Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1882-07-19

introduction Of bills. in the House
tomorrow, a motion to suspend the
rules will be in order, preference be-
ing given on that day to motions
from committees. There are scores
Of bills agreed to Ivy committees tina
will be laid before the House when
ever the gentlemen having them il
charge can obtain an opportunity
1t is the custom of the Speaker tt
permit only one bill to be moved
from each committee, so as to enabl,
as many committees as possible tt
be recognized on each suspension
day.
1t is said that one of the bills that
will be put to vote tomorrow is q
measure reported from the Pacific
Railroad Committee, authorizing the
consolidation of railroad companies
in the Territories of the United
States. This bill provides for the
consolidation Of continuous connect
ing lines of railroads, and forbids
the consolidation of parallel or com.
petlng lines. The Capitol, of this
city, to-day, in long article, main
talns that the bill is job in the in
terest of Gould, Huntington 4 Co.,
and says that it's title should read:
"A bill to confer upon Jay Gould, C.
T. Huntington, and their confeder.
ates, an everlasting monopoly of
transportation across the continent"
The writer adds: Congress is asked
to allow Huntington 10 consolidate
his California, Arizona and New
Mexico charters under a United
States chartcr-that is all. But by
the agreement already made with
Gould, anterior to the time when his
land grant expired, the 22d of last
May, the consolidated road is con
so!ldatcd with the Texas Pacific and
takes possession of it's land grant,
that the entire road was
completed within the specified time.
The bill provides, in the first sec
ton, that parallel roads shall not be
but it virtually consol-
dates three parallel roads across the
and the Gould Hunting.
ION agreement prevents the building
Of other competing roads in Texas. |
and Arkansas.
A letter Of Secretary Kirkwood
shows the number of acres of land
granted to the Texas Pacific to be
L., 800, 76O acres which, valued at the
lowest government price for railroad
and, $3.50 per acre, is worth 1857,
174,4OO. The length of the road
through the land grant is in New
160 miles; in Arizona, 37Sl
miles; in California. $50 miles; total.
5Ss miles, and the cost shown by til
agreement by Gould and Hunting
ton was $4,000 per mile-or a total
Of $l3, 760, 000-but little more than
one-third Of the value of the land
grant, at the minimum valuation.
The charter of the Texas Pacific re-
CURED it to commence building at
each end of the line, but it did not.
and there is no question as to its
complete forfeiture ofthe land grant
ed to it. No one suspects or believes
that this seemingly innocent bill re.
wives that grant and divests the
States of its title to land
worth over s35, 100000, for the bene.
lit Of the NEST INSCRIPTIONS of the
railroad robbers of the country.
To distract attention from the eff.
fects of the bill and prevent its true
characteristics from being known,
another bill has been introduced
with nine "whereases," the eighth
Of which recites an agreement ls-
tween the Texas Pacific and Hunt
ington roads, and claims that by this
agreement the land grant was saved
to the company. This bill openly
does what the one which it is pro
posed to pass on Monday would &C.
eomplish covertly. OF course, it was
not expected to pass an open grant,
and it was only intended 20 draw at
tention from the other bill, which
aocomplishes all that is asked Tor,