The New York herald., 1871-02-07
TEE TEXAS PACIFIC RAILROAD JOB.

uDn-IuitI ObJecuSuS 10 the bnl-lC IL
Wholly Unnecessnry-A Northern Member
Wants tn Vote for Just One Moro Land
Grant and Will Then Quit Until Next Time
Report of IA State Corporation Only Two
Years Oid--'rhe Philadelphia Members
six National Corporations Fighting the
United s.tntes-NatiOnaI Banks, National
Insurance Companies and National Railway
Companies Quite Enough.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4, 1871.
The old Memphis ana I'll Paso scheme managers
are mere cndeavoring to get their job through the
House, 1t Is on the Speakers table disguised the
Texas Pacific Railroad bill. 1t organizes q COM
pany, gives 1t about $4,000, 900 acres or public
land power to issue large amount
many million dollars--of bonds "authorzed
by the United States,r and charter
for railroad through Texas to the Pacific
on the thirtysecond parallel and last, but least
places the control of the whole the hands OF the
old Memphis ana I'll Paso managers giving them
the power to throw at least shadow OF legality
over their Infamous stock transactions In Paris. so
thoroughly exposed in the letters or Minister Wash
burne and other papers accompanying the Mes
sage OF
PRESIDENT GRANT
to the Senate, all Of which may be found on the
ninth page Of the HERALD OF the 24th OF June last
The principal papers accompanying the Message
were:-FlrsJ, letter from Minister w ashburne.
dated Paris, June A. 1862 to Secretary Fish, second,
letter, same date, from A. Maespine, edtor-In'
chief La P'eSse LtDre, to Mr.. WashDurn ne; third a
letter from Secretary Fish to the Secretary OF the
Interior; fourth letter from Acting Secretary Otto
to Secretary Fish and, finally. u letter from Secre
tary Fish to Mr.. Washburne.
1t is sufficient here 10 state that the course or
Minister WashDurne In breaking up the ring is
heartily approved by the administration.
SHALL TIE BILL PAss2
The chief objection to the Texas Pacific bill now
on the Speakers table are th though the re are
good names among the corporators, the real mana
gers the lobbyists who are here pushing the concern
and who VIII most certainly control not the
right sort OF men to be connected with an enterprise
OF tnat kind; and, finally, there is no necessity
whatever OF any legislation by Congress in the mat
ter road through on the thirty second parallel Is
already provided for and is actually beng con-
struced as fast as the business OF the country
qulreS, by the
SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY or TEXAS,
company chartered by that STATE several years ago
but thoroughly reorganiZed ana placed on lirm
basis some twenty mouths since. The road COM
meuceS at shreveport Ca, ana runs directly west
ward via hailvie. through Texas. on the thirty
second parallel.
have already been built. and the company have
large force constantly employed pushing the con-
struction farther west H. have before me copy OF
W. A. Hauser az the stockholders meeting at Hall
vlle, Texas on the l2tn OF October last. The lol-
lowing extracts VIII show what they are driving
at
During last summer and fall you built fourteen miles
to this place, and in month there will be miles
additional of this Longvew In Upshur county The
plete it, The road present ay-sx long and when
ae we 70 a es w To he BY the lave Of 3
acres OF lind for egey mile Of road we build When he
acres Of land under said laws = i0;9'
for Borrowed Of the special school, fund and
ing, principal and Interest," to about 4a2 OOo This
may proper to observe the line of our road the
route the acilc Ocean ,houehou the country
S It's coa m ss ay m the eoe a @ Gne BY
Pacific Route" and when completed afford to carry
e northern roads to the be- Paco s rates now on
The Shreveport Q4a.) D5tty Gazette. from which
get the above report has the loliowin. editorial no.
tce OF it,
We publish this morning the annual report the
the southern Pacific haioad Company A. the meeting Of the
tins great work will read these reports and them
tended notice to our next issue.
ONLY TWO YEARS OLD.
II must be borne In mind that though the charter
granted by the state OF Texas dates back some years,
the company now Tor the first time properly organ
1zed ana operating under IL Is scarcely two years
Old.
And now we have bill in Congress creating a
great nationai oppouent 10 come IN ana endeavor to
take the field now ully and acceptapiy flied by the
State corporation
1t is as though Congress mad, when the New York
Central Railroad was 1nlssed to a point only sixty
miles west of Albany, interposed by charterng and
subsld zing an opposition company 10 Duiid an OPP
position road from Troy TO Buffalo.
THE PEOPLE OF TEXAS
not asking the Congress or the United States 10
create corporations 70 crush out TO interfere with
their own state ORGANIZATIONS. ain informed that
Hon. Edward Degener, one OF the abest members
OF the House from THAT Slate viii earnestly oppose
On the other hand, 1t is noticeable fact that
several Northern members, who nave never been
framing excuses In advance for their votes III favor
OF the passage OF the job.
THE PHILADELPHIA MEMBERS.
Three Philadelphia Congressmen-iessrs Kelley,
Myers and O'Neil-went before their constituents
last fall pledged in general terms TO vote elected,
nd Hha w fysr
reelected TO serve in The Forty-second Congress,
and when the great st. Croix and Bayhed-Jay
they all three found excuses for making an eXcey-
uon in favor sf it. Tue job was, however defeated
as has already been reported.
And now we Ind at least one of the gentlemen
Mir. Kelley. excuslng himself In advance Tor his pro-
posed vote IN favor OF this Texas JOB. lie says he
wants to vote'i for a great through line on the
thirty ty-second parallel.
He is pleased TO ignore the fact that road has
already been
PROVIDED FOR
precisely on that line, and Is now being built as
rapidly as the business oil the country requires.
we will suppose a case FOR Mr.. Kelleys parlicu-
lar benefit. Suppose North Carolina member
should introduce a bill in Congress organizing and
subsdlzing a company to build railroad from
Philadelphia TO Pittsburg, and Texas member
should himself to his constituents for yo!nr
Tor the job Dy saying he ''wanted vote, for Just
one great Northern line What would the gentle.
man from Philadelphia say to tnaty
GOT ENOUGH.
We have got enough or these great national subsi-
dlzed corporations We have the shameful spectacle
oi not less than SIX OF them here now, endeayorng
10 lobby through measures to avoid paying their
honest debts to the United States. We have d great
national life insurance company and national banks
almost without number.
In view OF the fact, therefore, that the people OF
Texas are getting along as they are ana have IN no
Instance peitoned IN favor OF the proposed national
corporation it Is certainly to- let the pl now on
House Committee on Public Lands. Copsi gned TO
the gent,e care OF Mr.. Julian, the chairman we shall
hear no more IRON 1t III this world.
CHAEP0a COMPOSING CONTEST.
The title or champion Compositor OF the United