Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-01-27
From the State House.
Business Before the Senntc-The Esaxi-
Enun of Corporation Shares Discussed
in the IEOuse-SseneraI Bills Reported
The Report of the Board OF state
Charities.
BOSTON,. Ian. as. 1872

BosIoN, Jan. &c, 1872.
There was but one petition in the senate to-
day, which was put in by the Worcester and
Nashua railroad company for an extension of
the time for the completion of its additional
track. The subject of the fisheries was brought
up by Mr.. Baker of Martha's Vineyard, who in
troduced, on leave, a resolution urging congress
TO make Naturalization for the damage to the
fishing interests of the state caused by the Wash
iugton treaty. he senate refused to consider
The subject until after it had been before the
committee on federal relations. Orders were
passed relating TO the preparation of the reports
of the supreme court, and the better protection
Of boarding house keepers, whose rights, in the
opinion of Mr.. Frost of Chelsea, need further
protection.
The pleasant face OF Governor Washburn's
private secretary, Mr.. Andrews, bcamed officially
upon the senator's this afternoon. He was the
bearer of two messages from his excellency.
One was the annual report of the Mystic river
corporation, and the other was the act passed
last year by the New York Legislature, making
an appropriation for the Washington national
monument The governor evidently wishes the
great and general" to 90 and do likewise.
1t took the house an hour and a half to finish
up its business to-day, although there was no
more of it than usual. G Considerable time was
consumed in debate upon a motion to reduce
the amout of the shares in the Stoneham Odd
Fellows hall association. The Stoneham mem
Der who made the motion represented that the
members OF the ASSOCIATION were not able to
invest so much. This brought up the general
question of stock investments. Mr.. Kim
ball of Boston inycighed earnestly against poor
men or young men putting any money into any
corporation except the home corporation, in
which they could be president and directors both.
Mr.. Cogswell also opposed any departure from
the general principle of fixing shares in all COL
porations at one hundred dollars each, which
was established in 1867. The amendment might
have passed, however, but for some pithy re-
marks from the coorcd member from
Boston, Mr.. Smith, who put the matter
in such a light that the previous
question was at once ordered and the motion
was lost. This Smith, by the way, who is a
barber and a bright fellow, makes some of the
most pertinent speeches that are heard in the
amendment affecting the New Bedford and
Fairhaven horse railroad, about 10 be chartered,
which took up considerable time Other mat
tiers in the orders of the day were disposed of
without remark.
OF the petitions to-day, one was for woman
suffrage, one against the annexation of Brook
line to Boston, one in favor of the petition for a
railroad from North Bridgewater to Mansfield,
and the Hon. Josiah Quincy asked that the trus-
tees Of the Benjamin Franklin fund be author
lied TO loan money to mechanics on other than
personal securities.
Bills were reported to make the terms of as
SCISSORS three years, one third of the board to be
elected each year; and TO authorize another
clerk in the RoXbury municipal court. The
committee on banks aud banking reported that
it was ineXpedient to legislate in conformity
with the governors suggestions with regard to
savings banks. The governor recommended in
his message that general law for the establish
ment of such banks be enacted, and that the
amount of individual deposits be increased. A
bill was reported to incorporate the Boston land
company, with a capital of a million of dollars.
Orders were passed that the judiciary commit
tee report whether any further legislation is
necessary to prevent disiranclsed persons from
voting, and that the county treasurers report
the amount of criminal costs during the past
four years. Mr. Ely of Newton offered his lat
est efusion, which was to Inquire whether the
cumbrous and complex language employed in
the titles of criminal cases cannot be simplifed
The railroad bill came up on its first reading
under which of course debate was not admissi-
bic. But Mr.. Potter of your city offered an
amendment to the much amended seventh sec
ton, to allow the railroad commissioners to de-
eide upon the exigency of railroad on the petit
lion of the directors; also to allow parties op-
posed to any railroad scheme TO petition for the
appointment of commissioners.