Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-03-24
Legislative.

FRIDAY, March 23.-In the Senate, the bill
to encourage collegiate education among fe-
males was discharged from the orders of the
day, passed to be engrossed by vote of 16 to
10, and sent down to the House. Mr.. Viii
ting's substitute bill to prohibit slave-hunting
was taken up, and Mr.. WHITINe made long
and earnest speech in favor of its passage, on
political, moral, and constitutional grounds.
The discussion was i'll progress when our re-
port closed.
In the House, the committee on agriculture
reported new draft of the resolves on the
cattle disease, which were passed to second
reading. They are as follows -
Resolved, That it shall be the duty of all owners
of cattle, knowing or suspecting the existence of
the disease called Plewo-pneu'nonid among their
herds to give notice of the same to the selectmen of
the town. or the mayor and aldermen of the city, in
which such cattle kept, who shall forthwith noti-
N the secretary of the state board of
together with the said seectmen mayor and alder
men, shall Immediately investigate the nature and
character of the disease; and il it shall appear,
such investigation, that the disease is contagious
Infectious is essentially identical with that before
named, they shall be and they hereby authorized
to make an order directing said cattle to be killed
and buried in the ground by such persons as they
may designate; and at their discretion may order
the destruction of any other cattle that have been
exposed to the contagon infection of said disease.
served upon the of the city town, and it
shall be the duty of said forthwith to APP
praise the cattle therein described at their market
value, when sound and well; and said appraisal
shall be endorsed by the upon the copy of
the order which shall then be returned by them to
the seectmen mayor and aldermen. The select
men mayor and aldermen shall transmit the copy
of the order with the endorsement of the assessors TO
the auditor of the commonwealth at his Office IN
Boston.
Resolved That rs per cent of the value of the cat
tie thus appraised shall be paid out ofthe treasury OF
the commonwealth to the owner or owners Thereon,
but not more than $50 shall be paid for any one
animal; and no payment shall be made for any
animal imported after the passage of these resolves
Resolved, That the reasonable charges OF any in
vestigaton killing burying, or other proceedings,
required by these resolves, except the reimburse
ment aforesaid shall be paid by the town or city
making application for an investigation
Resolved That these resolves shall be in force for
the term OF one year and no longer.
The committee of investigation in the al
legged bribery case made their report. They
find that Mr.. Shaw received 500 through Mr..
Hubbard, counsel of the Metropolitan Railroad
Company exonerate James M. Stone from
all blame exonerate everybody connected
with the Hobbs petition; exonerate the officers
OF the Metropolitan company, and, after tull
examination of the testimony, come to the con-
clusion that "there is a want ofproof that eth
er Mr.. Hubbard himself or any other person
summoned before the committee have been
guilty of using money or other means of bribe-
ry with view to influence the votes of the
railway committee or any member of it, or
of any member of the House and the COM
mittee are ignorant of the existence of any tes-
timony duplicating any other person in such
an offence" The report was ordered to be
printed.