Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-03-26
From the State House.
The General Horse Railroad Law-The
Marginal Freight RaiIrOad and its sue
cessOr Concord Water Hostility 10
your QuinsigamOmd Avenue.


BOSTON, March 70, 1917.
There were few committees in session this
morning, and those few were getting very near
an end of their business. The committee on
railroads will give their last hearing on Thurs
day, according to their present programme
posted on their door, at the bottom of which the
secretary has written the precious word, "Finis."
The committee on the Hoosac tunnel will make
up their verdict on the Shanlys petition for re-
lief this evening, and report in a day or two
The report of the. committee onl state commits
sionerShips, which it is rumored is TO be very
long, is nearly ready. The committee on rail-
roads presented TO the house this afternoon a
documentary monument to their industry and
care in graphing with a tough subject
the rotten Marginal freight railroad
company of this city-which has been be-
fore them opposing the petition of George B.
Upton and other capitalists, for the incorpora-
ton of a new company, the Union freight rail
way company to supercede the Marginal, and do
what it has signally failed to do-connect the
railroad stations and the wharves of Boston by
a railroad running through the streets on which
cars may be drawn by horses in the day time,
and steam in the night. The report of the con-
mittee gives full history of the rascally man.
agement of the Marginal by Edward Crane, and
gives him recommendation to all future legis-
latures, as tirst-class humbug. This is one of
the most remarkable cases of the maladminis-
tratiOn of splendid trust ever known in this
country. The Marginal charter gave the pro-
prietors privileges of almost unlimited value,
and if Edward Crane had been man of
sterling honesty and ability, he might have
been the possessor of one of the finest properties
in the commonwealth But after five years of
chicanery he comes before the railway commit
tee perjured pauper, bringing with him train
of sufferers who are struggling to save their
property from the wreck OF the concern. These
parties asked for saving clause to enable them
to get as much as possible for what little prop
erty there is, but the committee concluded to let
them take their chances under the general
statutes, and reports clause simply repeating
their charter and allowing the new corporation
to "take" the property of the marginal.
The house this afternoon devoted a good share
of its time to studying maps of the locality of
Concord Fight'-the subject of discussion be-
ing the bill to supply the village where stands
the cold Manse" with pure water The
proposed source is Sandy pond, in Lincoln,
and Notwithstanding the efforts of the commit
tee on mercantile affairs, to give the Concord
people entire control of the pond, the friends of
the little town of Lincoln come in and procured
amendments giving the people of that town the
first chance at the water of their own pond. The
bill for an additional supply of water to Salem
also occupied considerable time, and was by a
close vote passed without some amendments in
the interest of Danvers and Peabody, which the
representative of the former town sought to at
tach TO it, Other business transacted was of slight
Importance, the house again failing to compass
the amount of work before it. The finance COM
mittee reported in favor of increasing the salary
OF the treasurer of the state to $4,000 year, and
in favor of giving the widow of Mr.. Coleman, of
South Scituate, recently deceased S663, which
he would have been entitled to as representative
if he had lived. The committee on towns re-
ported bill to annex Bradford to Haverhill, the
town to become seventh ward of that city.
Mr.. Hoyt of Athol, introduced on leave,
a bill to amend the act relative TO
the formation Of manufacturing and other
corporations, so that there may be a sufficient
ably aimed to facilitate the new project for
magnificent hotel and hall at Athol depot, for
which the people of that town are moving, and
which they will doubtless have sooner or later.
Among the petitions presented in the house was
one from Worcester signed by Moses S. John
son, S. S. Foster and Others, for an accumulatiJe
land tax, which was referred to the committee
on labor. The bills in relation to the state visit
ing agency, to authorize the Hopknton railroad
company to mortgage its road, and to take from
the governor and council the power to sell the
Hoosac tunnel, were passed to be engrossed.
Action on the Worcester central district court
bill was postponed until tomorrow.
There happened to be less than thirty of the
senators present this afternoon, and thirteen of
the honorable gentlemen, at the ilstgation of
Mr.. Tarbox and Mr.. Fuller, took it into their
heads that Worcester should not, have its new
bouleyarde along Lake Quinslgamoud, and as
there were only twelve senators voting on the
other side, the passage of the bill was tempo
rarily defeated. Mr. Tarbox said if there
was more land than was needed for
the lunatic asylum, it should be sold,
and If there was not then no public
road should be laid across it, Senator Brews-
ter explained that the trustees of the hospital
the executive and all the parties interested, were
in favor of the improvement and Mr.. Thayer
also did what he could to avert the defeat of the
bill. Tomorrow he will move a reconsideration
and probably secure the passage of the bill The
question of "exgency," which interested us SO
much during the passage Of the general railroad
law. is COminp aUain IL Five
bers of the committee on horse RAILWAYS have
reported minority bill for the incorporation of
horse railroads, which proposes that the exigen-
cy for the use of the tracks of one company
by another company shall be settled by board
consisting of the railroad commissioners and
two others, to be appointed by the corporations
interested, while similar board shall determine
the proper compensation. The bill was not con-
sidered in the senate to-day, but will probably
meet its fate tomorrow.
The senate ordered to be engrossed bills to in
corporate the Fitchburg real estate and building
association; TO incorporate the Brookfeld saw
ings bank; to FIX the salary of the police court
OF Lowell, and the resolve in favor Of the Mas
sachusetts eye aud ear inhrmary. Land compa-
MES seem to have a hard time this wear. and
meet with little favor in either branch. The
senate to-day sent Longwood scheme of this
sort to the place where the woodbine twineth.
Dill was introduced on leave to establish the
district court Of Eastern Hampshire, including
Amherst, Enfield and five other towns. The
senate instructed the railroad committee to con.
slider the expediency of still another general law
authorizing railroad corporations TO take such
land as the railroad commissioners NAV deem
necessary for the operation of their roads.
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