The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-05-19

- The money appropriated for that purpose
N ss;d act; and the said Rock Island and Pacific
Rsiiroad Company shall not have, acquire, ior en-
low any right of way privilege tsereon, or the
use of said bridge, until the asreement afore-
said shall be made and guaranteed according
to the terms and conditions Of said act Of appro-
priation. All acts. or parts Of acts inconsistent
with these resolutions are hereby repealed.
Secs And be u further resoiped, Tat ass
bridge BUCK ander The prorisions Of fis ae sate ~
section t,oo of entitled "An act 70 aspo,.1s
The construction Of certain bridges, ana % sesI
them as post roads" approved july t'centg,hfth'
eighteen hundred and sirsy:fsee.
Passed the House of representative fooi" "i'
10, 1883. nsoN m,
Th;o sroonament relates to width of draw, dc.
Snancer Robinson and their satellites,
| who wish to kill the free bridge in order to
| keep up the ferry monopoly, object to this
| resolution, on the ground that each separate
railroad company win be required TO build
their own bridge to the Island also that the
Joint Resolution does not provide for rebuild
ing the carriage bridges from this city and
Moline to the Island. These objections are
mere subterfuges, raised to attract attention
from their own villainous conduct in oppos
ing the free bridge. We know of no reason
why the United States should build bridges
for railroad companies over the slough, any
more than over Duck Creek, in Iowa-and
! we doubt if Spencer & Robinson can give
| any sensible reason for it. The bridge over
the main channel Of the Mississippi is quite
another affair.
AS to the carriage bridges from this side
to the Island, it is enough to say that wher
this Joint Resolution was passed by The
| House and read and referred, in the Senate
| they were both standing. 1t would hardl,
be necessary to ask Congress to replaet
them before they had been destroyed. Blu
we suppose Spencer & Robinson know, a
well as anybody, that an appropriation ha
been asked for to rebuild them and tina
Gen. Rodman, in urging its passage discov
cred the treachery of Spencer & Robinson h
the interests of this whole region of country
and exposed it.
This morning 1.-THE lsth) we receive,
another letter from our correspondent, civ
ing the substance of the conversation be
tween him and Judge Trumbull, as follows
"In my conversation with Judge Trumbul
he said Robinson wanted him 10 oppose tn
Joint Resolution on the ground that tn
people of Rock Island were opposed to -
bridge. Judge Trumbull replied: "Wh
don't they demonstrate ~ This question
Robinson could not answer. He then state
that the War Department was opposed t
the Joint Resolution "If that be the case,
said the Judge, "let the War Department
inform me officially, of their objections an
I viii consider the same" Robinson sub
sequently wrote letter TO the War Depart
mens asking them to furnish Judge Trum
bull with their objections, &c. The Wa
Department wrote the Judge that, any in
formation he desired tcould be promptly .ttt,
nished. This ended the correspondence
but Judge Trumbull told me he wanted n
information-he was in favor of the Join
Resolution and would press its passage q
the earliest practicable moment. He sue
gested that if l had any amendments in tn
interests of the people he would cheerful
present them when the Resolution came uI
"The Spencer & Robinson remonstrane
is not and has not been on file anywhere
IL has, at present, no official existence, bu
was probably gotten up and signed and use'
as an excuse for some venal congressman
to permit himself to be "employedn- j
the latest coinage as a substitute for "brlb
| ed" If / can get q sight oft Rock ISLAND
| shall know how il reads and who signed it.