Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-04-14
From the State House.

BOSTON, Thursday, April 13, 1871.
The speakers chair was, in the absence of Mr..
Jewell, to-day, ably and gracefully filed by Mr..
Sanford, of Taunton, the chairman on the part of
the house, of the committee railways. He is an
honest and independent legislator aud merits fully
the compliment extended to him by the speaker.
The questions which agitated the house yesterday,
returned to trouble that honorable body to-day.
First the subject ofthe taxation of incomes
motion to reconsider the action yesterday, hostile
to repeal of the tax The inequality and injustice
ofsuch taxation found advocates in Messrs. Beard
of Brookine, Woodbury. of Boston, Thompson of
Gloucester, and several Others But the OBJ
lection to legislation looking to a repeal of the
tax was too great to be overcome. and
after refusing the yeas and nays. the house, by
close vote decided against reconsideration. A dis
cussion almost equally long followed on a motion
to reconsider the vote whereby Jenny Collins and
Others were refused act of incorporation as the
young women's apprentice association. The dis
eussion OF these matters occupied nearly all the
MI Kellogg, from the committee on education
reported at length on the San Domingo question
| was agreed upon and would have been made Some
| days ago but for the controversy that arose in
Washington at that time. The report
/ of the annexation of that country. The
report was laid on the table and will
| furnish food for debate on some future Occasion
| Among the reports made by committees were the
| following: In favor of procuring maps for the
state house of the counties of Worcester Essex and
| Middlesex; leave to withdraw, the petition Of
| William X. Hayden and others, for an extension
of time for locating and constructing the Bedford
| railroad; and on the petition Of the Grafton anc
Millbury railroad company, for an amendment o
its charter. A bill reported by the railway commit
tee provides for the appointment Of railroad EN-
pIoyes by city and town authorities to act rail
.al1a IN nrdAr ~ FofIr Au1oNt
and, in of disturbance on trains authorizes thu
confinement of parties in baggage cars until the
arrival of the trains at some station when they
to be given in charge of an officer TO be taken tc
| the place of detention; persons lettering about
railroad premises and refusing to leave when re
quested 10 do So to be liable to fine of from 80 tc
S2O no railroad company to be allowed to eject per
sons from cars for nonpayment of fare, except at
Passenser station, but officers may arrest them and
uelver them into custody at regular stations.
Inc state police investigation was conducted be-
lore a large and somewhat "rummy" looking audi.
saos u ele green room large number of restau.
Lowell present With Mr. sWaeser ~ tSe q
counsel. Several testified to having maid money
to the state constabes. Mr. Emery P% tho Mol
mack house refused TO give answers ne SierI 7
ing his counsel and the question arises how vii Nv
2 1 cfompedieaa Inc COMMITTEES will probably asE
the legislature TO order him to be arrested ~ o
tempt That excellent young man and 1 loT G9n
who goes by the name of John Bull" in Fos,n1esi
| testified further against the Joneses ~
Lovejoy gave in US proof Of j. B'. oo DIT
character, recommendation of this wos
thy TO a. place in the treasury department
signed by ). NJ. ). Williams, N. r. Banks, and othe
leading republicans. Mr.. Savage, of North Adam,
an ex-state constable, testified to gross rreguartie
on the part Of an associate on the force, name
Mckay. Five kegs of wine, the result of on
seizure, were taken to the Office and in due tim
all drank by five state constables. He said tbs
when he first went on the force, there were sixt,
four liquor establishments in North Adams mo-
there are one hundred and twenty-five. The heal
ing was continued In the afternoon.
Rev. g. IL. Vibbert member Of the house of rel
fpspntativeR. will lecture.
moral and legal suasion," and Young women an
, | intemperanee" Address, State house, Boston,