Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-11-25
Thirty-0ne States and Territories, with
Cities, Chambers Of Commerce,
and Boards of Trade at his
Feet.
He Achieves his Purpose, and the Con.
VentiOn Commits Itself to Con-
gressiOnal Aid for the Bank
rupt Atlantic and
Pacific.
4 Proposition that Congress will moi
Dare Accede tO-The Venita
Scheme Again-A COmbina-
ton for the South to
Defeat.

ST.. LOUIS, November "a The rail-
road convention met again at ten o'clock
this mCrning.
The names of several delegates who
arrived last night and this morning were
| presented and enrolled as members.
After some unimportant business a
president Of the Texas and Pacific rail-
road, was received and read by President
Matthews. 1t gives Mr.. Scott's views
of the importance to the country at
large, and especially the southern part
| of it, OF the construction of the Texas
and Pacific road. 1t discusses at length
the questions of differences in soil, CHM
ate and resources of the southern and
northern routes, cheap transportation
| growing out of its completion, the ad-
vantages OF this road to the southern sys-
tenn of railways, the saving to the gov
eminent in rapid and cheap transporta.
ton and the distribution of military sup
| plies and troops, the financial plan upon
which it Is proposed to construct this
road, and in general covers sll points
and arguments touching the building
and necessity of this road which have
been presented to the people through the
press, speeches in congress and else
where.
On motion OF Mr.. Bowman, of Ken
lucky, the thanks of the convention
were rendered to Mr.. Scott for his able
communication, and it was placed on
the records of the convention.
The committee on resolutions then
made the following report:
WHEREAS, This convention of dele
gates, duly appointed from thirty-one
States and Territories, many cities and
boards of trade, merchants exchanges,
and other commercial bodies, consti-
tuting a body Of eight hundred and
siXty-nine delegates, representing not
only large proportion of the people of
the United States, but of the active pro-
ducing business capital of the country,
and now assembled to take action on
the construction of q southern line of
railroad to the Pacific, do respectfully
represent to the senate and house of
representatives of the United States in
congress assembled, that a transconti-
Mental railroad from the waters of the
Mississippi by way of Ell Psso to the
Pacific ocean, on or near the thirty
second parallel Of latitude, Is impera-
lively demanded
First-As a measure of sound states
msnship; because it is by contant inter-
course, business and social, that the
great States that are now growing up on
the Pacific slope can be permanently
bound in q common interest with our
eastern and southern communities, and
it is therefore sound policy and wise fore
sight to promote the most intimate rela-
tions between all sections of our COM
mon country-a necessity already recOg-
nized by the government in its grant Of
bonds and lands to the Union, and Cen
trail, and Kansas Pacific roads, and OF
other lands to other t1anscontinental
lines on the thirty-second, thirty. fifth
and forty-seventh parallels, under the
belief that private capital would furnish
the needful funds to complete these
highways, but owing to great CONNER
cial depression they cannot be built by
individual capital, and the responsibility
still rests upon the government to secure
the completion OF at least one additional
transcontineutal line.
Second-As a means of national de-
Tense, because it is the duty of thesgov-
eminent to have a line to the Pacific
unobstructed at all seasons of the year,
for the prompt transportation OF troops
and supplies, should trouble arise with
any foreign country, and the ports and
countries OF the Pacific coast be exposed
to insult or attack; such line to be sui
ficently removed from our border to en-
able it to be fully protected against
movements of hostile forces.
Third-As local military necessity,
because the experience of the nation on
the Central, Union and Kansas Pacific
roads has proven that the rail and tele-
graph, and the facilities thereby provid-
ed, furnish the only sure means Of inter-
cepting and furnishing the hostile Iudi-
an, and Enthusiastically indicate the adop-
ton of.the same method to prevent the
constant depredations in western Texas,
New Mexico and Arizona, and make
life secure, and establish there the same
law and order that prevails along the
present Pacific line.
Fourth-As a measure of practical
economy, because, as already shown by
the experience of the Pacific road, the
expense of maintaining the military es-
Enlistment for the protection of the
southern territory against Indian depre-
dstions will be largely reduced by
enabling the government to transport
troops and supplies at one-fifth of the
present eost, by enabling it to dispense
with two-thirds Of the present force
through the facilities offered for the
and thereby save from eight to ten mill
lion dollars Der annum, and at the same
time provide more efficiently and eco.
nomically for the care aud mainte-
nance ofthe;Indian tribes who are under
the charge Of the government.
FifIh-As q commercial necessity to
twelve millions Of people, inhabiting a
belt OF country from four hundred TO
seven hundred miles in width, and
stretching along the entire south At.
Iantic coast to the gulf of Mexico and
old Mexico to the Pacific ocean, who,
by reason Of their geographical position,
cannot share in the benefits conferred
by the present Pacific line.
Sixth-As direct saving to the peO-
pie of the entire country, because it will
give competing line between the two
! oceans, both for the large local and
| through traffic of this country and for
the great through traffic with the Sand
wich Islands, India, China, Japan, Aus
tralia and western South America,
thereby comforting substantial benefit
upon the entire nation; and because, in
| this manner, the people OF the United
States will best be protected against
monopoly to whom they have loaned
| fifty-fve million dollars Of six per cent.
government bonds and made large
grants OF lands to build the present Pa
| cific line, and for whose benefit the gov
eminent lie now paying yearly upward
/ of thr2a additional millions out of the
treasury; a corporation that has estab-
lished arbitrary rates Tor transportation
and is now seeking to perpetuate i::aaelf
as a close corporation and control the
lines, and such as it may hereafter build,
in its own exclusive interest, instead Of
making them an open highway, such as
the people of this country have q right
to:demand.
Seventh-Because the communication
thus established with such rich and pro-
| ductive States of old Mexico, would Sc
cure the large and lucrative traffic now
I e. .rrnfriao and Unuld