Morning journal and courier., 1889-03-01
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parallel road between New York and New Haven; and, secondly, whether Starbuck, Bostwick and Macauley are the proper per- sons to be entrusted with such privilege. The first question is old one in Connecticut, | but how different is the present application | from it's predecessors. In every previous ap- | plication to parallel long lines of Connecti- cut witnesses have appeared and testified that they believed the road to be necessity, and there was more or less public demand for it. At the last hearing seven years ago, Marshall Jewell appeared in behalf of the projected road. But to-day there is not single witness to represent the public or show any demand for this road, not one. Why? Because they can't find them. They have searched Connecticut with fine tooth comb, but no one says public necessity re- uuires such road. It is known to everyone that the Consolidated road has constantly re- duced it's rates increased it's number of trains and reduced the running time. And if our petition is granted 1t is the purpose ot the Consolidated road to lay four tracks between New York and New Haven, double track the Shore Line and Naugstuck and meet many other requests of the public. And the pub lie have confidence in Charles P. Clark, who
 was too honest to be manipulated by the
 stock gamblers whom the gentlemen here
 represent desire to call the committees
 attention to the reports which prove that the fact that for many years freight and passen- ger rates have constantly gone down on the Consolidated and have never been so high on the Derby and Housatonio as while under the Starbuck regime.
 Other people who have wanted to parallel have come here honestly and boldly, but they sneak in here under 8 petition for in- crease of stock and removal of charter limi- tation. And the dissimulation was kept up until Starbuck indiscreetly stripped the mask from their faces by saying that he had
 l,,,II 1Ja1 to New York, and yet their counsel sets here
 as sedately Mormon prophet in the ta-
 bernacle and says they only want to build
 innocent little branches.
 Suppose they had a parallel road, there
 would not be passengers enough to fill one
 small train day and they would carry them
 on mixed cattle and freight trains as they do
 on the Housatonic road. The remain
 remainder of the petitioners case consists of
 the oration of ex-Senator Hill who went into
 mysteries over the fear that a sloop might
 got stuck in one of our drawbridges. Sen
 ator Hill failed to mention any trouble peo-
 pie had met with the facilities we give them
 in Fairfield county. One by one the chil- dren whom Brother Baldwin has stood spon- sor for have died, and now he seeks to re- vive another in the throes of death. The
 Housatonic road runs six passenger trains
 day each way to and from Bridgeport, every
 one of which makes close connections with
 our lines, and the same conditions prevail at
 South Norwalk. The Consolidated road runs twenty-six trains each way past both these places daily, and because we don't stop all our Boston express and swift trains so that some Housatonic passengers shall not have to wait less than five minutes for one of our trains they claim they need a parallel road. Was there ever snch pitiful plea? Not one of this committee, as judge, would think of granting this petition on the ground of public necessity. Now is Starbuek & Go. entitled to these pri- vileges or any of them! Have they been faithful to the interests of the public es it's stockholders? Has not Starbuck's rule, as he told us "that he knows how to take care of himself" been the only rule they have followed. They have made reference in their argument to the Schuyler frauds many years ago and the Consolidated. Schuyler had to fly from the country. Starbuek has profted by the history and secured lawyers, who can snow him how to steal from the public and escape State prison. By all codes of morality how does Searbuck SC Co. differ from Schuyler. If they escape State
 prison, they may thank astute lawyers.
 They have put millions in their pocket by
 issuing stock and trading among themselves.
 They have got {, ,000 more shares locked up
 i'll their box which they can, as directors, trade upon among themselves as stockhold- CTS. No wonder that these pupils of Napo- leon Ives of Wall street can afford to employ eminent counsel ana OOOd bnlS house W1Gl an immense lobby. The only person who comes here to tell us about these methods is MT. Bulkley with his peculiar philosophy by which everything spent on the road from the start plus the first cost is called the present value of the construction and equipment &C., count. Will you follow the rule of the | United States Supreme court, which con dems this policy on the methods of Wall street gamb blsrs, who want to squeezs the people of Connecticut?
 At this point the hearing was adjourned l until next Tuesday, when William O. Case and Henry c. Robinson will close the argu- ] ments, and the great railroad hearing will be at an end.
 THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. The order of the day in the house was the bill which provides that in all cases of civil actions demanding damages only, and in all hearings in damages after default and de- murrer overruled, the trial or hearing shall be had before jury at the request of either party to the case.
 At present the demurrer or defaulting of the defendant takes the case before the judge for hearing in damages. New Haven and other cities instructed their corporation coun- sells to oppose the bill, and many lawyers ep- posed it before the judiciary committee, There was an exciting debate in the house on the measure of an hour or more. Messrs. O'Neil, Wolfe and others are in favor of the law charging that corporations only opposed it and that at present no person could be elected judge without the consent of the corporations. The action of the judges in these matters was influenced much by wheth- l CT they had dyspepsia or not.
 Mir. Glover of Fairfield, chairman of the the committee, defended it's action and de- 1 nounced the mud slinging at judges by men l who were playing the part of demagogues to AaL, .-Io r. l. Al judge was the proper man to tax damages, and for years the law had worked we'll with- out single injustice. The vote, however was bad blow for the judiciary, the bill be- ing passed 105 to 47. It will no doubt be killed in the senate, but there are many law yers who think the measure must come iu time, and that at present the right of trial by
 jury is abrogated.
 GENERAL NOTES.
 The bill making 1t crime to allow chick ems to trespaes was passed to-day after long debate.
 SENATOR GRAHAM ON DECK. In the Senate, Mir. Graham very neatly
 states all the political thunder and capital
 that Senator Cleveland expected to make out
 of the Labor Day bill.
 Senator Cleveland said that it was good for
 the legislature to step aside from its legisla-
 tion for corporations and give it's endorse
 ment to this bill for the benefit of people
 who work with their hands.
 Senator Graham (Rep.) hoped that every
 Democratic Senator would vote for the bill,
 for the Republicans were 6 unit on it.
 Laughter.] The bill passed unanimously.
 THE NEW YORK CELEBRATION.
 The resolution for Connecticuts repre-
 sentation at the celebration, in New York,
 of Washington's inauguration, came from
 the House amended and passed. Senator
 Morse suggested that the invitation should
 be extended to the entire legislature, as
 he understood that the Consolidated road
 would furnish a special train, and
 there would be very little additional
 expense. He offered an amendment
 to that effect. Senator Corbin asked
 whether the Consolidated road would carry
 the whole party. Senator States said it
 would probably carry the legislature as far as
 the State line, but could not carry them free
 beyond, as the interstate commerce law pre-
 vents. Senator Morse urged that merely
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