Show the pittsburgh mormon railroad tiie THE 11 LITTLE cottonwood 11 sc SCHEME IS fitere A snare SNAKE IN IT AND DOES IT MEAN nean AN ANTI i crusade in yesterdays evening leader mention was made mado of the tile fact that quite a number of prominent pitts burgh politicians and others had associated socia ted themselves together for the purpose of forming a railway company in utah territory and that general negley was urging tile passage through congress of the tile act granting them a charter this thia scheme it is alleged ihas thas been very carefully set up 11 A gentleman who a littleover litt leover a year ago was wag perhaps mo mome more 0 prominent 1 0 than any one else ra in ci city t politics has it is alleged made several trips to and arid through for tile the purpose of organizing the project the above bill looks innocent enough on its face and por for aught we know it is innocent IC it is evident at a glance ho however wever weyer that there is room for a snake ill in the tiie fifth section and arid therefore no one will be surprised at the tile insinuations contained in the following extracts from the tile washington correspondence of the new kew york tribune which we quote entire because it gives lii ill in a concise form norm the very same rumors about this company I 1 which are current in our streets mr negley has before the pacific railroads chmir committee a bill to incorporate a number ot of gentlemen cent lemen ot of pennsylvania Penti sylvania as the little cottonwood railroad company ot of utah one section ot of the bill gives to the company in fixing the location build building lux and opening n ing the road all the powers privileges omd and franchises granted in an act of 0 congress ot of 1864 to aid in the construction ot of a railroad and telegraph line from the central pacific railroad in california to aport land ore oregon on this thia section or of the bill is very vory ingeniously y drawn drown on its face it does not appear r that any sub subsidy idy or land grant is ar riven given to the road but a reference to the california and oregon bill bit shows that the hights rights ac contained therein and riven given to this company include among other things the land grant of five or six alternate sections on each side of the road the iniquity of the measure is still more apparent when it is proved that the mormons cormons I 1 nave have already surveyed and are rapidly a road over this ibis line seve seven i miles having been completed compi PI within a few months delegate hoop er has asyet as yet been unable to secure the attention ot of the house to a proposition to grant to this road simply the right of way th through the public lands if the tribune then is correct we have a rather serious piece of subsidy jobbery and the bill in question isone bisone which ought not tor tX pass VaSS and our congressmen ought not to urge it its passage but butt the land grant features of this tilis bill aie are no not it would seem the worst part of i it if the tribunes information be reliable the scheme is a gross piece of injustice to the mormons cormons Mor mons as it is in effect an attempt to get a united states charter to cover and extinguish a charter at present granted by the territorial legislature and to tp cabbage the road which the tiie mor mons have already commenced to build over this very route but there is some reason to fear that even this is not the worst feature or the worst consequence of this enterprising pittsburgh attempt to I 1 develop utah it is more than hinted that the tile present anti antl mor mon mn agitation which brought forth yesterday morning a message of menace against the tile mormons cormons fro from in the president arid and which may mily culminate in harsh mea mca measures and possibly bloodshed was gotten up to further this little cotto cottonwood awood scheme sch erme erne and onea pr two othor other gentile operations operation of the same mame charac tero fail fall nil all of which vilich Gen GenNe segley Negley gIey gley seems to be the tile champion the report comes from washington that t that 11 it now famous interview which negley ey and n chu Chi clagett gett and Bl erritt rd rial nial delegates had llad with arres proal dent grant was wm what influenced the presidents mind to coin coln commence m 1 once ence the crusade against the saints which he beamed to be determined lied on certain it is that it was out on I 1 a day or two nater after afterward gard mard when all tile tha troops at the south were order ed to hold themselves in readiness to march to utah pittsburg leader feb 16 |