The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-02-11
THAT SENATE BILL.
The One That senator Edmunds OBJ
Jeeted To.

The .One That senator Edmunds OBJ
Jected To.
A few days since Senator Teller, from
the committee on railroads, reported
back to the senate a bill granting tie
right of way to the Wyoming, Montana
g. Pacific railroad and telegraph com
pany. The bill provides:
That for the purpose OF enabling the
Wyoming, Montana & Pacific railroad
and telegraph company, a corporation
organized under the laws of Wyoming
70 construct and build its line from
Cheyenne, in Wyoming territory, by
way of Fort Laramie, Deadwood and
through the territories of Wyoming,
Dakota and Montana, to a connection
with the Northern Pacific railroad, in
the territory of Montana, by the most
advantageous and practicable line, to be
selected by said company, the right of
way through the public lands in the
territories of Wyoming, Dakota and
Montana is hereby granted to said COM
pany. Said right of way hereby granted
to said company is to the extent of one
hundred feet in width on each side of
the central line of said road where it
may pass over the public lands. There
is also hereby granted to said company
all necessary ground, not to exceed ten
acres in each ten miles in length of the
main line of said road, for station
buildings, workshops, depots, machine
shops, switches, side-tracks, turntables
and water stations. And whenever it
may be necessary to use material from
the public lands, for the construction
of said road it may be done, but no
private property shall be taken for the
use of said company, except in the man.
ner now provided by section 3 of an act
entitled 'An act to amend an act en-
titled an AN act to aid in the con-
struction of a railroad and telegraph
line from the Missouri rivertothe Pacific
ocean, and to secure to the government
the use of the same for postal, military,
and other purposes approved July J.,
1862" approved July 2, 1867.
SEC. 2. That said company shall be
authorized and empowered to mortgage
in the usual manner its franchises, road
bed, and all property belonging to said
company, to an amount not to exceed
$12, 500 per mile for narrow-gauge roads
and 50, 500 per mile for standard-gauge
roads, for the entire length of said
road, upon such terms as shall seem to
them best, and upon said mortgage may
issue mortgage bonds not to exceed the
same amount per mile; but in no case
shall the United States be liable in any
way whatever for anything done by said
company.
SEC. 3. That the rights herein grant
ed shall not preclude the construction of
other roads through any canon, defle,
or pass on the said road.
SEC. 4. The said company shall at
all times transmit dispatches over their
telegraph lines, and transport mails,
troops, munitions of war, supplies, and
public stores upon said railroad, for the
government use, whenever required SO
to do by any department thereof; and
the government of the United States
shall at all times have the preference in
the use of the same for all the purposes
aforesaid, at rates of compensation not
exceeding the amount charged to and
paid for by private parties for. like SER
vices.
SEC. s.. Congress reserves to itself
the right to alter, amend, or repeal this
act, whenever, in its judgment, the in
~terests of the public may require it.
SEC. 6. Whenever any part of the
present territories of Wyoming, Mon
tana or Dakota, through which said
road may run, shall be admitted into
the union as a state or states, 80 much
of said railroad and its appurtenances
any property as may be within any such
state or states shall be subject to state
taxation.
Our readers will remember reading
the senate proceedings On the bill. On
the motion of Mr.. Edmunds, the second
section was stricken out. Then Mr..
Teller moved to recommit it to the
committee, which was carried. The
bill still remains with the committee.
However, a law of the territory GOV
ers the ground of this section, and the
mortgage bonds car be issued. There
is no obstacle in the way of the road.
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