The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-02-12

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found argument of the Argus, that if the
present organization known as the Cairo
and st. Louis railway company, was releas.
ed from the obligation of keeping up the
old Mississippi levee, then the city council
deserves censure for enioining the company
from coming into the city over the city's
principal streets. The argument, if it de-
serves so digni6ed name, is very illogical
That the railroad company was released
from the obligation mentioned is matter of
record and does not admit of doubt, but
thattherefore theci.y council deservescens
for opposing an unconditional appropriation
by the railroad company of portion of
Washington avenue and crosslevee is not so.
The city council had other very good
reasons for filing an njunction-reasons
which it would have been foolish unto
criminality to ignore. The railroad COM
pany bought and paid for a new right of
way, to reach which it was necessary to
cross thirteen public streets; but
it did not go to the trou-
bic of first learning whether or not
it would be granted the privilege of cross
sing said streets. If it has, therefore, an
elephant on its hands in the form Of right
of way which it cannot use, it alone is to
blame. 1t is the city councils business to
protect the city's interests as against all
persons and associations of persons, and it
was and is the city councils bust
ness in this instance to prevent the Cairo IL
St. Louis roilroad company from appro-
priating portion of the city's principal
street and portion of the city's levee, with
out having first agreed to such conditions as
the interests of the city may require. 1t
should be understood above all things
that the city council is not keeping the
Cairo and St. Louis railroad out of the
city; high water is doing that, as it has
done every year for several years back
therefore, not the city council, but the
railroad company itself is to blame for
the present interruption of traffic on the
Cairo and St. Louis road The company
has been trying for years to run railroad
engines and trains on water, and having
finally discovered, at this late day, that its
experiment is failure, it seeks to throw
the blame of such failure upon the shout
ders of the city council Of Cairo, and in this
foolish attempt it finds support from unin-
! formed persons and wishy-washy
newspapers. The city council has treated
the company farely; for over month it has
had committee standing, especially ap'
s pointed to settle the matters at issue be-
: tween the company and the council twice
j the the company, through its agent here,
= has been notified by the chairman Of the
G councils committee, that conference is de-
It sired, but the company has taken no step
q to meet the committee in CONFERENCE.-The
y taken nooffiCial notice of, the council commit
tees nouCes. AT us last meeting tue couh'
n Gil resolved that the clerk be instructed to
d again notify the company under the seal
i of the city, that committee authorized tc
e act for the city was waiting fol
conference with any person
or persons similarly authorized to act fol
the company. tits evident that, in he past
:. the company has avoided, rather than
y sought, conference with the city, probably
because it hopes that the injunction will be
9 dissolved; but if this hope continues t
n stand in in the way Of a settlement much
c longer, the company will be sorely disap'
5 pointed, for there is every reason to believe
l. that the injunction will be confirmed.