Modern battles of Trenton .. . n her as a contract. The State has adopted apolicy which has re-mained in force for fiftyyears, of such liberalityand generosity towardsthe railroads as almostdefies example. I do notknow the State in whichthere has been anythinglike it. The only in-stances which at all corn-fare with it are the in-stances of the generalgovernment making rail-road grants for the pur-pose of building Westernroads. And what havewe received in return forit~all ? We have built up the railroads of the State, and nowwhen they have grown to the stature of giants, we find this oneready t
Modern battles of Trenton .. . n her as a contract. The State has adopted apolicy which has re-mained in force for fiftyyears, of such liberalityand generosity towardsthe railroads as almostdefies example. I do notknow the State in whichthere has been anythinglike it. The only in-stances which at all corn-fare with it are the in-stances of the generalgovernment making rail-road grants for the pur-pose of building Westernroads. And what havewe received in return forit~all ? We have built up the railroads of the State, and nowwhen they have grown to the stature of giants, we find this oneready to throttle up. And this leads me to say that we have beengenerous not only with our own creatures, but with the creaturesof our sister States, It is not the old Jersey corporations thatmake this trouble. It in only when we have fostered the cor-porations of other States that we find these contracts forced tothe front and fastened upon us with all the power their greatcapital gives them. It is the Delaware, Lackawanna and West-. William H. Corbin. MODERN BATTLES OF TRENTON. 249 ern Railroad, a corporation of Pennsylvania, that is to dayattempting to take advantage of the generosity extended to afeeble home corporation that planned to run a little railroadfrom Morristown to Newark fifty years ago. Such arguments as these spurred the Assembly to the per-formance of its full duty, and the members were almost unani-mously favorable to the bill. Assemblyman Armstrong, ofCamden, was yet anxious to give the company until May 20thto pay its taxes, with the penalty of being dispossessed of itsproperty on June 1st for non-compliance, and he moved anamendment of that scope. Assemblyman Hudspeth feared thatany amendment of the bill might cripple it, and the propositionwas not at that time entertained. But at a subsequent meetingMr. Corbin himself tackei on an amendment providing that ifthe company before June Ist filed a waiver of its special contractof exemption the confiscating act should
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