Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-05-28
MASSACHUSETTS LEGISLATURES.

TUESDAY, May 26-14Oth day.
SENATE.-Bills, &C., concerning the Police
| Court Of Milford providing for the election
of school COMMITTEES; and relating to the es.
tate of Abraham Russell, were ordered to be
| engrossed.
The Governors Veto Message of the Tun-
mel Bill was received from the House, with
the information that the House passed the
bill, the Governors objections to tho contra .
| ry notwithstanding.
debate occurred on the question of post
poning the question until tomorrow. Mr..
Mixter, of Worcester, favored a postpone
ment. Mr.. White took the other side. Mr.,
breckenridge said that he voted against the
bill, but as it had been vetoed in a tyrannical
and unwarrantable manner, he should now
vote for it. Mr.. Haynes said he voted for the
bill, but if the question was to be made
party one, he should vote against it. Mr.
Messenger, who oted for it, said if pressed to
vote this afternoon, he should vote against
the bill. The question was finally postponed
to IL IL o'clock tomorrow.
HoUsE.-It was ordered that so far as re-
consideration of votes, the present shall be
the last week of the session, and each session
shall be legislative day.
A bill was reported, appropriating $4,000
for liquidating the State debt on the Taunton
Asy lum.
A bill was reported to repeal so much of
the act relating to Alien Commissioners as
authorizes them to appoint town agents.
The House refused to reconsider the vote
by which it passed the Danvers Railroad bill
to be engrossed. The refusal to engross the
bill to increase the capital of the City Bank of
Worcester, was reconsidered, and the bill
passed to be engrossed.
The resolve amending the Constitution rel
alive to the right of suffrage, was taken up,
and debate took place upon Mr.. Thayer's
motion to substitute the fourteen years
amendment for the proposition Ctwo years
probation), that came from the Senate At
| IL O'Clock, the vote was taken, and the sub
stitute was agreed to by vote of l54 yeas
| to 1856 nays.
Without taking the question upon the pas
sage Of the amendment, the Honse pro-
| ceeded to considcr the message of the Cover
nor, returning with his objections the Tunnel
| Loan Bill, which message had been received
during the debate. Mr.. Baker. of Medford,
| spoke in favor of the passage of the bill, but
without taking the question, the House ad-
| journed until afternoon.
| In the afternoon the following bills, &c.,
| were passed to be engrossed Establishing
the salaries of the Judges and Registers of
Insolvency; in aid of the State Lunatic Hos
| pital at Northampton in further addition to
an act to extend the time of the State loan to
! the Norwich and Worcester railroad to ex-
tend the tine for the construction of the East
Walpole Branch railroad; providing for the
publication and distribution of Prof. Hitch-
cocks Geological Reports.
The Veto Message was taken up, and after
debate the vote was taken with this result =
! yeas 1911, nays 81. SO the bill was passed,
| the Governors objections to the contrary
notwithstanding.
The bill in relation to the employment of
| the convicts of the State Prison and Houses
| of Correction, was amended by its friends, to
satisfy its opponents, and was then rejected,
GA to 90.
The bill to prevent distractions in the
| streets of cities, was ordered to third read
ing.
! The Constitutional Amendment, fourteen
! years., was taken from the table, and
| Wednesday, at IL clock, was assigned for
taking the question on the final passage.
| WEDNESDAY, May 81.
SENATB.-The Senate refused to concur
with the House in the amendment reducing
the salary of the Judge of Insolvency in SUI.
folk County, from $4,000 to $2500.
The bill to incorporate the Lynn Water
Works, was indefinitely postponed.
mol iii ovor the C7oyorIor,s 80 Tt
stood 81 yeas to IL nays.
Foo Rr;doa Co-norot ;usi'otlNe sIie i1anooeN
West Boston and Cragie's Bridges, to the city
of Cambridge, passed by vote nearly unani.
nous, and only awaits the concurrence of the
Senate to an amendment, and the signature
of the Governor, to become a law. By the
passage Of this act, the two bridges leading
from Boston to Cambridge, will be, within a
within year from the present time, free ave-
nues forever, and the public relieved from the
burden of tolls twenty years earlier than if
the Hancock Free Bridge Corporation had not
been created.
The House refused by vote of l6I to 10,
| not two thirds, to pass the constitutional
amendment making residence of fourteen
years necessary qualification for the exer-
else of the right Of suffrage. This is the
amendment substituted on Tuesday, for the
Senate's (two years. proposition.
| Immediately after the vote was tuken Mr.