New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-01-09
WASHINGTON.

PROPOSED PACIFIC hAlLhCAO ctbSiDlbS.
IMPORTANT AMENDMENTS MADE TO THE TEXAS Pa
cIFIC BILL By THE RAILROAD CoMMITrEE-AR'
auMENTs IN FAVOR OF AID TO THE ATLANTIC
AND PACIFIC ROAD A GOVERNMENT CLAIM
AGAINST THE NORTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY.
lBr TELEGRAPH TO TRIBUNEi
wAsH1N6roN Jan. a-Tbe Texas Pacific Railroad
hill which was early in the season introduced In the
Senate and referred to the Committee on Railroads
has occupied the attention of that Committee at ls
recent sessions. and number OF amendments nave
been proposed which, il rs understood, the Commit
tee have ordered printed for its own use ana TOT
further consideration. 1t is believed that the No"i
mittee will at an early day, report the OIL laNV'"
bly, and that the most important OF the amehumenS
referred to will then be found IN II. Among 'neS
ia one to strike out the preamble, which, Oh
course, ADDS nothing TO the bill while Ii
contains some assertions which Senators might
,refer not 20 vote for. Another amendment pro
rosed FIXES the point az which the Atlantic ana
Paciio Railroad is to lntersect the line of the texas
Pacific not further north than the $50 parallel VI
latitude and not further west than the Olst degree
of longitude instead of the 1O4th, as provided IN the
original bill. Further amendments designate san
Diego as the western terminus of the road the exact
point on the Pacific coast not being stated IN tno
original ball and require the Texas ana RACINE
Company to begin the work of construction "l'nih
sax months from the passage OF the act anu W nave
completed and equipped within II month Iheroai'o'
from San Diego east not less than . miles, ana each
wear thereafter not less than 80 additional miles II
is proposed to add to the Sd section OF the DILL
which provides for the Endorsement OF the oonuS Oh
the Companies, the following proviso:
PROVIDED That it shall be the duty OF the Comms-
soners appointed by the President TO certify the actu
expenditure OF the moneys required for the purpose vi
and equpping tae lines up 70 the Govern
ment standard required by law, and al oohus ot INC
company secured under the mortgage over aud ABOVE
the amount actually required above shall remain III
the control OF the Secretary OF the Treasury and not
be issued except provide additional facilities aIter he
completion of the road meet the requirements oIshe
public set forth in tins act.
An amendment proposed in Section gives the
companies the right to bridge such navigable
streams their lines may cross, the plans OF the
bridges to be submitted TO and be approved by the
Secretary of War. substitute is proposed for the
tenth section of the bill. which to author
ize the Government Endorsement of the
bonds of the New Orleans, Ration Rouge. and Vicks-
burR COMPANY and OF the Vicksburg. Shreveport,
and Texas Company, TO the amount OF S0O'OOO
mile The substitute authorizes the Texas and
Pacific Company to complete the road from Nlcks-
burg TO Shreveport, and provides that the United
States shall guarantee Its bonds to the amount
of SS5 900 mile. The same grant Is made to
the New-Orleans, Baton Rouge, and Fioksourg
Company, and both are to be required to complete
their lines within three years. An additional sec
ton to the bin is proposed giving the Texas and
Pacific Company the right 10 acquire by purchase
consolidation lease or otherwise the property and
franchises of any other corporation now authorized
10 construct a railway over any part OF the route
from the Colorado River to san Francisco and or
derng the guarantee by the United States OF bonds
uDon H. tn the amount Of $4,000 mile.
The Secretary of the Treasury will tomorrow send
70 the House an answer 40 Mr.. Woods resolution IN
regard to the alleged changes in the revenue laws
by the late revision. 1t will appear from the Secre-
tarys report that the revision has been as accurate
as could reasonably be expected; that the material
changes are very few and that most of the apparent
changes have arisen rather from previous incorrect
rulings By the Treasury officials than from any
changes in the law
Col Thomas A. Scott and Judge Baker OF ST. LOUIS
made arguments before the House Pacific Railroad
Committee, in aid of Mr.. HOughtOn's bill granting
authority 20 the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad
70 extend It's hne from Vinita, the present
terminus, to intersect the Texas Pacific Road
Mt some point to be agreed upon, not fur
Their west than the 1O4th meridian, and authorizing
the extension of the Texas and Pacific Road from
such point agreed upon TO the Rio Grande and san
Diego on the Pacific coast through Texas New
Mexico Arizona, and California. subcommittee
consisting of Messrs HOughton Sypher, Wells, Bar
mum. and Standeford. was appointed on the subject
of relief to this proposition and the Southern Pacific
Railroad enterprise.
Gin the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill. passed
in 1870, provision was made exacting payment
from the Northern Pacific Railroad for the
entire cost To the Government Of survey
ing and conveying the lands granted said Com
pany under Congressional charter. This sum
aggregates q large amount and the corporation
seeks TO evade payment To-day ex-senator Wade
made an argumsnt in the interest of the Company
before the House Public Lands Committee taking
the ground that compliance with the law exacts a
payment not demanded from other Pacific roads