The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1853-04-14
The. islature.

The most satisfactory resolution the Legisla-
ture has yet passed, is that which determines
that anal adjournment will take place on Tues
day next, 18th inst.
The Appropriation Bill has passed the House,
and is likely to pass the Senate without any
modification, so far as the new Portage is con
cerned. The appropriation toward the compile
ton of the road amounts to four hundred and
sixty-three Thousand dollars, or in other words,
four times the amount the old Portage costs the
State annually. The propriety Of continuing
the work on the new road or abandoning it en-
tirely, and adopting the old road from the foot
of fPlane No. 5, to the foot of Plane No. S, with
the new road from those two points to Holh-
daysburg and Johnstown, thereby leaving four
planes upon the mountain route, as recommen-
ded some years ago by T. J. Power, Engineer,
has been the great ''hobby" of the present Leg
islature. Opposed TO the present new Portage
we had firstly, the Central Railroad, for the rea-
son that the new State road when completed
would conflict with the interests of thafcorpora-
tion,- diminish the carrying trade on that road,
and increase the trade and tolls on the new
State road. Secondly, several contractors who
were not allotted contracts on the new Portage,
who vainly supposed that as they had one of
their body in the lower House, that he
could, by his giant o. efforts and eloquent g.
remarks defeat an appropriation to the new
road and give the Canal Board ''A Roland for
their Oliver" Thirdly, the engineer who was
disappointed when Mr.. FAIRIES was selected TO
take charge of the road, he being an applicant
for the same situation, and who still adheres to
his original opinion that several planes are ne
cessary on the road. Happily however, the
Legislature of the State withstood the attacks
made upon the road by the three divisions
above named, and have appropriated money for
its completion. This is it should be, and will
command the appreciation of the great majority
of the State. The member of the Legislature
who, if report says true, was determined ''to
make it pay this winter at Harrisburg" has
been signaly foiled in his effort to defeat the
appropriation-hs wholesale charges against
the conduct of the Canal Board have not been
sustained, and he has created for himself, by
his impolitic and unjust course, legislative rep
utation that need covet of him.
On several occasions, he has been lavish of
his abuse upon the heads of the laborers and
residents on the old Portage, and could scarcely
find sufficient base and scandalous epithets to
apply to them. People who live in glass hou-
ses, should never throw stones" and were all
the facts made known in reference to the load
ing of large lots of ties upon the state trucks at
Johnstown, and unloading them above Plane No.
., and as to who did not pay any frcightfor con-
veyance of said ties from the former to the lat
ter place, charges might be sustained against
those who so often charge others of that which
they themselves are blameahe with. The odium
of defeat in all his aims and objects rests upon
him, and he is thrice welcome to it, while there
is not a single voice raised for his relief. Of
questionable democracy, his course has not ere
ated much surprise, nor is his intimate connec-
ton with the central company sufficient justif-
cation of the errors and faults of his legislative
career. May his constituents be desirous of
awarding to him proper praise for his Purs and
undgfled democracy.