New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-06-29
TEXAS PACIFIC RAILROAD
ITS GRANTS AND CONNECTIONS
SOUTHERN PACIFIC ROAD In TEXAS
BOND ROBBERY IN BALTIMORE
DESTRUCTIVE OIL FIRE IN P1TTsBURG
FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS LOSS
DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN. MARKETS
WASHINGTON.

Four Hundred and Seventy Thousond
Dollars Internal Revenue Receipts
Refusal to Coasider the San Doningo
Treaty-Equestrlon Statue OF General
seott-ImpOrted Articles Shipped In
Bond-Texas Pacific Railroad and its
Connecll0ns-AdAitlOn al Names Of New
orleans IneorPorators Of Faelne
Railroad.
WASHINGTON, June 2S-Internal revenue
receipts to-day, $470, 900.
The President will leave on Friday for
Connecticut, and will be absent week.
The President has nominated Edward E.
Douglass as United States Marshal Tor
North Alabama.
The Senate, while in Executive session
today, by vote of 81 to %, refused to con-
slider the San Domingo treaty, which ex-
pires the first of July. This is equivalent
to the death Of the treaty.
Senate.-The amendment to the thirty fifth
parallel road excludes land grants from the
Indian territory. This amendment passed
by a vote of 26 to 20.
The thirty-second parallel bill was
amended to allow branches to use not over
twenty thousand tons of imported rails.
This action is intended to cover Fremont
and other contracts already made for for
The tax bill was resumed. The tariff on
sugar was stricken out, thus leaving the tax
on sugar as at present, by vote OF " to 26:
The same action, viz: Leaving the tariff
as at present, was taken regarding spices,
wines. LIQUORS and manufactures OF cotton.
The Senate. without q final vote, ad.
iourned.
House-Among the amendments to the
Appropriation bill, is SIS, 900 additional, for
an equestrian statue of General Scott.
The South gets nothing so far.
A bill preventing the eXtermlnatl0n OF
fur bearing animals IN Alaska waters
passed.
A bill allowing imported articles, except
wine, distilled spirits. perishsble and expio.
sive articles to be shipped in bond from and
to New York, Boston, Baltimore, Port HUI
ron, New Orleans, Portland, Buffalo, Chlca-
90, Cincinnati, St. Louis. Evansville, and
Milwaukee, passed:
The currency bill was considered without
any action to adjournment.
WASHINGTON, June 25.-The Texas Pacific
Railroad bill was passed by the Senate at q
| late hour last night. Il names John q.
Fremont. James L. Alcorn. G. w. Dodge.
| Marshall o. Roberts, William Orton, II. u.
Cooke. D. N. Stanton. william S. Rosecrans,
and a large number of other persons as In
| Company, which is authorized to construct
a continuous railroad and telegraph line
from Marshall, Texas, to San Diego. Cali.
| fornia. via Ell PasO, the gauge OF the road to
| be five feet. The capital stock of the COM
pany is to be S1OO 600, 900, and in aid OF the
enterprise public lands are granted to the
extent of twenty sections per mile IN the
States and forty sections per mile IN the
territories.
In the construction of the road American
iron or steel must be used exclusively. The
company is authorized to issue its first mort
cage bonds to the amount Of $4,000 per
mile.
The Alabama and Chattanooga; the Vicks-
burg and Meridian, and the North Louisiana
and Texas Railroads are authorized to form
junction with the Texas Pacific road al
Marshall.
The Southern Pacific Railroad of Califor-
| MIA is authorized to construct branch road.
with a land grant to connect with 1t at 9
point not more than fifty miles east OF
San Diego.
of Arkansas is authorized to build roac
from Fulton, to connect with it at POM
northwest of Dallas. and the New Orleans
Baton Rouge and Vicksburg Railroad Com.
pany is granted ten sections per mile to alc
in the construction of q road to connect Will
it at Marshall, Texas.
The following are additional names o
New Orleans incorporators of the Pacih.
C. Warmoth, L. J. Highly, Harry y. Hays
John T. Ludeling, George A. Fosdick ant
James 7. Tucker.
An amendment was adopted restoring +
the North Louisiana and Texas Railroad
and extending to Marshall, Texas, the Ian
grants of 1856.
: A daily mail has been ordered betwee
, New Orleans and Bayou Sara.
!Sendte-Senator Harris, of Louisiana, ad
dressed the Senate to-day on behalf OF re
| tanning the present tariff on sugar.
MIR. Cameron moved to reconsider tn
vote by which, on the previous day. tn
Senate refused to strike out the Hous
, provisions reducing the duties on suga
:, | which was agreed to by vote OF 80 to "a
The question recurring on striking out tn
sections in regard to the duties on sugar. NJ
, | Sherman in reply to inquiries, sexplalne
that if the sections were stricken out, tn
duty on sugar would remain as in the Ia
q at present at three cents per pound; II IN
9 House proposition prevailed the duty woui
= be reduced to two cents per pouna, makin
difference OF S11, 900, 900. Mr.. hamnn OF
D.. sired to know the exact difference Detwee
:, the amendment OF the Finance Commute
and the House proposition. Mr.. Sherma
replied that that of the Finance Commute
had been withdrawn, and was not before tn
l. Senate: the effect of either proposition wa
j. to reduce the revenue about $1,000, ,OOO, tn
!; amount being the same in each case, th
only difference was in the classification
:, | the duties. A..
The House paragraphs relating to tn
duties on sugar were then stricken GU
:, yeas 27, nays 26.