The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-05-13
pACIrIc RAILWAYS.

The letter Of Major Frank 5. Bond,
yice-presidcnt of the IoNas and Pacilio
Railway Company to Mr. Lamar, char
man of the Committee on Pacific Rail
roads, respecting the protests Of the
Southern Pacific Railroad Company
against granting mn extension of time to
the Texas and Pacific, Is II wei wordcd,
plain aud iorciblc argument, After re-
mting the statements contained in these
protests written by Mcssrs Huntington
and brown, and conclusiyely demon
strating the necessity OLA further grant
of time, Major Bond says
"The fact Is, these Central and South
crn Pacific Railroad people are simply
obstructionists. They do not want
another through line to the Pacific so
long ~ IL can be avoided, even If they
can control the California end and ter.
ninal facilities on the Pacific coast and
an independent through line to the Pa
ciiic they mean TO prevent, so long rs II
can be done by the lavish use OF the
money and influence of the Central Pa
clhc Railroad Company, and its conbi-
nations-.-l combination that has been
built up by government subsidies local
and national, and that isnow the rocip.
lent of government bounty to the cX.
tent of nearly $4,000 daily from the
public treasury, in the form ofintercst ON
government bonds loaned to aid IN It's
construction, which ii denies the right
of the Government to collect for thirty
years and it is now proposing to liqu-
date the Central Pacific Railroad Com
panys proportion of this Indebtedness
by selling 10 the Government, At the
rate of ~ 80 per acre, about eight and
one-half million acres of its worthless
lands in Nevada and Utah, originally
donated by the Government, the inter.
est upon such gross amount, upwards OF
twenty.onc millions Of dollars, to be
compounded halfycarly with n small
annual cash payment added until the
principal of the debt, with simple inter,
est added, is extinguishcd, which would
be practically an absolute release of the
Government lien without consideration,
The Central and Southern Pacific
Railroads are rivetmg the chains Of an
almost imperial monopoly upon Colitor'
mia, and now bend their energies to the
task of striking down any line that may
interfere with their.exclusivc control Of
of transcontinental facilities for travel
and transportation. These two ggan.
tic monopolies are the enemies ofTcXas
and other Southern States, and would
forever debar them from building an in
dependent route from the Mississippi to
the Pacific ocean Their proposition to
construct II Southern Pacific rond is
but II sham, and pretonsc,
and only designed to overthrow
all efforts at opening a free line on the
thirty-second parallel, They hurt Texas
beyond all computation and would,
were they powerful enough to do so,plOcc
her mntchlcss domain without the pale
of the civilang influences Of tclcgraphs
and railways, and annihilate her pros
pectivo direct trade with China and
Japan,
We have strong delegation from
Texas in Congress, and we feel that they
will not permit the interests of Texas to
be sacrificed to the rapacity of any for
eign railway corporation, or to any
scheme that Huntington or Brown or
any other party, mimical to Texas, may
concoct