Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-07-27
MASSACHUSETTS LEGISLATURE.
EXTRA SESSION.
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FRIDAY, July "a.
afternoon Session. The House reassembled
at three o'clock.
The bill to divide the Commonwealth into
forty districts, for the choice of Senators, was
taken up. The question was on substituting
the plan of the joint committee of the two
houses for the bill offered by MIR. Wells of
Chicopee, and the substitution was agreed to,
by vote of 13l to so.
The question then required on ordering the
bill as thus amended to a third reading-fthe
bill being precisely the same as that reported
to the SeRate by the large joint committee
Mr.. Reyes of Watertown, called for the yeas
and nays, which were ordered by very large
vote.
hequestion then REQUIRED on ordering the
bill to a third reading.
Mr.. Hale of Boston, moved an adjourn
ment, and the motion prevailed.
SATURDAY, July %.
SENATE.-Mr. Whites amendment TO the
senatorial district bill was reconsdered, after
discussion, by general consent, and then re.
adopted in new form by yeas 10, nays II
Yeas-Messrs. Albee, Atwood, Bliss Bonney Braken-
ridge, Churchill Harris, Haynes, Merrick, Poor sawin,
UphRm-19.
Nays-Batcheder, Burbank, CLARK, oowdin, Estey,
Rogers, Shaw, TAFT Taylor, Turner, Whitney,-H.
This amendment is that known as Mr..
Weiss plan, modified by taking two wards
from Roxbury, and adding them to the dis.
trict composed the eleventh and twelfth wards
of Boston.
The bill was then put upon its passage to
engrossment, and thereon defeated, as follows:
YeGs-Messrs, Albee, Bliss, Bouney, Breckenridge
Churchill Harris, Haynes Merrck, Mxter Poor sawIn
Stone, Taylor, Usher, Warner, Wheeler, White-17,
NGys-Atwood Batchelder, Burbank, Clark COwdin
Esty, Hitchcock, Hoar Hunking, Messenger Mitchell,
Rogers, shaw, Swift, Taft, Turner, Whitney, Young-lS
Mr.. Usher of Middesex, moved that new
special committee Of the Senate be appointed
to make another plan for districting the State,
which was carried, 81 to IL.
Yeas-Albee, Batchelder, Bliss Bonney, Breckenridge,
Churchill Esty, Harris, Haynes Hoar, Huuking, Mer-
rick Poor Rogers, saWn, stne, Usher Warner Wheeler
Nays-Atwood, Burbank, Clark, Oowdin, Hitchcock,
Messnger Mitchell, MIGter, Shaw, Taft, SWIFT Whitney
The committee appointed under this order
consisted Of one from each county, as follows:
Messrs. Bonney, Stone, Cowdln, Mixter, Bra
kenridge. Bliss, Greene, Taylor, Churchill,
Sawin, Harris, Atwood, and Shaw.
The bill concerning the election of repre-
sentatives, was ordered to be engrossed.
Mr.. Hoar Of Worcester, moved reconsid-
GRAFTON of the vote whereby the Senate ap.
pointed committee to redistrict the State,
which was placed in the orders of the day for
Monday. D
HoUsE.-The orders offered yesterday in re-
gard to furnishing the towns and members
with senatorial maps, were rejected.
Mr.. Hinckley Of Barnstable, desired to move
a substitute for the senatorial plan already
adopted, which the Speaker declared to be not
in order. From this decision, Mr. Prescott of
Salem, appealed but the House almost unan-
imously sustained the chair.
general discussion of the senatorial APP
portionment bill OF the committee, was in
dulged in.
Messrs. Dodge, Schouler, and Hudson, ad-
vocated the bill, and Messrs. Goodwin, Morse,
and Baker, opposed it, and it was finally laid
on the table.
The House then went into the consideration
OF the bill apportoning representatives to the
counties, concurring with the Senate, and
then adjourned till Monday.