Fair play., 1875-12-02
SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY.
sgem0rial to Congress and Resolution,
Adopted by the St. Louis Convention.

sgemorial to Congress and Resolution,
Adopted by the St. Louis Convention.
This Convention, Of delegates duly ap.
pointed from thirty-on States and Terrific
ries, many cities and Boards Of Trade, Mer.
chants Exchanges and other commercial
bodies, constituting body Of 500 delegates
representing not only large proportion o
the people Of the United States, but of thu
active producing business capital Of thu
country, and now assembled to take action
upon the construction Of Southern line Of
railroad to the Pacific, do respectfully repre-
sent to the Senate and House of Representa-
tives Of the United States, in Congress as.
sembled:
That Southern TranscOntinental Railway
from the waters Of the Mississippi, via Fl
PasO, to the Pacific Ocean. on or near the
thirty-second parallel Of latitude. is impers-
lively demanded.
1. As a measure Of sound statesmanship: L.
cause it is only by constant intercourse, business
and social. that the great States now growing up
on the Pacific slope can be permanently bound
Southern communities; and it is, therefore.
sound policy and wise foresight to promote the
most intimate relations between all sections Of
our common couutry-a necessity already recog-
nized by the Government in its grant Of bonds
and lands to the Union and Central and Kansas
Pacific Roads, ard Of lands to other transcOnti.
mental lines on the thirty second thirty. fifth and
vate capital would furnish the neesiful funds to
complete these highways. but owing to the great
commercial depression, they cannot be built by
individual capital. and the responsibility etill
rests upon the Government to secure the compile
ton OF ut least one additional transcOntinental
line.
9. As means of National defense: Because
1t is the duty Of the Government to have line to
the Pacific unObstructed at all seasons of the
year, for the prompt transportation OF troops and
supplies, should trouble arise " ith any foreign
country, and the ports and cities of the Pacific
to be sufficiently removed from our border to en-.
able it to be all protected against the movement
Of any hostile force.
8. As local military necessity: Because the
experience of the Nation on the central. Union
and Pacific Roads has proven that the rail and
telegraph, and the facilities thereby provided
furnish the only sure means Of intercepting and
Furnishing the hostile Indians, and unmistakably
indicate the adoption OF the same Methods 70 pre-
vent constant deprefatiOns in Western leXas,
New Mexico and Arizona. make life and proper
ty secure, and establish there the same law
and order that prevail along the present Pacific
lines.
4. As a measure Of practical economy: Be-
cause, as already shown by the experience Of the
present Pacihc Roads, the expense Of maintaining
military establishment for the protection. OF the
southern territory against Indian depredatiOns
Governments 70 transport troops and supplies at
one. fifth of the present cost; and second, by en-
abling it to dispense with the services of two
thirds Of the present fotce through me facilities
troops, and thereby save from 81 .000, ,tO0tO tl0,
OOO COO per annum, and at the same time provide
more efficiently and economically for the care
and maintenance OF me Indian tlioes VINO are
under the charge Of the Government.
5. As a commercial necessity to the II 600 .00O
of people inhabiting belt Of country from 400 to
200 miles in width, and stretching along the en-