New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-03-27
ADJOURNMENT or THE CAMDEN AND
AMBOY LEGISLATURE.
EXTRAORDINARY SCENES.
Correspondence Of The Newark Mercury.


Correspondence of The Newark Mercury. % ,oeo
The last hours of the sessen in perfect keeping
with the character of the controlling pc OF the
Legislature, intented by more than the usual amount
Of Internal excitements. The connections of the pvi
GUS two or three dsyshe anxiees and chagrn of the
Camden and Amboy monOpolsts and their confederaes,
great at the fcTeshadowed defeat of their project
the New brunswick and Milbun road twin brother
to that OF HObOkeD). The resolution directing the
Attorney General institute legal proceedings az ,nst
the Joint Companies for not complying with law, by
making the double track. Strengthening their curves,
and increasing the rapdy and safety OF their trains
for which they had received large Considerations from
the State and the G. neral rdignaon of the friends Of
the peoples railroads which had been defeated by the
Assembly by only two votes-taese, with the usual
incidents and schemes Of lesser magnitude, involved
the closing of the House in great connection
Two gentlemen who left the Assembly room about I'D
O'Clock at night remarked, that there had never been
such House before at Trenton, all things being IN
keeping with the midnight orgies, and the favorite
song of the controlling powers closing most uproaf
ously and truthfully with the appropriate chorus:
1--WE are all band Of robbers
We are all band VI robbers,
From the Camden and Anboy State"
The greatest convulsion was produced on the morn
ing Of the last day by Mr.. Woods resolution. This
rected the acts of theLegisatures Of 1854 and 1887,
showing that for enormous privileges granted, and
large increase of capital the Joint Companies agreed
to make complete oonole track siIagben their road
and increase the rapidy and safety OF their road;
none Of which had been done, though Six years had
elapsed. But on the contrary the capital had been in
part diverted for extra dividends and for other unsw
full purposes and in view of these delnq direct
ing the Attorney General to institute legal proceedings,
looking to the remedy of the quo warranto
The efforts Of the last three dsys to raise the vote Of
the NewBrunswick and Milburn bill above %, three
less than necessary for its passage were at once
parsyzed by the above resolution, and MIR. Wood was
eDIeated not TO call il mp iii the Afternoon with the
surance that the Milburn bill would not be moved.
This entreay renewed several times the parties,
however with their usual policy, striving most inofdi-
tately but clandestnely TO procure the three more
votes necessary.
But the nie ht session came on, and soon became q
rcene Of undisgused revery Little business save the
passage of the Incidental BILL and another giving to the
Chancellor the duties authorized TO be performed by
the Chief Justice by acts of Incorporation, when the
Office of the latter should be vacant and other minor
bills. The House was evidently in a condition to do
nothing gravely, many struggling through the lobbes
and the adjoining rooms. Some peacefully disposed
bad gone home to bed and others were making their
couches on the sofas outside Of the bar Yet the wheels
of legislation clumsily rolling on, and the mag
mates of the Mlbun bill seeking to force It's passage
up to nearly IL midnight, their number Us, how
ever becoming "small by degrees and beautifully
less until at lens tn the adjournment came and this
pet monopoly project with the resolution preparing
for the quo waanto against the Joint Companies both
died with the expiring hour of the session, and both
sleep till next session. unless by the inerposition of
the Court the quo warranto proceedings, including
charges for taking excessive fares should be brought
into active operation at an earlier day. J.C. B.