New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-12
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE
MORE OF MR.. sESsIoNSs RECORD.


ONE or his REPUBLICAN, CONSTITUENTS SHOWS
now LOREN D. SESSIONS BETRAYED 1HE lNrrH-
rsTs OF Ills PEOPLE A STRONG PROTEST
AGAINST MS RENOauNAIIOS.
10 NE Edi0r Of I1e 7ritide.
SIR: The iustice Of your criticisms OF Senator
Sessions's record ia The TRIBUNE Of the 3Oth MT.
IS obvious 10 ell who have watched his legislative
career. Your article called attention 10 hs
"crookcdncs,' in legislation pertaining to your
city but YOU failed to mention that at the Dehest
Of the Ncw-York Central and Troy and Boston Kali
roads he was directly uniaithful to bis constituents
in legislation Of vital importance TO their business
interests.
In the wear 1877 the Boston, IIoosac Tunnel and
Western Railroad Company commenced binding
short railroad connecting the Delaware and hudson
Canal Company railroad ~ Observation-Disclosures
Hudson with ihc Massachusetts, state Railroad. Inc
object in building this short line was 70 got through
line to the New-England States via the Atlantic
and Great Western, Eric, Albany and Susquehanna,
Delaware and HUDSON Boston, Hoosac Tunnel ana
Western. and tho Massachusetts, State Railroads
thu, giving 10 al places having railroad commnnI-
cations will both the Erie end N"w-Iork Cen'ri
the benefit of competing routes TO Now-Iork.
The Boston. H1o,ac Tunnel and Western Rail
road Company in laying their track occupied the
old road-bed of the Albany and Vermont Railroad
Company dong since defuncn, which runs near TO
and parallel with the Troy and Boston Railroad a
snort line connecting ihe Ncw-York Central WIN
The Massachusetts State Road, which, by the way
is a railroad running through tho iloosHc Tunnel
and free to all railroad companies that pay the
State toll for its use. The New-York Central con-
trois both the Troy and Boston aud ihe Boston and
Albany. which gives it monopoly Of the carrying
trade between this state, as well as points iurther
West. and the New-England States; II very
naturally opposed with the Troy and Boston, the
building Of this link, which would give the Eric
through route to Boston and the FAST without the
delay and expense OF a transfer in Ncw-lork.
About sixteen years since, the Troy and Boston
boucht the Albany and Vermont Railroad, took up
the track and abandoned the road. When the Bos-
ton Hn0saC Tunnel and Western commenced lay
ing Their track the old road bed OF the Albany
and Vermont the Troy and Boston got out an liz
junction restraining the new company rom USIng
the roai-btd thoy had long SINCE aDHndonfI Inc
Supreme Court dccidcd that the Troy ana Boston,
by non-Iscr had lost all the rights they once ac-
quired 10y purchase, and dissolved tho injunction.
Beaten in the courts, they turned their attention 10
DnTi,, the sassion Of 1878. Senator Wagner, Of
palace car fame, aud closely connected with the
Vanderbilt railroads. introduced bill the purpose
Of WIN was 10 put the Troy anu boston an pos,
session of tie road-bed thcv had forfeited. Had
they succeeded in their designs they could have
STONED the work on the new route, ana a. tlt Bos-
! iOo~aC
have funds to grade q new road-bed, the through
rnute project would have been abandoned Tor
number OF years no least. Senator PIERCE OF bui-
falc and Senator Pomer0Y were 2calous IN opp1-
stion to the bill They W,ye assured by Mr. SeseioRs
that he too against tie 0tt because n was Tor inc
interest oil his constituents 10 nave another route TO
Boston. To the surprise of every one when the
bin came up for final passage. Mr.. Sessions voted
Tor he bill. find page GIL, senate Journal OF
1873 that t received just the constitutional mum
Der of votes necessary 10 pass u, ana but for MS
vote the hill would have been lost. u then went
70 the Assembly whore II was killed. WITH
the exception Of crossing over the Troy
and Boston road, the Boston, HOOsac Tunnel and
Western is now compile ed, and MISUNDERSTANDING
the opposition of our senator jamestown. Duukrk,
FrelOnia, Dayton. Salamanca, Oean, and other
places i'm tins Senatorial District, vii yet reap the
benefits always derived from competition.
But what better can be expected OF man who
was notorious rs a lobbyist at Albany when his
brother was in the Lagis AZURE aud at Washington,
when that brother was in Congress To be repre-
sented ia the highest and most honorable legislative
body I'm this State by such "a man Is burning DIS
grace to the intelligence and integrity OF the people
OF Cattaraugus and Chautauqua Counties
Az Old REPUBLICAN.
Salamanca N y, July ., ! $40.