Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-05-19
MASSACHUSETTS LEGISLATURE.
SATURDAY, Nav II

DAiohbAA1 4hdy II.
SENATE.-The House bill to empower mar
ried women to appoint trustees, was rejected.
State Farm at WeSt6orO = The House re-
solve for permanent improvements of the
State Farm at Westboro', was debated. Mr..
Sutton moved to amend so as to expend $4,000
instead of $4,000.
Mr.. Carey thought $4,000 was too small
sum. The original amount was not too q eat.
Mr.. Taft believed the grant of $4,000 was not
too much. Neither the State nor the interest
of agriculture required it. MIR. Odiorne did
not see that the sum was excessive. Mr.. Lee
thought that experiment" could as well lie
tried on individual forms without any expense
to the public. Mr.. Hall explained why $4,000
had-been requested. Mrg Mills should vote
against the amendment. The debate was
continued. Mr.. D. Warren moved to amend
by making the sum $4,000. The resolve as so
amended, were then ordered to a third read
ing.
The bill concerning fraudulent debtors, was
debated, and amendments adopted, when the
President, Mr.. Baker, took the floor, and OPP
posed the bill, on the ground that it was i'm
polite and inhumane. 1t permitted the rich
creditor to Cypress and imprison the poor
debtor. 1t was only enacting the old law of
imprisonment for debt He closed by urging
that gentlemen would remember to do unto
Others as they would be done by.
Mr.. q. W. Warren maintained that the
bill was designed to punish fraudulent debt.
ors-not honest men.
HoUsE.-Mr. Hale of Boston introduced,
on leave bill 10 "divide the CommonW eath
into Districts for the choice Of the Council
1t is intended to move this as a substitute for
the bill now in the orders Of the day, Dis
IricJing the State in a certain manner. Itpro-
ydes a new system of Districting, by coun-
ties-the county of Suffolk to form one Dis
trict, Essex another, Middlesex another, Wor-
cester another, Hampshire and Hampden
another, Berkshire and Franklin another
Norfolk and Bristol another, and Plymouth,
Barnstable, Dukes, and Nantucket another.
There is of course great disparity in the pop.
ulation of these districts, but it is supposed
that the people of the large counties will put
up with this, rather than to have parts of
counties put together, as in the bill previously
reported,
Personal Liberty BILL The reports on this
subject were assigned for Wednesday next, at
IL o'clock a. In.
Banking. This subject was resumed. BY
vote Of l0S to 80, the House reoonsdered
its vote rejecting the bill to incorporate the
Wamsetta Bank at Fall River, question came
up on substituting the bill for the report Of the
Committee "leaye TO withdraw"
The bill was substituted by vote OF liz to
70, and the bill will take its second reading OH
Monday.
Insolvency Court B,H-This bill was taken
up, and Mr.. Pike of Newton finished his
speech against the bill He spoke about an
hour, and his speech was by far the ablest that
has been delivered the present session. 1t
was wholly confined to the point Of the vio-
lation or evasion of the Constitution, in the
tenure Of the judges Of the court.
Mr.. Merwin Of Boston, took the floor in
support of the bill. After making some pro-
gress, the House adjourned.