Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1853-03-01
MASSACHUSETTS, LEeIsLATURE.

MASSACHUSETTS LEGISLATURE.
SATURDAY, Feb. 26 HOUSE CONTISUED.
Alter some debate, Mr. Hadley Of Lowell, Free
Soil, moved that the House adjourn. (hie o'clock.)
Inc motion was ruled out Of order, no business hav
ing been transacted since the Honse by vote refused
TO adjourn.
The question before the House then REQUIRED,
"Shall the main question be now putg and on this
question the yeas aud nays were ordered.
Mr. Whiie, of Worcester, (lree soD moved that
in calling the roll the usual order OF he names be
reversed. This motion the Chair refused to enter
tain.
Mr. Bra;nard, Of Hayerhill, (free soiD then moved
to lay The whole subject upon The table, and this
motiun the yeas and nays were ordered.
The question was forthwith taken and resulled-
Yeas los, Nays ll6 So the motion was lost.
The question then REQUIRED, "Shal the main
question be now puIl'' and after conversation
III which disposition settle the business before
the House without delay was evnced Dy MIR Usher,
Medf'rd, (dem) and other members, the question
taken and resulted Yeas ITO, Nays 80. So the
previous question was ordered
Il was nov O'Clock.
The question then required on the original motion
to reconsider, the motions for poslponemen having
been cut off, and Mr. Boyd, of Boston, (whig) called
iur the yeas aud nays, which ordered.
The question then taken upon the motion to
reconsider with The following result Yeas SO, Nays
100 So the motion to reconsider aUaS lost.
Mr. Brown, Of Salem, (whIg) hen moved to lay
lhe orders OF the day on the table.
Mr. Butter called for the yeas and nays, which
were ordered.
The question was then taken and resulted Yeas
Ill, Nays 81. So the orders OF the day were laid
upon The table.
Mr. Lord then moved that the bill concerning the
manner Of voting at certain elections be discharged
from the orders Of the day and considered at the
present time.
Mr. Lewis moved that the House adjourn. Give
minutes before 81
The Speaker ruled the motion to be out of order.
Mr. Lewis appealed and quoted the 1lih rule, and
proceeded to urge that the motion ought be enter
tanned.
The Speaker said that on hearing these remarks
he convinced OF the proprety OF the motion, and
reversed his ruling and put il TO the House.
The vote was then taken and resulted Yeas IS,
Nays l05. So the House refused to adjourn.
The motion to discharge the bill from the orders
of the day then prevailed without opposition and
without count.
Mr. Lord got the floor, but gave way to
Mr. Boyd, Of Boston, who moved that the House
adjourn, and this motion prevailed.
MONDAY, Feb. rs.
Senate.-Petitons Presented and Referred. OF
the BarnstabS Bank, for increase of capital; also
several petitions for law regulating the measure of
milk.
The Committee on Banks was instructed to con.
sider the expediency Of allowing Banks 10 increase
tn, If loans, as authorized by the amount of
their surplus funds actually earned and undivided,
upon their paying to the Commonwealth the same
tax such funds when loaned as they now pay on
their capital stock,
The orders of the day were taken up, and the bill
provide for the taaxtion of certain real estate be-
longing to the Commonw was indefinitely post.
poned by a vote of Is to 8, and Mr. Parker moved
that the vote he recOnsdered-whch motion goes
into the orders of the day for tomorrow.
lloUsE.-Various petitions were presented, but
not announced by the Chair in their usual Or
der.
Mr. White OF Worcester, moved a reconsideration
Of the vote whereby the House on Saturday dis.
charged from the orders of the day the bill concern.
ing the manner OF voting in certain cases.
After debate thereon, the Speaker ruled M
Whites motion outof order.
The House took up the orders of the day at %
minutes to II clock
The first matter on the orders was the motion
to reconsider the vote whereby the House refused
to sustain the ruling of the Chair on Friday, on
the subject of the disposal of the special assign
nient for the Tuesday previous.
Some conversation ensued between Mr. Steven
son of Boston, and the Speaker, the purport of
which the reporter could not hear-GS as the case
Nth oae-hat the business achich transpireS in
the House.
Mr. Stevenson-the motion to reconsider still
pending-moyed to take up the unfinished bust
ness of Saturday, which motion, after brief OBJ
lection, was adopted.
The bili 'coucerung the manner Of voting at GER
tain elections" then up the question OF en-
gIns-mrni
Mr. Lord, of Salem, made speech in favor of the
bill, and in opposition 10 the arguments of the mi
nurity OF the House, made last week
Mr. Mrton, OF Fanhaven, moved TO amend the
bill by striking Of the first section that portion
which makes ii applicable to the choice Of Delegates
to The Constitutional Conyenton; and providing in
the thild seciun that the acl shall take effect in
thirty days from and after its passage. Mr. Morton
also moved that the two amendments be considered
separately.
Nj Butler took the floor to reply to Mr. Lord, at
twenty five minutes past one O'clock. He recapiu.
lated the history OF Saturday proceedings, to show
that the obstruction Of The public businesa was en-
timely the labor Of the majority in the House, and
that 1t arose from no good reason why delay should
take place, but simply because caucus arrangements
had previously commanded such procedure.
lie challenged The majority 10 take the question
OF passing the bill TO eagro-suen' without taking
the yeas and nays; theV dared not do it, uI they
knew they had hOnesi men among them, who would
put their feet over party Traces and vote IN accord
ance with their own cOnsGlences, and not by dint of
party dragnouugs, on which, and nothing else, the
majority relied.
Mr. Buffers speech exhibited good deal of acute
| augmentation, and was literally nterlarded with
statistics concerning the abuses Of the open system
Of voting elections.
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