The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-01-25
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPOND

FROM OUR OWN CORRESP ONDENT1
EXCITEMENT ABOUT THE COURSE OF THE Cry COUNCIL
The BALTIMORE BILLS TAKEN UP IN THE SENATE
THEIR IMMEDIATE PASSAGE PRoBABLG-MR Nc.
ALLIsTER ON THE Cry PASSENGER RAILWAY,
&C., &c.
ANNAPOLIS, Jan. Oath, 1860
The arrival of the cars was anxiously looked for
this morning, and there was feeling of intense
Indignation among the majority, who had so cour-
teously conceded weeks delay to the minority
before taking up the Baltimore reform measures,
upon their earnest request, when it was found
what use your City Council has attempted to make
OF the time thus allowed for consideration. 1t
was not that any one feared the action of the
municipal authorities could fetter the sovereign
power of the State, but it seemed manifest that
a trick had been attempted-that an appeal had
been made to the magnanimity of the Legislature
only to gain time to hatch schemes of resistance
to its authority, that members felt forbearance
was no longer anything but weakness; and it was
resolved, on the spur of the moment, to proceed
with the legislation which had been unwisey
postponed. Upon examination, it found
that the period within which reconsideration
of the order Of the House could be had
was elapsed and it therefore became necessary
to make the first move in the Senate. A mes
sage was proposed and carried in that body,
asking the House to send up the five bills which
bad been made the order of the day for next
Monday. On receipt of this message, MIR.
Kraft asked if there was any precedent
for such a course as that adopted by the Senate.
To this Mr.. Gordon promptly replied that the times
justified the making of precedent, rather than
required the finding of one to follow. He further
sad in substance, that though he was bound to
presume t city delegation had acted in good
faith and were not responsible for the conduct
of the Council, he did not see how those who had
lately appealed to the courtesy of their fellow
members could, in courtesy, decline to accede to
the reasonable request of a coordinate branch of
the Legislature. Mr.. Freaner moved a message
cOncurring in the request of the Senate. The yeas
and nays werecaled for and the message adopted by
a vote of more than two to one. When the Bills
were brought into the Senate, Mr.. Goldsborough,
of Talbot, moved that they have their first read
ing, which was opposed by SIR. Yellott on parlia-
mentary grounds The debate was kept up with
much spirit by Messrs. Goldsborough, McKaig
kimmel and Iellott, who is still on the floor. 1t
is supposed that the Senate will not adjourn with
out first reading of the Bills, which will be press
ed through as fast as they constutionally may be.
Your Jealous reformer, Mr.. McAllister, is still
on the scent of fraud and corruption. He offered
an order that the Committee on Corporations be
empowered to send for persons and papers and
examine witnesses on oath in the matter of the
City Passenger Railway. He must have Dor
rowed the idea from The Daily Exchange of
this morning, which, | observe, is the IA
vorite reading among the sitting members from
Baltimore With Difference to your better judg
ment, your correspondent ventures to suggest that
very sound and just conclusion may be reached
without any investigation at all. If the Mayor and
City Council had no power to grant monopoly of
the streets to certain species of vehicle, called a
car, running certain kind of pavement, which
is called railway, and it is necessary to appeal to
the State, the question may as well be treated as a
new one. Whatever should have been done in the
first instance, may as well be done now. Those
who offer guarantees to perform the service of car
rying passengers to and fro in your streets, on
the best terms, are the parties to whom the fran
chise should be conceded. Those whose sole
equity consists in the fact that they have, by
the most disreputabe means, forced themselves
upon you without any invitation or necessity
whatever, upon terms doubly more onerous than
your own citizens would gladly have performed a
now placed upon no better footing than other peo-
pie.
Mr.. McAllister's motion laid on the table, on
the ground that the Committee Corporations
had not time for the investigation