The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-01-28
ANOTHER JUMBLE OF ERRORS.

City OF Cairo in preventing the ST. Louis d
Cairo railroad from procuring the right OF
way into the city.
MOI Whyl Let us reason bit.
Brother Bouton.
The Gazette continues;
ut is true that the Cairo IL 81. Louis
Railroad Co., forfeited the contract with
the Cairo City Property Co., to keep up the
Mississippi leyee, but they compromised
this matter with the Property Co. by pay
Ing them $4,000"
Indsedl This will be news to the ,rus'
tees OF the Cairo Trust Property, and fat
contradiction Of the records in the circuit
clerks Office here The trustees aforesaid
are under the impression, and the records
aforesaid bear them out in the impression,
that the railroad company aforesaid did
not pay or forfeit the value OF one farthlng,
either in money, property or franchises, to
the trustees Aforesaid, or the CITY, or 10 any
oae else, in consideration OF lis failure to
maintain he old Mississippi levce as per
agreement Bnuton is mistaken.
The Gazette again;
Now the city enjoius them, the st.
LOUIS & Cairo X, Co, who are entitled to
all the rights and privileges Of the Cairo *
st. Louis, and propose to shut them out
from their depot grounds which they
bought OF the Property Co."
Sol II 1.-THE st. Luis & Cairo railroad
company is entitled TO all the rights and
privileges Of the Cairo & ST. Louis railroad
company" (Which proposition is denied by
no one, by the way, is it not slso bound by
oil the conditions and resiri tons with
which such rights and privileges were en-.
numbered at the time it succeeded to
them' But when the new-titled company
we say "new-titled" because the present
company is a new company almost exclu'
sively in name--when tins new.ti,lcd com.
pany denies ths ii 10 bound by any or all
the conditions or restrictions with which
any or all the titles, rights or privileges Of
the old organization were encountered,
does 1t not also, in law and IN equity, yir.
tuslly deny that it is entitled to any
or all such titles, rights and priviledgcsl
The people and the city council, will be
further surprised to learn from Bouton,
that the City OF Cairo proposes to shut the
uew-titled company out from depot
grounds bought by said company from the
property company The city council and
the people OF Cairo have not for moment
thought Of permanently exclud.
ing the tracks of the st. Louis & Cairo
company from the city, nor hiss anything
been said or done by them, which would
admit Of being tortured into basis for
such conclusion. That the people and
counci! of Cairo desire to retain the little
road, even at further sacrifice TO them
selves, will probably be evident even to
Bou,on who is tue victim vi Hamltonian
ignorance or prejudice, if he is told that
they have offered the company the privlI.
edge Of coming 10 either on top, or along the
inner side, OF the new forty.dye thousand
dollar ievee, which tbs city was compelled 10
build because, primarily, the company
had iai ed to maintain the old levee as per
agreement And that the company itself
and not tho city is really responsible for
this prolonged fight will also be made to
appear to Button when he understands
that, although the conditions upon which
the city offered the complny this import
ant rght-ot-S,y would have uecessitatod a
smaller expenditure of money BY the com.
pany than the carrying out OF PROPOSE
ton made by tue company itself would
have done, yet tho company refused to ac-
cept right.of.wsy into the city op said con-
ditious and has stollldly fought the city
for the right to appropriate, without any
condition, whatever, the benefits resulting
from a state of things which It has cost the
city many thousands to produce and which
would give the company perpetual protec'
ton against the action OF ,ha MissSsip
pi river at the oitys expense
Bouton concludes his dissertation with
the same old silly bosh about what The
city council and people Of Cairo have done
aud will do tor the Wabash road, just a,
though that had anything whatever to dc
with what they have done and intend to dc
for the Cairo and st. Louis or st. Louis anc
Cairo or any other railroad company in the
city; aud winds up finally with what he in
his becouded state Of mind doubtless con
siders some very good advice to the coun.
Gil aud people OF Cairo. Bouton's editorial
from beginning to end is only rehash O
the long refu'ed but persisttenly adheredt I,
blunders Of Col. Chas. Hamilton, superin
tendcnt of the st. Louis aud Cairo road
and between every line Of said editorial VIC
can read plainly, in large type, an an