Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-04-04

with and fulfilled aud DISCHARGED. |
Thcrrfnrc. saw as to this corpor-
alton, the Backbone Railroad Com
panv, whether the condition was
precedent or subsequent, whether
the condition was suspcnsivc ornot,
whether the grant was suspended
or not by the condition, yet the
condition was a condition ; it was
m essential condition; il was a
fundamental condition, and it had
tc be complied with before proper
" could DE acquired, and it could
not not he complied with because
Of the incapacity Of the backbone
Railroad and Of the assignee IT,
build anylai7ro21 on lie cast baak
Of .he Mississippi river.
jtitla said, a. has boon sd.
,hat TIE New Orleans Pacific Rail
road Company Substantially COM
Llicd with The rran. by mlItng he
connection between Now DrlcGrs
and shreveport, although a Largo
portion Of the road Vas Lui!t Oh
Inc west side of the Mississippi
river. ! maintain that the acquisi
ton Of this land va, nCyrrmade by
the Backbone Railroad Company,
because the essential conditions Of
! is own charter were never COM
, vlicd with, either by the original
grantee or by the asSi@ncc of the
grant,
Again, il is almost Incredible that
the New Orleans Pacific Railroad
Company should at this day claim
title to these lands by virtue Of the
alleged assignment. heard the
, honorable Senator refer 70 I :r"a!
deal of law, go the Attorney Gen
erals ollico and f. the office of the
! interior Department, but certainly
! there j. such u thing as the law 81
co,oppcI.
This telv title which The New
' Orleans Pacific Railroad Company
sets up to-day, this very title which
it claims 20 have derived from tbs
Backbone Railroad Company has
been denounced by the New Or.
leans Pacific Railroad Company
IN documents which had been PIE
scented both i'll Congress and III Tho
Interior Department, as an utterly
basc!css, illegal and fraudulent
title.
herresidcnt of the New Orlcan;
Pacific Railroad Company telc-
graphed as follows: "No arrange
mcnt looking to any recognition o
the pretended claims Of the Back
bone Company will be entertained
by my COZ. pany."
Again, il another telegram, Ia
, said: 1--WE now have ability I,
, complete our road without govern
; mcnt assistance, and if our fricnd
cannot sccur. "a land grant we mus
get along wilhoutit. My telegram
jrcrcrring to the former telegram.
l. final. >
Il NJ. Dutler-Whom is that signc
: by?
r Nj. Eustis-It Is signed by III
e president Of the New Orleans Ia
t cifc Railroad Company. The Nc'
| Orleans Pacific Railroad Compan
j had bill inti oduced in the Hous
c of Representatives, in order to hay
o Congress that it >thc New Or!cai
e Pacific Railroad Company ha
t earned this grant, and to declar
the forfeiture of the grant as II
a CARDS the Backbone Railroad Con
+ pany. 1t represented what | col
h slider very important point as
: LEGAL question which has not bee
a referred to by the Senator frol
II Colorado, but which WAS urged wit
: great chromosomes by the New o.
: leans Pacific Railroad CoJnpan.
it which, recognized tand helicI
n tina: il is . good point, would rel
e der this claim utterly without an
foundation whatsoever.
5. Ii represented that IN 1877 Il
It Legislature Of the State of LOU
d lana, three years before this assig'
II mcnt was made, had repealed Il
: charter IF tie Backbone Railro;
p. Company.
Il The New Orleans Pacific Raj
O. road Company, III It's statement
20 the House committee, says Til
&c corporation Speaking OF the Bac
ID bone Railroad Company has 10
1t feitcd its charter by failure
IL co.lply with the conditions thcr
e. Of" As | said, in 1917, cverybo'
a. being perfectly well agreed tn
~ the Backbone Railroad Compal
re was nuisance, that 1T was I'll
n grace, that il never at any time
H. for any purpose complied with
single one of the many condltlO
at OF its charter, that it never paid
debt, not even It's lawyers fees; tn
e. it never lived for any corpora
purpose whatever, but was consi
e. cred the mere skeleton and carca
he OF dcrciict and abandoned c,
he poration. It's charter was repeal
IL by the State Of Louisiana, the N
it Orleans Pacific Railroad Conpa
n having probably urged Its rcpc
as and vet the New Orleans Pacl
, a Railroad Company claims by virt
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