Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-17
VOTED NOT TO PARALLEL.

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 HARTFORD, Conn.,, May 16. Special Correspondence of the JOURNAL AND
 CoURIER.l
 After two days debate and five months of argument and the lobby, the house for the first time voted against granting a charter to parallel the Consolidated.
 Amidst the most intense excitement the roll was called on the amendment offered by MT. Brown to the majority report, which was the minority report; in other words, a vote as to whether Starbuck & Go. should be allowed to peraHel the Consolidated or not.
 Speaker Perry explained that a vote "yes" on the question was vote for the Housaton- ic or parallel road, and vote "no" against it. The vote had not progressed beyond three counties, Hartford, New Haven and Fairfield, when it became apparent that the parallel scheme was defeated, and the pri- vate canvass of ex-Judge Harrison substanti- sted. Judge Harrison's canvass gave the op- ponents of the parallel thirty majority, while no one else would admit there would be over ten majority. And the Housatonic lobby has continually claimed big majorities in both houses. The result showed that Judge Harrison was right. It was as follows: Whole number voting: ........::. .aas Those voting 'No'' o''......... =. .......156
 The majority against the Housatonic there by being 34.
 Very naturally the Housatonis would be strongest in New Haven, Hartford and Fsir- field counties. When Hartford county went against the parallel 28 to 16, Fairfield favor- ed it by only 7 to 13 and New Haven went 16 to 15 against them the Housatonic lobby began to leok weary. New London county followed IS to Il against them. Windham 12 to Il, Litchfeld 20 to 2, Middlesex 15 to and Holland 14 to 7.
 Fairfield county was the only one to give the scheme majority vote, which was four votes.
 New Haven county representatives voted as follows:
 For the parallel-Messrs. Wolfe, Doolittle, Hammer, Chaffee, Futile, Davis, Parmalee, Munger, Chapin, Costello, Eaton, Osborne, Healy, O'Csllaghan, Newton.
 Against Hunie, O'Neil, Terrell, Baker, Andrews, Holden, Clark, Dems, Beardsley, Durand, Darlington, Gates, Morse, Cooley, Treat, Gamgus.
 MT. Bryant, who would have voted "non was paired.
 This victory for the existing railroad so conspicuous because the first time the house has ever refused such charter, is due in great measure to the ability with which the ! case has been conducted by Lynde Harrison. | 1uFcS5lSaL1OA among LQ0 T6pT6S0QGaGlF6S Q6- ! velops the fact that the one thing which con- tributed more than any other to the defeat of ! the HousatOnic's innocent petition to build \ branches was that President Starbuck under | the raking examination of ex-Judge Harrison ! got rattled and gave away the fact that his l little petition in reality was to build paral- | Tel road and he proposed to do it.
 This admission cost Mir. Starbuck the death I of his project in all probability and was the l last thing in the world he ought to have ! said.
 MT. Harrison's trial of the case before the I committee has since been 8 matter of unus- ! ually favorable comment.
 As soon as the result was announced Mr. | Glover offered an amendment to the report ! of the majority of the committee which | struck out the provision regarding appeals to | the courts ss to public necessity and conven- fence. It was voted down. House Chair man Brown did not give up without another | struggle. He sent up another amendment 1 giving railroads authority to bridge naviga- ble waters without being subject to the gen. eral law. It was voted down, 125 to 90. The | vote by roll call was then taken on the bill | for public act as reported by the majority of the committee and already published.
 The majority report was sustained and the act passed, 127 to 94, whereupon the house ! adjourned. The bill will probably be trans- mitted to the Senate tomorrow.
 The debate proceeding the vote was ably l conducted. MT. Brandagee of New London made powerful speech against the parallel | which would do credit to the oratorical abili- l ties of his father, noted speaker.
 MT. Hill of Stamford, the orator of the II house, dealt blow at the parallel which cost | them many votes probably.
 MT. McCrone, of Enfield, spoke strongly | in favor of parallel on the ground that | competition is always beneficial
 MT. Hammer, of Branford, said he never | could understand how the Housatonic peo- pie could have the audacity to come here in the name of equal justice and right. Tie i proud boast of Connecticut had been for if teen years that the politics of the State have been run by the Consolidated railroad. He | said that the attorneys for the Consolidated had no other argument but to call names.
 Mir. Brandagee, of New London, read resolution passed unanimously by the alder men and councilmen of New London in structing the senators and representatives from New London to do everything in their power to defeat the Housatonic scheme. MT. Brandagee said that instructed by his city, and by his own convictions, he opposed the scheme. He supported the majority report Brandagee made one of the best speeches of the day reviewing the history of parallel schemes.
 MT. Merriman, of Bristol, of the railroad committee tersely reviewed the facts which caused the committee to report against al-
  cut railroads.
 Mir. Gairigus, of Wolcott, followed and dealt another heavy blow at the Housatonic scheme.
 MT. Wheeler, of Stoniugton, followed in the same vein, and Mr. Beardsley, of Mill ford, ably supported the majority report of Il his committee.
 MT. Dimock inquired if the existing road | could not satisfactorily do all the business and what the benefit would be of parallel- ling it7
 Dr. Ripley, of Pennington, strongly called Dwight Futile to task for charging that the "press" of Connecticut had been subsidized and disapproved of parallel.
 After recess Mir. Bryant of Orange earned | the thanks of the State by moving that ! debate close at three o'clock, which was car- ried.
 Dwight W. Futile of East Haven, who yesterday characterized the newspaper men of Connecticut as the ''subsidized press" rose to personal explanation and said that he had not intended to charge that the Con- solidated road had subsidized the press, but | what he did intend wGs to urge the represen- tatives to vote according to conscience, not | to the dictates of the lobby.
 MT. Osborn of Oxford read speech in favor of the Housatonic from a newspaper clipping.
 General Olmstead of Norwalk said the court of common council of Norwalk had |
 
 grant the Housstonic's bill.
 Mir. Lane of Norwich favored the Hausa- tonic. Mr. Graves of Litchfeld said that MT Lane had painted a very beautiful picture of the | HsusAtonic railroad, but through it's entire | length in Connections there was not single | factory. MT. Hill of Stamford said that there was one question, and only one, which was this: Whether in the interest of the people of this State we will authorize the building of parallela
 We are asked to pass upon institutions, not personal matters.
 If this State finds no public necessity for such 0 road, it should fail to the ground. To take away my property and yours is an tyranny without public necessity. I speak for the people of this State and not railroad. I come from 8 portion of the State very deeply interested in this question and on their behalf ask indulgence to state