Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-05-19

itory law had been executed by the state ponce, II
it had not BEEN the violators of the law WoulI aoi
have come up to the state house ana 'estineu
M, Fitzgerald of Boston said the state police
were behind their duty in the execution OF the pro-
| hibitory law, and the investigation hau proved
| that the force was corrupt The fault was not in
the men, but in the system; any body OF men given
the same duty to perform would necessarily pc e9r-
and the sentiment of a majority of the people OF
Boston was that morally it was not wrong to bride
a state constable.
Mr. Rufiin of Boston thought the force was not
entirely cleared from the charges of corruption
made against it, but he thought some such force
was necessary. The cause of corruption was the
endeavor TO enforce the prohibitOry law, and he
hoped an amendment would be adopted providing
that it should not be part of the duty of the force
to execute the prohibitory law.
Mr.. Kellogg of Pittsfeld said he considered the
principle on which the state police was organized
was wrong one, and it had proved so: He thought
the control Of the force whose duty 1t was to exc
cute the law should not be under the control of any
one man and he was in favor ofgoing back to the Old
system, under which the law was executed by the
sherifs and their deputies, and the constables OF
the localities where they were elected.
Mr.. Woodbury. of Boston, thought the power
which Major Jones had was une on. titatioaay
the committee he said, was despotic one, and he
should vote against it. The state police had been
an irresponsible body of men, and If the proposed
bill was passed it would become more so.
Mr.. Baker, of Beverly, moved to amend the bill
by adding at the end of the fourth section the fol-
deavor to repress and prevent crime by the sup.
preston of liquor shops, gambling houses and
houses of llfae, the same being the words insert
ed In the original bill In Governor Andrews own
handwriting.
On motion of Mr.. Brown, of Adams, the pre-
vious question was ordered, and the yeas and nays
Fizgeralds bill abolishing the force for the major.
ity report The house refused to substitute the bill
by vote of 6S to no. as follows:
YEAs-Adams Q, Anderson, Arnold w +,
Rahhitt Raird. Barker. BidKell, Bower, Bridgman,
Brown E, Burr H o. Burr I, Galley, Carney Car
penter Cogswell W, Colby, Cooley, Corser, Daniels,
Fowler, Franklin Gardner, Gates 7, Glover, Going,
Granger, Griggs, Hall, Harris I b. Hayward S,
Hewes, Hill, Howard D, Hubbard, Kel-
logg Lamson Leighton, Lincoln N Madden, Ma
goun, Melden, Merrill A K, Merrill n, Moore, Nor
ion, Murphy, Newell Parmenter, Perry, Phillips,
Poor, Pratt I, Quigley, Reade, Smith Fl Z, Tar
box, Thompson G z, Toland, Walcott, Walton,
SAYs-Alen ] S, Baldwin D W, Baldwin j S,
Barker /, Baker X, Barker W, Barnard, Bar
fs FEB p Brown A, Burnap, Chase, CogsWei
] D. Cotton S, Crane s, Crane Y, Currier,
Cushman A r, Cushman R, Davis G E, Davis w
Fearing, Fiagg, Floyd, Fuller, Gardner R +, Gates
G w, Goodrich, Goodspeed, Guild, Haskell, Hay
ward B, Hersey, Holt Holway, Hopkinson, Hume,
HuEd Hutchinson James johnson ;S T. johnson John
Lewis W, Lincoln H, Lombard, Lyford, Mason,
McDufie, Mckenzie, McKim, Meek, Merriam, Null
ltgan, Neal, Nelson Nlchols, Nope, Mutt, osborn,
0sgood, Paine, Parsons, Peabody, Pike, Pratt L,
Putnam l., Reagan, Richards, Richardson, Root,
Ross Rufin, Russo Il, Sanford, Saunders, Scrbner,
Shepard, Sisson, Smith G, Swasey, Taft, Thomp-
son E E, Towne, Tucker, futile, Twombly, Xibbert,
Wales, Walworth, Washburn, Weber, Wheeler,
Woodward Wright.
The bill reported by the majority of the committee
was then ordered to third reading by vote of 80
yeas to " nays.
Two matters which have been lying on the
table for some time were killed in very genteel
tod flnoO &c tbo in rol0 tn
domicie for the purpose Of taxation and aimed es-
pecially at the rich Bostonians who go to Nahant
and elsewhere to escape taxation, was referred to
the next general court. The other, the Dominica
resolutions, was on motion of their author, Mr.
Kellogg, recommitted, which is the last we shall
see of them this year probably. The bill to repeal
section 81 of chapter 26 Of the general statutes con-
eerning small pox was ordered to be engrossed.