The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-07-09

clsmation Of 1891, a doctrine which always be-
They are not cor nscted states nor confsderatsd
States, where one may 60 out and withdraw to-
morrow II she chooses. They areUnited States, and
the term connec ed would be out of place. IL is
not connection, but union" Here is paper book.
Here is the contract between the Reading Railroad
Company and the Atlantic and Great Western
Railroad Company, and here is another pamphlet
which one Of the young gentlemen in my office
connected, tied together with a string. Here is
another book, ard the same two pamphlets first
held mp are here, bound within one cover. That
Is union. No man would call it a connection, or
a connected book, any more than he would speak
OF me argument OF the gentlemen on the other side
as connected argument
suppose you can say with the utmost propriety
mat line or boats connects with line of stage
coaches. But they are not the same at all. sup.
pore ina ma can say with perfect propriety that
tulnplke is connected with a railroad, but when
do So the idea of similarity is not present to the
mind lfyou were TO take a drive out of Phila-
avenue on which to drive out Of The eity--the
Township Line Road-and were to ask any toll
keeper, what does this road connect within, al
though it is a turnpike OF a very different gauge
from Broao street, he would promptly answer
BY means of Chesapeake Bay. But the gauge is
not the same, neither the gauge of Ocean, Bay, or
River. So, with equal correctness, may say
that the French Emperor, that marvellous embodi-
ment of intellect and energy, as useful as 1t is
wonderful, is connecting the Mediterranean with
the Red Sea, by a canal through the neck of land
that in turn connects Asia with Africa, The En-
peIor says he will perfect the connections but any
body who has riddt on the Mediterranean for a
few hours, as believe one Of your Honors has,
will say that it is different thing from the Red
Sea.
So we may speak of the Isthmus of Panama as
connecting the two continents of America, one of
which looks like stout, well favored broad
shouldered man. and the other like a ham bone of
the leanest sort. So also we speak OF the Straits
of Dover ana the bodies of water they connect on
either side of the German Ocean and the English
Channel, without having present TO the mind at
all the idea OF similarity or identity. Take the hui
man body. mans head is connected with his
trunk by his neck and IL is a very important con-
nection, as that gentleman whose name was intro
duced into this argument, the other day. Mr..
Probst as scertained by that accident which hap
pened 10 him in the Jail. yard, in the presence of
the Sheriff. The head is connected with the body
by the neck, and yet have known men between
the gauges of whose heads and whose stomachs
there was no identity. We may speak of the lungs
being connected with that little organ d larger
than my fist, that lies under my breast, the heart
capable, artery suddenly cut of, of eject
ing my blood several feet into the air. and yet there
is no similarity or identity between the lungs and
the heart
Take the external man. I may venture on an
observation on these eye. glasses, which L seldom
put on when any body is looking, but frequently
use when no one is observing it. These eye glasses
are connected by slender arch. But there is no
similarity whatever between the glasses and the
arch. Take an old-fasEloned watch seal. do
not happen to have one. 1cu say that watch
seal is connected with the by chain. Here
is a bunch of keys; they are connected by ring,
but there are none of them alike My horse is
nected with the vehicle in which ride by means
of the traces yet nobody would think of similarity
there The branches of tree are all connected to-
gether, and are also connected with the trunk but
j never saw two branches of tree that alike
A telegraph operator would say my instrument
here is connected with the wires, but it is very
different thing from the wires. The members of a
domestic family are connected, and in this sense
we speak OF brothers being connected. We say
that a man connects himself with the church, or
| connects himself with political party. Lawyers
are connected as colleagues in a cause and to de-
eide II Judges are in certain sense connected on
the bench, but there is no idea of similarity; and
SO, wherever you go, round and round, to any
place you please, you will never have the idea OF
similarity in your mind when you the word
| connect. This is the way in which the people
use IT,
But there is another mode OF Interpretation;
! will therefore show you in the second place how
these parties have used it, and in the third place
will show you how the State has used it. ...
These compliments have used 1t in the sense for
which argue, that the word connection is used
without reference to gauge. In their annual re-
port for last year they speak of connections exist
Ing between two certain roads of different gauges
hey print tne lact tnat they connect with roads OF
different gauges on their tickets, and they charge
passenger for such a ticket which, If the doc
trine OF Mr.. Gibbons be true is the very highest
| injustice. They put into passengers hand, and
| take his money for, a ticket, informing him that
| they are going to carry him through from Phila-
delphia to Meadville over roads with which they
connect, and over roads which are of dissimilaI
| gauges.
In the contract of 1857, they say that the said
companies do mutually covenant and do make GER
| tain connections and arrangements. That is, the
Atlantic and Great Western Railroad Company
They say: ''for the purpose of forming railroad
connections" And again, ''provided further, tina
after the aforesaid connections shall be made
And this is between these two identical roads in
this contract agreeing that connections will have
| to be formed, or that they have formed them, anC
that they hereby make the connections.
The word was used in certain resolutions. These
parties, the managers of the Philadelphia and ErC
| Railroad Company, called a meeting at their OF
ce on the 10th of July, 1884, after the track of thu
| Atlantic and Great Western Railroad Company
was built, and after the gauge had been fixed, fol
there has not been rail laid down since and they
| said this:
| Resolved, That the President of this Company
be instructed to notify (under the seal of the Com
| pany) the President and Directors of the Allan
| tic and Great Western Railroad Company of th
| acceptance by this Company of all the obligation
| mand OF said Atlantic and Great Western Rail
road Company, on their part, fulhlment of tn
| same. ..
| How could the Sunbury and Erie Road form
| the same and equal connections with the Atlant
| and Great Western Railroad Company, as tina
| load then formed with the New York and Erie
the gauge OF the roads being entirely different
| What answer was given to the bench on this sub
ject! "Ah! WELL" they say, ''but one part of thi
| act destroys the other" There is a part whicl
| says we shall make the same or equal connections
| and there is part which says something else
The part which suits we will take, and tn
| other we will reject How could they get owe
the fact that the gauge of the Sunbury and Fri
| was fixed, and the gauge OF the Atlantic ant
Great Western Railroad txedl How could theI
| call upon the Atlantic and Great Western Rail
| read Company to make the same connections will
| the Philadelphia and Erie that they made will
| other roadsl How could they make equal ant
the same connections with both roads, one o
V which had gauge of feet SH inches, and tn
| other of feet. They did not believe at this tim
that difference of gauge should be considered II
| forming connections, otherwise they would no
| have sat down and agreed about forming con
nections, which they now say cannot be forme'
| at all. ....
Then again this contract which was made Of
| 2lst of April, 1865, provided as follows.