Modern battles of Trenton .. . ntains; and, on the faith of its promoters assurances that itmerely conferred afranchise on a little oreroad up in Morris, theact floated along withother legislative drift-wood of the session tothe statute books assomething , however. Secre-tary of State Kelseysoffice began to be be-sieged by those whohad been known fortheir conspicuousnessin the National Rail-way controversy, forscores of certified copiesof the act, suspicion wasaroused, and the Penn-sylvania officials beganto smell a mouse. Upon an examination of the act, they discovered to their s
Modern battles of Trenton .. . ntains; and, on the faith of its promoters assurances that itmerely conferred afranchise on a little oreroad up in Morris, theact floated along withother legislative drift-wood of the session tothe statute books assomething , however. Secre-tary of State Kelseysoffice began to be be-sieged by those whohad been known fortheir conspicuousnessin the National Rail-way controversy, forscores of certified copiesof the act, suspicion wasaroused, and the Penn-sylvania officials beganto smell a mouse. Upon an examination of the act, they discovered to their sur-prise that one section of it, the eighth, conferred upon a lot oflittle roads the right to consolidate themselves into a competingline between New York and Philadelphia. When Dorrance andBarcalow were summoned to the offices of the PennsylvaniaRailroad Company for explanations, they declared by all thatwas good that that eighth section had not been in the bill atany stage of its progress through the Houses, and that it must. Amzi Dodd. 56 MODERN BATTLES OF TRENTON. have been smuggled into it dishonestly. Its purpose becamethe more manifest when Hamilton, Culver, Banghart, andthe rest assigned the franchises it conferred upon them to a lineof leagued roads under the style and title of the National Rail-way Company, and work on the construction of a New Yorkand Philadelphia line in competition with the PennsylvaniaRailroad was begun. The attention of Governor Parker had been called to the actby this time, and on the last day of April he indited a letter toEdward Bettle, the President of the Senate, and Speaker Niles,of the Assembly, advising that as each had certified the bill tohim as having been passed by the Houses over which theyrespectively presided, they owed it to themselves and to the publicto institute an investigation, and if it be found that an inter-polation was fraudulently made, to inquire how and by whomit was accomplished and to publish the facts. Three days la
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