The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1878-06-01

struck the western portion of Brown
county. Three reported killed.
Congressional.
WASHINGTON. May 2i.-Mr Elan, of
Louisiana, from the committee on Pa
ciiic Railroads, reported bill repeal
ing section - of the act incorporating
the Texas and Pacific Railroad com
pany, declaring forfeited the rights,
privileges and lands granted under
that section to the New Orleans, Baton
Rouge and Nicksburg Railroad compa
ny, and re-enacting that section in ia
yOr of the New Orleans and Pacific
railroad Printed and recomnltted
The pending bill allowing the east
ern band of Cherokces to sue in the
court of Claims for their share OF the
Cherokee fund, involves the distrihu-
ton of from sG00,O0O to Sl,OO0.0OO
among some eighteen hundred Chero-
KEGS, located III North Carolina, The
government holds some five million
dollars belonging to the Cherokee ma
ton, the bulk of which are located in
the Indian territory. Tho eastern
| band refused to go to the Indian terri
tory, and those who moved claimed
that those who remained forfeited their
right to the tribal property.
WAsuISGroN, May Ex-senator
Johnston, of Virginin, delivered an ar
gument this morning before the senate
committee on Railroads on the bill in
troduced 10y him on the Cd inst, grant
ing aid to extend the Texas aud Pncif-
ic and Galveston. Harrisburg and San
Antonio lines to FL paso, there to con-
meet with the southern Pacific road.
| already completed to the Colorado riv-
er; also in aid of connecting roads
| from FL pasO east to New Orleans,
| Nick-burg and Memphis, and proyd-
ing that each of said roads shall pro-
rate, and be subject to government
control and operated as n through con-
tinuous line. The senator advocated
this measure rs one designed to secure
the only true southern line between
the Pacific ocean and the lower Missis-
sippi and the Gulf of Mexico He
claimed that by the grant of ! II 900, 600
provided for 10y this bill 500 miles more
of road would be constructed than
with the SIS .000OO asked for by the
Texas and Pacific company He fur.
tber said that the Texas aud Pacific
company having failed to build sin
Gle mile of road on the Pacific coast,
and not the amount required by its
charter on the eastern end, had for
feited its land grant, aud had clearly
placed in the power ofcongresS to take
such action M II may deem proper to
a.
road, and tho southern Pacific compn-
ny now proposes to extend to III Paso
without moneyed subsidy. He be-
llcvel the time had arrived to secure
the construction of the Southern
TrnnscOntinental line for the least
money and in the shortest possible
time.
WAsHGNGroN, May %. Senator La
mar replied briefly to Senator John
ston's address before the senate Rail.
road committee yesterday. lie could
not see that, because the Texas and
Pacific needed government aid to build
$4,000 miles of road through an min
lmhited region, therefore it could not
build without ias was charged it could
nOt) the short link of 100 miles be-
tween Shreveport and the Mississippi.
| That link, through rich and pOpulons
country, would be built Mt once, and
be n fortunate Investment, but it would
not promote the building of the great
transcontinental highway connecting
the Pacific and Atlantic oceans ON a
southern latitude The senator adj
mitted that last year he had promoted
a compromise bill, intended to inco--
porate the Southern and Texas Pacific
companies, in order to get rid of the
opposition of the Central Pacific.
which was determined to preYont the
control by any company not in their
own interest of the western terminus.
but discovering then what the senator
from Virginia will discover now that
all such attempts led only to the OBJ
structiOn and indefinite pOstponement
of the great end sought, he has aban-
doned them. The Johnston bill pro-
poses, he said, u direct contribution by
the government of 100000, 900 in
greenbacks. The Texas Pacific asks
not dollar of money from the public
treasury. The difference therefore in
the expense 10 the government is MS
between twenty millions and nothing
IN favor of the Texas and Pacific.
Senator Lamar claimed that there had
been no forfeiture of the rights of the
Texas and Pacific company.