The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-04-25

Therefore if San Francisco vrould he IN. nofn. IN
i H1lcl an business would converge-the focus Of
shores-the Southern Pacific branch OFFERS "a ANS
imagined Central and Southern combination ths
earnings Of at least 500 miles of road i, s
on the Central Pacific. Which branch 3hen vviIi
this supposed combination most naturally enploy7
ImpelIed by its interests, its own inyestmenfs
and connections what section of the country will *
seek to develop? Is it not apparent that whatever
may have been its previous purposes, by virtue Of
the proposed extension of it's line, it is at oncs
converted into essentially Southern road? It is
ends of the Middle and Southern routes it viii
blockade both until its exactions complied with,
coAfers upon Congress far greater powers of con-
troll over the Southern Pacific than are contained in
the bill reported by The majority, and so kong as
the people are so disposed they can protect them
selves by the same methods which must be resorted
to in order to secure performance of their obiga-
lions Oy the Texas and Pacific company, and with
no greater powers Of resistance the part Of the
than the other except that the restrictions in
the organic law OF the Southern Pacific are the
more stringent and explicit. Again for what bust
ness will this supposed competition srise7 The
Southern road should be built to benefit the South-
States Do these States expect that the Central
and Union Pacific can or ever Will compete with q
Southern road for the conmerce of the Southern
States? The Middle and Southern line might in
deed compete for business in the latitude Of New
York ana Philadelphia, but the PennsyIyania Cen
trail Railroad and its SO 20 miles of trunk and west
ern connections does not through the South
Atlantic, the Gulf and Southwestern States any
more than does the Union Pacific and its easterly
extensions via Chicago to New York. Is not this
monster Speaking after the manner of the major
nearer to them, it is yet not OF them and if they
enlarge It's power, they not the surer to become
its victims and to pour forever their tribute into
the lap of Middle Atlantic States7 win not the
Southern business, II It has a fair chance go over
runs iJ2 Can that business ever be forced north
erly to Omaha? Coming from the occident how
can transportation climb the Sierras via that city to
be distributed IN Georgia and Florida and South
Carolina when there is communication along the
thirty-secoud parallel? How, then, can there
be any competition by the Union and Central Paci-
fc for the business of these Southern States7
1t is also worthy of notice that in the last Con
gress the Texas and Pacific company entered into
an arrangement with the Southern Pacific by which
the former to build and own Essterly, and the
latter to build and own Westerly, meeting at the
Rio Grande Is there then, either sense or SINGER
ity in this praise OF competition and denuncation Of
combination-sIl for the public good7
The truth is that a subsidy is of more conse-
QUence than the railroad TO those who ask for it,
While to those who viii have to pay for both, the
railroad is the principal thing.
WILL THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY BUILD
THE ROAD?
We submit that it will work great wrong to the
Southern Pacific Railroad corporation, to the great
South and Southwest, and TO the whole country to
reject this bill and to enact the bill recommended
by Jority of the committee in the interest Of
the Texas and Pacific company, to reject this
bill under any circumstances. This measure does
not antagonize, nor did the Southern Pacific Rail-
road antagonize before US any railroad project,
branch, connection East of the Rio Grande.
1t simply asks t. build 6OJ miles of railroad half
way from the Colorado to Fort Worth the present
Westerly terminus OF the Texas and Pacific COM
pany and ninety additional miles in California to
complete the San Diego connection, without any
public aid and subject to all reasonable restrictions
in ihe public interest. True, it desires the land
grant but do not recommend 1t, because we be-
Geve that this corporation will build the road with
out.
Should the representatives of that portion of the
country chiefly to be benefited, not by the subsidy
but by the road defeat this measure it is difficult
rest of the country to consent to burden the tax
payer and embarass our policy with the most dan
gerous precedent, which would exhaust the Treas
ury with hundreds of subsidies throughout the IN
limited future of the nation
would seem impossible for any man to justify
himself to his constituency and to his country at
large in course which depletes the Treasury when
the people.
VIEWS. OF MESSRS. LUTTRELL AND BLAIR.
Both the act and its amendments required as q
condition precedent that the work should be prose
termini. BY the act of 1872 there required to
be completed not less than 500 miles the main
line in Texas and not less than 10 miles in Cafor
MIA by May q 1873, Whereas in fact, less than 200
miles of the main line have been completed Wester-
mile even q foot, from San Diego Easterly.
There has been marked failure on the part of the
company to comply with the terms on which the
lands and franchises granted. This contingency
of failure was, by the caution of Congress- foreseen
and provided for in both Acts, by proviso that
{" Upon failure to complete it, Congress may
adopt such measures as 1t may deem necessary and
proper to secure its speedy completion"
In this attitude of affairs it represents that It
would be great hardship to be compelled to wait
ing road from the East and asks of us the privilege
of gOntinuing its road Eastward through the Terri
tories to the Rio Grande and as much farther as
might be necessary to meet the Texas roads within
six years. Such is the desire for outlet to the
East, VII Gu sh II admtit to participation in through
overland traffic that it offers that if its request be
granted to construct line to San Diego Harbor in
addition present termini and to prorate
on through business with all Eastern connections
to san Francisco other points, and to allow Con-
gTess Impose the rates and fares on the line be
tween it's Eastern and Western termini at Pacific
por s although asking no aid of the United States
which 1t II not its advantage for Congress to grant
Tus Is rather more than 1t Is within the power OF
the Other company to offer. No gnoi aud satsfac-
tory re4sO4 is found why this proposition should
be uDUlv aud cheeriuliy accepted
FROM BUSINESS STANDPOINT.
Two propositions before us looking to that
end One of them, the Texas and Pacific, seeks to
retain ia grant from he TTuifa6. 9faFas