Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1875-02-16
DEFEAT or THR TEXAS rAciFi'
R~AIIROAD BILL

RAILROAD hill
News comes over the wires from
Washington that the Texas Paeihe Hail
road CTom Scottish bill is defeated; that
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report against ID. and that Senator Stow
art Tour william) having made . n
,ass Of the Senate finds thirty-hvs nom
bers opposed to voting any subsidies
whatever, and therefore he sees no use
Of reporting tho bill. We are glad that
Mr.. Stewart found this state Of opinion
existing In the senats. Doubtless so
also is Vim. n. Stewart, roputed attor-
ney for tho Central Pacific Railroad.
which company has done oil In Its
power to defeat this bill. But our rea-
sons for being pleased at the defeat OF
this and all subsidy measures. differ ma
terially from those Of Hon, Mr.. Stewart
and the company ho represents. Both
hs and his employers rejoice not be-
cause tho passage Of tho bill in question
involved a forfeiture Of principle and an
abandonment Of pledges made by the
Republican party regarding subsidies,
but because the completion Of the Texas
PaeiAc Rsilrsad would have created a
formidable rival in the overland carry
ing trade and forced tho Central Pacific
Railroad TO act with some degree OF
fairness toward the citizens ON the line
Of its road away from tide water. The
defeat OF this bill secures to tho Central
Pacific an existing monopoly which the
construction Of the Southern road
threatened to destroy. Hence the OPP
position OF that company and its agents
TO tha bill and tho pleasure OF Mr.. Stew
art at its defeat.
Al va have said. there RAJ no ques-
ton Of principle involved in the opposi-
ton to this bill from the parties We have
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have any record a. opposed to subsidies.
On the contrary. they have boon fore
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mand. to defeat this, foremost OF all th'
subsidy bills placed before Congress dur
ing the present session. Lying oehind
this bill OF Scott's. apd only awaiting
favorable action thereon. were dozen
others, OF more or less merit. TO each o.
which n subsidy was attached. These
bills proposed grants Of credit. bonds,
and lands in the aggregate amounting tS
over four hundred millions Of dollars,
and hal the entering wedge in the shnp'
Of the Texas Pacific bill succeeded in
opening q WY. Congress would have
been overwhelmed with an array Of sub
sidyu seekers exceeding all those bcsieg'
ing former Congresses.
The practice and policy OF subsidy
voting were fiaily rePudiafed in nearly
every Republican and Democratic plat
form last yoar' Both parties We'd IN
dsnouneing the wi M promising the
people that 10 should nos longer exist
Yet We nnd Thai In many instances these
pledges have boon disrssarded' and the
promise OF party platforms treated mol
~ enunciahons Oh eon'ieuon' OF primer
pie Oh party doctrine ou' as traps 'o
csaen Asses 'ot a,ss
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vinced uai Pledges maze oy parry Pis''
forms should DO kept %inyiolats; thai
principlss enunciated therein should b,
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Viduaiiy n'aac' "heh party ieP'esen
taiivcs In convention assembled, put
forth certain doctrines as declarations Of
marty nr;ncipls. utter distinct pledges
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candidates Tor once before Sueh
conventions accept the platform.
ana ,.tifv tho pl.dccs therein
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distinctly bound to Keep their promises
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