Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-04-30
MASSACHUSETTS LEGISLATURE.

SA9OAAg "A iiAl
SENATE.-The resolves relative to the Jour-
nal of the House (indexing and publishing
the same) were passed to be engrossed under
suspension of rules
Mr.. Batchelder offered a resolve, which was
read once, directing the Clerk to prepare an
index of the Journal of the Senate of 1S55-6
and also to the end of the present session !;
and authorizing the Governor to draw his
warrant for the sane.
Reports accepted. to withdraw. on
the petitions of sundry banks for increase of
capital stock sundTy parties for bank char
tiers.
Engrosssd = Bills concerning Insurance
Companies; to incorporate the West Roxburv
Railroad Company.
HoUsE.-Reports reference to the neat Gen.
eral Court-On petition of Salmon Burden
and others Of Sutton, to be set off to North
bridge. On petition of John Darling and
others, to be set off from Sutton TO douglass.
Bills, &C. Reported-Acr to provide Tor the
election of the Clerks of Police Courts-once
in three years. Vacancies to be filed BY the
judges, until the next election.
Official Conduct of District Ittorney Aldytch.
Mr.. Williams of Boston, from the special
committee on the petition of B. n. Bullock of
Leicester, praying for redress of grievances
suffered by him at the hands of P. E. Adrich,
Esq, late District Attorney for the Worcester
District, submitted report, substantially as
follows:-
That the grievances complained of were
neglect on the part of Mr.. AIdrich tospresent
to the Grand Jury sundry complaints made
by him, and also neglect of the same soft or
the part of the present Attorney, Mr.. Mat
thews. A hearing was appointed on the ID
OF April. Messrs. Aldrich and Matthews ap-
peared, but the memorialist did not. Messrs.
A. and NJ. asked that the hearing might be
postponed, or that it might proceed er parte
as they desired that the matter should be so
placed upon the records as to prevent future
Legislatures from feeling the necessity of fur
ther inquiry. The Committee decided to pro-
coed e1parte, and the charges were abundant
ly refuted. The foreman and divers members
of the Grand Jury of Worcester county for
1854 and 1866, the Deputy Sheriffs and other
officers of the Courts, directly contradicted
every material allegation made by the memo
rialst The committee are unanimously of
opinion that the charges are not proved, but
abundantly disprove9, and that the mamoriallst
have leave to withdraw. The report was &C.
cep;ed.
The following bills were passed to be en-
crossed: Bill in addition to an act concerning
7 Agricultural Societies which received the
bounty of the State; to repeal chapter 23s of
the acts of the year 1886, being ali act ia reg.
ulate the assignment and distribu don of the
property Of insolvent debtors resolves con-
corning thejournals and papers of the House.
The resolve allowing Attorney General
Clifford thousand dollars in the shape of
clerk hire was assaled by Mr.. Taft of Wor-
cester in an excellent speech, in which he
brought to the attention of the House the sub
ject of the increase of salaries, generally and
specially, and made an earnest appeal for re-
trenchment and reform. Mr.. Sever of Boston
replied, quoting as authority for the necessity
oil the case, the Attorney Generals own re-
port Mr.. Taft replied with much force and
spirit Mr.. Brayton favored the resolve. He
made the statement that there was not
man in the State who could perform the du-
ties Of the office so well as John Henry Cliff
ford" This extravagant eulogium must be
set down as a specimen of Bristol County en-
thusiasm. Mr.. Briggs Of Pittsfeld, also spoke
on the same side. The resolve was then or
dered to third reading.