Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-03-09
From the State House.
The Beer and Cider Bill AsaIn-A Re
consideration Sefnsed-The Highland
Ra1Iway-The Model Senate.


BosToN, March 8, 1872.
The house has again said no to those PERM
ciOus motions to reconsider and to suspend the
rule against the admission of new business.
Soon after the reports and the usual introduc-
tory matters were disposed Of to-day, Mr.. Faxon
of Quincy, who is the most irrepressible, ii not
the most forcible advocate of prohibitory doc
trines in our honorable body, fulfilled his pur-
pose of moving a reconsideration Of the vote of
last evening, whereby the bill to take away from
towns and cities the right to authorize the sale
of ale, lager beer and cider was rejected. de-
bate filed out the half hour during which dis
cussion was permissible under the rule,
and tine yeas and nays were then
called. Notwithstanding several members
who did not favor the bill voted to re-
consider in order to allow a vote upon the ques-
ton in a full house, the motion was lost-103 to
102 The "friends oil temperance" who held
caucus in committee room just previous to
the session, were good deal nonplussed, but
there was nothing for them TO do but to ac-
quiesce, since nothing more could be done
about that bill. The Boston republicans were
glad of the result, for they know that an eXter-
mnating war against lager beer would result in
their losing one if not both of their congressman
at the next election. The feeling in the legisla-
ture is strongly against any tinkerng of the law
this year.
The Roxbury people who have been petition
ing, several thousand strong, for charter for
horse railroad of their own to run in COMPETE
ton with our accommodating Metropolitan,
were successful before the committee on horse
railroads, and a bill for a charter was reported
to-day. This matter will probably be the cause
of good deal of lobbying, as the Metropolitan
ring are determined to defeat the measure if
money and influence will do it. They will con-
centrate their efforts upon the senate, and hope
to win there, as the bill is too plainly means
of Just relief to be defeated III the
house. But fancy it will be a diff
cult job even there, for General Whit
ney of Brookline represents the Roxbury
constituency, and it is limited that eyee given
at this gentleman's Brookline residence last
evening, whereat the governor and the members
of the senate were entertained, was intended as
move in favor of the bill. Mr.. johnson of
South Boston, himself the superintendent of
rival line TO the Metropolitan, will doubtless
welcome another element of opposition to our
overgrown monopoly. Altogether the prospect
of success for the bill is good.
There was juicy little debate iuterjected into
the order of the day concerning the suspension
of the joint rules and orders, in order to pass
resolve to legalze the proceedings Of the Lex
OBJ
was not legally chosen. Mr.. COgswell opposed
the attempt to suspend the rules with bis usual
cogency, asserting that it did not follow that
the proceedings were wholly illegal simply
because the meeting began wrong, and
Mr.. Thompson put some Of his moth
er wit into arguments on the same
side. 0ne of the members tried to turn
his point, that the matter should be settled in
the courts, against him by declaring that the
lawyers were in the interest Of litigation, but he
repused the suggestion with good effect. Eighty
eight members voted in favor of suspension of
the rules, bBt that number not being the requi-
site three-fourths the motion was losT, and the
Lexington people must take the consequences
of their inadYertent action, Whatever it was,
The railway committee is still giving leave to
withdraw to one or TWO sets of petitioners for
new railroads daily, as they eau now Incorporate
under the general railroad law The bill to au-
thorize the Connecticut river company to buy
up the Mt. Tom and East Hampton railroad was
reported in a new draft. Leave to with,
draw was reported on the petition for
the incorporation of the Boston loan
and trust company, and. inexpedient
on the petition for a law to prevent
the hunting of rabbits with ferrets Bills were
passed to a third reading to authorize the con-
struction of dykes in West Springfield; to ex-
tend the time for the location and construction
of the Athol and Enfield railroad, and authorize
the extension of its tracks to Springfield; to
change the time of holding municipal elections
in cities TO the first Tuesday after the first Mon
day in December; to incorporate the South
shore steamboat company, in relation to uni
forms of disbanded militia; TO incorporate the
Mechanics Savings Bank of Holyoke The bill
to increase the capital stock of the Fitchburg
railroad company was passed to be engrossed.
The marked and pleasant contrast with the
oratory with which the house is too often favor
ed, were two brief speeches made to-day on the
question of memoralizng congress in respect to
certain unjust features of the law concerning
the wages of seamen of wrecked vessels The
gentlemen to whom ! allude, who rose and
said "Mr. Speaker" for the first time this ses-
sion, were Messrs. Fisher Of Southboro, and ex-
Mayor Lincoln of Boston. They both favored
the memorial, and spoke so well as to provoke
the wish that they might be moved to speak
oftener, and that some Others might keep silent
the rest of the session.
The senate had another Of its short and de-
lightfully expeditions sessions today, and Or
dered to be engrossed bills 10 establish the free
bridge at Springfield, to authorize the Ashburn
ham railroad company to extend and lease its
roa1, to supply the village Of South Hadley
Falls with water, and resolves in favor of the
disabled soldiers employment bureau, to au-
thorze the sale Of the state arsenal, and in favor
of spending $4,000 for boarding house for the
Westfeld normal school.
A number Of gentlemen from Worcester were
in the room of the committee on probate and
cbaBcery this forenoon, urging an amendment
TO the law relative 10 the jurisdiction of probate
courts over juvenile offenders
To The Editor Of the Spyi New England is
sometimes accused of being eDiii ely Iuke-warm