Year: 1860

the Whole. We are here in the majority as Demo
Grassland he knew they would not call for the
previous question their own friends. As the
session drew to a close it was economical to avoid
them as much as possible.


THE BROCK BILL.


AFTERNOON SEssIoN.-Mr. maxwell called up the
unfinished business, being the Brock Passenger
Railway bill.


Mr. GoLDsBoRoUGH, Chairman of the Committee
on Corporations, proceeded to address the House
in favor of the passage of the Brock bill. The
discussion had assumed very singular course
The gentleman from Anne Arundel 1.-THE Speaker)
had this morning thrown aside the testimony in
this case, and had issued rather political tract
than argument on sworn testimony. We have
been told that we would be called to a strict ac-
countability by our constituents; that we are not
to act here our judgment of facts before us, but
to act as other people may think, who know no
thing of the facts. As Chairman of the Committee,
he had summoned every man that the three cent
party had called for, and had examined them, and
t9ey nad not maintained the charges of fraud All
the witnesses had been one side and the exami-
nation, although exparte had proved nothing He
dehed any man to point out in the testimony any
proof of fraud


The parties opposing the Brock charter, come


here proposing to run their for three cents


Now, when this first steamboat party came down


here called their attention to the ambiguous lam


guage used in their bill, and told them it was ca


pabe Ofbeing construed to really for six cents


instead of three cents. Although he had called


their attention to this language, he had on refer


ence to their bill, found that the same language


e,


must continue to doubt thesncerity of this promo


sition. They use language capable of construction


different from that on which they rest their main


claim to the charter? There to believe


that 1T was not what it professed to be.


The gentleman from Anne Arundel who had ad-


dressed the House this morning, had, he thought


shown bad TASTE to say the least of it, when he


spoke of these parties as foreigners What If they
did come from the North. the South the East or


the West2 He has called citizens of Pennsylvania


'foreigners," and would like to know what cline
gave him birth. Applause. He could not but


consider such allusions as improper in any one but
between the gentlemen from Anne Arundel and Mr.
Brock it was only question of time.


The gentleman spoke Of the pressure of the Leg


islature. He would ask who had created that pres
sure? Has any steamboat been chartered by Mr.
Brock to storm the halls of legislation Has this
pressure come from our side of the House? No
sir; it has a three cent perfume, and he hoped


there enough independence left here to hurl it
back


MIR. GoLDsBoRoUGH then proceeded to review
| the speech of Mr.. Kilbourn. He had more than
| ted that the Senate had been influenced by
| improper motives, and feared that the same in
| huences were at work in this House Does the
| gentleman pretend to say tha any member would
| sell his vote-tEat monied pressure was at work
here-and that gentlemen would be inclined to cast
| their votes in manner that would require of them
| strict accountability to their constituents The
| gentleman certainly must have spoken in the heat
| of argument, without regard of its results and
| forgetful of his responsibility to this House.
Mr.. g. had nothing to say with regard to the en-
| terprise and wealth of Baltimore 1t has been said


that Baltimore built the Road to the Ohio, but he
would refer gentlemen to the books of the City
| treasurer, and they would find that the main pOr-


ton of the money to build that road was brought


from England, on the credit of the commonwealth
OF Maryland. As to Baltimore enterprise being


able to build this road he had no doubt there was


money enough there, but he doubted the enter


prise Until Others had shown the way to profit
there could be no money raised for City Railway
purposes IN Baltimore, but when strangers come
and haTraI aIntNth th,f aN l,,k,


there is a scramble for it by those who refused to


assist the Omnibus proprietOrs to build a road


Applause. When the enterprise of strangers had


shown the glittering gold, then comes the steam
boat committee to storm the Legislature TO deprive


men OF their property and rights under the misera-
} BILE plea of their being st rangers.


Mr.. G. concluded with an eloquent appeal to the


members to be governed in their votes by tho prin-
cipes of right and justice, and their own Just


convictions. With all the facts before them, disre


garding popular clamOr, and rumOr, and differences


Of sfraud, let them base their votes on what had


been proved, and not on what has been rumored.
They are sent here to act the best lights


they have before them, to investigate and to gav-
ern their acts by something more than popular
clamor.


Mr.. KILBoURY arose to reply to the gentleman
from Caroline. He said that the gentleman had


charged that the arguments he had used were not
upon the evidence He admitted that that was


not his province He argued upon admitted facts


He argued that it was not for our State to give the


privileges and franchisements of the road to people
of another State and deprive our own people of


them. This a fact. He thought that Mr..
Brock admitted that Mr.. Swami knew beforehand


that the grant to be transferred to the people


of another State.


