Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-04-19
clerks in the Treasury Department

clerks in the Treasury Department
and for other purposes.
Oliver moved to concur In the
Senate amendment appropriating
$40, 900 for railroad postal clerks.
Defeated, yeas 116, nays 1875. The
report of the Committee was then
agreed to and q new conference
with the Senate asked for.
AS soon as the conference report
was disposed of the Speaker an
nounced that the regular order was
the Senate adjournment resolution
and the pending question was a
motion to reconsider the vote by
which the House yesterday refused
to refer the resolution to the Com
mittee on Ways and Means.
The House refused to lay the
motion to reconsider on the table.
Yeas ia, nays 124.
Pending action Ellis called up
the resolution in regard to the
death of Representative Leonard, of
Louisiana.
Eulogies on the deceased were de-
livered by Ellis, Ward, Calkins,
Kenna, Covert, Rainey, White, of
Pennsylvania, and Dunnell ana
the House adjourned.
The Texas and raciGc-GOvernOr
brown Before the Judiciary
Committee.
WASHINGTON, April 1Sth.-Gov-
ernor John &, Brown, Vice-Presi-
dent of the Texas and Pacific Rail-
way Company, appeared before the
Judiciary Committee of the House
yesterday in defense of that COM
pany's right to mortgage its prop
erty between Fort Worth and Ell
Paso as an indemnity to the gov
eminent for its proposed aid in Sc
curing the completion of the road
to the Pacific. Campbell, attorney
for the French holders of the bonds
of the Memphis, Ell Paso and Pa
cific Railroad, had alleged that the
charter of that company is still UNI
impaired and covers the line from
Fort Worth to Ell Paso, as we'll as a
considerable portion of that already
constructed. He further alleged
that the foreclosure proceedings
against that road were fraudulent,
and that any extension of the
Texas and Pacific beyond Fort
Worth must be made under the
charter of the Memphis and Ell
Paso Company. Gov. Brown pro-
duced legislative records as proofs
to show that the Texas and Pacific
franchises were derived directly
from the State of Texas and that
the Texas and Pacific acquired the
full and complete title and right to
construct by purchasing the prop.
erty and franchises of the South
ern Pacific Railroad Company, a
corporation created by the State OF
Texas four years before that of the
Memphis and Ell Paso was ac-
quired. This purchase was author
lied by the Texas Legislature and
subsequently confirmed to the
Texas and Pacific Company, which
also purchased the franchise of the
Southern Transcontinental, an
other Texas corporation, which au-
thorized them to build road west
from Texarkana to Ell Paso. He
read from the record to prove that,
subsequent to these purchases, the
Texas Legislature, by its act OF
May, 1875, confirmed this purchase
and transfer of franchises and di.
rectly authorized the Texas and
Pacific to maintain the road now in
operation and construct a line from
Fort Worth to Ell Paso. Under
this act the company built 424
miles of road, which was accepted
by the State government and land
certificates were issued in accord
ance with the act of the Legisla.
/ ture. He read from the fourth an
, nual report Of the Texas and Pacific
t giving full account of the prop
r erty acquired and showing that the
, company had made the purchase
from the Memphis and El Paso to
remove any doubt about its title to
the sixteen mile reservation-not
its land grant-which the Legisla-
ture had declared forfeited by the
Memphis and Ell Paso and had
granted to the Texas and Pacific.
, The Supreme Court of the United
States, however, had decided that
the claim to this reservation by the
Memphis and Ell Paso to be void.
i He claimed further that the Texas
| and Pacific paid to the Memphis
J and Ell Paso the full value of the
/ property acquired from that com.
| pany; further, that the Texas and
, Pacific derived no real advantage
from the franchise of the Memphis
and Ell Paso. Gov. Brown charged
, that the opening Of these old mat
r tiers already settled was merely to
injure the credit Of the Texas and
! Pacific and delay action on the
pending bill, and that such delay
could not tie to the interest OF
CampbelPs clients.
Fionr, Wheat and WOOL.
NEW YORK, April 1Sth.-Flour
steady and unchanged. Wheat
opened higher, but on receipt of ca
BILE news the market became dull,
closing weak. Wool shows no sign
of improvement. There has been
an ATTAIN Mt rpppntlv IN inf1aa m ora