Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-05-06
From the State House.
No Adjournment KeI-A New State PO-
lice BIII-The Insurance Tax Once
More.

BosToN, May 4.
The attempt to effect an adjournment to-day
proved futile but the end is near. 1t is thought
now that Tuesday will be the last day. The bill
to incorporate a second abattor company, which
went so finely through the house, was rejected
by the senate by vote of IL to Is The bill TO
provide cheap morning and evening trains to
and from Boston met better fate, being ordered
10 be engrossed by vote of 20 to IA. A resolve
was introduced on leave in the senate and put
through its several stages, authorizing the gov
ernor to appoint a delegate to the International
penitentiary congress, but the house rejected it
with hardly dissenting vote.
When the resolve relating to the memorial
statues came back TO the house amended so as
to provide for statue of Samuel Adams to rep
resent the revolutionary period, and one of
either John Winthrop, John Carver, VIM. Brad
ford, YIN. Brewster Edward Winslow or Miles
Standsh, to represent the colonial history Of the
state, the old fight was renewed, but the house
concurred by yea and nay vote of 10S to SO.
As far as oratorcal effect was concerned it was
a contest between Cape Cod and Cape Ann, with
the latter victorious.
The most remarkable thing done in the house
referred to the state police bill, about
which there was a dispute with the
senate The conference committee agreed that
the senate amendment giving the appointing
power to the chief constable should stand, but
with an amendment giving the governor the
power TO remove the men appointed. The re-
port was accepted in the senate, but in the
house discussion sprung up which resulted in
the rejection OF the report; whereupon the bill
to abolish the police commissioners was taken
from the table and bill substituted therefor, on
motion of Mr. Cogswell, simply making the
commissioners removable at the pleasure of the
governor. This bill was put through
its several stages and sent at once to
the senate, where it was referred TO
the committee on the state police. The house
by this action sgnfed its intention to retain
the law just as it now is, with the simple addi-
ton of a clause making the police commission
ers removable at the pleasure of the governor.
Instead of one hundred constables without the
commissioners they conclude to keep the COM
mission with but seventy constabes
A decided disagreement exists on the Lowell
railroad bridge bill. One conference committee
having failed to agree, another was appointed
this afternoon. A conference committee on the
bill concerning the trial of juvenile offenders,
and another on an amendment to the Eastern
railroad company's bill, are out also not to
mention several on minor bills of merely local
interest.
The house engrossed the resolve for additional
compensation to the door-keepers, assistant
door-keepers, and messengers, with an amend
ment giving the pages $50 The senate resolves
authorizing the purchase of photographic stone
for state map for the use of committees, at an
expense of $500, and authorizing the copying
of the muster roll of soldiers of the French and
Indian wars, at an expense of $3.50, were stig-
matized as 'jobs" and rejected almost unani-
mously. The Eastern railroad company's bill to
Increase its terminal facilities in Boston was
ordered TO be engrossed with two amend
ments, one providing compensation in case of
damage to the harbor, and the other requiring
that the Boston and Maine company'S land
shall not be taken until thirty days after written
notice to that company. The bill as passed be-
fore allowed the Eastern road to grab the Bos-
ton and Name land without pay, an omission
or trick, which, it is rumored, would have been
met by the governors veto, if the saving amend
ments had not been adopted
The senate resolve, disappearing the infer
ences and conclusions concerning savings banks
in the annual report of the bureau of statistics
of labor was discussed at length by the house.
Two sarcastic amendments were proposed, but
they were rejected, and then the resolve was re-
fused third reading by yea aud nay vote of
SO to Il.
The subject of the bill relating to a modifica-
ton of the tax on insurance companies came
up again in the house in the forenoon, on a mo-
ton to return the senate bill and accompanying
papers to the senate with a statement of the ac-
ton of the house thereon. The house refused
to do so, by avoteof 6s to 9s, but subs equently
on the receipt of message from the senate re-
quessing the return of the bill this action was
reversed The object of getting the bill back
was to refer 1t to the committee on insurance
who are all ready TO report on Monday in the
house new bill to accomplish the purposes of
the old one which was so unfortunately wrecked
on parliamentary snag
The committee on railways reported bill as
recommended by the railroad commissioners, to
consolidate the Eastern and Boston and Maine
railroads, under the name of the Boston and
Portland railroad. The judiciary committee re-
ported adversely on the bill, allowing individual
accumulations of more than a thousand dollars
in savings banks, provided such increase is de-
rived from the interest on the amount on
deposit The bill was rejected by twenty ma
jority.
The "liberal reformers'' who have been look
ing Cincinnati-ward, of whom there are few in
the legislature, are not enthusiastic over the
nomination Of Greeley. They fondly hoped that
Statesman" like Adams or Trumbull would
be taken for standard-bearer.