New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-03-15
Legislative Confidence Game.


The New York papers appear to think tliss
mammoth confidence game has been pIayea III
upon the people Of that city by George Law and
the State Legislature, in getting up an impossible
scheme Of city railroads in order to prevent fhe
construction Of any new railroads at all. From
the Tribune Of the 9TH we extract The folIoNInx
upon the snbject: 4
The !" Gridron bill l,r 40 cayied--dssigrea iii aS
thOrize the laying 0f iron rails fn nearBY Hill dnr
important streets MT already thna corsetsd dMAIly
TO twelye-every Senator present ard voting, f
motion to reconsider waB then voted d0Nn-@niates
teen TO eleven. Scfthe bin goes % Thu Aasaul
bly,.
The introduction and passage III thia bin thrcurh
the Senate excited equal ast0nishment and disasf.
isfaetion in our city yesterday, it being genefa1
regarded as scheme to divide about 81 900 90
between the lobby kings who devised and the menl
bers who voted or are to vote for 1t.
| 1t strikes Us that the alarm TINS evinced was
premature This bill cannot pass the Assembly
Morgan must veto it. His annual message g clear
with regard to the essential features Of any CITY
/ Railroad bill-unequiy0cal in its terms and une-
| quiyocally right. M
/ Our city urgently needs more r.iirosds we
think about as many more as wc now have ard Il
seems very hard that we cannot have them ikhn1t
4 paying enormous toll to somebody. Are there not
/ men enough in the present I,egfsgture viii seam
to sell themselves outright for base IucFe ta It'll Ill
have the facilities absolutely needed FIJI aEersfnK
1 onr streets without exactng pay f0r itg What WI
want (aa the Governor has clearly Intimately III
three Or four more City Railroads chartered under
such conditions as will secure srst, the fair and
i just recompense Of those whose pecnniary riRhts
are invaded by these roads secondIy. that Ill Tez
idne of the market value Of the franchises coneed
| ed shall accrue to the City Treasury. That II the
whole story. Who can fail to understand it
The probable result Of the developments OF the
last two days at Albany the same as ut last sen
| sion-no new railroads at all. And fhereat me
fullpursed monopolists who own our existing roads
will iangh and grow fatas they well may always
| promising that they will not have 90 bleed too
| freely to secure this consummaton.
In another article upon this subject the Tribune
says:
In one word, the opinion Of the bestinformed
parties here is that Messrs. Law and PettigreN
simply wish to kill of the city railroads already
needed by the city, and partly under way, but for
the explosion Of this b0msheii; and that, with n
full knowledge that such d network uf city x4fls
4 roads as they propose can never be tolerated hy
the Governor, these two operators have sednced
seventeen Senators into supporting their b in the
hope Of comforting by it some fay0ra On their izs
mediate dependents. Such would appear the only
reasonable explanation of the case; but the SEN
ators have fallen into the trap with the confidence
and sweet unsuspectingness Of children just she'd
ding their milk-teeth.
For the mirage of an immense monopoly held
out by Law and Pettigrew, and perhaps for more
solid considerations our Legislature appears anx-
, GUS to abandon those little green spots in the
desert of Legislation which promised to give rs q
few much-needed city railroads ds-dispensing Inn
tied amounts of patronage to those who aided IN
their passage. The dogs, however, are willing to
quit substance for shadow, and will probably lose
the good marrow bone which they had their teeth
on for the visionary hind-quarter of an elephant
held out to them by Messrs. Pettigrew and Law.