The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-06-21
GOVERNOR TAROCKMORT0A AND the
l" :" wEArnERFORD TIMES.

jealous for the interests of the people
among whom it is published cannot be
questioned but when it's zeal is intern
perate il is apt to become dogmalic and
unjust,
We are disposed to think TINT the
Weatherford Times, in its recent course
toward the worthy representative in
Congress from this district, illustrates
this truth. The gravamen Of It's com
plants is that Governor Throckmortou,
several weeks ago, introduced into Con.
yress bill extending the time for the
construction of the Texas and Pacific
Railway, by which the rond would be
delayed MS its asserts, four years, in
reaching Wcatheriord But by what |
process Of arithmetic il arrives ut this |
conclusion, we cannot imagine, when
the bill expressly provides that the
Company shall build from Sherman, via
Fort Worth, Mt the rate Of fifty miles n
year Now, the distance from Shcr
man to Fort Worth is cighty-four miles,
aud from the latter place to Weather
ford, thirty miles, making total OF
IA miles or but little more than the
distance required to be built IN two
years. But that is not the only mis-
conception of the subject on the part of
our contemporary The grayest of them
all grows Of the idea that Congress, by
this bill assumes the right o.
multiplying or modifying the con
tract between the State of
Texas and the Texas and pncifci
Company by which the latter is bound
10 builda certain number of miles of
railroad, within II certain period OF
time; whereas, it is merely intended,
and could have no other effect than to
define the future relations of the cor
puration to he Government Of the Tinted
States. 70 illustrate our meaning, nc.
rording to the contract between the
State of Texas and the Texas and Pa
ciiic Company, the latter is required to
complete its road to Weathcrford, with.
in one year after the main line reaches
Fort Worth. The penalty of forfeiture, is
the loss of it's land grant. Congress
does not propose in Throckmorton 4
bill, to release the company from this
obligation. In fact, il has no power to
do 80 But the Times would hardly
deny the right Of Congress to say to a
corporations which it has created that
unless you build fifty miles of road
westward from Sherman, pia Fort
Worth, every one Of you shall forfeit
your land grants in Now Mexico, Ari-
iona and California This is just what
the Throckmorton bill proposes, in or
der to remedy the omission in the Con.
gressional charter, Of any penalty lor
noncompliance on the part OF the com
company is required to build fifty
miles Of railroad each year, and that
Congress may adopt such means as
il may deem necessary and propose
to secure its speedy completion I"
But it has never adopted any measures
to enforce compliance with the terms Of
the charter, and there is nothing in its
provisions which, without further legls.
iation, would ipso ttcto work forfeiture
of its grants and franchises. 70 remedy
this omission for the benefit of Hunting.
ton, Morgan Hamilton, who misrepre.
SCENTS Texas in the United States Sen.
alto, early in the present session of Con
gross, struggled into the railroad com.
nittee bill in the interest of the
Southern Pacific Pacific railroad of
California another name for the Cen
tral Pacific, by which the land grants
and franchises of the Texas and Pacific
were to be transferred to the former
and the Texas and Pacific, as corpora.
ton existing by federal authority, would
be literally eXtinguished To prevent
the success of this conspiracy, which no
one with the least common sense can
TAIL to see would be tie indefinite post.
ponement of the hopes of the South for
trans-continental connection with the
Pacific, and of the northwestern por.
ton OF Texas for n railway connection
with the rest of the State, Throckmor.
ton brought forward his bill rs Il counter
proposition, but Hamiltons bill having
been eilectually squelched in the Sen.
ate, we learn, from good authority, that
the other proposition will not be
pressed. In fact, that it has been vir-
tually withdrawn. But even if il should
become II law, II would not delay tho
completion of the main line to Wealth
ertord asingle day. 1t would, however,
prevent the men who now control, in
their selfish interest the most gigantic
monopoly on this continent, and who
are spending millions to defeat and do.
stroy the only company in existence
which threatens TO bring relief to tho
people of the United States against OK.
tortionato eNactions Of tho Huntington
monopoly by the construction Of
competing line to the Pacific, l.
We trust this explanation will con.
vince. our valued contemporary that il
has done Governor Throckmorton in. ,
justice, no doubt unintentionally. |,
through misconception of the facts of
the case, and that it will not be slow to ,
make the dmtnde honorable, since it is al. ,
ways honorable to be lust, f.I