New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-21

No Session of the House-Texas Pacific
Railroad Bill Passed-Atlantic and Pa
cinc Railroad. t-~ 81 f-+
WASHINGTON, April -House.-No. ses-
sion.
Senate.-The bill bridging the Missouri
at Brownsville, Nebraska. passed.
The bill for free tea and coffee came up,
when Mr.. Trumbull moved an amendment
for free coal and salt, whereupon the mat
ter was postponed
The Southern Pacific railroad bill was
resumed The Senate is still in session.
The Texas Pacific railroad bill passed.
A call OF the Senate is progressing upon
the question of free tea and coffee, no quo
rum being present.
The Pacific railroad amendments were
adopted, limiting the issue Of construction
bonds to $40,0 900 per mile, and authorizing
the company to include in the mortgage
and secure in their land bonds any lands
they may acquire by consolidating with
that this act shall not be construed to
revive or make any land grant what
ever; and provided further, that the
land acquired shall be subject to
all the obligations, limitation and
conditions now existing by law, and that
this act shall not be construed to authorize
the diversion Of any of the lands, ETC., from
the purposes for which they were granted;
also, providing that the company shall
commence the construction of the road from
San Diego eastward within one year from
the passage of this act, and shall construct
after the second year not less than
twenty-five miles year until the junction
is formed with the line from the east.
Upon the amendment authorizing the
Grand Tower and San Diego Pacific Rail-
road Company to build road from Fulton,
Arkansas, to point on the Texas Pacific
road, discussion arose as to the right Of
Congress to grant the right of way and
authorize the construction of a road through
a State, after which the amendment was
withdrawn.
Mr. Salisbury offered an amendment,
providing that the road shall not be exempt
from taxation by the States which may
hereafter be formed out of the territory
through which it ! ms, which was agreed to.
An amendment rroviding that the road
from Marshall, Texas, shall be Of uniform
grade, was agreed to.
Mr. Kellogg, from the committee, offered
an amendment authorizing the Texas Pa
ciic Railroad Company to complete and
operate a road from Marshall, Texas, to
Shreveport, Louisiana, which was agreed
to.
The bill having been considered in the
committee Of the whole, was reported to the
Senate, and the amendments made in the
committee were concurred in, except the
amendment as to taxation by miles, which
was reiected-yeas II, nays 20.
The following amendment, proposed by
Mr.. Kellogg. was adopted by vote OF "a
to II:
Provided, That the said Texas Pacific
Railroad Company shall be and it is here
by authorized and required to construct,
maintain, control and operate road be-
tween Marshall, Texas, and Shreveport,
Louisiana, or control and operate any exist
ing road between the said points of the
same guage as the said Texas and Pacific
railroad; and that all roads terminating at
Shreveport shall have the right to make
the same running connections, and shall be
entitled to the same privileges for the
transaction of business in connection with
the said railroad as are granted to roads in
tersecting Herewith.
Also an amendment in section five, line
fifteen, after the word ''act'' insert land
said road, throughout the length thereof,
shall be of uniform guage."
Mr.. Blair offered an amendment extend
ing the time for the completion of the At
lantic and Pacific railroad tor three years,
but after some discussion he withdrew it.
Mr.. Harlan renewed it and advocated it,
but afterwards withdrew it. The bill was
then passed.
The title of the bill to which the forego-
ing amendments apply is, "a bill supple
mentary to an act to incorporate the Texas
Pacific Railroad Company, and to aid IN the
construction of its road, and for other pur-
poses," approved March 3, 1871.