Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-11-19

their support of the proposed guaranty That
such provision shall he Hade in the bill, will,
no doubt, be The sentiment OF the Memphis
convention, nd the congressman rom Mem
phis, Kentucky and Virginia, especially,
should require that II be done.
THE IMMODESTY AND CHEEK OF ST.
LOUIS.
New York Bulletin.l
No other corporation having thus far made
demand Tor government assistance for
building the proposed railroad, II seems TO be
taken for granted that the Texas and Pacific
is the one, and the only one whose claims TO
that position are to be considered; though IL
Is hard 10 where its peculiar fitness for
the undertaking is found, upless its great
burden of over twenty millions of defauitet
bonds and floating debt constitute good
claim, in which case there is peculiar pro
priety in coupling with 1t the Atlantic and
Pacific branch. So far as the st Louis con-
vention is concerned, therefore, II is all
settled as TO the ownership OF the second line
across the continent; but there remain to be
settled some subordinate questions as TO the
terminus OF the main line, and the extent OF
the participation OF the several branches.
New Orleans, Memphis and 1T. Louis have
each laid claim 10 the main terminus; besides
which, Galveston, Nicksburg and Cairo have
asked for branch connections. The contest
Just now seems to be bet Eeen st. Louis and
Memphis, with the odds in favor of the former.
In TACT, il is obvious that, If the overland
southern road is to be built by the Texas and
the Atlantic and Pacific companies, eve~y
consideration of fself-interest and vested rights
would leaG TO the selection of st. Louis as the
MISSISSIPPI terminus, ana, Is we nave before
shown, would result in making of ii another
mol tnern line, and not Southern Pacific rail-
70 ID at all. Everything in the wsy OF trafflc,
whether destined IOr southern or northern
cities, which could be kept on the route to st.
Louis or Philadelphia would be SO kept, to
the exclusion OF the southern tiers of lines.
Ordinarily, when governme mt is asked to fur
nish the bulk of the means to build railroads,
or, what is the same thing, to guaranty the
borrowings OF others, IL is customary TO leave
to The discretion of the government the loca-
the road NpI hing nf the kind
however, is proposed by the present appli-
cants The immodesty of st. IOnlS'S demand
for six hundred mile line across northern
Texas at government expense, for her special
benefit, when she has already double con-
nection of operated lines to the central part
of Texas, as well as her connections by the
Salt Lake route, seems to have been discerned
by the business men OF her neighbor cities In
the SOUTH for we notice that the Memphis
merchants exchange has invited a convention
of southwestern citizens to consider the same
topic on the nineteenth inStant-four days
earlier than that in st. Louis-to which the
same delegates are being very generally ap-
pointed. Il remains to be seen what may be
the voice of such cities as Memphis, Nash.
Vile, Louisville, Atlanta, Charleston, Savan-
nah, New Orleans, Galveston and their de-
pendencies on this question.
WILL THE ATLANTIC SEABOARD BE
BENEFITED BY SCOTT'S ROAD?
Petersburg (Va.) Index-Appeall
Colonel Thomas Scott seeks extended
ami amended legislation at the bands OF con-
gress in project that has Philadelphia for its
objective point and that cannot prove OF bene
fit to any of the real southern States Missouri
and Kentucky are the only States which are
so politically styled, that could reap any ad-
vantage from the road ar these states alone
are claInOrous for Its construction. But these
States, however southern in sentiment and
politics,sre northern in geographical position,
with reference to any line of railroad desg
mated to link our Atlantic ports with San Di-
ego on the Cali ifornia coasts. We may be as
sured that whatever line is built under such
auspices as those of Mr.. Scott, and though
point so far north as st, Louis, will never be
OF benefit to Virginia or North Carolina, nor
to any other State of the Atlantic border.