Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-03-20
From the State House.
The New Congressional Distrieis-sena-
tOr FOfter's E'lan-7aaiaers in the House
-The Worcester Memorial IL osPItai.
BosroN. March 10. 1872.


with brace of map makers, and is hard at
work upon the outline Of plan for the rear
rangement of the congressional districts, which
be hopes will commend itself to the committee,
and thereafter to the legislature. The commit
tee held meeting this morning, and
viewed his propositionas far as he has
matured it. In some respects his plan
seems TO be a very good one. He has
aimed as far as possible TO preserve the bounda-
ries of the districts as they are now, to allow the
| present members TO be re-chosen wherever
that is possible. Of course this is
| dlfticalt job as there is new dis
trict to be formed. The new district, which
| he proposes to make number eight, has been
laid ont TO contain II out OF the % towns in the
present district seven, embracing Framing
| ham, Sudbury and the towns south of them,
| with the exception of Franklin), Newton, and
| Dedham, together with Brookline, which at
present forms a part of the Sd district, Mr..
| Hooper's, and Cambridge which is now in the
| 4thsdistrct; also three towns from the Sth dis
trict. This makes fairly symmetrical district,
and leaves the southeast districts pretty nearly
| unchanged. Suffolk county, it is proposed shall
bG lutU lNO anu f. Tue tOIlleG
taking in Dorchester and leaving out Brookline,
| and the latter taking the present ward nine in
Boston and leaving out Cambridge Districts
| five and SIX, where our somewhat Troublesome
friend of Gloucester is wont to rus
ticate, seems TO have given the most
| trouble. 1t is necessary to reduce the
territory of The districts somewhat and
in order to save Banksis district as near in
tact as possible, and prevent it from being
crowded toward the east. So, not to clip the
sixth district, Mr. Potter proposes to shave off
the territory north of the Merrimac, viz, the
towns of Salisbury and Amesbury and the city
Of Haverhill, and add this to the new seventh
district, the western boundary of which will not,
according to this plan, be very much changed.
The new district, Of which Worcester is the
centre, may include thirty-three out of the forty
one towns of the present district eight, Franklin
and Bellin9ham of Norfolk county only being
retained on the southeast side, and Clinton,
Sterling and Princeton from the present ninth
district The territory included in the pres
ent ninth and tenth districts it is pro-
| posed TO rc.arrange on a much more
| symmetrical plan, giving Dawes all of
the territory west of the Connecticut, ex-
cept the town of Northampton, and nothing east
Of the river except the town Of Mortified. This
| would leave Springfield in the southwestern
verge of the new ninth district and Fitchburg
on the extreme northeastern edge. This would
be rather an unbalanced district, but il looks well
| on the map-much better indeed than the I'M
| shapely confines Of Banks's and Brooks's dis
| trlcts-the latter having long arm reaching ont
north Of the Mcrrmac to the sea- it is probable
that the committee will alter this bungling ar
| rangement, even at the risk of sacrificing Mr..
Banks's chances of reelection.
The House to-day refused to reconsider the
rejection of the bill relative to the administer
ing of oaths, in spite of the reiteration by the
lawyers Of the very sensible arguments for its
passage. The bill to provide for the custody
and examination of the opinions of the supreme
court, before their publication, and which pro-
posed an appropriation of $1,000, to allow the
court reporter TO keep clerk for that purpose,
was lost after discussion. which was prolonged
in the usual unnecessary manner by certain
| non-legal members, who are never so happy as
when displaying their ignorance of matters
| of technical law. The bill to establish the sec
ond district court Of Southern Worcester, was
passed to third reading, also the bill to pro-
vide boarding house for the students of the
Normal School at WestGed, fifty per cent.
Of whom, it is reported are now
boarding themselves and living poorly because
| they cannot afford the luxury of a private
boarding house. The resolves providing Tor re-
| pairs in the state amshouse at Tewksbury,
| granting taxes to the several counties, in favor
Of the town of Milford, and the bills to iix the
salary Of the sheriff OF Dukes county, were
passed to be cngrossed.
Major Jones, the state constable has sue
ceeded in convincing the committee on claims
that he ought to have some part of his expenses
incurred at the investigation last year refunded
and they have reported resolve giving him
$500. 1t cost him, however, over S145O. Bills
were introduced to establish police court in
Somervlle, and to pay the widow of the de
ceased member from 6eituate the usual COM
pensation of members, $3.50. The judiciary
committee sent in a bill to take the
control Of the small pox from boards Of
health, and also reported the bill to incorporate
the trustees of your Memorial hospital in new
draft limiting the amount of personal estate to
$500, 600 and the real estate to $500 900. Bills
were also reported to authorize the town of
Concord to take water from Sandy pond in Lin
coin, and in relation to sign boards at grade
crossings of railroads with highways,
In session oftweniy minutes or so, the hap
ply senators to-day put through all their bust
ness, expressing bills to incorporate the Jamai-
ca Plain savings bank, TO authorize the Chelsea
gas light company to increase its capital stock,
aud to establish the district. court OF central
Hampshire. The resolution relating to Ameri-
can seamen was recommitted and the bill to
authorize the Worcester boulevard, was laid
on the table. MIR. TarboX, of Lawrence, in
troduced a bill for the better protection of
public ways, providing that towns may elect
three persons, 10 be called commissioners of
ways, whose duties shall be to see that the
public ways are kept free from distractions or
encroachments, and to define the correct loca-
ton Of highways The committee on roads and
bridges will look it over The camp ground bill
was passed to third reading with The amount
increased to $4,000 for the purchase of land.
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If you have only been on Chinese soil for a
couple of days you will be COMPOUNDED, on call
ing on your friend at midday to hear him call
out TO bis Chinese servant "Boy, you 20 top
side; tell that cook, all same that number one
China boy, he make chow chow, chop chop
| 10 win require an Interpreter 10 make Won uu-
derstand that your friend is merely ordering