Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-07-04
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\ direct issue has been made he
tween the people and the land grab
! bing railway kings General Rosocrans
Colonel Dunn aud Judge cobb, theil
well known Democratic members o
Congress. have filed pio'e3s, whlcl
We give below, against the transfer q
tire Texas Pacific Land Grant in New
MeXioo, Arizona and California, to the
Southern Pacific company. and against
permitting the mortgage, executed
10y the New Orleans Pacific, rccordc,
in the interior department and there.
by made valid.
This iaa practical step in the right
direction. Auti.monopoly crnnks
shout themselves hoarse over Ia,
wrongs done TO the people, but Demo
cratic c)ugle, sneu come 10 the front
with u remedy for some of III,
wrongs complained %. No hon.
est man who vii! read
the laws under which these
grants were made, and acqtmnt him.
self with tile circumstances ATTENDING
the building OF the Texas Pacific. thr
Southern Peciiic and the New orleans
Pacific railways, can for an instant
admit that any right, legal or cquita.
hle, exists in either OF these corpora
tons To the seventeen millions of the
peoples lane which Huntington and
JAY Gould nre trying 10 abs,ib.
The action OF Messrs. Rosecrans.
Dunn and Cobb should convince The
people OF the country that protection
nom robbery and outrage can be found
only in tile nenoc'atic party, that n
third party is not needed and would
only tend to embariass the action of
the true friends OF the people. we
hope the lesson of these protests will
be carefully considered hy the anti
monopplist conference which Is to meet
al Chicago on July 1:
PROTEST AGAINST ADJOINING rms
NEW ORLEANS rACIFlC TO RECORD
AND MAKE VALID \ MORTGAGE.
w AsitINGToN, ID, G., June =. 'S3.
non. IL. VI. Teller Secretary uf The Interior
HlR--As We are informed bv the pub
nc press, as well as through other
means, That the New Orleans Pacific
u'ilroai company is now having re-
corded, IN the parishes through which
It's ROAD runs, a mortgage upon the
lands Erauted 10 the New Orleans
Baton Rouge and Nicksburg railroad
company, 10y the twenty-second sec
lion OF the act of March Sd. 1871
quilted IAN act TO incorporate the
Texas Pacific railroad com.
pany, and TO aid in the construction
OF us road, and for other purpo,es y
which lands have been since tran,
iernd to the New Orleans Pacific
Railroad Company, we begto call vour
attention To the provisions of the law
on this subject.
We desire particularly to have Won
examine section II OF this act NJ :
stat. ut Large, vol. 10. page 573l. This
section authorizes the issue of t>vo
classes OF bonds, CONSTRUCTION bondsu
and LAND bonds,
The first provi-o requires that all the
mortgages executed by the company
shall he filed aud recorded IN The IA
of the Ihierior befora
peconing valid; the second |
'roviso requires that all che proceeds |
u The land bonds shall be npnlied |
my IN the construction, operatlon /
'nd equipment Of the contemplated |
ailroad line.
me supplementary act of May III,
NJ I. >. stat. al Large, vol. ~, page
w aoes not repeal the provisions of
ne act 6f March Sd, 1871 but recnact,
'ss" tser section 81, ana limits the
hiouns OF the Immigrant bonds To not
ioie ih~n WOO per acre on each acre
lana gnnted.
All the provisions os these acts, In
gard Ia the Texas Pacific, are made
'ecially to Apply 60 the New Orleans.
atom Rouge ana Vicksburs lailroad
mpany, under which the New Or
ms Pacific claims a. land granted.
itis n 'rdly necessary 70 inform sou {