The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-04-01
How Shreveport Regards Railroads.

slow to appreciate the advantages OF Il
railroad. The President of the New
Orleans Il Baton Rouge road notified
| those people that for tiv" hundred
thousand dollars in city bonds of
Shreveport. that road would make its
preference to Marshall. \ public meet
ing was forthwith called and the fol-
lowing resolutions adopted, and they
We're subsequently passed and approved
by the City Council:
Be orci"ircH BY Nc lht.uo. ,r"d Bou,m
Of Trustees IN icg'n assembly concerned,
That bonds of this city to the amount
of one million dollars payable at forty
years from their date, bearing six per
cent. per annun interest, be issued for
the purpose of being used in promoting
the building of railroads in which
shreveport is interested. Said bonds
to be secured by all property of the
city, and by all its taxes and revenues
not otherwise appropriated.
f5c II .ttu1h,,' O,r1ui,1CH, ,rtc., That II. Il.
lJotchkisS, II. II Land, VIM. Robson,
J. Is. Gilmore and Drury Lacy be and
they are hereby appointed Il commit
tee, and they are especially authorized
and empowered, in the name and on
behalf of the Mayor and Trustees of the
city of shreveport, to contract with the
New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Nicks-
burg Railroad Company for the con-
struction of the line Of said road, rio
Shreveport, to the town of Marshall,
Texas, upon such terms and conditions
as said committee may deem advis:,-
blr; authorizing said committee to az
crpt, if they deem it advisable, the
proposition made by said railroad conf
pany to ~. =. lIOtchkisS for cOnstruc-
ton of said road ria Shreveport to Mar
shall, and to rmbody said proposition
in form of Il contract hiiiuin. said May
or and Trustees to appropriate five
hundred thousands dollars to aid in
constructing said road.
BE U.fjn1h,>' o.1iuinctt, etc., That said
committee hc and they are authorized
to enter into Il contract or contracts
with other railroad companies to build
:. railroad from New Orleans to Shrevc-
port, upon such terms and conditions
as they may deem advisable, binding
said Mayor and Trustees to appropri-
ate five hundred thousand dollars in
bonds, to aid in constructing such road
or roads.
one thousand dollars be appropriated
to lcfray the expenses of the committee
appointed this day to confer with rail
road companies, or so much thereof rs
is necessary out Of amy funds not other
Wise appropriated.
BE II rCSOirci, &C., That Il certified
copy of the ordinances passed this day
bC furnished the committee appointed
to confer with the New Orleans, Baton
Rouge and NicksburG and other Rail-
road Companies, (uldcr the seal of the
city.)
The Concord Statesman thus sums up
the causes Of tn" Republican defeat in
New IinmI,shirc:
Had Charles Sumner not been forced
from his place as Chairman of the Sen
ate committee on Foreign Relations,
the Republican vote would have been
iiryc. Had the San Domingo schcIiic
been left to natural causes instead of
being pushed with unreasonable per-
siStcncr, il would have been larger.
lad Congress succeeded in restoring
our commerce to the extent and inn
pnrtancr il had before the rebellion, 1t
would have. been larger. Had some of
the lund-S1;trt bills, however wise and
just in themselves, been diScrcctly do
f"rrcd until the public understanding
had grown up to them, it would have
brcu larger. And had all these causes
of embarrassment been withheld we
might have carried the State by nearly
our usual minority, In spite of the de-
n0r;tlizatiOn produced in the party, by
the forcing upon il of unpopular noIni-
nations made in packed cauclllcS