Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-02-25
MASSACHUSETTS LEGISLATURE.
WEDNESDAY, Feb. %.
SENATE.


The orders of the day were taken up.
One resolve and three bills were ordered to
third reading
The bills, relative to fugitives from justice;
to amend an act entitled an act concerning the
discipline of jails and houses of correction;
and to provide uniform assessment of taxes
upon polls and the resolves on the petition of
Charles Sprague, John b. Tremere, and Chas.
Amory, trustees in favor of Charles j. j.
Ingersoll and in favor of Geo. Cobb, were Or
dered to be engrossed.
The bill to modify the act of 1854, granting
aid to construct the Hoosac Tunnel, was taken
up.
Mr.. Walker of Hampden opened the debate
He opposed the bill He was conscious of no
prejudice arising from the fact that he resided
upon the line of the Western Railroad, and
thought there was no reason for any man re-
siding upon the line of the road to oppose the
proposed Troy and Greenfield Road, on the
ground that the Western Railroad would suf-
fer. Mr.. Walker then proceeded to partcu-
lar comparison of the figures contained in the
act of 1854 and in the proposed new bill, show
ing that by the latter, not only is more money
to be paid to the company but the work to be
paid for is very much less than in the old act
He desired the Senate to consider whether the
intention of the contractors was not to secure
in advance money enough to enable them at
any time to abandon the work He thought
the nducement should not be offered to Mr.
Haupt whether he would be dishonest enough
to embrace it or not, or stop the work at flu
ture time, pocket the money, and return to
Pennsylvania. This contingency, whether
probable or not, should be taken into consider
alton, and for the sake of argument considered
probable, in the consideration of the subject
Mr.. Bowerman of Berkshire, said that he
had examined carefully the terms of the old
and new loan acts, and found no new principle,
no new policy, and no different security con
tanned in the latter. He thought that the State
was bound to continue its policy in this case,
since, while the notifications proposed would
be to the advantage of the company, the Sc
curity of the State would not be impaired The
further consideration of the subject was as
signed for tomorrow. Adjourned.
HOUSE.
A cloud of petitions were presented and re-
ferred.
The orders of the day were taken up, and
the bill in relation to school books and changes
in the same, was passed to be engrossed. 1t
provides that towns shall supply children with
school books at wholesale cost, that changes in
books shall be made only by unanimous vote
of the school committee and that, when
change is ordered, the substitution shall be
made at the expense of the town. The bill in
addition to an act in relation to the crime of
murder was taken up.
Messrs. Chase, of Salem, Nichols, of Rox-
bury, Tucker, of Boston, and Drew, of Kings
ton, opposed the bill, and Messrs. Merrill, of
Boston, and Wells, of Greenfield, spoke in
favor. Mr.. Tucker moved the indefinite post
ponement of the bill, and this motion was
agreed to by a vote of 81 to 81 and the bill was
indefinitely postponed.
Ten bills were ordered to a third reading
Passed to be EngrosSed. &c.,-to incor-
porate the Master, Wardens, and Members of
the Grand Lodge of Masons, in Massachusetts
to protect Cut Beach, in the town of Glouces-
ter; to incorporate the American Flax Cotton
Company; on the petition of Edward II. Ell
dredge, guardian; relating to the herring fish
cry in Indian Head River; to incorporate the
proprietors of the Church of the Paternity, in
Boston; to incorporate the proprietors of Grace
Church, in Salem; to incorporate the proprie-
tors of st. Andrews Church, in Chelsea.
Adjourned.