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Show UTAH SOUTHERN RAILROAD BILL. We are indebted to Hon. AY. II. Hooper, Delegate from Utah, for the copy of a bill introduced into the United Uni-ted States Senate by Senator Sherman, and subsequently reported back by Senator Howard, with a few unimportant unimpor-tant amendments, granting a right of way through the public lands to tf.e Utah Southern Railroad company. The biil is much the Mime as that granting a similar right of w.'y to the Utah Central Company. It vrcvidps for the const'.uction of a railroad ;.ud telegraph line from this city to Payson, with a branch to the mouths of the Cottonwood canons, granting the necessary nec-essary material for the construction of the road to be taken from the public lands adjacent to it, with two hundred feet on each side of ihe line and the necessary ground for stations, workshops, work-shops, depots, kc. Within six months after the passage of the biil a map of it, approved by the Secretary of the Interior, In-terior, is to be filed with that official. The line is to be a post route and military mili-tary roai, for the use of the Government Govern-ment cf the United States, and the company must not charge GoTernmnnt higher .-Lts for transportation and telegraph tel-egraph service than they do individuals; Cong; oss reserving the right to impose regulations rejtriccing thecharges for such transportation. Other railroads, authorized to be built by the United States Government or the Territorial Legislature, are to have running connections con-nections with it on fair and equitable terms. The grants named are made on the express condition that the Company Com-pany shall not exercise the power given by section ten, chapter tcen, of the laws of Utah, approTed February 19, 1SG9. lue objectionable section reads thus : Sec. 10. At all general meetings of the stockholders, wheu two-thirds of the capital stjck interest is present either in person or by written prj.xy. they may remove any president, vice president or director or such company and elect others in their ste id : Provided, Provi-ded, notice of such intended removal shall have been given as required in ihe preceding sections. If the Company make any breach of the conditions named, the grants and privileges specified in the act will be forfeited. The acceptance of the terms conditions and impositions of the act, mUit be made within three-months three-months from the pas-age of the act. and filed with the Secretary of the Interior. After the line to Payson is completed, the Company nny extend it to the southern boundary of tin-Territory, tin-Territory, on the same condition! and with the like grant?; provided fifty miles a year are constructed until the southern line is reached. Congress reserves to itself the right, haviug due regard to the rights of the Company, to niter, amend or repal the act. We have given a full synopsis of the bill, which will likely pass ou'h branches of Congress. There is no reason why it should not. It does not provide tor a 'av'S". disposal, by grant, ol public pub-lic land nor of the pubi1"'1 n.-iLf:y. liui a question ari-es here : VLfiir it would not be sound policy for the counties through which this line would pass, to do a liberal share in pu.-b.ing it through. They might do it by taking tak-ing stock in the road, by largely as-?;.iting as-?;.iting ia the work of grading and by olier mean-. The benefits to them in rapid transportation and low freight.-), when compared with the present means of transporting produce by learns, should i mpel them to thus as-.-ist in the construction of a lino of railroad rail-road calculated to aid most materially in the development of the middle and sou'hern counties of the Territory. |