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cnourh from the cnorr, Gus profits Of lis Hons.

| enough from the enormous profits ofitx Horse
Railroad Companiest to pay tho entire expsnse
Of its common schools, or Of Its city govern
ment, while Chicago shall get nothing for her
franchises, and shall be restricted to taxing
her hackmcn. draymen, carmen, cxpsessmen
and apple-Ecndcrs, on the paltry plttance
they carn, while bloated monopolies, whose
profits are swelling up to Thousands aud mil
lions, arc as sacrcd from taxation ~ the cler-
gy In Francc were before the revolution. Al
ali events, VIC should preserve the right In the
municipal government Of Chicago, to say
whether these, her franchises, should bs taxed
or not. The vested rights Of the city Of Chi.
caeo, Of which this Railroad Bill has deprived
us, are worth, in the near future, untold mil.
Lions Of dollars.
THE FIVE CENT. CLAUSE RE
PEALED
The original ordinance OF tho Common
Council, authorizing tho laying down OF
tracks for Horse Railroads In Chicago, coy
taans the terms on which that privilege was
graDted-the portion Of The contsact which
enu1ed to the benefit of the city and the peo-
PIC Section 9 Of these ordinances was as fol.
lows:
!" The rate Of fare for any distance shall not e1-
shall BE- chartered Tor specf5c purposo.
On this condition the tracks vere mt down,
This ordinance having. by confirmaton in the
Legislature, become part Of the statute laW
regulating Horse Railroads, needed repeal in
order to carry ont the present ambition Of the
Railroad Companies. They had not the hon.
cs.y 10 come before the Legislature with 4
clause plainly electipe this object. thus:
"The Common Council may at aay dine author.
abnve five cenfa.r ~ A -
They therefore insert the following clause
into their late omnibus bin:
..lrotided, That any contracts hereafter made
hy ,he Common q y, Council af the cit! q chlcaso @
ac FOR hieher tats q fare than lra renta - sSai1
be subject 70 modification or repea, at any regular
rn.s " .i - H., es'1 iac'nc y
efal Assembly Of The Stats Of fllinoia.'
THIS clause contains no intcl1lgible idea cx,
cept that the Common Council may author
izc higher rate Of fare than five cents. Why
the legislature should enact that the Com
mon Council should have the power to repeal
given ordinance By the same vote that pass
Cd II, Is aitncalt 70 olscs1n. ms evident IN
tent OF thfs clause is 10 pave me way Tor
raising tne 1afe 10 len cenu. 1ney 40 th1s
ps kana4s soueosanng tnaa We 10 80 We
sha!l not 4ose Inc power 10 put II down
again II WAS cunning IN tnese monopolics
10 get tneh charters e1tenoco "1thout equiv
alcnt, TO nne15'n1ne years, oJore putting the
1a1e up 70 len cents: HAD they PM up their
laEee IN Inc n1at anstanee' ano linen applied
for IN e3tens1on o1 1nelr CHARTERS Tue game
might not he{e Wofked so emootnly.
MR. m'C0NNELL's SPEECH.
Wcfprtnt in another column some extracts
from the speech Of Mr. Mcconnell, of Nor
gan county, delivered in the Senate at Spring
field, on the ed inst, while the joint rcsolu-
tion WAS pending, asking the Illinois men,
bers Of the Senate and House Of Represents
tivcs Of the United States, to use their en-
deavors to induce Congress TO take measures
to amend the Constitution, BY the abolition
Of slavery and involuntary seryitudc in all the
States md Territories, Apart from the con-
densed style Of argument, the cogeucy aud
sounaness Of reasoning, and aptness Of illus
tration, this speech is remarkable as emana-
ting from lifelong Democrat, friend and