, 1865-02-25
Governor Cranda1l on Horse Rail-
ways and She industrial Colleges
lFr,,in tha ChampAign Unlon+1

Our late Legislature WAS 80 much engaged
during the session "on prfyaae account"
that It could rot find leisure 70 transact much
public business, anRthe location Of tae 1lh-
noia Industrial College, tor which a;., Congress
therefore put to sleep for two Eeaza, and per
hans forever. The q Monroe DoctEtn4' Wsz
also neglected, and the Genara Assembly,
which proved itself In every sense foe-
eign Power" forced upon Chicago horse
hold high carnlyh in that city for one hun
d1ed years. This legislation gives to the
Horse Railway Dynasty all the elements OF a
first class power. It can now form
foreign alliances; grant letters Of marq1s
and reprisal; coin money; emit bills
Of credit make anything Or anybody
aaaas2 5Ts e. pes cd pais sw asss' saS ass q
impairing tho obligation Of contracts, and
grant titles Of nobility. The Institution will
Be represented Of course at foreign courts,
and may have its ENJOYS IN 81 own criminal
courts. It can afford the 81 ense. It has its
Charges already at Joliet and Alton, but they
the founders Of the Dynasty, Who are sip-
posed to have been specially educated tor the
service. John B. Floyd can doubtless be
made useful IN negotiating, treaty with the
Lucifcrian powers. Indeed but little
diplomacy viii be needed IN the matter on
account Of the very friendly relations
al}}ssady existing between the two sover-
Our Legislature performed some services
for which the country is grateful. It made
Richard Yates Senator-repealed the odious
-nblack 1aws''-enacted Registry LAW, and
approved the Amendment to the. Federal
Constitution but Its deeds, take them ''byo
and large" are below the standard Of Copper
head ethics. The Chicago Horse Railway
q In
deeply, darkly, desperately infamous and
ne viii not permit our Imagination to con-
jutc up the Influences which lmpelsed Lcgis-
latorB to force upon an unwilling people
dangerous and hntetul monopoIy-a people,
who in person and through their Immediate
rage in all the forms Of Indignant loyalty, and
were seconded by the executive interpositlon
Of one Of the mcst talented and patriotic OF
living statesmen. Itwas 3 grleVous wrong
inflicted upon the people Of Chicago, and
g,teyously will Its perpetrators be compelled
The neglect to locate the Industrial Col
lcge was crime. Such delay may defeat the
Establishment Of an institution, which could
outrank In its beniticent influences any other
educational undertaking In the State. Pos
sibly re oyerestimate the power Of the Chi
cago TRIBUNE, but re are impelled reluctant
~ 10 the belief, that had It's editors wrought
as.ea1nestly for the location Of this fnstltu-
tion son.e,Nere, as they did to defeat the
wishes OF Champaign county, the Industrial
College bill would have passed in some form;
and this conviction has to some extent 'mndi-
fed the indignation Of our people toward tho
perpetrators Of the Horse Rsilway outrage.
But let that pass, while we say more in sor-
row than in anger thatwe fail 10 see wherein
our General Arsembly which has just adjourn
ed, has any higher claims to public respect
than its illustrious predecessor. we can
point to individual instances Of acceptable
statesmanehip. So could our opponents; but
ASA whole the Illinois Legislature Of 1865 has
furnished Us little to admire and much to
regret.