Mr. SPALDING. I call for the reading of the substitute. The substitute was read, as follows: Strike out all after the enacting clause of the hill and insert: that tbo California and OregonRailroad Company, organized under an actof the state of California. to protect eertain partiesin and toarailroad survey.to connect Portland. in Oregon with Marysvillc. in california. approved April 6. 1863 and such company organized‘underthe lawsof Oregon as the Legislature of said Stateshall hercafter designate.be and they are hereby authorized and empoweredto lay out. Locate construct finish and maintain a railroad and telograph line betWeen the city of Portland in Oregon.on the Central Pacific railroad, in California. in the manner following. to wit: the said California and Oregon Railroad Comdnnntyo construct that part of the suid railroad an telegraphwithin the state of California, beginning at some oint (to beselectedby said company) on the Centre Pacific railroad in the Sacramento valley. in the State of California and running thence northerly. through the Sacramento and Shastn vallcys.to the northern boundaryof thestate of California: and the said Oregoncompanyto constructthat part of said railroad and telegraph line within the State of Oregon beginning at theeity of Portlund. in Oregon and running thencesoutherly through the Willamette. Umpqua, and Rogue river valleys to the southern boundary of Oregon.where the same shall connect with the part aforesaidto be made by the 1st named company: Provided. That the coinpan' completing its respectivepart of said railroad an tele raph from either of the termini herein named to the line between California and Oregon before the other company shall have likew'is carrived at the same line shall have the right and thesaid company is hereby authorized. to continue in constructing the same beyond the line aforesaid with the consent of the Statein which the unfinished part maylie. upon the terms mentionedin this aet.until the said parts shall meetand connect and the whole line of said railroad and telegraphs liiill be completed. SEC. 2. Abife: That therebe and herebyis. grantedto the said companies.their successors and assignafor the purpose of aiding in the construction ofsaid railroad and telegraph line and to securethe safe and speedy transportation of the mails. Troops munitions of war and public stores over the line of saidrailroad every nltemato section of public land. not mineral.designatedby odd numbers.to the amount of 20 alternate sectionsper milelten oneachside)ofsnid railroad line: and when any of said alternatesectionsor parts of scetions shall be found to have been granted sold reserved occupied by homestead settlers. preirinpted or otherwise disposed of other lands designated asaforesaid shall be selected by said companies in lieu thereof.under the direction of the SecyInterior. in all ternate sections designated by oddnumbersasafore said, nearestto and not more than ten miles beyond the limits of said 1st named alternate sections: and assoonasthesaid companies or either of them, shall tile in the office of the SecyInterior a map of the surveyof said railroad or any portion thereof. not less than 60 continuous miles from either terminus.the SecyInterior shall withdraw from sale public lands herein granted on each side of suid railroad so far as located and within the limits before specified.The lands herein granted shall be applied to the buiding of said road within the States respectively.wherein they are situated. And the sections and arts of sections of land which shall remain in the U.S.within the limits of the aforesaidgrant shall not be sold for lessthan double the minimum priceof public lands when sold: Provided.That bona fide an actual settlersunder the preemption laws of the U.S.may. after due proof of settlement.improvement, and occupation. as now provided by law. purchasethe same at the pricefixed for said lands at the date of such settlement. imrovcment and occupation: And called also ’lhiit settlers under the provisions 3270‘ of the homestead not who comly with the terms and requirements of said act shall be entitled. within the leimxcietsed oifnzseaiigdhgtyrant to patents for an amount not acresof the land so reservedby the U.S.anythingin this not to the contrary notivithstanding. Ssc. 3. Abife: That the right of way through the public lands he and the same is hereby.grantedto said companies for the construc triiognht.opf oswaiedr. railroad and telegraph line; and the companies and authority are hereby given to said to take from the public lands adjacent to the line of said road earth. stone, timber.water, and roitghhetr materials for the construction thereof. Said ofwny is granted to said railroad to the extent of 100 feet in width on each side of said railroad where it may pass over the public lands. in eludingall necessary groundsfor stations.buildindgs. workshops depots, machine shops.smtches. si etracks. turn tables. water stations, or any other structures required in the constructionand operating ofsaid road. SEC. 4. Abife: That whenever the EnidOOIDDnnieso.r cither of the m shall have 20 or more consecutive milesof any portion of saidrail rond and telegraphline readyfor the service