Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-05-25
From the State House.

ment yet the great and general court have not
cluded its business yet, and will not before Friday
There are those who anticipate an adjournment this
week.
The senate continues hostile to the extension of
the Worcester aud Gardner railroad. When the
bill from the house came up for consideration to-
day, the question was on concurrence with that
branch in their substitute bill granting the extern
sion. Senator Collins, as champion of the lobby
aud of the Vermont and Massachusetts railroad,
opposed, as was to be expected this just measure.
The discussion was brief and the senate refused to
concur with the house-yeas II, nays IS, as fol-
lows;
YEAS. Messrs. Bartholomew, Bird, Crosby,
Frost Howe, Kimball, Munroe Stafford, Thayer of
Worcester, Wakefield, Whiting, Whitney
NAYs.-Messrs. Atwood, Bates Boardman, Brad.
ley, CasweIl, Clark Of Middesex, Collins, Elliot,
Sproat, Tenney, Willcomb, Wood
Several senators declined to vote as they had
"paired Off with senators who were absent Great
and just indignation is felt at the of the YER
mont and Massachusetts, railroad, which is repre-
sented here in the opposition by Mr.. Ruggles. The
officers of this road gave their written promise last
year not to oppose this extension this winter. The
bill will go back to the house, which body will
undoubtedly adhere to their former action. Per-
haps committee of conference may be asked for
and solution reached.
The state police bill was ordered to be engrossed
by vote of 20 to IL in the senate, and then went
down to the house, which, by vote of SO to SO, re-
fused to concur in the amendment increasing the
number of the force from 20 to so. The amendment
allowing constables to be furnished to cities and
towns at their expense, was also non-concurred in.
The other amendments were adopted. The bill in
relation to alien passengers arriving in regular lines
of communication, was amended by striking out
all the provisions relative to Communication, and as
amended was ordered to third reading. large
part of the time of the session in the afternoon
taken up with a discussion of motion to recon.
slider, which was finally lost by vote of to %.
Senator Frost introduced on leave, a resolve ap-
pointing Edward Crane and VIM. L. Burt of Boston,
John W. Chandler of Brookline, Richard Good
man of Lenox, Daniel E. Stafford of Hamilton, Pat
rick A Collins of Boston the part of the senate,
John W. McKim of West RoXbury, Willard p.
Phillips of Salem, Charles l.. Woodbury. of Boston,
John 3. D. Cogswell of Yarmouth, and John X.
Tarbox of Lawrence, on the part of the house,
committee to consider the defects in the railroad
system of this commonwealth. The committee
shall serve without compensation from the state,
and they have power to sit in the vacation, to APP
point clerk, send for persons and papers, exam
inc witnesses, records, and proceedings of the
several railroad corporations, and devise a remedy
the duties of the state and TO report in print to the
next legislature and the state printers are hereby
directed to print 1000 copies of said report for the
use of the next general court. The resolve was re-
ferred to the committee on railways.
The motion to reconsider the vote whereby the
resolve relating to the enforcement of the bond of
John S. Eldridge and others to the commonwealth
was substituted for the report of the committee rel
alive to the subject was discussed After eonsidera
bic debate between Mr. Wakefield, the chairman of
the committee, and Mr.. Bird, it prevailed by vote
Of II to Z the substitute rejected, and the re-
port of the committee to refer the matter to the
next general court was accepted. The motion to
reconsider the vote whereby the report of
committee on the judiciary, on the or
der relative to the Imprisonment of Henry
a Emy fod hail the as Legality OF his being
thursday. There is considerable criticism of the
committee report which declared that the supreme
court had no intention of interfering with the pre-
r0gatiVp of the senate in attpmOtinp tn imDris0n
Major Henry Emery, of Lowell, for contempt in
refusing to answer certain questions in the state
police Investigation The report also contained the
statement that the statutes forbade the admission to
bail in such cases. When the report came up
Mr.. Bird moved to substitute a bill which
should hereafter forbid the admission to bail of any
person committed for contempt of the executive or
legislative departments of the commonwealth. The
preface to the bill was quite long, and had refer
enee TO the case in question, and declared that a
justice of the supreme court had assumed by means
of writ of habeas corpus and adjudication there
in to pass upon the right of the senate to punish
Emery, and in disregard of the statute had admit
ted him to bail, thus defeating the lawful purpose
of that body
The bill to repeal section 81 of chapter % of the
general Statutes concerning small pox was refused
engrossment by vote of l TO 10. A resolve con-
corning the publication of the list of Massachusetts
officers and soldiers in the late war, after being
amended so that 1900 copies should be published,
and that each member of the legislature should
ceive two volumes, was ordered TO be engrossed.
