The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-12-10
WASHINGTON.


case 81. as to the character of damages. tn
J. counsel tor the Government taking the posi-
|. ton that the court had no jurisdiction in tn
l. matter Of personal injury by acts resultn
from the capture of Confederate cruisers
l. Gen. Roberts spoke in opposition. A decision
It will be rendered in few days.
Case us involving the question of citizen
!, ship, naturalization, etc, will, with a case in
!. voving the same points, be argued tomorrow
i Probably the hearing OF cases will com
t lnence regularly next week, after the afgu
! ments on the demurrers are closed
The conference CT Republican Senators
meet tonight to consider what they shall d.
with the South.
: Venus has made her transit.
: On dit, that Cameron. of Pennsylvania. ant
Flanagan, of Texas, will oppose the contirma
, ton of Jewell as Postmaster General
: The President has granted pardons, to be
issued tomorrow. to John Whisonante and
Jerome Whisonante, of South Carolina. both
convicted OF ku klux ott,,nses and sentenced
to five years imprisonment at Albany, ano
500 fine. They have served two years Of
, their term.
The Republican Senators spent about an
hour and half in caucus this afternoon on
the subject OF Arkansas affairs, but adjourned
} without coming to any conclusion. Only a
, few Senators expressed themselves in favor of
Intervention and even these were not agreed
rs to the exact form Of movement; the others
were disposed to postpone action as the pre-
sent condition of the State did not seem to
Justify congressional measures, all accounts
representing the people generally to be salts
fed with their present COVE rnment, with no
cause for violent disturbance
The question of the condition of Louisiana
also becoming involved, several Senators said
it would be found on examination thet one or
two Of the other Southern States had no more
legal existence than Louisiana, aod therefore
there should be an investigation concerning
all OF them in order to establish their validity
| The expression of views separated the Sen
ators widely from the original topic of con-
versaticn
The next caucus will be held on the call Of
the Chairman.
| WASHINGTON, Dec 9.-The memorial pre-.
sented to Congress to-day on behalf OF the
Texas and Pacific and the Atlantic and Pa
citic Railway Companies is signed by Thomas
A. Scott and A. Pierce las the respective Presi-
dents OF those corporations, and sets forth
the following among other arguments in
favor of the enactment of the bill, whose main
provisions were published last Monday
They say Southern trunk line of railroad
to the Pacific is a necessity, and its constsuc-
ton should be insured by the Government as
a practical means Of settling the Indian ques-
ton, and enabling its vast territories to be
safely inhabited and developed
The completion Of the line would, it is
claimed, enable the government to move
troops cheaply and rapidly, dispense with
probably three-fourths Of those now employed
in Texas and the Southern territories, and
thus release the government from an expen-
diture amounting to millions of dollars yearly;
and it would moreover be of immense
advantage to the nation by bringing into
market hundreds of millions of acres
of good land which is now dead property
to the United States by adding millions
of population to the present number of pro-
ducers and taxpayers Of the country, by more
than doubling, or, indeed, indefinitely in
creasing the annual yield of precious
metals in the United States. by q vast increase |
IN our revenues. to be derived from impcrts-
tons from Asiatic countries of the East, by the |
general stimulus of production, manufactures
and trade in all the States east of the Missis-
s'ssippi to supply the wants of settlers in the
new regions to be traversed by the road, and
by all that diversified good, in the pursuit CT
which England. France, Belgium, Holland,
Russia and Austria have spent such enormous
sums of money, pledged without stint their
public credit, and found their reward in the
control OF the trade of the world.
1t is further argued that the construction of
eU1o OpcA highway uuODSIruCteO Dy SHOWS
during the entire year, across the continent,
would prove to be a practical measure of re-
construction tor the South and that the in
creased yield Of cotton and tobacco from the
newly developed territory would swell the
volume OF our exports and thus aid materially
in the retention OF our gold and silver for
home circulation.
The memorialists assert that it is con-
established that the saving in trans
portation alone of Government supple, has
averaged $4,000 per mile per annum for every
mile of Pacific Railroad heretofore built, and
call attention to the fact that the entire
amount of interest which the Government is !
asked to guarantee in order to secure the [
of this Southern line is $3.50 $
per mile per annum. |
No guarantee Of the principal of TIE bonds 1
IS solicited, and as security for guarantee of l
he interest on the bonds, the Government is
% have first mortgage on all the properly,
ranchlses and net earnings of the railroad. !
The entire proceeds of the sales of lands g
heretofore granted by the United States to the
nent OF about thirty million acres of land
heretofore granted and received to aid
he construction of the two lines ito the
Pacific, some fifteen hundred miles, of which !
vi to be dispensed with under the plan pro- {
posed. and the retention in the L. s. Treas
Try OF one-eighth of all the bonds issued, to I
,e sold by the Government if at any time
Turing construction the sale of lands, the
government transportation and the entire {
let earnings of the road shall not prove suf-
cient to provide for the interest guaranteed I
nd the sinking fund required. I
The memorialists say, in conclusion, that =
hat they do not purpose to besiege Congress l
y personal pressure and solicitation. but to =
ely confidently on the merits of the case as !
ow presented. l
PHILADELPHIA ITEMS. il
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. "a number of gen.
emen, embracing manysprominent Philadel-
hans, have formed an organization for the
rection OF mammoth hotel in this city Fl