Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-03-14
From the State House.
Response TO New EAampshire-1'he EmI-
grant Tax Bill IN the SenaIe-Esad Year
for State Grants Of MOney-A Successful
Land Company.
BosToN, March 10. 1872.

Boston, March 10, 1872
This has been a real working day at the state
house. Perhaps the thorough work done by the
New Hampshire republicans, yesterday, gave adj
ditional zest to republican work here AT any
rate, the notes OF victory sounded throughout the
building as the honorable legislature came to-
gether, while artillerymen on the common
emphasized the triumph in New Hampshire by
firing the customary salute. "What are those
guns forP' inquired a mischevous republican
of his witty democratic associate in the house.
They sound like minute guns; fear there is
funeral" was the reply.
The orders of the day, though full of
business, were dispatched with steady
determination to do all that could be done, and
done we'll The house also definitely expressed
its fixed judgment on a most important point,
that of the policy of giving the money of the
state to private charitable Institutions. The
committee took the initiative by reporting ad.
versely on several petitions from the managers
of some very worthy charities, and Mr.. Stead
man of Boston forcibly expressed the judgment
of the committee which he represented. Mr..
Kimbal put in his testimony on behalf of his
committee, and five institutions were given leave
to withdraw with hardly dissenting voice.
The burden of the day in. the senate was the
question of head money, and the floor was
thronged during the debate After Mr.. Fuller of
Cambridge had explained the reasons for the bill,
Mr.. Thayer of Worcester made a long Speech in
which he opposed the bill-Grsi, because it
would break over policy followed not only by
Ill ~
forty years; second, because it would leave the
ports of the country open to foreign paupers, and
third, because it would take $4,000 a year out
of the treasury and pay it over as a subsidy to
the Cunard line. Mr.. Richardson asked if it
was not unconstitutional and Mr. Thayer peril
nently replied that the Cunard steamship com
pany would have found it ont if it was. Mr..
Whitney of Norfolk took the opportunity 10 de-
nounce the policy of protection in queer way
by calling the imposition of head money a tax
on the blood and bones of the poor immigrant
whose hat, coat, shoes, bread, butter and salt,
were taxed already. Mr.. Torey called the tax
an insult offered by the state to every foreigner
who lands here, and Mr. Tarbox followed in the
same strain. Mr. Thayer, Mr.. Fuller, and 9TH
ers, debated ii for some little time, but it was
ordered to third reading by a vote Of 26 to c.
the yeas and nays being ordered.
Among the pile Of reports in this branch was
one similar to those acted upon in the house,
leave 10 Withdraw on petition for grant Of
$4,000 to the Powers institute of Bernardstown,
inexpedient to enact general insurance law, TO
incorporate the Monson savings bank The
senate disposed Of several begging petitions,
with as little ceremony as had the lower
branch. There was good deal of talk about
the katama land company who desire to
build village Of summer houses on the barren
lands Of Edgartown, in imitation Of Oak Bluff
on Falmouth heights, and in WHICH Mr. Jerne
gan of Edgartown, in whom the house have the
mostimplict confidence, Is especially interested;
but the arguments against land companies were
| futile in this case, where a benefit to Edgartowu
was conceded, and proved all in vain. Mr. Jer.
negan got bis bill, and The house adjourned ut
once, in order not TO begin on the liquor bill,
which was next on the list.
The orders adopted were on the expedency Of
changing the laws concerning the sales OF prop
erty by the guardians of Insane persons, and the
proprety Of still further protection Tor persons
who wish to sell their life Insurance policies or
to cease their payments
The bill relating 10 the inspection OF leather
was amended and passed to a third reading in
The house after long discussion, in which Mr.,