The attempt to reconsider the vote adverse to SELL
ing the school ship failed, only five senators voting
for it. Among the bills engrossed were bills con-
corning the settlement of paupers; in favor of the
Worcester manufacturers mutual insurance com.
pany; in further addition to an act concerning the
manufacture and sale of Intoxicating liquors; to
amend an act relating 10 the state Vlsting agency
and juvenile offenders; to authorize the construc-
ton of dams across South river in the town of
Marshfeld; to establish the city of Gloucester.
The committee on prisons reported inexpedient
the order relative to amending chapter $40, acts
of 1870 concerning the appointment of commission
ers of PRISONS and the classification of prisoners.
The final report of this committee also submit
ted, in which the condition of the several prisons
except those at East Cambridge and Taunton is fa-
vorably referred to, and on these legislation has
been had. The Jail at NewbuIyport, they suggest,
should be discontinued and those at EdgartOn,
Nantucket, Barnstable, and Newburyport shall be
used simply as houses of detention, and the az
pointment Of prison commissioner is commended
1t is asO suggested whether in the future it will
not be found best to have district prisons of
under state control instead of counties.
The house reconsidered its rejection of the bill to
establish the district court for Southern Worcester
the salary of the justice was fixed at $780, and the
bill was ordered to be engrossed. When the gem
eral bill for street railways came up Mr. Fitzgerald
of Boston declared it was word for word the law of
1854 with one exception, and that was in the par
ticuar that it modified the law in the interest Of
the street railways. After considerable debate and
explanation, vote reached The first amend
ment offered, limiting the number Of passengers in
q car to thirty was rejected. The thirteenth sec
ton was amended SO that the municipal or town
authorities may cause the removal of tracks, if in
their Judgment the interests of the public re-
quire their removal An amendment of the fifteenth
section was then adopted and provides that atera.
ons in the locations Of tracks shall be made by the
corporation as the board of aldermen shall deter
mine. An amendment was then adopted, striking
out the last of the same section which allowed the
railway corporation TO appeal to the railroad COM
missioners. The bill was then ordered to a third
reading.
The time of the house, both during the forenoon
and afternoon sessions, was taken up with discus
sion of resolve in relation to the Massachusetts
agricultural college, granting $4,000 to be expend-
ed by the trustees for the payment of all existing
debts Of the college, and all current expenses not
otherwise provided for; the residue to be applied
towards the erection of necessary buildings. Also
providing that there be paid from the treasury into
the perpetual fund entitled feThe fund for the nro.
motion OF education in agriculture and the mechan-
ic arts, sum sufficient to increase said fund so
thatt shall amount to $3.50 in the whole the in
come whereof shall be paid as provided BY existing
laws. The resolves were finally ordered To thir5
reading. The bill to amend the act incornorating
dered to third reading.
The resolve providing for the payment of the cost
for counsel to which Chief Constable Edward j.
Jones had been subjected by the recent investiga-
Cogswell of Salem and Fitzgerald of Boston, and
favored by Mr.. Kimball of Boston. The resolve
then rejected. Mr.. Fitzgerald said he had the
petition Of Mr.. Lovejoy to be compensated for ser.
vices in exposing corruption in the state police
force, amounting to some Sl40O. This very modest
claim OF the excessively modest Lovejoy was not
put in, however.
The committee on railways reported that the bill
to enable purchasers of railroads under judicial de-
to pass The committee on the judiciary reported
bill to amend section II of chapter 145 Of the
general statutes concerning informatons in the
ture of quo warranto, by inserting the words, "or
before any justice of the court in vacation"
In the house the resolves fixing the salary of the
chapains doorkeepers, and pages of the senate and
house of representatives; bills concerning street
railway corporations; TO confirm certain proceed
ngs IN probate courts; in relation to the sealing of
weights and measures and relating to the taxation
Vi pank shares, were ordered to be engrossed.
American merchants have a reputation for
saSacity and acuteness, but there are few of
anel ii lhat can suTpass, in that respect, the
gent i!sl Of whom good story is told in the
bugnsh papers. He is a merchant in London
ana lately found that rival establishment was
using his brains for its own benefit. and at the
same time iorestalling him in the marker nv
obtaining copies of his telegraphic orders from
an operator, by bribery. He at once wrote nr.
yately to his agents always to act exactly Con-
trary TO orders, and then went to work exercis.
ing his brains at once for hi; own benefit and
the injury of the wrong-doer He not only cot
the full benefit Of his own foresight and tact.
| but was obtaining q pOetical revenge unon his