Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-03-11
MASSACHUSETTS LEGISLATURES.


TUESDAY, March TO-
SENATE Reports of Committees. BY Mr..
Stone-Railways, etc.--that the bill original
ly reported concerning the Agricultural Rail-
road, ought to pass rocommiited after short
discussion.
AT half-past eleven o'clock, the special as.
signment being called for, tile Senate went
into ballot for Major General of the First
Division, with the following result
Whole rumner of votes. .....-..................33
NSessssry 20 e99lce.
samuel a. andrews had. --.,......,........2S
Eoenenezer W. Pierce. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
And Samuel A. Andrews was declared
elected.
Orders ofthe Day. The first on the orders
of the day was a bill to coLfrm an indenture
concerning the Back Bay. After some dis
cussion, Friday, at IL O'clock, was assigned
for the further consideration Of the subject
The special assignment for II clock was
the resolve providing for an Amendment to
the Constitution relative to the Right of Suf-
trage. Question OH the motion of Mr.. Hoar,
to commit the same, with the amendment
pending, offered by Mr.. Warner,) to a special
committee.
Mr.. Usher moved that the consideration of
the subject be postponed to Tuesday next, at
II o'clock. Carried
House. Petition Presented and Referred -
of Milford and Woonsocket Railroad, for ex.
tension of time to construct their line; of the
Boston, Barre, and Gardner Railroad, fo- the
same; OF the Justice of the Police Court of
Milford, for a clerk; of ]. r. johnson and 9th.
ers OF Milford, for an asylum for inebriates OF
E. w. Fitch and others Of Marlboro, and of
w. X. Warner and others OF Sunderland, for
a limitation of the sessions of the Legislature
TO one hundred days.
Orders Adopted,--On motion of Mr.. Adams
of Lowell, that the Committee on Federal Re-
lations inquire into the expediency of ill.,
structing our senators and requesting our re.
personalities in Congress to propose so to
amend the first section of the third article of
the Constitution of the United States as to
provide that the Judges Of the Supreme and
inferior Courts shall be elected by the people
for a term of years.
On notion of Mr.. Couch Of North Bridge.
water, that joint special committee be ap.
pointed to consider and report what measures
should be taken in view of the decision of the
Supreme Court Of the United States in the
bred Scott case.
The Speaker appointed the following mem
bers the committee on the par. OF the House I:
Messrs. Couch of North Bridgewaier, Hudson
OF Lexington, Lee Of Charestown, Hale of
boston, ana hanney OF Boston.
Special assignment. The House took up tue
special assignment, that being the considera-
ton Of the resolve providing for an amend
ment to the Constitution relative to distrieting
the State for the choice OF Representatives to
the General Court.
Messrs Browne Of Dorcester, and Marble of
Boston, severally made briei speeches in favor
OF the amendment On motion Of Mr.. Rus.
sell of Boston-no disposition being apparent
TO further debate the question--it was laid on
the table. The hual vote on the passage of
the resolve is to be taken tomorrow at eleven
o'clock
Orders of tie Day.-These we're taken up,
anu the motion to reconsider the vote where
by the bill relating to billiard tables and bowl
ing alleys was passed to be engrossed, pre-.
vailed, and the bill amended on motion Of Mr..
Joy Of Boston, was passed to be engrossed.
State Farm at estborough. The resolves
in favor OF the State Farm at Westborough
came up next in order when Mr.. Hale Of
Boston made a statistical speech, showing
that this was only another Of the manv mat.
tiers Of appropriation, which, commencing at
a low figure, progressively and insidiously,
arose to the amount Of heavy tax, which
became intolerabie.
The resolves provide that the sum of six
thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby
appropriated for Improvements for testing the