contemplated by this act, the POTUS shall appoint 3 commissioners whose compensation shall bepaid by said company to examinethe same and if it shall appear that 20 consecutive miles of railroad and telegraph shall have beencom pleted and equipped in all respectsas required by not the said commisnoners shallsoreport under oath to the POTUS and there upon patents shall issue to said companies or of them.as the casemay be. for the lands either foregrunted, to tho extent of and conterniihneoruesiwnbitch the completedsection ofsaid railroad and telegraph line as aforesaid: and from time to time.whenever 20 or more consecutive miles of the saidreadand telcmph shall be completedandequippedasafore said patents shall in like manner issue upon the report of the said commissioners, and so on until the entire milrond and telegraph authorized by this not Shall have been constructed, and the patents of the lands herein:zrunied shall have beenissued. SL125. Abife: That the grants caofomrepsaanidieasremadeupon the condition that the said repair shall keep said railroad and telegrup in and use and shall at all times transport the mails upon said railroad and transmitdispatchesby said telegraphline for the Government oftho U.S., when required so to do by an Dept thereof and that the Government shit i at all times have the preferencein the useof said railroad and telegraph therefor st fair and reasonablerates of compensation.notto exceed the rates paid by private partiesfor thesomekind ofservice. And saidrailroad shall beand remain a public highway forthe useof the Governmentof the U.S. free of all toll or other charges upon thot runs ortation of thoprop erty or troops of the U.S.; and the same shall be transported oversaid roadat the cost, charge. innngd expense of the corporations or companies own or operating the samo.whenso required by the Government of the bU.S. SEC.6. Abife: That thesaid companies shall file their assent to this act in the Dept of the Interior within one car after the passage hereof, and shall completet 0 1st apt lion of 20 milesof said railroad and telegraph within 2 years and at least 20 miles in each year thereafter and the whole on or before the 1stday of July. 1875;and the said railrnudshall be of the some gaugeas the Central Pacific railroad of Californiu and beconnected therewith. Sec. 7. Abife: That thesaid companies named in thisactare herebyrequiredto operate and use the portions or parts of said railroad Ind telegraph mentioned in section one of this act for all purposesof transportation.travel and communication. sofar as the Governmentand public are concerned, as one connectedand continuous line: and in such operation and useto affordand secure to each other equal advantagesand facilities as to rates, time and transportation.withoutany discrimination whatever. on pain of forfeiting the full amount of damage sustained on accountof such dis criminution. to be sued for and recovered in any court of the U.S., or of any State of competent jurisdiction. SEC.8. Abife: That in cm the laul companies shall fail to comply with the terms and conditions required.namely.bynot tiling their useut theretoas provided in section six of this act or by not completingthe some as provided in said section.this act shall be null and void and all the lands not conveyedby patent to said company or companies.as the case may be. at the (late ot' on such failure shall revert to the U.S. Am in casethosaid road and telegraph line shall not be kept in repair and fit for use.after the someshall have been completed, Congressmay pass an act to put the same in repair out use and may direct the income of said read and telenraphline to bethere after devotedto the U.S.to repay all ox penditurescausedby the default and neglectof said companies, or either of them.Insthe casemay be or mayti: pecuniary responsibility. not exceeding the value of the lands grantedbythis act. Sec. 9. Am! Abife: That the said California and Oregon Railroad Company and the said Oregon Companyshall be governed by the provisions of petheetivgeenSetaratel railroad athnedtecolnclslrtarupehtiloanwasnodf manarzementof the said railroad and telegraph line hereinbetore authorized in all mattersnot.provided f“ocroimnptahnlsi‘easc”t. Wherever the word “company” or is used in this act it shall beconstrued to embrace the words "their associates successors and assigns."the same as if the wordshad beenin sertedor theretoannexed. Sac. 10. Abife: That all mineral lands shall beexceptedfromtheoperation of this act; but wherethesumeshall contain timber.so much of tahnedtimber thereonas shall be required to construct road over such mineral land is hereby granted to and companies: Provided That the termmineral labnidles shall not includelsnds contuiniu coulaud iron. 11. Abife: That.the said cool mthpeaLneigesisnlaatmureedsin this act shall obtain thoconscut governed by of their respectiveStates and be the statutory regulutions thereofin all smoautltreoraspdearntadintienlg egtoratphhe lriingehtsohfawllunyo. twphaesrseoweerrthoer through the public lands of the U.S. SEC.12.Abife: That Congress may at anytime. having due regardfor the rights of said California and Oregon railroad companies.add to alter Amend or repeal this not.