Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-01-31
THE CINCINNATI SOUTHERN ROAD.

The kentucky Legislature has passed
the bill granting charter for the Cincin-
natl Southern Road. The House must yet
concur i'll the Senate amendments and the
Governor must yet approve, but both seem
very probable.
The amendments tackled OH by the SEN
ate are unjust and onerous, and will hardly
he satisfactory to the friends of the road.
The Commercial sums up the objection
able features in this style:
"Our Frankfort dispatch gives synop-
sis of the bill, with the amendments in
detail. Section II, as amended binds the
Trustees to pay fifty cents per capita for
each passenger who crosses the sacred soil
of the State Oh the Cincinnati road, and
twenty-five cents for each one who ven
lures to ride one hundred miles within the
State Oh our road. 1t is also provided that
there shall he paid over to the magnani-
NOUS Commonwealth of Kentucky, semi
annually, one cent on each hundred
pounds of freight that is drawn across the
sacred soil; that is, ttro dollars per loadcd
cor. It does not require much calculation
TO show that this is pretty severe as well
as wholly preposterous eXaction. 1t
il, in effect, blackmail demand, and the
insolence of it is not less remarkable than
its illegality. We do not suppose there
are many persons in Kentucky in or out of
the Legislature, who expect the tax to lie
paid.
The road, according to Section Is, is not
to be allowed to charge over thirty-tive
cents per hundred pounds for heavy arti-
cles, or ten cents per cubic foot onarticles
of measurement, per hundred miles, and
four cents per mile for passengers.
Perhaps the most remarkable of the
amendments is that providing for the sur
vey of one or more routes for said road by
the way of Nicholasville and Danville to
the State line, in the direction of Sparta.
Tennessee, thence on the most direct prac-
ticable route to Chattanooga. 1t is then
solemnly provided that the Engineer shall
lay before the Trustees map of the route,
and then that all the lines surveyed shall
be reported to the citizens of Cincinnati
that they may express their preference for
either by their votes, and the Trustees are
required to locate the road bed, as indicat-
ed by the votes of the citizens and tax
payer: of this city.
cit will interest our readers TO see, in
this connection, what the direction of
Sparta, Tennessee, in the Haggard amend
ment, means. \ few months ago, the
Memphis and Charleston Railroad leased
the branch line, running nerthward from
TullahOma, Tennessee, to McMinnville in
the same State, a distance of about forty
miles. The prolongation of this short
railroad would run through Sparta. DAN
vile and Nicholasville, to Cincinnati.
"Tullahoma is station on the Nashville
and Chattanooga Railroad, seventy-four
miles south of Nashville and seventy-seven
miles north of Chattanooga. If the
Cincinnati Southern should be constructed
rid Sparta and Tullahoma, it will be line
which, continued southwest, would strike
the Gulf between the cities of New Orleans
and Mobile.
"The tendency of the Haggard amend
ment would seem TO be to link our fortunes
with those of the Kentucky Central and
the branch line of the Memphis and
Charleston Road. We are to have vote
OH it, however, and that ought to be con-
ding"