Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-03-06
From the State House.
Dispatch of Business in the Sehate-The
Proposed Military Camp GrOund-The
Adjutant Generals RepOrI-DeaIh of n
Member OF the House.
BOSTON. March 5. 1877

BosToN, March 5, 1872
The members came back to their places to-day,
after enjoying their usual holiday, with DISPOSE
tons sweetened and energies revived from con-
tact with their constituents. The senate did
well-in fact it did all it could do, and passed
to be engrossed about a dozen bills, including
those relating to the Worcester academy and
the Worcester and Shrewsbury railroad COM
pany, and to industrial schools. The bill TO es-
tablish the district court Of northern Worcester
was rejected as recommended by the commit
tee. This matter of new judicial districts is oc-
cupying a very considerable amount of time in
the senate Mr.. Woods of Hampshire introduced
bill to establish a central district court in that
county, to embrace the towns of Amherst, Cum
mington, Northampton, and several other towns
in that beautiful section. Bills were reported to
establish savings banks in East Bridgewater
and Whitinsville, 10 annex part of Sandwich
to Marshpee, and to authorize the building of a
clearinghouse at Westfeld for the normal school
| students, to cost $4,000.
1t is proposed to give Gen. Butler, who is the
commander of the militia of the state, power to
appoint a commission to select the proposed
state camp ground which is to be placed under
the charge of the adjutant general, who will
have the power to improve it and erect the nee
essary buildings. The ground is TO be two hun
dred or more acres in extent, as provided by a
bill introduced by Mr.. Potter of Arlington. The
governor sent in the adjutant generals report,
showing that the number of militia has been in
creased during the last two years by 650S, and is
l. A., Il
of the arsenal ground at Cambridge, which has
| already been mooted, and will probably be pro-
vided for in another bill.
The proceedings of the house were cut short
| at an earlier hour than usual by the announce
ment of the death of the member from the first
| Plymouth district, Mr.. NJ. K. Coleman of Scitu-
ate. The customary resolutions were adopted,
anda committee of Old Colony men were APP
pointed to attend the funeral, which takes place
tomorrow. Previous to this, however, consid-
cradle business was transacted. The railway
committee reported leave to withdraw on the
| petition of j. D. Wheeler and others for rail-
road from Worcester to Providence, and they
also made similar report on the petition of the
Lawrence member, Mr.. Bacon and others, for a
law regulating the height of railrord bridges
The judiciary reported the bill TO incorporate
the third district court of southern Worcester in
a new draft, making some minor changes The
unbeatable matters acted on were of less than
ordinary importance. The Burrl claim, which
was the first thing, also proved the last, and
after an hour aud half of talk on that subject
the proceedings were terminated as before de-
scribed.
The green room was the scene of some lively
sparring this morning between the advocates
and the opponents of woman's suffrage, the
former led by William Lloyd Garrison, and the
latter by that ardent clergyman, the Rev. Doctor
Fulton, of fremont Temple. The latter de-
liyered himself of an unusually coherent and
pithy speech, and Mr.. Garrison made rather
dubious work of it in his reply. But of course
the result was in his favor, for he was surround
ed by believers, who sgnifed with oft-repeated
applause their approval of his statement.