Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-03-06
MASSACHUSETTS LnG1sLATURE.

THURSDAY, March5.
SENATE.-rhe bill to establish the City of
Chelsea was ordered to be engrossed.
The bill to repeal the law constituting the
Bee and the American Patriot Officlal organs,
passed to third reading.
The resolve providing for an amendment to
the Constitution, relative to the qualification
of voters, passed to a third reading.
The resolve providing for an amendment to
the Constitution relative to the right OF suf-
frage, was taken up,
Mr. Warner Of Hampshire offered an
amendment substantially the same as the mi
Dorlty report OF the committee.
Mr.. Albee Of Middlesex had looked on the
fourteen years amendment with col siderable
favor, and should baye spetqihe end might be
reached by the amendment proposed BY the
senator from Hampshire Mr.. Warner And
with his present views he should 50 vote.
! he question of order was further discuss
ed by Messrs. Rogers Of Suffolk. Usher of Mid :
dIesex, Warner OF Hampshire, Hoar oil Worces-
ter. and others. Adjourned.
HOUSE Petitions Presented and Referred.
OtWarren Bgelow and others of Rutland, for
an amendment TO the Constitution, limiting
the session of the Legislature to one hundred
days.
A communication was received from the
Governor, in reference to the rewacd of SlO,-
900, offered in 1851 to any person within the
Commonwealth who should satisfy the Gov
ernor and Council that, by test Of five sue !.
cessive years, he had discovered sure and
practical remedy for the potato rot. The doc
ument stated that large number of appica-
tons had been made Tor this reward, and a
vast variety of theories suggested as sure and
practical, but inasmuch as some of the mem
bers OF the Council were both theoretically
and practically unacquainted with the science
OF agriculture, they were not "a proper body to
arrive al correct conclusion IN reference to
the different claims. Therefore, it was recon
mended that the subject be referred, TO the
Committee on Agriculture, which was done.
Orders adopted, Ordered, that the Com.
mitlee on the Militia consider whether any
reduction can be made in respect to the ex.
penses now incurred in supporting our volun-
teer militia.
That the Committee on Prisons consider the
expediency OF abulishing the infection of
stripes, now existing as portion of the disci-
plne of the State Prison.
Reports of Committees. Horticulture. Bill
concerning the measurement OF liquid (pro-
Vldlng that the wine measure shall be the sole
standard for measuring all liquds).
o""SS'W r. AHeA peuleHt 10 leSlslate III re-
latlon to the abolition of oaths for surveyors.
Directors IF Public InStttutioas. The bill
TO establish a Board of Directors of Public
Institutions for the city of Boston and county
OF Suffolk, was taken up; much discussion
ensuing, the bill was recommitted
Religious Societies. $c.-The bill relating to
officers of religious societies, other than Com
gregational, was ordered to a third reading.
series OF resolutions from the Committee
on Education, in reference to the death OF
DIR. Kane, received their several readings,
and were passed 10 be engrossed.
The bill in relation to jury trials was taken
up, and after some debate was ordered to a
thi'd reading.
The bill i'll addition to the several acts for
the relief OF insovent debtors, and the more
equal distribution of their effects, was taken
up, aud after much discussion was rejected.
Adjourned.