, 1874-02-14

criminal
Solicitor Of the Lake Shore q Michigan South
~, paiIrcad, was also interviewed In regard
~ lie fencing section, he said that corporations
rsnsllv made CONTRACTS with the owner OF the
land over which they had the right Of way to do
I'm tI Ct the money paid By the Company, to
-nautain the fence. By this act the owner was
.-,actically relieved from such obligation. The
company had once paid for the fence and
the cost OF maintaining it, yet by this act they
sra,e ~" required to build and maintain Eucl
lance al their own cost, besides subject
~ themselves to damage3 for failure to
nnnuly with the provisions Of the act. When
oyer Any yagraut III wnnt OF money snw fit to
Construct any portion Of the fence, and brought
ra;iroads would be compelled to pay double what
tna work wns worth. The terms of the act
onened the doors III this respect and offered q
nTrmiun for multitute Of malicious prose Gu
tions.
In regard to running railroad trains according
IN the existing city and town ordinances, which
i from to 6 miles Eli hour AIr. noys said
that men experienced III RAILROAD traffic knew
there was less danger IN running train at q
rapid speed than running it slow. because many
would jump tho train if they: could
cet ; cha,ice. Nine out of ten accidents
ft,st occurred On their road, happened, on
slow trains, by men and boys trying to jump on.
The penalty, $25, fo- Jumping on = train WIS
too small, % it was nothing as compared with
tue penalties against railroad companies aud
while those imposed on the railroad companies
went to vagrants. the peoalties for other viola
t;ous Of tho Law went to the school fund Of the
county. But, aside from these objections to this
section, if the railroad company should run ut
The rate Of miles an hour it would take nearly
two hours from here to Cornell, a distance OF
but 10 miles, while at present it took only forty
fye minutes to make that distance, People lir-
ins 10 OF l2 miles i'll the country would rather
object to being compelled to be two and three
hours on their way to the city.
RAILROAD CROSSINGS.
In reference to the section referring to rail-
road cross1ng5, he said that when rnilroad was
constructed through a country and it WAS neces-
ssry to cross a street or highway, it WAS proper
th.t it SHOULD construct and maintain such cros8-
ipg at its own expense, but where it purchased
the ground in fee, and thereafter highway was
laid out across the track. thereby making y
crossing necessary, it WAS only fair that the mu-
nic;pal corporation should construct aud main
t,in such crossing, or pay to tho company such
sum Of noney as will enable it to do the
rule OF compensation which the law
applied to railway corporations should be ap-
psd under the same circumstances, to munic;-
nal corporations, but the rairoa! bill put all the
burdens upon the railway corporations and none.
even under precisely the same circumstances,
On the municipal corporations.
THE SAME USFAIRNESS
was exhibited where they fixed fine both on
the engineer and the company for the failure OF
the engineer to stop before reaching the inter-
section of other roads or draw-bridges. A rulc
Of damages, to be equitable, should not apply to
= railway when it did not, under the same
circumstances, apply to any othee master OF
servant. The bill, in the same manner, made
tile company responsible for the drunkenness Of
tn employe. Let the Legislature a1ix tho same
f;.kfI 9TH and fF1Tf
and they might he charged with acting with in
teigenca and impart!alitv.
TEXAS CATTLE
Mr. Roys IVES of opinion that the section in re-
gard to shipping Texas cattle would be moro i'll
furious to the commerce of tho State than to
railway companies. The entire bill was so
drawn that, i'll almost every act to which tho Legs
lature has affixed a penalty agaiust q railroad
corporation, it would be almost impossible for 3
company to disprove tho charge OF malicious
Taerant r inforn,ors. Mr. Roys charactorized the
bill a. one Of malignant stupidity