A resolution of the House of February 4, relative to reports of the Union Pacific and other railroads to be made according to law.

FEBRUARY 25, 1868.-Referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad and ordered to be printed.

FEBRUARY 26, 1868.-Motion to reconsider the order to print.
MARCH 26, 1868.-Ordered to be printed.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT, February 18, 1868.

SIR: In response to House resolution of the 4th instant, "requesting the Secretary of the Treasury to infornt this house if the Union Pacific Railroad Company and other railroad companies named in an act approved July 1st, 1862, entitled 'An act to aid in the construction of a railroad,' &c., have complied with section 20 of said act, and if so, to furnish this house with copies of said reports," I have the honor to transmit herewith the following:

Statement marked A.-Printed report of the Union Pacific Railroad Company for the years 1863 and 1864.

Statements marked B, C, and D.-Copies of reports of said company for the years 1864, 1865, and 1866.

Statements marked E, F, G, H, and I-Copies of annual reports of the Central Pacific Railroad Company from 1863 to 1866, inclusive.

Statement marked J.-Copy of a report of the Sioux City and Pacific Railroad Company for 1866; and

Statement marked K.-Copy of report of the Western Pacific Railroad Company for 1866.

It will be perceived that the reports of the last two named companies are for the year 1866. The antecedent reports, although doubtless made according to the requirements of law, have not been found in this department.

Letters have been addressed to the presidents of all the companies requesting them to forward their reports in pursuance of law.

As soon as additional reports are received they will be forwarded.

I am, very respectfully,

Hon. SCHUYLER COLFAX,

H. McCULLOCH, Secretary of the Treasury.

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

REPORT OF THE ORGANIZATION AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY.

Officers and directors of the Union Pacific Railroad Company. Officers.-General John A. Dix, president; Thomas C. Durant, vice-president; John J. Cisco, treasurer; Henry V. Poor, secretary.

Directors.-George Opdyke, New York; John A. Dix, New York; Thomas C. Durant, New York; William B. Ogden, Chicago, Illinois; Cornelius S. Bushnell, New Haven, Connecticut; Brigham Young, Great Salt Lake City, Utah; John J. Blair, Belvidere, New Jersey; S. C. Pomeroy, Atchison, Kansas; J. F. D. Lanier, New York; George T. M. Davis, New York; J. F. Tracy, Chicago, Illinois; H. V. Poor, New York; E. Cook, Davenport, Iowa; Augus tus Kountze, Omaha, Nebraska; August Belmont, New York; Edward W. Dunham, New York; E. T. H. Gibson, New York; Enoch H. Rosekrans, Glens Falls, New York; Luther C. Clark, New York; H. S. McComb, Wilmington, Delaware; Joseph H. Scranton, Scranton, Pennsylvania; J. Edgar Thomson, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Pickering Clark, New York; A. G. Jerome, New York; Charles Tuttle, New York; C. A. Lambard, Boston, Massachusetts; George Griswold, New York; John E. Henry, Davenport, Iowa. Government directors.-Springer Harbaugh, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania; T. J. Carter, New York.

Proceedings of the commissioners of the Union Pacific Railroad and Telegraph Company, at their convention held at Chicago, Illinois, September 2, 1862.

The act of Congress incorporating the Union Pacific Railroad Company made it the duty of the corporators, who were styled in said act, "the commissioners of the Union Pacific Railroad and Telegraph Company," to meet for organiza tion at Chicago, at the call of the commissioners named for the State of Illinois. The commissioners from said State, pursuant to such authority, appointed the second day of September, 1862, at noon, and Bryan Hall, at Chicago, as the time and place for the first meeting of said commissioners for the organization of the

company.

Pursuant to such appointment, the commissioners met at the time and place named, and organized, temporarily, by the choice of Major General Samuel R. Curtis, a commissioner from Iowa, as chairman, and Henry V. Poor, of New York, and J. R. Robinson, of California, as secretaries.

The following commissioners, being a larger number than that required by the act to constitute a quorum, reported themselves in attendance, viz: Maine.-James Dunning, John M. Wood, Joseph Eaton.

New Hampshire.-Joseph A. Gilmore.
Massachusetts.-Edward R. Tinker.

Rhode Island-Charles Fosdick Fletcher.
Connecticut.-Cornelius S. Bushnell.

New Jersey.-Ephraim Marsh, Charles M. Harker.

