National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1878-03-25
The Anii-Subsidy Agitation.

The reaction against the proposed grants
Of pccuniary subsidies has set in. As might
have been forcseen, the bare hope of success
for the Texas Pacific Railroad has started
up brood of similar schemes, all of them
clamorinG for aid from the Treasury, and
many Of them equally deserving, or, TO
speak more exactly, no more undeserving
than that enterprise. As the session adj
vanccs the sophstrics of the lobby lists are
exposed, and with the approach of the NOM
mating conventions the sense of RESPONSE
bilty to their constituents increases among
the members. 1t is apparent also that
there is a detection from the Texas Pacific
ranks, even in its greatest strongholds No
part of the south if we except Texas has
been more unanimous and earnestly in favor
of that measure than West Tennessee; but
there are signs that even there there is
falling away. In the Gulf States and cities
there have been mutterings that the Texas
Pacific was in reality Northern road from
which the cotton States could not expect TO
derive any advantage, on the supposition
that st. Louis was to become the eastern
terminus of the Southern Pacific route.
This suspicion is confirmed by the shape
the bill has taken in committee, and the
charge is now commonly and openly made
in southern papers that SORTS anxiety for
his own road has rendered him oblivious to
those who have thus far stood by him.
From among others we select the follow
ing significant utterances from a late issue
Of the Memphis Ippcai, Us an index Of the
reaction at the South:
II is manifest from this that Colonel SCoTT
has abandoned his Memphis and New Orleans
as well NJ 81. Louis allies now that they have
helped him to put his project before the poo
pie with the greatest show of strength. After
the legislatures Of the Southern States have
given their Endorsement to this Texas Pacific
plan, above nll Others, SCOTT proposes 10 go
it alone" without so much rs an expression of
gratitude Those who were inside have all
along sHid that all he wanted was help to get
his own road aided, when the branch roads
would be sacrificed. This last move confirms
The su-p irun. lie is now willing to abandon
his friends and helpers to get the coveted sub
sidv. 1t Is true he proposes tho appointment
of five commissioners to locate the eastern
terminus of the road not further north than
Memphis, and thus makes a display of fair
ness 10 catch the unthinking and unwary
/
Memphis when they find ont that, by the
mst loco,o ro,d on or ,.. rnn
parallel, and cannot, under any circumstances,
20 t" the thirty-ilith, on which Memphis is
Wo, od. tho ranS . 4. 'r.a" Jhs 'Saa t
ter To- have tho completion of the road nost.
poncd for many years than to have such a one
as We do not want-One that would rob US of
Tcvos pacific ia crystalli,ing and corccntr,t.
ing, and, fortunately, it is taking that shape
which is likely to help Memphis to redress
| her grievances.
Hv a I,,rr issue we notica n norulorr,o.s-
u,
meeting ~ C""c" 10 P'o''S' against ''c pas
sage of any hill which does not definitely
and unmi,takably fix Mcmphis rs one of
a., ,t.;.;; ;; ri :
'He ''A'''a'PPi 'ct"ilh'' ihe 'oihihIS7ioii
device Will not satisfy either New Orleans
or Nemphis and of course without thc
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. these cities no subsidy measure can pass
In fact nothing less than a solid South and
, l;iIoa No,l o,,II ,,,nio j., ,,,., 1. l.;
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w" 'h"e OF 'he popular Preluu'ce on tha'
subject.
The Northwest il nrotestino earnestly
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getting to he understood that the thirty
, ! ,.rnnl uaTallel road can he sI,cediIy cnouVh
I,,n, ,,iun,t .ul,-iIv NJ ali ,rh1 Chio'1,,
DuiI' "''"ouV "' "'' Inv o"'''s'
Irb"he' when ever Keeps NlGllaht eye on
Jobs and iObbcrs, makes the following com.
rort -, thc roceutlv-issu.1 miror;ty ro.
n
. poriS oil inc House l"cihc i'ali'o"" Com
mittcc, which had the Texas Pacific meas
IRE under consideration;
go
lhc minority report piIl 7" r'v"St all the
Immigrant west oil inc hi0 'Famde IN the Coy
eminent, 10 siSs lne southern racine me f'gh'
m"y |" AMI T" yar ' ronti I m a. 'mn "I