Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-01-29

No Bridge to be Allowed Over the
Arthur Kill.
A JOINT RESOLUTION TO CONGRESS
Passed by the New Jersey Legislature
What is Said Of the Action
in Pittsburg,

TRENTON, N. j., January 2S.--Tbe Raps,
risn Rights Committee OF the House OF
Representatives yesterday reported back q
substitute for the Joint resolution asking
Congress not TO authorizr ,ae building OF a
bridge across the Arthur Kill by the Balti-
mere aud Ohio railroad, by means of which
it is proposed that that road shall secure
entrance TO New York harbor. As subse-
quently amended, This substitute holds that
the right to permit the construction Of the
bridge rests exclusively with the States OF
New York and New Jersey; that the gov
ernment cannot, in advance OF ita con
s,ructon, designate it as u mail route, and
that it can only prescribe regulations as to
how the structure shall be huilt as il is in
tended to span EavigGble water The
resolution WAS finally passed by vote OF
~ to 10.
THE EFFECT or THE ACTION.
PITTSBURG. Pa January @5.-"The &C.
lion OF the New Jersey h'c.sIa'ure Is not
at all unexpected, said gentleman in
this city, who is connected with the Bali
more and Ohio Company AID is thoroughly
conversant with its htl!irs Il had al
ready heard that the committee had r..
ported againHl tho resolution
What does The committee say
That the States OF New (OIE and New
Jersey have cSG!uatY- power IA TO tbe grhug
Ut right 20 bald !ha bridge, and that The
Government can merely regulate the char
actrr OF the strult ue which is to span Lav
igable water
Wei. the mater il not COuCluGci yet
lf Congress gives The company thr IlEhI
TO bUiId 'he DrtdEe, you may crpauI upol,
it that it will he bull, The Baltimore aEd
Ohio road is already mGi! cGrry iugroufe
ard the New York Inc i8 simply al ry
tension. 1t therefore comes under The
mail route law which gives Congress the
power 10 grant such rights AZ are necessary
To construct the line.
lne committee r,pyrr states thet Con
grcss cannot call it mail route unit! il is
built.
That Is merely claim do no. be.
iieve itis tenable.
What will be the result il the company
is stopped from bridging Arthur XIII viii
it pat pn end 10 the L a O.'s New York
terminus projectT
II will answer your last question fret by
,ba, - will l.g., ,ha
out Of New York. That hls already Deen
provided for The New ork line can be
taken care of in another and speedier way
The Philadelphia branch is being rapidly
advanced Some diiliculiies which for.
merIy existed at both ends Of the road have
bcen satisfactorily adjusted, and there is
nothing to cause delay in the completion
Of the road. You IRE no douJ; aware OF
the fact that the Baltimore aud Ohio peo.
pie, Mr.. Garrett aud his friends.
a:a large holders OF Irrssy Central
aud Reading stock They bought
q large quantity OF the stock in
Doth corporations last year, and they had
considerable befsre that. Mr.. Garrett ?
party did much to reelect Mr. G0geu, aud
you can depend upon it that Rs soon as
connection can be made between the two
roads The b. ~ o. will use the Reading
and Jersey line' It would ba a 10! send
to both the Re.ding and Jersey il they
could get the b II O.s traffic. By this
meats tie fixed charges on Jersey Central
could be fully paid and there would be q
laIge surplus besides for the help Of Read
ing. | understand that arrangements were
made some time ago between the conpa.
MES and that there is nothing to pre-, ent
the plan being carried out il the R. y O..
desires 10 do 20.