Modern battles of Trenton .. . for concurrence. The Senate at that time was wrestlingwith the Joint mittee bill. Two reports had brought itto the calendar for dis-cussion. One of these^the majority report^recommended it with-out amendment. Sena-tor Brinkerhoffsminority report fa-vored the change ofthe taxing clause saas to make it an equal-taxation Abbetis billremained in the pocketof the committee, andnever saw daylight inthe Senate , of Atlantic, the able advocate on the floor of railroadinterests, was not satisfied even with the majority report. Thetax
Modern battles of Trenton .. . for concurrence. The Senate at that time was wrestlingwith the Joint mittee bill. Two reports had brought itto the calendar for dis-cussion. One of these^the majority report^recommended it with-out amendment. Sena-tor Brinkerhoffsminority report fa-vored the change ofthe taxing clause saas to make it an equal-taxation Abbetis billremained in the pocketof the committee, andnever saw daylight inthe Senate , of Atlantic, the able advocate on the floor of railroadinterests, was not satisfied even with the majority report. Thetax on franchises was not consonant with his ideas. With Griggsstanding for the bill, and Brinkerhoff for equal taxation, andGardner opposing the franchise tax, the struggle became a three-cornered one, and the discussion lasted for three whole days. The Senate, while the bill was under consideration, gavepublic hearings to all who desired to appear before it, and it wasannounced that at one of these hearings ex-Assemblyman Cator. Join W. Griggs. MODERN BATTLES OF TRENTON. 23^ was to speak for the more liberal bill the Governor had brilliantly-lighted Senate Chamber was crowded to suffoca-tion with an expectant audience at eight oclock on the eveningfixed for this hearing. Cator, in evening dress, was in beautiful trim for the intellectualstruggle he saw before him. His eyes met such notable railroadlawyers as Bedle, Parker and Thomas N. McCarter. When theyhad finished their pleas, Cator stepped to the middle aisle, and,with an argument in behalf of the Governors act equally bril-liant and eloquent, kept the listening throng in cheers till hestepped out of view at midnight. It was the most masterly andcomplete presentation of the railroad tax problems to which theagitation had given birth, and as with a deluge swept away allthe technical objections that had been interposed by the railroadadvocates. The demonstration was, however, without its effect upon theSenate, whic
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