The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-01-26
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& The cheerful Indications n regard 70 tho
adoption by both houaesp % theEplan ot;thc
ioint committee FOR tl,s settlement Oh tne
presidential question, and the good fellow
shin which It has producedin Congress and
In the country generally, make a goide dal
opportunity for Legislative action upon q
bin promising more substantial good 70 tine
South, and TO Virginia especially, than any
an,, all. others now pending before the Ma
tional Legislature. We mean the proposed
new southern trans continental raisroad l.
This bin comes before Congress ana ma the
country now, liz a form so advantageous ana
satisfactory to all sections and interests that
we do not see q peg to hang on objection
upon. Especially to- every portion OF the the
southern States has 1t been made SO attrac-
tive that we cannot anticipate opposition to
the Government aid asked by any southern
the y Forty-sour$h Con-
gress. sati't ~ S'..''' '''.''t' :
Indeed, since the iudicio,rs and equitable
compromise between the I" Texas Pacific
and usouthern, Paci6c!"'i companies, there
seems to be no just ground for. cavitat Its
provisions, or opposition to the aid asked,
from any, section Of the country. We DO
not propose to. elaborate this subject in this
article. We only propose tog give an epiton,e
or abstract Of this bill, which met favor at the
hands OF majority Of a committee OF thir-
teen "on Pacific railroads, F" OF which Mr.
LAMAR is. the chairman. Sufficeiit to- says
that the differences between the Southern
Pacific and the Texas Pacific tthe scoTTaud
HUNTINGTON partles) have been wholly re-
conciled on q fair basis, Mr.. HUNTINGTON,
on the part OF the Southern Pacific Com
pany, having fully accepted the provisions
and limitations OF the Texas Pacific bill, in
troduced by Mr.. ATKINS, of Tennessee
namely, that "hiSc ne,o Pacific. ra'l'0ay
!" shall alacays remain an open hsghaoay,
/" subject to the control Of CongreSs'!#
The bill introduced by Mr.1LAMAR pro
vides for the construction OF a Union line
from Fort Worth, the present aoeste'n ter
minus (making nearly FIVE hundred miles
OF completed road in good running and
good payi,,g order) Of the Texas and Pa
cific road vic El Paso to San Diego, Call
fornia. That portion OF the line lying be-
tween Fort Worth and a point one hun
dred miles west OF Ell Paso is to be con-
structed by the Texas and Pacific company,
and from that point TO San Diego by the
Southern Pacific Company.
Now, we call especial attention Of such
OF our readers as may have, beer, laborins
under the dclusion that. this was not gen
uine southern road to the following proVi-
sions Of this bill: ..@' s.o' IL .'s'.-'t sd.
1st. A branch from Shreveport or Mar
shall to New Orleans. ra.s, -,:s.... -. -' ..
Cd. One from Jefferson, Texas, to Mem
phis. .. ,... -, .....a...... .....s. ...r.. ~.
Sd. From Shreveport to Vicksburg.
4th. One from Venita, in the Indian Ter
ritory, to- intersect the Texas Pacific at
some point east Of the 1885 meridian.
Is this sufficiently southern? There is
not southern State or a southern city
which will not be directly embraced in the
benefits that are to flow from the compile.
ton Of this grand trans-continental line OF
railway to the Pacific; but it Is remarks.
bic and gratifying fact that Virginia, under
this bill, will furnish two inevitable eastern
termini for the trade Of this great highway
from the +Pacifc--to wit, her metropolis,
Richmond from. VicksbUrg, and her great
seaport, Norfolk from Memphis! -. >.
Assuming and believing that every repre-.
sentative IN Congress, from Virginia al
least, will readily support bill comforting
such benefits upon the old Commonwealth
bill whose beneicent provisions have
been recommended by one Of the larges,
conventions ever held in the United States
where thirty-one States were represented
by intelligent delegations-and; Virginia's
second to none Of tbem-and bill which
every Board of Trade and Chamber Of Com
lnerce in every southern city passed re
solutions J; in favor Of, we conclude
by commencing. the present as tht
most suspicious moment for action by
calling up and passing this measure with
out further delay. A little practical Iegis
| luLkOuy luS Will IL suCu SuUStuIiIlu
benefits, would tighten and brighten UP
their poor, struggling constituencies, revive
our paralyzed industries, stimulate bushes:
interests throughout our once beautiful and
productive but now stricken and desolated
land. The Southern Pacific line would be
the browning work Of benefcence towards
the South, and would do great deal to
establish complete equality with other sec.
tons. The Southern Pacific line would
protect the trans-continental commerce from
the Fighting and retarding influence of a
powerful monopoly, and it would shield
liberty itself from corporation whose
power would imperil the rights as well as
the interests Of the American people.
What do the foolish New York Times
and Tribune think OF themselves now !
Both Of the New York senator's voted for