Salt River herald., 1878-05-18
An Interesting Letter.

10 tne f1on. J. ". l IhrOckm0rtnn and the Texas Pacific Railroad Company in the following language:
 THRoCKMoRToN's rEcoRn.
 MCKINNEY, April Is.-ED. NEWS My attention has been callrd to an ariiclein the News entitled His Railroad Record. (Throckmortcn's,) signed Chiz n, Jefferson, April l3. In this ar ic!e I fl Id it stated that "the d scussion of rail oads in Texas commenced about the year ISo :,
 nd il;at Thrnckmo. ton, in conncc. ton with other dis siingushed citizens of the State, conceived the plan of appFopriating a number of sections of land to the mile, in aid of general system ot raiirhad.. The discussion "f the SUI ject commenced about the yerr 1852, and th, 1; la. was adopted about the yelr 1851. a;.d stamrel permanently upon the legislation of the State aboat the year 1851. Throckmnrton had been for some time leading member of ihe Legisla' u e, and was chai man of tn. commit on internal mp ov ments in the Hous.." Now, on this l have to Sly that TLruckmorton was fist elected tn the Legislature in 1852, and secondly in 1851, rep r, sen;;ng in said election, in con junction with the undersigned as local and floating representatives, the counties or Collil, Denton, and Cooke and 1 undertake to gay that neither at the sessions of 1852 nor of 1854 was Throckmo ton the chai.- man or any committee. He was then, as now, great Railroad bouus and subsidy man. but never to thu time inspired sufficient confidence with the members of the Legislature to be appointed chairman of any committee. My recollection is that NJ. J. Hall, of Marshall, Harrison county, was chairman of the com mi:tre on railroads at ihe session of 1854. and he and Buck Scott, also of Marshall, were then the leading champions of the Pacific Rail:o ,d b;Il of that session. For that bill Thr"ckmorton voted as a private member of the Legislature, and I, also, as a private rembe-, voted against it, as one of the 'immort .T' thirteen in the House and seven in inc Senate. That bill reserved from settlement either thirty or sixty mil s in with. clear across inc State, for said r.,ilrnod. and required a drpOst of S3O,OOO upon funds with the comprroil,r of Texas, 10 secure the performance of their con tract, and died afterwards of its own rottenness, by the failure to make this deposit as required by law, Governor Peak holding that a Ger tifcate of deposit by Jcpiha Foulkcs of Memphis, Tcnnrs+ee, of what he called par funds was not a com piiance with the law of 1854. Since that time Throckmorton has run the Memphis and Fl Paso and Texas Pacific, and in co junction with others of Ike caiibIe, got money from France through FeImont, the abolition candidate for the Presi- drncy, for the prosecution of their road, under the false pretrnse that their bonds were indorscd by the United States, for which. offense brother-in-liw of Fremont and son iiI-law of Thomas II. Benton, a Fr nrhman by biith. died iL D ison in France. Fremont b i 7 non est inrentuS in srdmpo. TErockmo. ton X Co. are now again trying to get their bonds ind"rsed by the Govern
 mrnt at Washington on 2 mo tsage on the,r lands west of Fort Worth, when II is notorious 10 every man in Texts ilIat west of Fort Worth that whhtev surveys they may have made, they have nos. like tle devil. a folt of land tn give bv their fail ure 10 complete their road in time 10 points designated by the law. Rrtabaga Johmson's resolution in the epnv. ntIon extending the time which has new elapsed, shows th;s to the recollection of every read ing man in Texas, and Morrison the sctull chairman of committee on railroads, in Washington city is now engaged investigating this subject.
 From the above it appears that this job to fec tl:e government out ot nearly S4O,OOO,OOO Cor the benefit of q few individuals is be- ginning to be understood and appre- ci,ted even in Texas. It was a bold effort, but already the death damp is upon it It is but prudent econ