The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-04-07
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special dhpntoh dated NJ Washington, Apnl
first, giving thonlbrmatlon that Ex-Governor
Brown, Of Tennessee, Vlco'Pre'i ont Of tho
Texns & Pacific railroad, had been balor tho
Senate Committee on R,iroals advocating
n pending bill to extend tho time for the
completion u the road, Under tho roads
charter from tho general government u
must be completed In May, 1897
and 1t cannot now BIO done without u great
rush and nj eytrayagant cost Governor
brown stated 10 tho committee that tho roNd
would bo finished 10 vi Pnso by January,
1888, NJ which time tho road would have
eight hundred and twenty-five miles OF tho
main linz constructed, aud bo operating one
thousand and forly.luur milea of road, In
oudIng tho TranscontInonlal branch. For
these long miIos OF road the government Will
not have paid n cent or given M acre
Of land, and yet the government has tho same
right ~ regulate TARIFF aud passenger rates,
and has tho same right of priorllyof tho nSo
oi all portions Of the road over other patrons,
for military mud postal services, that II en-
Toys oyor tho Union Pacific aud Central Pn-
cinc which II 50 literally aided from their
very sturl Tothc Union Pacific aud Centrnl
Paclc roads tho government can oqulIably
say, Garry my soldiers and munitions orwnr
md my mails in preferences TO anything
clsr,' II can also say, "You shall not charge
more than 30 many dollars per ton for freight
torso many miles" II has earned the right
10 exercise this control, for II has paid for 1t
in m lncy and in hud, With tho roS@ "
Pacific such is not tho oase II has acquired
n legal right to be 10 dlcIntorAl because II
has had IL 80 nominated In the bond,
but 1t hns earned no equitable, ust right to
exercise the power, because, thanks to tho OPP
position of certain Southern Senators and
Representatives il has been impossible 10 get
bill through Congress TO give tho road aid
Of any character or description. Now, the
Texas IL Pacific rnllroa company, having
already built several hundred miles Of road
and perfected arrangements whereby several
hundred miles more will BIO built,
making in all ono thousand and
iorty-iour miles by January 1883, ut an OK
pense Of fifty million dollars OF private
capital, asks the boon Of IN extension OF its
time for tho completion af tho road. viii
these same Southern Senators and Represent
atives again interposo their objections? VIII
they continue / DO recrcant to their duty to
the South and her commercial interests, or
will they forget TO be selfish long enough for
the extension to BIO grantodY Tho reasons
assigned Tor asking for the extension
of time are good ones; they are
reasons that must have force in them for
every man of sense, who is uninnuencoi by
prejudice or bias the panic of 1873 and
the general consequence OF that panic
forced the company to cease operations, olsc
there would have been no necessity for this
petition tor an extension of time. We all
know what the panic Of 1873 and its terrible
results were, We all know tho commercial
and industrial staguation that FOLLOWED
and that for six years, or thereabouts
paralyzed every energy and enterprise of the
country, and wo have all seon with what CO.
lerty the Texas ~ Pacific railroad company
again began operations in its march TOWARD
tho Pacific slope, when the financial pressur,
was removed and tho business lethargy
thrown of, It's but simple justice to pass
the bill and extend the time of completion as
asked, and thus give the government some
little sembsnce of right in the control
it will not fail to exert to reg.
ulate rates of transportation and
in the matter of priority tor postal service
and military purposes Congress has already
been 80 unjust MS to give to other roads which
traverse tho continent to the Pacific, both
lands and money, and yet refuse both to Tn,
Texas 4 Pacific, and to even refuse The
Governments endorsement of its bonds OF
which it desired to raise money, and il Ger
tNnly will not cap the climax by refusing t
grant this last request. If it does, why ther
it will look like positive hostility to the on
terprise.