New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-03-20
RAILROAD LEGTSLA TON IN NEH-
JERSEY-POLITICS, &c.

| CofIespondence of The ". Y. Tribune
| TRENTON, March 10, 1860.
| This State exhibits every symptom Of determl-
nation to plunge into new career OF railroad
progress The present may be called the Railroad
Legislature. II has passed some charters whose
| extraordinary provisions have made one class OF
citizens stand sPbast, while it has rejected Others
to the conioundirg of another class. l am not q
member of the lobby, do not know their secrets,
eat rome of their fine dinners, drink none of their
vine, nor gorge at their midnight suppers. Yet
even so quiet spectator can pick up 1T the street
cor1eIs in the crowded bar-rooms of an evening"
and especially in the local press fund OF inorna-
ten as 10 how the current sets and why IL se'' III
this OF that direction There is a scam on the sur
face whose drift cannot be mistaken. Io.oS ID
floats in one direction while tomorrow ~ claaso'
right about and floats the other way. It's motive
| mower must be concealed beneath the surface, We.
| most loOkers-on could be sworn that they couIu
] truly describe it, Notwithstanding the cOnceaillenl
| I make no doubt that those who have daoDleu III
dirty waters have found that there was ihohey
at the bottom. Our soothsayers are so posuVe on
this point, and they repeat their convictions III my
ears so constantly, that, adding what see 10 what
thus hear, ii is natural for TO be by thls tlme
decided in my belief that every man has hls price,
That some have got il there can be no doubt, but
whose money it was, and whose it now is, this de-
pOnent leaves. Members OF our Legislature get
only 81 so day now. For the first forty
days Of the session they received SO, but after
that they are cut down one-half. Now II this alb.
surb economy can be corrected by evying contribu-
tons ON the lobby it is worth while to remain hers
longer even at the insignificant figure of 81 90 per
day with postage stamps extra. Innocent people
think the Legislature stays here on these low wages
fbak tba h.fa Init
have my own opinion on that subject.
Chief-Justce Green has been confirmed as Chan
cellOr, an Office vacant nearly TIVE years-kept so
by the Democratic senste till nOw-in the vain
hope of coercing the nomination of the late incum-
bent Of that stripe. This long hiatus has done in-
cal,ulable pecunary injury to hundreds of people,
made the twenty-One Sherihs in the State lose all
their profits, and caused irightful accumulation of
business. Bat Judge Green is legal disciphn-
ariaD, prompt, abOrous, and, being i'll the prime of
lie, VIII bring up this leeway in short order. He
is an old Wing wv Republican, an not committed
pro or con as regards the great railroad question
which underlies oil others just now.
The IIouse has passed the bill for a railroad from
Milestone TO the Delaware River thus giving the
New-Jersey Company clean cut from Jersey City
across the State, thence to connect with Pbiadel-
pbia by road in Pennsylvania already chartered.
Bot the Senate Committee have reported against
it, Other projects are yet to come forward, but 1t
is doubtful if any of them can be- carried. Mr..
Stevens's road from Newark seems to have absorbed
all the real interest of the session.
The greatest opposition will be made by the New
jersey Railroad Company to Mr.. Stevens building
his road from Newark TO IIobOken. You may look
TO seeing il carried into the courts the mo-
ment move il made toward commencing It.
Should the former he defeated it will then 90 TO the
Supreme Court at Washington, thus requiring years
before the monopoly right OF the former be either
affirmed or set aside. The presumption with most
persons is that the bridge monopoly over the Hack
ensack and Passaic rivers as now held by the New
jersey Railroad, is as absolute now it was when
granted, in 1880. This very question: the turning
point of The whole controversy, has been pronounced
upon years ago, by dozen of the highest legal char
acteIs in the State friends, too, of Mr.. Stevens
who have delivered written opinions in favor of the
bridge monopoly. Yet the Legislature has Just said
that it may be abrcgated by paying damages. Now,
the point is this: that if one monopoly may thus be-
abolished then all others may be; and, if they b.
then free railroads and free bridges viii be inaugu-
rated throughout New jersey. On the other hand,
if the bridge monopoly of the New-Jersey Company
should be sustained by the courts, then all other
mOnOpOlies must be sustained also. They all stand
OH the same platform, ard must stand or fall to-
eeher But the peculiarly of the case is, that now,
for the first time, this lOng-mOoted question will
come into court for adjudication How or when il
VIII END, even VIE man canlo' say Dut VIC IN
clusive privileges of the Camden and AmbOy Com
pany expire in 1862 1t would not surprise Inc TO
see the decision STAYED off until that remote day.
The Spring elections, held last week throughout
the State, have shown clear gaiGs for the OppOsi-
ton. 1t is Il great mistake TO count out New-Jer
sey among the States not certain for the Chicago
nominee We have whitfield down our creed TO
a single article, and that is, that we go for that
nominee be he who he may. 1t is true we have
our preferences but we are determined to sink
them ALL and move forward under a common flag
to common victory. The personal and local EN-.
barrassments which Inundated in ls56, have all
disappeared. Efforts to resuscitate them have been
made, and have failed. The masses who then sup
ported Fillmore have abandoned all sympathy with
a third party, and minge and vote tremendously
cemented into one patriotic Opposition As such
they carried the State last year. and are certain to
do better next time.