The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-07-06
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OUR NEW kAlLtGOAD
Or local columns have Of ate given from
lime to time such data as it could procure
n regard to tue purchase of the Chicago,
Texas q Mexican Central railroad by the
Gull Colorado & Santa Fe railroad COM
pauy All question as to the substantial
CORRECTNESS of our reports concerning the
fact has now been settled, and IN
a few days more the latter COM
pany will take charge OF the llne'
Dallas is to be intensely congratulated
upon the suspicious event, since by the
transfer she secures a most desirable ac-
cession to her great railway interests that
have transformed herin the course OF a dozen
wears from an insignificant inland village
to the leading city that she now properly
laws claim to be-. Three years ago we
pleaded for this great and a~ll-impor'aht
matter. but it so transpired that we were
Temporarily thwarted in our most earnest
efforts. The contamination now ell
ected gives us another airecI line
to the seaboard, along a route
the richest in the state, WIN
the beautiful, attractive and rapidly-gro"-
CITY of Galveston as the terminus. NOR
does the benefit stop here. In quick oruer
the line will be continued to make a con-
nection with st. Louis, perhaps via Parls'
and through the magnificent grain, iruit
and cotton sections that lie between Red
river and this point. There is but one
other thing now required to supply US Win
a connecting route to and from all the mar
kets ofthe west and east and that is the
right to construct railways through the
Indian Territory, one of the finest pieces
OF country that the sun shines upon. The
bill authorizing this now lies before
congress. 1t is a bill that 1t has
been shown beyond successful dispute,
doubt or cavil, congress has a right to pass,
and one which most s%crupulously guards at
every point the rights OF the Indians and OF
the United States. The right-of-way asked
bv the San Francisco & st. Louis road was
only some 100000 acres, including the
stations. The entire price paid by the
United States government for the lands &C.
cupied by the Chootaw and Chickasaw Ma
tons was only ~ cents per acre, averaged.
For the right-ofway and stations, 2,6il
acres, the bill allows 5000 per annum.
That is 4 per cent. interest on a permanent
investment of $4,000, and the company is
required to pay that $1,000 so long as
it runs a road through that country which
is the exact equivalent at 4 per cent. inter-
est of SIS, 900 in hand, and far better to the
Indians than $50 900 in hand, because the
investment itself is permanent and they get
5000 q year, which makes the amount that
is paid, according to the bill as reported by
the committee, per acre for the and $3.50,
or an annual rental for wild land of over 81
per acre. Now the population of both these
nations amounts to only 1900 souls over
their entire area Of 1900 square miles, or
IL, 1000 acres. And yet we have
been kept from the permission to
merely run q line through this region that
will so vastly benefit even the poor In
dams" themselves; nor, shall congress regu-
late the m between the state of
Texas and the states lying north and east Of
us, or shall the Indians? Which shall abdi-
cate? That is the question in a nutshell.
The constitution of the country expressly
provides that congress shall have
power to regulate m with foreign
nations, and among the several states, and
with the Indian tribes" Can anything be
learerg But again, by the right of emf
nent domain such grant of right-of-way is
likewise made manifest. Nearly every
state in the Union by this compels prop
erty-holders along the line Of a road with
due charter, TO allow the company, for
adequate compensation. to pass through
the fields, etc. OF citizens. The line, for
instance, passes over the homestead Of a
man holding his patent from the govern
ment as a MANNED soldier perhaps, and yet
that land may be condemned in part tor
the purpose aforesaid. Through every ter
ritory congress may exercise this right Of
eminent domain and consequent con-
domination, then why not through
the Chickasaw and Choctaw Nations7 The
greater includes the lesser. The power
Of congress then being explicit, the next
and only other question arises, is there
any necessity for the exercise oft? The re-
Spouse Is, Just as mucn as therc wal 10
grant the right 10 the Missouri, Kansas a
Texas road, just as much as there was Tor
the government to donate millions
of acres Of land and guaranteed
bonds 10 the Union and Central
railway ~monopolies. Il is not right to be
fish with one and fowl with the other sec
ton ofthe country. by all means let Us
have either that or a similar bill passed and
al once. The Gulf, Colorado & Santa lie
railroad company directors, to-day in our
city. have the means and the desire 10 con-
without delay aud equip
this great and needed commercial
highway, q highEay that viii bind together
closer sin the tNO portions OF a common
country eager for better social and msrcan-
tile scquaintance and political harmony, a
highway that is absolutely needed By the
rros1ng greatness Of the regions through
which 1t passes and those Of its termini,
hen why in the nsrne Of commOn e n
md common justice delay the good day
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JUDGE HURT
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