Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-16

and you cannot find any intelligent author itY which says to you, and says to the world, that parallel road is e benefit to @ com munity when an existing road can fairly do the business"
 This scheme of building another road from New Haven to New York is a scheme that involves the waste of just as much capital as it will cost to construct it. It will be so much capital thrown to a luxury, luxury that will only exist SO long as competition exists. The result will be combination or consolidation. This, MT. Speaker, is inevit- able. And then, MT. Speaker, the people of this State and those who use these two roads will be compelled to support, in the rates of fare and in the rates of freight, the combined capital invested in the two roads. To-day we hold in our hands the control of this matter. If the Consolidated roads are earning too much from their franchise, exer- else this control, and prescribe their rates and fares. But do not endeavor to right an ex- isting wrong upon the unstable and false ground of competition.
 The whole world was searched to find low CT rates of fare and freight and better Ser vice than the people of Connecticut enjoy to- day, and the only instance shown to your committee was in Belgium, where the rail- roads are owned by the government, which would support them by taxation if the fares WeE6 not 6umC1eQ6.
 Now. Mr. Speaker, ask iE all fairness, would it be good policy, would it be the act of any sane business man, with the desire to bring about better service, cheaper rates or any benefit whatever to the people that the government of Belgium should build parallel lines along those already existing? You can not but answer. It would be just so much money thrown away.
 MT. Bacon, of Widdletown, of the majority of the railroad committee, was the next speaker. He said the committee were con- vineed that the men now in control of the Housatonic had found rich field for specu- lation, and desired to enlarge it with spe- cial charter by which they could carry out President Starbuck's threat to make the Con- solidated road bleed like stuck pig.
 MT. Bacon read from letter received from the late William H. Barnum, in which he disapproved of the management of the Hous- atomic as disastrous policy.
 Dwight Futile made one of his charaeteris- tic rhetorical efforts in behalf of the parallel scheme He trusted that the name of the Consolidated road and the State of Connecti- cut would be synonimous. He appealed fervently to his hearers not to heed the subsidized press"
 MT. Bryant, of Orange, said that if rail road was to be built it should be built with money, not by the. inflated issue of bonds. Then when it comes to the question of parallel railroad he would never vote for such thing until there was guarantee that construction should be begun at once and that there should be no selling out. He in- dignantly refuted the insinuations thrown out by Mir. Brown and spoke of Senator Graham's integrity and the fact that the senator's best customer was the Housatonic road, whose petition he had been obliged to vote against MT. Bryant dissected some of the petitions that had been gotten up by att torneys for the Housatonic scheme. MT. ~G D.sI oiN klr, against the parallel scheme and said that they were asked to give 8 special charter to men who have never been anything else but railroad wreckers.
 l have in my pocket newspaper clipping from my town with a tombstone and blank space which it says is left for the man from Bridgeport who dares to vote against this scheme5 and have confidential letters which threaten political death for me if vote &C., cording to my conscience. The State should say to these men, you can't build 6 railroad, as you do out West, ''on wind," but 'sput up interest was in favor of voting for the Hous- atomic.
 MT. Chace of Stonington spoke in favor of granting the Housatonic's petition.
 Mir. Kendall, of Suf6eld, favored paral- lel
 Mr. Beckwith, of Winchester, favored the passage of the minority report.
 MT. Hyde of Hartford defended the bond issue of the Housatonic.
 Mir. Graves of Litchfeld paid tribute to the Consolidated road and said it paid $497,- 900 annually into the State treasury, one quarter of it's income.
 MT. Durand of Milford denounced the parallel scheme, and gave brief history of "Nickle plate" and other such schemes built, as he said, for blackmail.
 Mir. Wolfe of New Haven made fun of the opponents of the Housatonic and favored granting the petition.
 At this point the House adjourned. ANDREWS NOMINATED FOR CHIEF JUSTICE ToRRENCE AND CARPENTER FOR ASSOCIATE JUDGES. Governor Bulkeley sent in the appoint ments of several judges to the Senate to-day in the following communication:
 STATE OF CONNECTICUT,
 EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
 HARTFORD, May 15, 1889. To the Honorable General Assembly: have to announce to you that the term of office # the Hon John D. Park, as judge and chief jus: ice of the Supreme Court of Errors and judge of he Superior court has expired by constitutional imitation, and alse that the term of the Hon. Dwight Pardee as judge of the Supreme Court of Errors and of the Superior court will expire Feb 'uary 9th, 1890, and the term of the Hon. Elisha Carpenter judge Of the Supreme Court of Errors md of the Superior court will pre February 11th