The gentleman had made some remark about the


place of his nativity. He did not hesitate to say
that he had been resident of Maryland for thirty


years The gentleman had the answer He can
, | make the most of it. Although not born in the
:, | State, she had adopted him He had no other


home, no other interest no other fortune than that
OF this State-all her interests his, she had
+ adopted him. He saw now another gentleman
A whose name is on this book as a witness the evil


dence, )whO put forth libellOus statement when his
name was before the caucus for the position he
n occupied, and that man acknow lodged to my face
4 that he has uttered libel and a SANDER He is


the man who acknowledged that he received 81, 500


tor services in the Travers grant. HI acknow-
+ lodged to my face that it was libel That man
stands here on the floor of this House. and must be


conscious of his guilt in uttering this libel to
y keep me from the Speakers chair.


r Mr.. kLBoURN considered it his duty to stand
. up in his own Defence as well as to protect the in


terests of the people of the State He was as ready
r to do the to perform the other. When he


knew his duty he would perform it. Not even
v would he be swerved when he heard that applause
Z which greeted the gentleman from Caroline when
' he spoke of his (Mr Kilbournes 81 birth place He


would ever stand up for the interests of the State
" ofhis adoption. lfit is the part of any to
n sail him in the way he had been assailed he stood
e there to receive it and reply to it.


G But, to the bill. The gentleman has asserted
that the citizens bill far from charging three cent
y fare, they would charge six cents. He compared
is the two bills offered. The bill says that three
s cents shall be charged for passengers on anv one
e continuous route. The Brock bill transports pas
II sengers from lone place to another for five cents
r The language of both is susceptible of the same
e construction. If you can cOnstrue the one into a


snare--by which the people will be caught and


double fare eXacted-you can put the same CON
n struction on the other.


Is The gentleman says that we have evidence
e that money was thrust upon Anne Arundel county
II and Baltimore county to carry the election. Gen
tlemen, we have line upon line, fact upon fact thai
II this was so. lie did not say that Brock and the
e lottery did it, but gentlemen can make the
: inference for themselves. But this he would say
e that omnibus load after omnibus load with meI
d armed to the teeth, went out to Baltimore county
l. and took the polls, and that could not be denied.
+ Mr.. KRAFT felt some decacy in discussing The
= bill, after it had been ably considered by the
| gentleman from Caroline. As a member OF the
{ Baltimore delegation, he would say that Jonathan
= Brock and John Ely entitled to the charter
: After ne had brushed away the rubbish, he would
y give attention to the gentlemans wouldbe argu
~ ment.


: : Without touching the genteman's birth place
u without alluding to the charge of libel, at which
the gentleman became so eXcited--without saying
!, anything of this kind, he would go to the argu


ment. The gentleman from Anne Arundel has al
y luded to the frauds, but he has in wise proved
,e them The gentleman first appeal to the House wa
10 upon their Democracy, forgetting that they mus


at HfSI De Just. lie mas Appeared 10 tne DtmOcIA
= cv, because he heard it rumOred that the Know
- Notbings had gone into Anne Arundel county Il
VI defeat him. and send men here to pass the BrOci
,e n bill and to keep up the lottery system.
The gentleman has not touched one line of testi
ID mOny to prove that the Lottery and Railway wer
to combined. 1t is all based on rumor. He woul,
f ask the of the who asserted these things
" In every court of justice, if charge is made il
"a must be proved. All he asked was the proof. Let
10 it come. In the of Jonathan Brock and J0hr
N Ely he pronounced the man who would utter these
n things lara liar in his teeth.


lie About the Anne Arundel election far from it be
" ing truth that the Tiger Club of Baltimore cam
n. to carry of the districts This was baset
e. rumor, with the same foundation the gentle
10 mans assertions. Again, regards the Lotter!
ct and Railway combination, he would call the gentle
1e mans attention to the fact that this House, tina
il this Legislature has passed the code without dis
I'd senting voice. thus wping out the entire lotter,
ne system. This is the way in which the Legislature
ct has been influenced by the lottery men.


To the charge of Black Republicanism he woul
3 say that it was not made by Baltimoreans, but b
r Philadelphans, who had been hunted up by tn
re enemies of Brock; men who had sought to procur
Id capital in Philadelphia, and used these Ihladel
re phians to utter this lying slander. Again; IL
MT stated by the gentleman that litigation was threat
ce ened if the Brock men were not allowed the
rs charter. The friends meant to use no threats
is That they would use the law every one expected
to The city of Baltimore has the power to lay dow
h anv pavement they please. The Council has powe
a over their streets; they have power to do any
he thing with the street but to obstruct it. They