Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-04-24

| umd or cautious investors ready means o
strengthening their security at low rate, ant
will facilitate and further extend the power o
turning real estate, by means of loans upoI
mortgages, into quick capital. The invest
ments of the proposed company are restricted II
investments upon mortgages. The corporation
have definite and advantageous offers of coop
Grafton on the part of capitalists abroad. Thes,
parties desire to act in conjunction with com
pany established in the state of Massachusetts
because the credit and name of this common
wealth stand deseryedly high in foreign coun
tries.
The report relative to your union depot was
again taken from the table and placed in TIL
orders of the day. You win have to be very ex
peditious if your city desires 10 secure any fur
ther legislation on the subject 1t is pity il
| your city council and your numerous railroads
cannot agree upon some plan, for when you de
eide the great and general court will, without
much talk, grant what you agree TO ask for. II
is notorious that the city of Worcester gets re-
fused nothing down here. Your representatives
always manage to get what they want in the
way Of legislation.
ing was the batch of orders looking to the end OF
the session, The only one seriously opposed
was that for the holding of evening sessions, il
being argued that business would not he ex-
pedited thereby, the chances being against a
| quorum for evening work on the heels of a
lengthy day session. The order was rejected
without a count, and another to make this week
To- 10
poses" was also rejected by the close vote OF
tlty-eight to ifty-nine. The other order, making
every session legislative day on and after to-
morrow, was adopted. The dog bill furnished
some more sport for the ways of the house, but
after they had enjoyed themselves with it
enough another bill was substituted and then
referred to the next general court.
The project relating to the commonwealth
lands or flats in Boston harbor adjoining
South Boston, which has been a fruitful theme
of discussion by past legislatures came before
the house to-day in the shape of bill which
gives the harbor commissioners subject to the
approval of the governor and majority of
the council, power to expend S4OO,0OOin build.
ing Il sea wall and fll twenty-five acres of the
fats in question, 1t is the plan
which Gov. Bullock earnestly recommended for
adoption a few years ago, but which met with
such opposition at the time as to fail in the leg
ISlature Josiah Quincy, who was in the oppo-
sition then, is an earnest petitioner for the bill
this year. A similar bill was rejected by the
legislature of 1871. John Quincy Adams and
Harvey Jewell, who came on to the floor from
the speakers chair for the purpose, opposing it
vigorously and successfully. The facts are that
by inaugurating this enterprise the state will
reclaim more than fourteen million square feet of
available land on tide water and at the same
time be using the mud which is to be dredged
from the shoal water and filled in back of the
sea wall, will add 800 acres of deep water
anchorage to Boston harbor The Boston wharf
company and the Boston & Albany railroad
company, who also own in theSfats stand ready
to continue their part Of the sea wall when the
stateltakes the land. They in fact can do moth.
ing until the flats of the state are enclosed. OF
course this will be another Back bay affair, from
which the commonwealth will expect to get a
much larger return. A feature of this project
is that when completed the Boston & Albany
and Hartford & Erie cars will come close to deep
water and take freight direct from the foreign
steamers, while bonded goods will without
moments delay go west and south in bonded
ears, and SO Boston will have a days advantage
of New York in this sort of commerce. The bill
was passed to its third reading without opposi-
ton after brief explanation by Mr.. Hammond.
of the committee on harbors, and Mr.. Moses
Kimball, the chairman of the committee on
finance.
The six bills from Mr.. Ely's committee on
commissonerships which were allowed to come
in While ten Others from the same committee
were ruled out last week, were all reached to-
day and were disposed of in less than one quar-
ter of the time which was wasted in the attempt
made last week to find out whether they were
reported strictly in order. The bill making the
chief Of the bureau of statistics of labor ca
QGicto member of the boards OF education, of
health and OF state charities, was the occasion
for sharp attack on the past and forthcoming
reports Of that bureau. Messrs. Benton OF
Brookline, Hobbs Of Uxbridge, Cornell of New
Bedford and Brown of Adams were cir.
cumStantial and severe in their charges.
They supported an amendment to abol-
ish the bureau altogether, which was lost
on yea and nay vote of II to 1O3, after which
the original bill was ordered to a third reading.
with the addition of prOviSo making the chief
of the bureau removable at the pleasure of the
governor. The bill regarding the commissioners
on inland fisheries, which simply provides that
the governor may remove the commissioners at
his option, and limits their appropriation to
$4,000, met with but little opposition. The
bill to abolish the prison commission and
transfer their duties to the board of
state charities, was ordered to third
reading without word; and, with as little
talk, the bill providing for state representation
in the railway companies of the commonwealth
was rejected, &C to 10. This was the only bill of
Mr.. Ely'S famous report which was rejected.
The last and most important one was intended
to correct notorious fault in the manner and
time in which department officers and others
make their annual reports in print to the legis-
lature. None of them are ready when the leg.
islature first convenes and some are not vet
made Mr. Ely's bill provides that the reports
''t' Nei' ~ "i"'S ~ Piiht " JuS iSSlsldluIt ny
the second Wednesday in January. No
document is to exceed 200 pages, and the num-
Der printed shall be confined to the legal limit,
The treasurer and auditor are authorized TO hal
ance their books on the last day of November,
and are authorized to make all necessary rules
to accomplish the purposes of the act The
office hours of state house clerks are also regu
lated. Messrs. Cogswell, Kimbal of Boston.
Thompson and Towne tried to kill the bill, but
all their amendments failed, and the house
passed it to third reading by great ma.
jority.
Among the bills passed to be engrossed were
the following: Requiring check lists to be pre-
served at city elections; requiring apothe-
cares to keep record of liquor sales;
Incorporating the Campello North Bridgewater
and Holbrook street railway company; to pay the
militia two cents a mile each way for travel 10
the annual encampment; to erect Randolph.
Braintree, Cohasset, Weymouth Quincy and
Holbrook into the district court of east Nor.
folk; to consolidate the Middlesex and new
highland horse railway companies of Boston:
and TO take from city and town agents and rive
to the state commissioner the control of forfeited
seized liquors, the state assaycr and commits