The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1853-01-29

tJ * hl duel with pick AKA, sLoyel. ack-kHiir.
or bpdkin The bill vas not disposed Vi, when
the hosss adjourned
THURSDAY, Jan 90.
Ssna,s-Ths bill 70 charter the Pike County
Railroad Company vas taken up, and after a
lengthy discussion, defeated. the seni;s refusing
I" order 1t 10 q third reading. The bill proposed
to authorize the construction of railroad from
Naples to a point opposite Hannibal, Missouri
IL was sort of state policy tight bat the vote
vas not 4 fair test on that question There Is an
unquestlon.d liberal p.liey' majority IN tho
senate which will mm.jesr i;.eit On the Atlantic
aud Nissisnppi Railroad bll
The bill vi Mr. W allace. cooperating Q com
pany to construct 4 railroad bridge aeToss the
Mississippi At Fulton City, in Nh'te.lie county,
was passed This pain, is said to bs one Of the
mos, favorable fer bridging on the whole river.
The rver is not over isree iolrtls Of mile vide,
And the banks are 60 high lhsiA bridge can he
Constructed % a. 10 DC w feet above hish water
mark
Mr. Gridlsy moved 10 reconsider the vote Of
yesterday ordering the bill to repeal the Gsusral
Banking Law to s third reading, bet after ashort
debate on the bill, withdrew tie motion.
The committee then resolved itself into com
mittee Of the whole. and resumed the consldeia'
tion Of the liquor bill, the question being Oh Mr.
Cocks amendment.
Mr. Bryan spoke in favor Of the amendment,
Mr. Campbell opposed it. He could not see
the necessity for it. II community was gen.
orally opposed to the liquor traffic, there would
no one be apt to pay the high license required
BY tho bill for tie privilege Of selling liquor IN
sueh a community.
Mr. Cook regretted that his strength would
not permit hun to argue this question; but 1t
might be considered discount, ons should he fail
to reply 10 some remarks made on last evening
by his honorable friend who pr.sldes over the
deliberations 81 this body, Dir. [. bad been
surprised TO hear his remarks of Yesterday char
acterred as offensive. They were certainly not 20
intended, and hs could now recollet nothing lie
had said, Justly liable To the charge. lie had
also been charged with arrogance Tor stating
the fact that tue board Of supervisors had Il
unanimously peiltoncd this legislature in favor
Of the Name law. and that hIs constituents had
sent in great Numbers Of petitions in favor Of that
law. Was it boastlng to say that his constituents
were in favor Of prohibiting the traffic in intoni-
eating drinks He thanked the geGllrnss Tor
the admi,sio |, was cunteniei by hls homer
able FREED that il the amendment were adopt
ed the law wonld not lie general On tie
contrary. Mr.. c. CON endeG lL,t the law would
NOT be general unless the amendment WAS
dop,ed. Each county would have thu power Ia
Gay whether it shall &c into effect there or not.
This was a general right. law may he gen
eral in its provisions though local IN ~ appca'
tions. Was not the township organz,ou law III
force in bu, part If the state, and vet would
any one contend it WAS not general la~t !,
was general in that each county was At liberty to
accept il or not. lie could conceive Il hut one
act that would be more general ~ 10 provisions.
and that would be to PISS a law al or this VIE:
" Be it enacted Il at We will all get drunk ,ogeth'
err HIS housIable friend had also said there
wers more persons sent to the p-uitrn'isry from
the northern counties than from the southern,
Mr.. c. was however unv,llin-. Ia admit that It
was any the less on account Of drinking liquor
that more were sent from tie north than the
sonth He hal been prosecutor for six years
and lie was po.ltiye that IN three.fouT,h If the
cnses he had tried, the crimes had been commit
ted under the haenre II iniuxicI.ing drink Tie
certainly could ius.i 10 reason way There
oud nc more conviction. ~ lis pat ct the state
Than in st. Clair county If the fact were So, un-
less it was that up there We had hanit IT send
ing 10 the p.nlirut,ry those that deserved Ia ~.
His friend had a-o allnlcd To thu fact that III ~
were some s patients in the iu, ne a. lum "n &C
count Il disappointed love, while there Wa ha;
uur on accn,in, of drunkenness, aud he had ask ID
whether. on that account We should pIuhiht
NE Indulgence uf the tender passion If love Z
Sir. Z c"ntendcd that that was - locdl question.
In the cold northern res on- from which he caine,
the passion was never INDUCED IN so car as to
d-,hrone reason. such disastrous effects brmy
confined. lie imagined. only "a the more south
.rly region Of 81. CHR county and Mr. {.
III, -s,L Il.
man with the urdcr-iandIng that he ,h"uld lie
permitted to make love. get jlied. AMI gocra-
~ as much as hs pleased, in which case he
hoped the learned eenllemsr would be willing
to lie, him. (Mr. C } and lis people get drunk
only when they pleased
Again the gentleman had remarked that in
olden times 1t was the fashion to become IN
sane from love but now i, was all charged to
liquor, from which he had deduceI the argn,
msnt, tha. thereioae we mus, license plenty Of
groceries.
Mr.. C. apOlogzsd Tor replying to this argu-
ment Of the honorable gentleman, for the tea
soa that he had either forgotten or unfortunate
" lost the point Of IL, and with his best effort
could not recover it. He had been asked il
DIDO had not gone crazy from disappointed
lovei II the classic fable is to bs received, i.
seemed to him. from the actions Of the lady,
as "shs paced the hesch with locks dishevsl
led" that there was probably liberal law
in Carthage, and the old lady was drunk.
The learned gentleman had questioned the
constiiu,onality Of the measure. Mr. c. he.i,a.
ted in differing with hi, learned friend upon le-
gal ques. ion, yet was the more positive about the
consiltutionaty Of his ane ndm-nt. because in
Thurlow -. Massachusetts, 5 How IS H.. IT had
been decided by the Supreme Court Of tn. U
$, that such prohibitory laws were constitution.
al. Again, the gentleman had characterised
this excitement throughout the state on the
subject a. an epidemic Mr.. C. had seen none OF
its rpIdrmcal effects. But he had Witnessed ma.
ny effects Of the alliance OF such epidemic lie
had alluded 10 some cases Of yesterday, and lie
could mention many more wh-re the want I'll
that epidemic has been fatal not unly tn men who
had NO station tn lose but to miuy IN the III. hr,l
circles of society, and even ,nru who have bo-n
honorei with Stations Of trust II that feeling
which WAS shadowed forth by the huge pile ri
petitions on the table Of the senate, WAS the only
endemic. he should I mr. no evil result from i,
We were told that feeling was but transtory, like
| abolltioni-m, or any other temporary excitement
and in wha, seemed to him words VI triumph au,
exultatlon, the gentleman had declared i, to be
evvncscent--that 1t wuull pass away. Mr. e
believed AMI hoped not. A. long n. dram drink
tug continued, lie believed the excitement wuu
ronlini. But II this feeling WI, destined To Is.
sway--if all the misery and death caused by the
dram shops should CEASE to excite regret. and We
must continue To be exposed to their bal-fnl lnhu
snce. he submitted that hc could sss in it no
cause for sxul,ation II that feeling whni
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