Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-03-30
From the State House.

BosroN, Wednesday, March 90, 1871.
The remonstrance of the selectmen and town
clerk of Leicester against the act in addition to
an act for supplying the city of Worcester with
water was presented in the house this afternoon.
The petitioners claim that the town has already
suffered damage from a similar cause, and that
no more water should be taken from Kettle
Brook. That it will seriously damage the
wooden manufactures of the town, injure the
value of property near the brook, and prevent
the erection of other buildings thereon, and that
it would retard the prosperity of the town. In
the senate the petition of Rufus Ellis and thirty
four others of Boston, was presented for the
establishment of reformatory institution for
girls over the age of sixteen years.
Orders were adopted in the senate: Instruct
ing the committee on public charitable institu-
tons to inquire if any legislation is necessary
with view 10 carrying out the provisions of
section TO- chapter 2SS of the acts of 1864 in re-
lation to establishing commonwealth hospital
at Tewksbury; and the eXpediency of erecting
building on the grounds of the commonwealth
at Tewksbury for the use of the harmless and
incurably insane.
An order offered by Mr.. Stearns, of Hamp-
shire, requiring the committee on federal rela-
tons to report in five days on an order relating
to Charles Sumner, offered by him on the 18th
January, was placed in the orders of the day for
Thursday.
Committees reported in the house that the bill
for supplying the town of Leomlnster with pure
water ought to pass in new draft; leave to
withdraw on The petitions for bridge over the
Merrimack river at Cages Ferry, and for state
aid for the Carney hospital and st Annes infant
ASYLUM; bill to incorporate the Plymouth
Congregat onal church in Cambridge. In the
senate bill was reported TO authorize the New
England hospital for women and children to
hold additional real and personal estate TO the
amount of S15O,OOO. The committee on the
treasury also reported that the bill in relation
to the pay of cOroners ought to pass.
Bills were introduced on leave to extend the
time for assessing betterments on estates on
Fort Hill in the city OF Boston to July LIST, 1872,
and TO incorporate the young mems apprentices
association of Boston.
The bill fixing the compensation of members
of the legislature at $3.50 each for the present
session, was advocated in the house by Mr..
Towne Of Ftchburg, who offered it, Mr.. Adams
of Quincy, and Mr. Kimball of Boston, on the
ground that it would tend to shorten the session,
and reduce the expenses of the state. An amend
meut fixing the compensation at five dollars a
day for the session, and another limiting the
time of the session to one hundred days, were
both killed. The yeas and nays being ordered,
1913 gentlemen voted in favor of the bill, and So
against it, and the bill was ordered to third
reading.
The vetoed bill to authorize VIM. H. Swift,
and Lemuel NJ. Brock to construct wharf in
Nahant, was taken from the table in the senate
and considered. Mr.. Colvin, of Boston, advo-
Gated the passage of the bill, declaring that the
governor, instead of seeking for information
from the committee, had gone to persons who
had nothing to do with it, and in examination
of the reasons of the governor he found the gov
ernor had been misnformed as to the facts, and
his reasons were unsOund. Mr.. Goodman also
spoke in favor of the passage of the bill, and
Mr.. Wakefield against it. The yeas and nays
were ordered, and the veto was sustained by a
vote of II yeas TO "a nays
The motion to reconsider the vote whereby
| the bill to incorporate the Nashua, Acton and
Boston railroad company was refused third
reading, was carried by q vote of 10 to A. when
the bill was ordered to a third reading by a vote
OILS TO II.
The resolutions in relation TO further legisa
| ton by congress, to secure life, liberty, and
property IN the United States, were considered
when Mr.. Munroe, of Norfolk, offered an addi
tional resolution, as follows:
Resolved, that as further step towards restoring
good order and harmony of feeling in the southern
section of our country, the legislature urges upon
its senators and representatives to give their nu
ence and their votes in favor of measure, the basis
| of which shall be a general amnesty in behalf O.
those who are laboring under disabilities incurred
during and since t1e late war of the rebellion.
Mr.. Stearns, of Hampden, gave notice of
| proposed amendment TO strike out of the resUu
tion so much as referred to the presidents recon-
mendation, so as to leave the whole subject tC
the action of congress. The resolutions were
| laid on the table.
| The Dill to incorporate the Lee and Hudson
| railroad company was discussed at length
Messrs. Adams of Quincy, and Sanford of Taun
ton, speaking in favor of the bill, and Mr.. Tran
of Boston, against it. The bill was then ordered
| to third reading by vote of 105 to 80.
| The bill to authorize the Massachusetts Cen
trail railroad company to extend its railroad wa.
| discussed, and after considerable filibustering
| the house adjourned without action.
| The bills concerning the municipal court o.
| the city of Worcester; to authorize the city o
| Taunton to change the course of Little river
for supplying the city of Lynn with pure water
and the resolve relating to the normal schoo
| boarding houses at birmingham and Bridge.
water, were severally ordered to be engrossed in
the senate, and the bills for the better protec.
ton of infants ITO make Northampton bridge
free,-to regulate the practice of pharmacy in
Boston,-and to incorporate the Spencer savings
bank, in the house.