The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-06-29

!. Leyee 6ompahy, INCORPORATED Under n
/. laws NJ Tennessee Mississippi ana Louis
h ana, 10 hmld and opefaiea iailfogd ffmn N
city II Memphis, N Tennessee ny way
ViOksbntg w. the city Of New Oflondg
. foolsiana, and nom ills end 10 build irof
3 n mghland In Tennessee ~ the we'
. bank Of the YnlOo river an
along and as near TO the east bank Of tli
Mississippi river ~ " consistent with th
convenience, pernanence md
SAFETY or THE LEyEE
from the waters of the Mississippi river
and the construction and equipment there
Of, Of the first standard guage railway o
steel rails, the United States shal
upon which 10 lay It's road. u provides
that upon the completion, Of the line, If con
neCted and compact, along the route which
will protect the country, shall
GUARANTEE THE PAYMENT
of interest TO accrue thereafter upon the
first mortgage bonds to be issued
by the company TO the amount
| of the road built upon said
| line, said bonds to mature
| fifty years after date and to bear Interest
| from date, payable semi.annually,
at the rate of 4 per cent. per aruum;
provided, that the location Of tue line
of said railway and levee and the dlmen-
sions thereof shall he approved by the Mis-
sissiDpi river commission.
Arguments to-day were made by Colonial
Huntington, General Thomas Erying and
j. Hall Sypher
of the passage of the bill They asserted
that the building and maintenance
of such levee will diminish
the expenditures now required for channel
lat,t lfat,, his Nd
Vicksburg, and earnestly endorsed the
preamble of the bill, which states that the
levee will redeem from overflow
THE GREAT DELTA
between the Eazoo river and the Mis-
sissippi, thus removing an OBJ
struction to commerce between
the adjacent states, which are DOW
to large extent cut oH from direct inter
communication by railway.
EXPLANATORY.
WASHINGTON, June 22-rhe sub-commit-
tee of the house committee of commerce,
Messrs. Page, Richardson and Reagan, APP
pointed To draft and report the presentation
of the house respecting the ecent passage
of the bill to regulate immigration met to-
day ana
PREPARED A STATEMENT
which is substantially as follows: We con-
slider it our duty to make statement TO the
house as to the bill to regulate immigration
presented by Reagan on Monday, June 10,
1881, and passed by the house under sus-
pension Of the rules; the committee Oh
commerce, or such members thereof as
were then present in the house, having I'M
der misapprehension,
OR INADVERTENTLY,
consented to its passage; the return OF
which bill from the senate has been since
secured The bill was introduced by Van
Voorhees,, of New York, April 6, 1889, and
June 6, 1882. The committee. after
CAREFULLY CONSIDERING
and amending the same authorized Rich
ardSon to report it as amended to the house
with tie recommendation that it do pass.
On Saturday June IL 1882, Richardson, at
the request of Van Voorhees,, handed him
the bill and report,
COURTESY
often extended to authors of bills. On the
.ollowing Monday morning. during Rich
'dson's absence, Van Voorhees,, with
the consent OF certain members of the COM
mittee asked Judge Reagan to report the
committees bill, but handed to him with
accompanying report the bill which passed
with the statement it was
a CORRECT COPY
of the bill agreed to by said committee,
when in point of fact il was a mate
rally different bill from that
which the committee had authorized Rich
ardson to report favorably to the house.
Under this assurance Reagan
LOOKED HASTILY
over the bill, and discovering what he con-
ceived to ne clerical errors of omission
touching ore or two amendments that he
himself offered and which had been
adobted in committee,
CHANGED THE PHRAsEOLOGY
to conform with his recollection of the COM
mitteas action and subsequently,, still re-
lying upon the assurance of Mr.. Van NOor-
hees, offered said bill and stated that it
was the till favorablY recommended by the
committee and therefore asked that the
bill be taken from TIE speakers table ana
PASSED
with amendments agreed to by the COM
mittee. This report will be submitted to
the full committee at its regular session to-
morrow.
VI. ROCSTAN.
To-day the president received NJ. Roustan,
the newly appointed minister of
the French republic, who presented his Gre
dentials. An exchange Of complimentary
speeches followed.