, 1874-02-18
RAILROAD NEWS.
TIE NEW ILLINOIS nA11,noAn n1,1,

TIE NEW ILLINOIS RAILROAD p1L. r
Tho Sacramento Record declares, with refer
once to tho Railroad bill which has just passed
our Legislature and is awaiting tho signature Of
tho Governor, that. It ia one Of tho crudeBt ahd
most clumsy things ever considered and TINT
this is precisely what might havo boon expected
IN bill drawn In utter ignorance Of tho complex
conditions Of tho transportation businoBs. In
regard, to railroad logislatiou in general, tho
same paper says: 49,. -,
crystaized 10 demands for laws Of this nature, no
Legislative body IN part Of tho country got sue
wont At tho work 81 regulating thoif roaIs will far
more energy and vim thau have been displayed In
@ California and they passed law ot tho most stringent
aighsed busincua men. Tho enactment Of the law
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died away to real consequences Of tho began
TO manifest themselves. Tho hi crippled tho roads to
moro soriously. Fra,od with the express purpose of
preventing aiscriminaton, 1t oposatea to establish tho
oat 9dous 1 T.. aud ra5nons kind Of dscrminatton
created INEQUALITIES impossible without 1t. Framed
s1th the declared intention Of melting out exact
the adninsaration Of 1uattce impossible. It injured
Ghssago 7 robbed interior towns Of their traffic. mud
lines, and Illinois neroats eeaeFa1 and md
pyea directly into tho hands Of rival States Such
tion III Illinois, md similar enects may be anticipated
from tha same kind Of legislation Ia california I'LL
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with the general welfare and which could be pttacked
with perfect safety sho has lcared to hor cost that
Ell, without initiating hs severeat injuries upon tho
community which, u Il supports the is alao
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AZ. without, doing mischief to tho people. The best
1rHfu ntu1S1t tw1s sJo
interference ,uiao or safe.
; PROPOSED ACTION m CALIFORNIA. = 49,,
T.. It ia also stated In tho Bamo paper that the
President Of the Central Pacific ilailroad Com
pany has addressed n lottor to tho Committee on
Corporations Of the California Senate, In which
10 temperatels discusses the probable ofroct Of
tho action contemplated by tho California Legis-.
!atura with reference to the railroads. He sets
forth that the roads wero built on tho Taith OF
Just treatmont in tho future, thoro being an i'm
Piled understanding that tho public, for whose
benoflt they. wcro built, would not attompt to
Tho question, ho says, il to DO decided in fact,
whether those who put thoir money in railroads
have my -voatea rights to be respected.
Tho bonded indebtednoas OF the roads amounts
Central Pacific clsimn TINT, as tho bills now
pending before the California Legislature will,
It enacted, compel virtual ropudiation, tho stnto.
Will Decotne Responsible for tho damages that
will necessarily be inflicted, upon tho bond
holders.
ACCIDENT ON THE ALTON ROAD.
Mr: J. @. McMulliu, General Superintendent of
the Chicago l. Alton Railroad, received adiHpatch
yesterday. morning Informing him that q coal
track noar Wilmington, running into tho bridge
over the Knnkakco River, noar thRt place, DAM
aging the frstspan very extensively, mud throwing
tho engine on its side, right over the abutment
Of tho bridge, whore it now romaina. Tho acci-
nf liza
man in charge Of tho engine on tho double-track
work by not regottlng tho switch aftor having
passed over It. Mr. Cordott, tho Chief Engineer
Of y bo seaan DG rid s who nd to tho ass
to h4o Io damsse reesrsd It onee
sending Q. dispatch to tho American Bridge
osoapa 9yarea to H9na q,r " the g
noon yesterday special train loft for tho spot
having on boarl everything necessary to repair
tho damage. All will bo III order by noon to-day,
when trains will run as usual. Tho night OK
eral hours behind timo Oh account OF tho brokon
bridge but al other trims arrived in this city as
usual. Fortunately, none OF the omployea on
tho train ut the time Of tho accident were hurt.
THE ST. uno1x LASD-nRANr CONTEST.
Spccdl Dfspatoh r. The Chicago Tribune,
hl1LWAuKEE. Fob. 17.-With regard to tho con-
tested st. oroix land-grant, action waB talton ut
otaena %asStInE at uhPowa Fsls T.
should he used to aid In tho building OF tho
State Road from Eau Clalro to Ashland md, to
inaure thu oompllanco Of tho people Of the
GSonety Ct Tt this desEn snd d. tGoiE support Of
ers after the land-grant hold out the inilucomont
thar They would b1i!d Chippewa Valley Branch
OF tho main line, promising to build from Chip
powa Falla to some polnt on tho mississippi
tions as gu the main line, with tho proviso tlet
to inauro tho building OF tho Aronomipoc