awarding State aid
to certain railroad ineorporstioRs in the
State.
Whilst it was at first deemed Rdvisa-
Bile By the Bsilrosd Com missiOners not
to award aid to any OF the railroad COM
panles until q bill was passed by ths
General Assembly making provision FOR
the funding of the outstanding Indebted
ness Of the State, and thereby giving
confidence in our State aid as applied to
railroad enterprises, yet the recent action
OF the upper house Of the General As
sembly, and conference with some
members Of the lower house, have in
duced the Board to conclude that imme-
diste award of the State aid is desired
bv majority OF the memO Oers, and pos
s;blv ky the neOpla at large.
Relieving that the StaCe aid can only
be made available by complying strictly
with all the provisions OF the law, as ap-
proved by the people, and having perfect
conf ience in the intention Of your body
to pass a general funding bill at an early
dsy, and being desirous OF acting in con-
formity with the will OF the people, the
Board of Commissioners, after careful
investigation of the various r8ilroSd COM
panies sskina State aid, have made the
award to the following lasoFPOr&tlons,
they having complied with the pFoyis-
ions OF the law:
TO the Cairo and Fulton railroad COM
psny, three hundred miles OF its line; to
the Little RCck and Helena railroad
company ,snin sty-eisht allies Gf tts liAej
TO the Memphis and Little Rock railroad
company, ninety miles OF its line; to the
Little Rock, Pine Bluff and New Orleans
railroad company, for that portion OF the
road which lies between Pine Bluff and
the Stste line, commencing at Pine BluH
and running the line of road toward the
State line, ole hgpdred snq EVelYe
miles to the Mississippi, 0uachitH and
Red river railroad COM Dany, so much OF
the road as lies between Camden and the
Mississippi river, not to exceed one nun
dred miles.
The Board took into consideration the
application of the Memphis and st. Louis
! (levee) railroad company, but Congress
| having been IEemoFiRliZed to aid in the
/ construction Of 3 levee and railroad bed
/ along the west bank Of the Mississippi
4 river, and there being strong probable
! ity that such aid will be given, the Board
| declined to accept the application OF the
4 said St. Louis aud Memphis railroad
/ company for State aid.
! No award Of State aid was made to
the Western Border railroad company
by the Board, as no application had been
made and the law had not been com :
! piled with.
The Board also refused to accept the
application of the Rsciie and Great
Eastern railroad company, not being
| satisfied that the resources OF the com :
pany were sufficient, with the Stste aid,
to enable them to finish the road, 1t be-
ing 8 work Of great magnitude.
/ am further directed to say, by his
Excellency, on behalf of the Board OF
| commissioners, that they have not
awarded State aid to any road running
from Little Rock to Fort Smith. They
have, however, reserved aid to the
| amount Of lbl miles, to be hereafter
awarded to one of three interpretations,
two of which are claiming the same right
Of way and the same land grants, and
one of which has bsen reported upon by
the Senate of the United States, at the
last session, as a part OF the 35sh parallel
road to the Pacific.
The commissioners are undecided ~
reference to the proper selection and
award to be made for these routes, but
are of the opinion that congresslonsi 81
action will throw light upon and prob
ably decide this question. For these
reasons, the Board of Railroad Com mis-
siopers has deferred taking any action
for the present. in respect to these routes
All of which Is respectfully suomlttec
for your information.
J. H. BARTON, Private Secretary.
-Four thousand shares Of the VII
mipeton and Weldon Railroad hsvt
been purchased by Baltimore capitalists
/. aud the control Of the rosd has passeC
, into Baltimore hands. Baltimore hai
! now the control Of transportation VjC
the Chesapeake from Baltimore to VIII
mington,