Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-03-15
From the State House.
BosroN. Tuesday. March IA. i

BosToN, Tuesday, March IA, 1871
The bill providing for the annexation of
Charlestown and Somerville to Boston was the
chief topic of interest in the house this after
noon. The debate was opened by Gen Cogswell
of Salem, chairman of the committee on towns,
who reviewed at length the testimony given be-
fore the committee, and made speech of about
an hour in length in favor of annexation.
DR.. l. L. Moore, of Boston, followed, and
claimed that the future interests of Boston re-
quired that the annexation asked for should
take place at the present time, and he presented
large array of figures in support of his opin-
ion, claiming that if the city continued to in
crease in the future as it had in the past its
population in 1920 would number over 100000,
and the whole territory, including that which it
proposed to annex, would be as densely popu-
lated as the city of Boston was before the an
nexaton of Roxbury or Dorchester took place
Mr. Guild, of Someryille, opposed the passage
of the bill, and claimed that Boston should ex-
tend ITSELF if at all, in a southerly direction, and
not across Charles river, which presented a
natural obstacle to extension in that direction,
He said that the reasons which existed for the
annexation of Roxbury and Dorchester did not
apply to Somerville and Charlestown. Without
reaching vote, the house postponed further
argument till tomorrow, when there will be
more speeches made. Moses A. Dow, of the
Waverley Magazine, who, with G. Washington
Warren, are jealous annexationists, was present
in the house. The anti-annexationsts include all
the Charlestown representatives some strong
citizens of that place, headed by Hon. James NJ.
Stone, the Middlesex county interest, which
objects to being shorn of its wealth, and some
south-eud Bostonians, who do not desire to have
their city grow in a northerly direction, for the
south end would lose relative power thereby.
The bills passed TO be engrossed in the house
were: The bill concerning exceptions and APP
peals in jury trials in the Berkshire courts; the
bill prohibiting the Worcester and Shrewsbury
morse railroad company from locating their
track on the lands of the Worcester lunatic hos
pltal; the bill to authorize railroad companies
to make special contracts to run cheap trains as
suggested by Hon. Josiah Quincy; the bills to
annex portion of the town of Sheffield 10 tho
town OF New Marlborough; to incorporate tho
| trustees OF the Berkshire atheneum: 10 moor
| porate the Newton free library; TO chance Tho
name Of the Hitchcock free grammar school,
| Committees reported as follows: bin 10 in.
corporate the Morse institute in Natick, with
| leave TO hold real and personal property not ey.
ceeding 100000; bill to incorporate the Pill
| grim Congregational church in Cambridge, with
leave to hold real and personal estate to the
amount Of 500 900; that the bill to authorize the
whitman and Miles manufacturing company of
\ Fitchbrrg to increase its capital stock and hold
real estate ought not to pass
In the senate the bill relating to county law
] libraries was rejected The bills TO INCORPORATE