The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1830-01-27

information. No man should be able to select
MS mill-sites and his building lots with refer
ence to its location. II was to avoid all this
sort of speculation, to which the gentleman
from Lanesboro' had alluded, that no route was
prescribed in the bill.
Mr.. G. Blake saw no danger in confiding the
location of the road to the intelligence of such
men as the Legislature would appoint for Com
missioners. His impressions hitherto had been
altogether, he confessed, in favor of the route
10 Springfield; but he was also willing TO con-
Tess, that the argument of the gentleman from
westminster MIR. Hudson) had considerably
weakened his faith in the southern route.
Mr. Mann of Dedham, opposed the amend
ment.
Mr.. ID L. Child of Boston, regretted that the
amendment should have been offered, because
1t only tended to embarrass the question and
retard she progress of, :be bill. He did not
think the gentleman who proposed the amend
ment originally, or the gentleman who suggest
ed the modification, intended it to operate as
an embarrassment, or an apple of discord but
lhey I1ust see that such was the effect. Both
those gentlemen knew very we'll that large
ship might be wrecked on a small rock He
hoped the point, unimportant as it was in the
present stage of the bill, would be given up.
lie hoped the amendment would be rejected as
premature and embarl assing>
ME- Shaw alluded to the determination on
Inc part OF most OF the friends of the bill, to
carry this road through Springfield. Gentle
men might affect to be ignorant of the route
which the directors should finally decide upon,
but that route was already decided on by those
whose purposes and DEGREES will not be changed
II there were any uncertainty on that point,
those who are now the most Jealous advo-
Gates Of the bill would vote against it. Besides,
, in fau of lo fold TO
was the advantage the United States would
gain on account Of the Armory at that place /;
nay, an application was to be made to Congress
for aid in erecting this road, based on the argu-
inent OF the important advantage the United
States would derive from it.
Mr.. Sedgwick made few remarks in opposi-
ton to the amendment, which, if it prevailed.
he feared would be fatal to the bill
Mr. Parker of Charestown hoped the amend
ment would not prevail, as he clearly foresaw,
II 1t did,that every gentleman in favor of north
ern route would vote against the bill. He
could not but consider the amendment as an
adrolt step, on the part of the opponents, TO
defeat the bill, and he hoped it would not pre-
vail
MONDAY, Jan. %.
SENATE. Mr.. Lincoln, from the Commit
tee appointed to inquire into the affairs Of the
Sutton Bank, made a report, giving an unfaSor-
able account OF that institution, which, on
motion of Mr.. Fowler, was ordered to be laid
on the table and to be printed.
Messrs French and Wilder, to be joined,
were appointed Committee to consider the
expediency of exempting from taxation all
funds appropriated exclusively to the support
of literary and religious institutions.
HOUSE. Petition presented-of WIN. Hen
ry, executor, for leave to sell real estate.
The amendment to the Rail Road Bill, was
considered-the whole amendment being to
enact that the route shall be "through Spring
field tn the westerly line of Massachusetts, as
near the centre of that line as may bet was
moved to strike out the words through Spring
field" The vote was taken after much discus
sion, and decided in the negative, by 1877 to
l39 The question was then taken on the
amendment and decided in the affirmative, 200
to l45-so that the rail road must pass " through
Springfield" This is considered as adverse 10
the interest of the bill on it's final passage.