Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-30

From this Judgment the railroad appealed
and the case is now pending before the
United States court at Washington. The
suit having been entered in the circuit
court Judge Sabin would not issue
mandatory order compelling the road TO
bring the offices back TO Marshall, leaY-
ing that duty to be performed by Judge
Pardee, who, for reasons best known 10
himself. never made the order. Thus the
matter stands to-day. The railroad has
received the benefits of the grants
and not an Office IS located where they
agreed to have them.
This action of the road and the intro
duction of the bill in the legislature by
Hon. A. Pope to compel all roads receiy-
ing benefits, etc. from the state or peo-
pie to establish and maintain certain Of
fees in accordance with such benefits,
has called forth the following petition to
the legislature, which will be signed by
all to whom presented and forwarded to
our representatives to be placed before
the legislature:
To the Members of the Twenty-First Legislature
Of the State of Texas:
We, the undersigned citizens of Harri-
son county, hereby present to you this
petition and state the following facts:
In 1872 the people of Harrison county,
by vote of its citizens, granted a subsidy
of $500 900 TO the Texas and Pacific rail-
way company. At the same time the
city of Marshall donated to said company
sixty-siX acres of land, valued at $50,
900. Said $500 900 was paid by negotia-
bic coupon bonds Of Harrison county,
payable in gold thirty years after
date, and bearing interest at
the rate of per cent. per annum.
In consideration of the two above men,
toned subsidies, said railroad company
agreed, in " iting, to maintain its gen.
eral Offices, headquarters and main ma
chine shops at the city of Marshall. Said
railway company, in compliance with
said contract, did establish its said offices,
headquarters and machine shops at
Marshall and maintained them at this
place until about the year 1881, at which
time said railroad company, by piece
meals, began to remove such offices and
headquarters from said city, and
when our people protested, as
they did many times, through com
mittees of the citizens, the general Off
GERS of said company would represent to
them that they intended to compensate
such removal by the building of addi-
tional shops, which promises have been
found heretofore TO have been made only
to be broken. The people of the county
have been compelled by judgments of the
courts of the United States to provide for
the payment of said bonds, and we are
now levying a tax to pay the principal
and interest of said bonds; that this tax
amounts annually to about q of per
cent. That all of the general offices
of said company have been removed from
the city of Marshall, and the only rea-
son, as we believe, why all the machine
shops have not been removed from said
city, is that the company is restrained
from so doing by an injunction of the
federal court. That said offices were of
great benefit to the city of Marshall and
the consequent damages to said city is at
least SIS 900 annually, we, therefore,
ask you TO use every effort to secure the
passage of house bill No. II, introduced
by Hon. a. Pope of Harrison county.