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Their Senators and requesting their Representatives in Congress in regard to the Texas and Pacific Railroad Company.

FEBRUARY 15, 1875.-Referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad and ordered to be printed.

Whereas, completion of railroad construction connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, over the southwestern portion of the United States, will greatly shorten distance and cheapen carriage between the ports of the two oceans, and, in the thorough exemption from snow-blockades or other obstructions, afford a line of transportation at all times for the commercial, postal, and military demands of the nation, enabling prompt concentra tion of armies and their supplies, whenever and wherever required for the country's safety or defense, and directly promoting public economy and advantage in solving Indian difficulties on our frontier, by carrying forward a self-sustaining column of emigration for development of vast sources of wealth in its course; and

Whereas there is now pending before the national Congress a measure proposing aid to the Texas and Pacific Railway Company in the form of guarantee by the United States five per cent. annual coin interest, not the principal, of forty-year bonds, to be issued by said company to the extent of $35,000 per mile of construction, under conditions, assuming security to the Government and success to the enterprise; and

Whereas the General Government has heretofore afforded the national credit to a like enterprise, and often extended aid in large and valuable subsidies of the public domain, for similar improvements in other sections of the nation; and impartiality in benefits is essential to good government: Therefore,

Resolved by the general assembly of the State of Tennessee, That our Senators in Congress are instructed and our Representatives requested to support, with their utmost ability, the adoption of the above-indicated measure, proposing guarantee by the General Government of the interest on bonds of the Texas and Pacific and Atlantic and Pacific Railway Companies.

Resolved, That the governor be requested to furnish each Senator and Representative with a copy of this resolution at the earliest praeticable time.

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The indebtedness of each contractor of the late board of public works of the District of Columbia to the workingmen of said District.

FEBRUARY 15, 1875.-Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed.

Account of William H. Adams, contractor, showing amount claimed, amount paid, and amount due to each workman.

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