Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-03-04
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THE TEXAS PACIFIC RAILROAD BILL.
Nominations by the Prcsident.

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WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.-There is pros
pect of big fight in the Senate over the
Conferences report of the Northwest and
South. They are not satisfied. The de-
fection involves Arkansas, Tennessee, Ken.
lucky and the Southeast, Including Geor-
gia and Alabama. - f'ats = ~
The President made the following nom.
nations to-day VIM. Story, Judge of the
Western District of Arkansas; Ell. T.
Yanan, Collector of the First Texas Dis
trct; b. Mcpherson, Assessor of the First
Texas District, Sidney Cooper, Collector
of Customs Cape Vincent, N. G..
The Texas Pacific Railroad bill has pass
ed both Houses and now awaits the Pres
ident's signature, the report OF the Com
mittee of Conference having been agreed
to this afternoon. tsnE ~ rf-3 ~ =
The text of the House substitute-a sy-
nopsis of which has recently been publish
ed-was not materially altered but was
amended by the addition of several new
sections. The main trunk commences at
Marshall, Texas, and extends thence by
the most direct and eligible route, to be de-
termined by said company, near the SD
parallel of north latitude, to point near
Ell Paso thence by the most direct and
eligible route, to be selected by said COM
pany, through New Mexico and Arizona,
to point on the Rio Colorado, at or. near
the southeastern boundary of the State Of
California; thence by the most direct and
eligible route to San Diego, California.
The New Orleans, Baton Rouge and
Vicksburg Railroad Company, chartered
by the State of Louisiana, has the right to
connect by the most eligible route, to be
selected by said company, with the said
Texas Pacific Railroad at its eastern ter
minus, and shall have the right of way
through the public land to the same ex-
tent granted to the said Texas Pacific Rail-
road Company, and in aid of its constrtlc-
tion from New Orleans to Baton Rouge,
thence by way of Alexandria in said State
to connect with the said Texas Pacific
Railroad Company at.its eastern terminus,
there is hereby granted to the said
company, to its successors and as
signs, the same number of alternate sec
tions of public lands per mile, in the State
of LouisianB, as are by this act granted in
the State of California to said Pacific Rail-
road Company, and said lands shall be
withdrawn from the market selected and
patents issued therefor and opened for set
tlement and pre-emption upon the same
terms and in the same manner and time as
is provided for and required from said
Texas Pacific Railroad Company within
said State of California; Prouided, that
said Company shall complete the whole of
salu rOau WllHln IlFe years from the pas
sage of this act, for the purpose of con-
Meeting the Texas Pacific Railroad with the
city of San Francisco. Tie Southern Pa
cific Railroad is hereby authorized, subject
to the laws of California, to construct a line
of railroad from a point at or near Teha-
chapa Pass, by way of Los Angeles, to the
Texas Pacific Railroad, at or near Colorado
river, with the same rights, grants and
privileges, and subject to the same limita-
tions, restrictions and conditions as were
granted to said Southern Pacific Railroad
Company of California, by the act of July
27, l5LS; Provided ho,gever, that this sec
tion shall in no way affect or impair the
rights, private or prospective, of the At
lantic Pacific Railroad Company, or any
other railroad company.