Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-03-10
From the State House.
BosroN, Thursday, March Q, 1871.

| few Introductory remarks, after which an adj
dress was made by Mrs. Julia Ward Howe. She
claimed that the men succeeded in their opposi-
ton to women by the ignorance of their oppo-
nents; and when cornered they always con-
oluded by begging the question. The claim that
the granting of the right of suffrage to women
would destroy the unity of the family,
had its root in the self esteem of
man, who always wished to have his
own way. 1t would be BETTER she said, if
the husband had his way when he was right and
the wife when she was right. Men said that if
women would not ask them for anything they
should have all they wanted. Man wanted
woman to bow down to him and worship him;
she would have every woman reply that shewould
only worship the God which spoke in her
own bosom. 1t was claimed that women now
had an influence in the government at Wash
ington; she thought the underhand influences
there exerted made it all the more important
that women Of the highest standard of morality
and intellect should be able to confront openly,
and conquer the bad elements which now
were in the. ascendancy In regard to the
rights of women to their property she
claimed that the financial history of the United
States vas red with the blood of women and or
phans, that women were weak, and they were
made doubly weak by legislation. Laws that
deprived women of their right in their property
and children represented nothing but coercion
and physical force
Rev. James + eeman Clarke considered the
question on the ground ofpublic eXpediency and
Mrs. Livermore made a brief address, after
which speeches in opposition TO the views which
had been presented were made by Mrs. Emma
Lane, and Mrs. Z. H. Daniels.
Additional petitions were presented to the
legislature to-day, for the re-enactment of the
prohibitory law, fol state aid 10 the Washing
tonian home, and of Henry +. French and
Others for state aid to the horticultural school
for women. The petition which was presented
in the house yesterday, to incorporate the Bris-
tol masonic building association, in Attleboro,
was laid on the table in the senate to-day.
The annual report of the liquor commissioner
for 1870 was received from the governor by
message, in reply to a request of the Legislature.
The commissioner gives as the result of the
business for the year ending October l. 1870,
the following: Amount Of sales, S144, 1896;
commissions, sS675; total, S153, 459.9O. Debit,
to rents and taxes, S2,O7S.72; insurance, $40;
clerk hire, S3416.65; furniture, $500; licenses,
S125; miscellaneous expenses, S2323.29; loss by
waste, evaporating, samples, &C., S911 so; total,
S9469.16, showing deficit of S793.92, not includ-
ing interest on capital invested in stock in
trade. The communication was laid on the Ia
BILE and ordered to be printed.
A communication was also received in the SEN
ate from the auditor, giving the cost of printing
and engrossing for the harbor and land COM
missioners since 1861, the total for the former
being S5,355.55, and the latter 81 ,t40.23.
communication was received in the house from
the chairman of the harbor commission, trans
hitting the answer of the United States advisory
council, in reply to certain inquiries. The men,
bers OF the council agree unreservedly and unan-
imously in the opinion that it is important and
eXpedient to apply the principle Of compensa-
ton to the upper harbOr Of Boston.
Bills were introduced on leave and apprO-
priately referred: Concerning registered COOP
eratve associations, as a substitute for one be-
fore the committee on banks and banking; to
revive an act to incorporate the NewburypOrt
and Amesbury horse railway company; in aldi-
ton to an act respecting the sale and invest
ment of estates encountered by contingent re-
mainders, eXecutory devises, or powers of APP
pointment.
The following reports of committees were
made in the senate: Leave to withdraw on the
petition OF John G. Loring and others for mod
iication or repeal of the Sunday laws; that the
bill to increase the jurisdiction of trial justices
over certain offences, and the bill relating to the
Canton and Hyde Park and Stoughton Branch
railroad companies severally ought to pass; that
the bill to regulate the location of railroads
ought not to pass; bills to incorporate the Lee
and Hudson railroad company with a capital of
from 100000 to $500 900; to authorize the town
Of Edgarton to raise money for certain purpose
TO open boat channel through the south beach;
to incorporate the Dedham public library and
reading room, to hold property not exceeding
100000. Leave to withdraw on the petition of
John OrviS and Others in behalf Of the New
England league, to repeal sections Is and 10,
chapter 1872 general statutes, so that currency
may be issued by voluntary associations on their
own responsibility and at their own cost,
In the house the following reports were made:
An act in addition to an act to incorporate the
Worcester and Shrewsbury street railway COM
pany, prohibiting the company from locating
constructing or maintaining a street railway
over any part Of the lands belonging to the
trustees of the state lunatic hospital at Worces-
ter; bills concerning the purchase of water
rights by the city of Salem leave to
withdaw on the petition of Rufus H.
Brown and Others for the annexation of
Peabody to Salem; resolves to pay the towns of
Pittstield S132.51 Hancock S172 IS, birmingham
S534.63, as corporation taxes; and to pay the
overseerS OF the poor of the town of Westport
S46 for aid furnished Amelia P. Lewis; leave TO
withdraw on the petition of G. L. Wilder and 9TH
ers for leave to construct railroad from Lancas-
ter to Leomnster; a bill to incorporate the
Sherburne and South Natick railroad COM
pany, with capital stock not exceeding $780,
000
The following orders were adopted in the
lOugps That the on; Ocu
slider and report upon the eXpediency of repeal
ing section 81 of chapter So of the general stat
utes, passed in 1856, relating to fire insurance
companies; that the committee on elections con-
slider what further legislation if any is necessary
to secure the purity of elections, and protect the
ballot box in cities and towns of this common
wealth; that the committee on the judiciary
consider the eXpediency of amending section 16
OF chapter ia OF the general statutes, so that
the superior court shall be held for criminal
business for the county of Middlesex, at Cam
bridge, on the first Monday of June, instead of
the fourth Monday in June.
The house took action on the matter of provid-
ing for more equal apportionment of state and
county taxes. The reasons given for action are,
that the valuation of 1864, on which state and
county taxes have since that time been appor-
toned was made during the war, which had
greatly developed the wealth and prosperity of
some sections of the commonwealth, while other
portions were as rapidly sinking into poverty
anu SihDdltdoSultlIs FROM THIS course the
values OF every kind of property had materially
changed from those Of 1860, when the last pre-
Vious valuation for said purpose had been made
And principally on this account the valuation in
1864 was made instead of deferring such valua-
ton till 1870, the period of ten years, as had
been the previous custom of the commonwealth
under the constitutional provision for that
purpose. The valuations taken in 1864,
when the war unsettled values are
widely different from the more accurate
returns of the assessors. The value of property
IN the state having returned to a substantial
OASIS has made new apportionment necessary.
The bill which was passed one stage to-day pro-
vides for The appointment by the governor of
three commissioners, who shall meet in April at
the state house, and proceed to equalize and ap-
portion upon the several cities and towns the
number of polls the amount of property which
should be assessed upon each city and town, and
report to the legislature in tabular form the
first week in May
Inc committee on towns reported in the house
a bill for the annexation of Charlestown and
Somerville TO Boston, which shall take effect in
January next, provided it is accepted by a ma
Jority Of the legal voters in each of the three
places interested, at an election to be held on the
first Tuesday in June.
The bill for the better protection of infants