, 1877-01-04
Provisions of the Texas & Pacific
Compromise Bill.
A Contest Over the Central Pacific
Bill in the Senate.
Ex-Assistant District-Attorney Fisher
Convicted and Sentenced,
Coinage Statistics for the First Six
Months Of the Year 1870,



WASHINGTON, d. e., Jau, 3-Tho Sub-Com-
mIttce 10 whom was referred the Texas &
Pacific Railway Oilt holds meeting this eyen-
Ing for tho purpose Of considering the compro-
mise measure submitted by Scott and Hunting
ton parties for tue completion Of The Southern
transrontfnental Inc. The Atkins bill, intro
duced In the House last session, and partially
perfected by tho Comrittcc OH Pacific Rail-
roads, provided for the construction OF that
road by pretty direct route from Fort Worth,
It's present Western terminus, by El Paso to San
Diego. somedoubthas existed whether the route
proposed between Fort Yuma OF Colorado River
and San Diego WAS a practicable one
or not, aud tho Texas Il Pacific Company
had caused to bo examined two other routes,
one extending through Lower California, aud
one one. lsadnE In = nor!hwe.terly direction from
snuthwcsseriy 70 Ban Dicqo.. Tho Southern
Paeiac Railway Company Of California, which
has been constructing. aroad from snn Francisco
San ,Gorgc1rte. Pass, was of courtc opposed 70
any line which sho,id BE- parallel With It, and
therefore cunpesltoFof IT,. h compromise has
now been effected between these two interests
rssiae Read .l.ii r'' T. ss' -. s baiIs
e poin. in New Mexico, TOO mites west 81 tho
Rio trande, at Et Paso:. The Southern Pacific
essiern tcr'nlous Indian Wells, 10 Fort Yams,
Ss Te1ss Psede " il s also io ps3' baiid " sraae aef
from San Gorgonia Pass soutbwcstcrly to San
ba .e &c ss .as ss a,e '9s pfsfa 'sS M s ss
Texas 1: Pacific In the Atkins 6ill. The South
ern racl1c Ia 10 construct the unfinished por-
tihn Of the line bctwccu San GorEonia Paas
Is 10 receive tho Same subsidy given to tho
Texas & Pacific for that portlnn Of ith 1ine be-
tween San uorgonia Pass and San Diego, aud
between Fort Yuma and the pont Of junction,
forbila oil combinations between the Southern
pacillc and Central Pacific Companies, on palm
Of forfeiture Of tts charter, and requires both
tic Texas 4: Pacific aud tic Southern Pacific
to pro rate, not only With each other, but with
ali other roads mentioned IN tho bt1t, Including
branches, to thc Mississippi River at New Or
leans, Vicksburg, and Memphis, and Atlantic, and
Atlantic & Pacific, which Is to form 1uuctlon;
incurred by tho Texas 4 Pacific or Atlantic d
Pacific Companies under the laws OF any State.
Il is believed that this Dill will b submitted
70 tho tnll Committee M tt on pseias hoTays to.
able report FROM that Committee may be c1-
pcctcd.
TIE CENTRAL rAc1Yic.
It Vas hardly In accordance with Senatorial
etiquette for tho opponents NJ the Central
Branch Railroads. clan L, lnsc their bill called
- ri 'r t'7css it, paasa.sc beforc tho return Of
I.,. 81, who ltns bce1, sliow-bounl, hut they
arc evidently determined to pass tho bif II they
van, and Mr. ingalls, had q hard fight, Will.
A!cssrs, Conkling, Wright, and Edmun.is against
him. He hclI Ills ground, however,, and
showed that there wns no, pressing ne
ccsstty for action upon the btf!. II
any necessity cvcr existed 1t had
lang since passed away. Parties were not here,
neither were they before any Of tie Departments,
asking for relief: The passage Of the nlil was
no longer a matter Of a.'y concern TO Cougrcss
| or anybody else, except tl,o railroad companyt
| and the passage Of IL would be super1uous and
unnecessary - Tslt =. unjust: katl1oal M cs sst;
| the road anil other parties Interested llad ac-
aulfed rights under those acts, and It would be
tho acts under which those rights had been ac-
1ufrcu
sir. Wright replied that there wero es, COZ, 600
| In lands and honda involved Ia The bill, and It
| wna imperativciy necessary that thcrc should be
| immediate action.
Mr. ingalls, wa then forced into tho debste,
and, to save snupt Judgment, l1e called for a
| reading OF a rcpor of twenty printed paRcs on
tho railroad claim, which occupied an hour and 4
| half. Tomorrow thu fight will be resumed.