The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-12-14
Of the Richmond Dispatch.l

The Convention gave much attention tot the
Teyas-Pacit;c railway, and showed the deep
est interest in that vitality important enter
prise. General BUSSEY, in his ,nteillgent
Speech engineering" the opening OF the
session, struck the keynote OF the occasion
in explaining the Importance TO the nation
O. the two great objects OF improving the
Mississippi and building the TeNas-pacinc
railway rs competing line with that OF the
Central and Union Proficiency become an
odious monopoly, whose eXorDltant eng
tons, at present intolcrable, lndlcate the
greater oppression and tyranny that 1t
would exercise if it shall acquire entire
control OF transcontinental travel and trans
portation.
The TEXAS-pACIFIC RAILWAY
was contideG to an able committee ut the
commencement OF business. That commit
tee heard arguments from MI. BOND, an
officer of the TeXas-Pacitic Company. and
from ex-senator NORWOOD, OF Georgia.
counsel employed by the Union Central
Railroad Company. Mr.. NORWOOD has 4
right 10 make such disposition OF his tai
ents as he chooses; but to me it seemed
matter for regret that man in the South
who had filed n very high public trust
should be laboring in manner that, II sue
ccssiul, would help to establish monopoly
the most gigantic in the world: monopoly
OF the entire transcontinental commerce or
the American Union. BONDS argument was
exhaustive and unanswcrabe.
THE COMMITTEES REPORT.
The result OF the consideration OF the
subject in committee was Il unanimous re-
BORT from that committee warmly support
ing the Texas Pacific railway and strongly
commenting the bill now before the United
States Senate to amend "the act to incorpo-
rate the reyas-Pacitic Railroad Company
and 10 aid IN the construction OF lis road
and for other purposes" The committee
was one OF weight from its ability and high
standing. Judge kENSARD, OF Louisiana,
was its chairman. Its report, We say, was
unanimously adopted in committee, and
was received by the Convention with evil
dent satisfaction.
ANTANGONIZED BY FEW TEXANS.
Upon being brought up it was opposed
by Texas delegates, who were partisans
OF the Union Central railway, from Omaha
to San Francisco. 1t Is known by our read
ers that this line-the only one now CON-
plcted 10 the Pacific COASTS endeavoring
to get the inside track from the TeXas-Pa-
cite line by occupying its southern latitude
with road styled Southern Pacific" that,
commencing mt San Francisco, follows the
Valley OF the San Joaquin, and strikes the
line CT the Texas-Pacitic road at Fort Y una,
in California, near the southern boundary
of that State. From that point the Union
Central Company is seeking authority to
construct Its road eastward: and to invite
cooperation and help ia Texas and in some
localities, it has made oyertures and is dis
tributng "iaducements" to propitiate
communities and individuals. In this way
the manifestation OF partisanship OF the
Union Central from Galveston may be ac
counted for.
The Texas friends OF the present mo-
nopoly showed good deal of activity and
pressed their views with urgency, while the
Convention was decidedly against them and
very unanimous in the desire for the Texas
Pacific railroad Us 4 competitor with the
monopoly, which has given so fearful an cX-
ample OF its oppressive character that the
whole Valley OF the Mississippi is bitterly
opposed to it. The great body OF represen-
tatlycs from Texas were out-and-out Texas
Pacific railroad men.
THE DISCUSSION.
The discussion became warm, and the
impotence Of the members with the strate-
gies or the few Texans became so impulSiye
that it went beyond the bounds OF propricty
until checked by the prudence OF the Chair.
After that the discussion went On orderly,
and the Texas movements being voted
down, the committees report was adopted
by acclamatlon only the three or four noes
from Texas preventing unanimity.
MR.. UOGAN'S SPEECH.
The admirable speech Of Mr.. HOGAN, OF
st. Louis, swept the little opposition from
Texas like down before the wind. He
spoke OF the partisanrv for the Union Cen
trial railway as an animal he knew very well.
He had met it in Washington and in Chi
cago, and there in New Orleans. 1t was the
same everywhere representing the schemes
OF the Union Central monopoly that sought
to prevent the establishment Of the real
southern transcontinental line--the Texas
Pacific, which would become the destroyer
Of the monopoly and the sure protector of
the nation from the most dangerous corpo-
ration that ever existed.
Mr.. HOGAN alluded to the constant decla-
ration OF the partsans OF the Union Central
line that that line only wanted to build its
own line with its own money. Its money !!
when it was using The means it had drawn
from the peoples treasury to accomplish
their injury and oppression. 1t had bor-
from the Federal Treasury and had never
paid back cent-not even interest upon
it-but had resorted to every device to avoid
the payment of anything. 1t was this mo-
aley that the Union Central was now using
10 prevent the construction OF the Texas
Pacific railway. 1t was this money OF the
people that the monopoly was using to the
injury OF the public by deprlplng them OF
that protection that would he secured to
them BY competition.
FEELING OF THE CONVENTION.
Mr.. HoGAN's speech was heartily APP
plauded. 1t only increased the ardor OF
the feeling already in existence. The intel
hgent Convention understood the subject
well. They knew the importance OF the
Texas-Pacilic railway to the Union and
10 The South. They knew tbatsa monop-
oily OF the transcontineHtal travel and
transportation would be the most gigantic
IN the history OF civilization, and they were
unalterably aud indignantly opposed to any
thihg that tended to the perpetnatl0n and
strengthening Of it as it now existed.
SUPERIORITY OF THE TExAs.pAcIFic LINE.
They knew that the Texas-Pacitic line
was superior to any other line for its ply
steal and climatic advantages, and for its
length from the Pacific to the Mississippi,
Delng the shortest by some FIVE hundred
miles. This had been shown by the facts.
The Texas-Paeifc line would not be i'm.
perilled or delayed by frost, its dangers from
short curves and sharp, grades would be
great? less than the Union Central, end Its