New York-Royal Phelps, William H. Ferry, Samuel R. Campbell, Alfred E. Tilton, John S. Kennedy, H. Carver, Joseph Field, B. F. Camp, Orville W. Childs, D. N. Barney, S. DeWitt Bloodgood, William H. Grant, Thomas W. Olcott, Samuel B. Ruggles, James B. Wilson.

Pennsylvania.-Joseph H. Scranton, George W. Cass, Daniel J. Morrell, Robert Finney, John A. Green, E. R. Myre.

Ohio.-Amasa Stone, William Denison.

Indiana.-Charles Paine, Samuel Hanna, Jesse L. Williams, Jonas Votaw, Isaac C. Elston.

Illinois-William B. Ogden, Charles G. Hammond, Henry Farnam.

Michigan-John D. Campbell, Charles A. Trowbridge, Ransom Gardner, Charles T. Gorham.

Wisconsin.-John Catlin, Levi Sterling, George A. Thomson, Elihu S. Philips. Minnesota.-David Blakely.

lowa.-Wm. F. Coolbaugh, Lucius H. Langworthy, Hoyt Sherman, Lyman Cook, Samuel R. Curtis, Lewis A. Thomas, Platt Smith.

Missouri.-Wm. M. McPherson, Armstrong Beatty, John Corby.
Kansas.-John C. Stone, Werter R. Davis, Josiah Miller.

Nebraska.-Gilbert C. Monell, Augustus Kountz, T. M. Marquette, Alvin

Saunders.

Colorado-John Evans.

California-James T. Ryan, D. O. Mills, John R. Robinson.

Appointed by the Secretary of Interior-Samuel J. Tilden, New York; Henry V. Poor, of New York; R. W. Latham, District of Columbia; O. M. Wozencroft, of California; and W. D. Griswold, of Indiana.

The commissioners then proceeded to an election of permanent officers of the company, which resulted in the choice of Wm. B. Ogden, esquire, of Chicago, as president; Thomas W. Olcott, esquire, of New York, as treasurer; and Henry V. Poor, esquire, of New York, as secretary.

Upon motion of Mr. Bushnell, a commissioner from Connecticut, a committee of one commissioner from each State and Territory represented, and one from the number appointed by the Secretary of the Interior, was appointed to report an order of business for the convention, viz :

Samuel B. Ruggles, of New York, chairman; John M. Wood, Maine; Charles W. Woodman, New Hampshire; Edward R. Tinker, Massachusetts; John Catlin, Wisconsin; Charles F. Fletcher, Rhode Island; David Blakely, Minnesota; C. S. Bushnell, Connecticut; W. F. Coolbaugh, Iowa; Ephraim Marsh, New Jersey; John Corby, Missouri; G. W. Cass, Pennsylvania; J. C. Stone, Kansas; Amasa Stone, Ohio; Alvin Saunders, Nebraska; Samuel Hanna, Indiana; John Evans, Colorado; Charles Gorham, Michigan; D. O. Mills, California; Henry Farnam, Illinois; Samuel J. Tilden, appointed by the Secretary of the Interior.

The convention then adjourned to meet at the same place on Wednesday morning, September 3, at 10 o'clock.

Upon the reassembling of the convention, September 3, the committee on the order of business reported the following resolutions, which were adopted:

1. That the speedy completion through the territory of the United States,. from the Atlantic to the Pacific, of a railway communication affording adequate means of transit for persons and property, has become an urgent necessity, not only in facilitating and augmenting the commerce and developing the agricul tural, mineral, and fiscal resources of our continental Union, but pre-eminently in providing for the public defence, and perpetuating the political unity of the Atlantic and Pacific portion of the republic.

2. That the eastern division of this great continental chain, extending from the Atlantic ocean to the Missouri river, having already been completed by the capital and enterprise of companies incorporated by the several States, it was eminently proper for the United States to incorporate a national company for completing the residue, reaching from the Missouri to the Pacific, with such aid from the national treasury and resources as seemed to be necessary; and that the country may well rely on the continuance of the same wise and paternal policy to expedite the efforts of the company to complete the work with all practicable despatch.

3. That it was peculiarly the duty of the nation, which had assumed and exercised the right greatly to extend its original limits by annexing the broad area between the Mississippi and the Pacific, and that, too, for the avowed purpose of protecting the commerce and territory of the Union from foreign interference,