Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-29
The Grant-GsOuld Mexican Railroad
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We learn from the New York World
that meeting of the directors Of the
Mexican Southern Railroad Company
was held in that city Thursday evening
for the purpose of organizing the COM
pany. The following gentlemen, all
members of the board, were present at
the meeting: Gen. U. s. Grant, Russell
Sage, Jesse Seligman, Frank Work, Hen
~ G. Marquand, Amos L. Hopkins, U.
s. Grant, Jr., Senior n. Romero, J. H.
Work, Stephen B. Musgrsve, William S.
Warner and Gen. G. NJ. Dodge. The
following officers were elected: Presi-
dent, U. S. Grant; Vice President, G. M.
Dodge; Secretary, Jas. Fl. Work; Treas
urer, Russell Sage. An executive COM
mittee was also elected consisting of Jay
Gould, Frank Work and Russell Sage.
A resolution was then adopted request
ing General Grant to proceed to Mexico,
with view to representing the interests
of the company in that country. General
Grant expressed his willingness so to do,
and would accordingly leave on Monday
yesterday for Mexico.
There have been limitations recently
that this grand Mexican railroad scheme
of few well known New York capital
lists, with General Grant as its figure
head, is regarded with suspicion, if not
positive disfavor by the people of
Mexico. In view of the recent hostili
ties and the existing relations between
weak and dismembered Mexico and the
powerful and grasping American repub-
lie, it is but natural that such a project
backed by United States capitalists and
entirely under the control of citizens of
the United States, should be regarded
with popular apprehension and distrust.
While the Jay Gould organs are so SEN
sitive about NJ de LeSseps' Panama canal
scheme, and are urging the government
to enforce the Monroe doctrine
to prevent its consummation, we
must not be surprised at a SINH
lar exhibition of jealousy on the
part of our sister republic. or that the
Mexicans, in their fear of annexation, I"
should endeavor to get up little
Monroe doctrine of their own. A cor
respondent of the World, writing from
the City of Mexico, evidently in.the
interest of the Grant-Gould scheme,
says:
A New York paper desiring to excite
prejudice against General Grant in this
country seems to have brought forward
the old bugbear Annexation, which
always terrifies the old fogies and prov
metals here, and its utterances are uti-
LIKED by the insignificant anti American
| clique to alarm the Ignorant. Several
Mexican journals have translated para
graphs of this sort which warn the Mexi-
cans against the incorporators of the
Oaxaca Railroad. read one in EE
Monitor Republican, which alluded to
Aaron Burr's designs on Mexico and
compared Grant to him.
La Lt5ertad says in reference to the
Mexican Southern Railroad: "On the
18th of August, 1880, the Governor or
Oaxaca obtained from the Executive Of
the republic concession to build rail-
road from Anton Lizardo to Huatalco,
on the Pacific coast. This contract was
never published until NJ Romero trans.
felred it TO an American company and
that association, the chief of which is
General Grant, has not yet accepted the
original contract, but desires certain
notifications, claiming among other
privileges that of fixing its own tariff. !"
La Li6ertdd aff1rms tlat these "modifi-
cations" are but so many extra conces-
sions, which must be ratified by the
Federal Congress. In word, La Li6er-
tad has assumed a hostile attitude to-
wards Mr. Romero and his coadiutors.
and proposes to get up an "Auti Ameri-
can" party in Mexico if possible. 1t will
not come to much.