The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-01-18
SCOTT TO SURRENDER THE
DOTykEN or TEXAS.

I
We have 10 alliances with any man
OF set OF men AMI are connected with
no railway ring, and the HeraH should
know that until it Is announced that
proper provisions have been made
We have NOT yet seen the full text Of
the pcnIiIg Pacific railway bill-for
branches % New Orleans, Eicksburg
and Ga-vos.on, the STATESMAN Is as
hostile to Huntington as to Scott.
Huntington, however, until he joined
Scott, proposed to build Southern
road as Scott proposed to build a
Nyrthera road and therefore our adhe-
sion to the one and hostility to the
other. They were either idiots or
kugyes who asserted the compatibility
Of q newspaper because it sought and
has succeeded, We believe, in doing the
State, in this behalf, some service
Those amendments, affecting New Or
leans and Eicksburg and Memphis,
wcrc most slowly and unwillingly
made and even now, if Col. Schleicher
10 not watch the bill, it will be so con-
stTuctcd that these branches" will not
be built for twenty years. Scott would
rather 60 to the penitentiary for ten
years than have "a road through Vicks-
burg or Memphis constitute part of the
trunk line from San Francisco or San
Diego to New York. Mr.. Scott pre-
fcrs to serve nLa;.l.2dc!2hia and the
/ Pennsylvania Central and the st. Louis
Bridge Company at SO, 600 per annum
aud therefore is not unwilling to rob
Texas and perpetuatc the poverty OF
| Southern States and cities. We arc
only amazed that there are newspapers
ia the South which would cooperate
with Scott and absolutely assented to
his plans even when these involved the
| construction Of no road across Arkan-
sas or across Louisiana. 1t will be OBJ,
served that the predictions of the
STATESMAN are already verified and
the Texas and p ,ciic" O-called-its
trunk l!ne-is TO be made direct from
| 5. Louis and Ninita to a point on the
one hundred and fourth meridian
northwest Of Fort Worth. The design
Of Mr.. Scott is thus confessed. Ht
| proposes 1T last to construct simple
Extension of the Pennsylvania
/ Central to the P4citic coast.
Congress, constituted mainly of North
crn men, is vcstel, hy the pending bill,
with the power to regulate rates o!
freight. Texas is thus deprived of thi,
exp cssci reservation of power to con
troll rates on roads that excepted land
| grants from the State. Suppose Con,
grtss give Scott the bonds required tC
build the IOId, and he accept with this
condition, that Congress regulate
freight and passenger rates. Scott &C
ceptcd the domaIn of Texas with the
conii,i,n thor Tcxos sbor,d reorIo+,
these rates. Il Congress deprive Texas
Of the read and of the right to regu
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.nl s.,tt assent T.x,s i re,aasel
from her part of the contract and the
l,nd of T,y.s rov.r,s to ,ha common
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absolutely, 5o,,.,ros Tovas Of tic ,rore,
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1t twill be observed that in the bill
as sent abroad by telegraph not only i
the road removed from Texas anC
,nado stroi.,n. f.o,, ,-iDi,o - tlo on,
''''' ','"'7 ''' ''''-' INV" ~ 'no "ii'
hundred and fourth parallel OF longi
tude, but there is no time fixed for thC