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ments, however, show, that in the grandeur and num- 

 ber of their schemes of spoils and plunder, the Congres- 

 sional rings of railroad jobbers throw into the shade all 

 the other rings of the lengthy catalogue of confederate 

 Treasury robbers. 



" A Washington correspondent, who has been looking 

 into the business, reports that one hundred and fifty- 

 nine railroad bills and resolutions have been introduced 

 in the Fortieth Congress (the term of which expired on 

 the 4th of March, with that of President Johnson), and 

 that twice as many more were in preparation in the 

 lobby ; that one thousand millions of acres of the public 

 lands, and two hundred millions in United States bonds, 

 would not supply the demands of these cormorants. In 

 other words, their stupendous budget of railway jobs 

 would require sops and subsidies in lands and bonds, 

 which, reduced to a money valuation, swell up to the 

 magnificent figure of half the national debt. 



" Among the jobs of this schedule is the Atchison 

 and Pike's Peak Railroad Company, or Union Pacific 

 Central Branch, which, after having received Govern- 

 ment sops to the extent of six millions, puts in for 

 seven millions more. Next comes the Denver Pacific 

 Railway and Telegraph Company, which, having 

 feathered its nest to the figure of thirty-two millions, 

 puts in for a little more ; and this company is reported 

 to be a mere gang of speculators, ' without any known 

 legal organization whatever ' a lot of mythical John 

 Does and Richard Roes, who cannot be found when 

 called for. Next we have the Leaven worth, Pawnee 

 and Western Railroad Company, now known as the 

 Union Pacific, Eastern Division, chartered by the 

 Kansas Territorial Legislature, in 1855, subsidized with 

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