Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-04-13
From the State House.
small POx Experimentation Agents
and Liquor Seiznres-A New ReguIa-
ton for Savings Banks-O raIOry in the
SENATE ON the Boston Horse Railroad
Hill.

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and Liquor Seizmres-A New ReguIa.
ton for Savings Banks-OraIOry in the
Senate ON the Boston Horse Railroad
Hill.
BosToN, April -.
| About the first thing the house did this morn
| ing was to adjust the disagreement between
| the two branches on the small pox bill. The
committee of conference reported the senate
should recede from its amendment, and that tbt
bill should be amended so as to include hotel,
among the places from which patients may be
removed, and by adding: "and in all Other
places where in the opinion of the board o
health and the attending physician the case can
not be properly isolated" The report wa:
promptly accepted, and the bill was subsequent
| ly passed to be engrossed. By this Legislation
local boards of health can isolate small poX
patients at their houses, can remove to hospital;
in certain cases, can hang out the red flag, and
have much greater power than they have had
recently in enforcing their measures when the
prevalence ofthis disease requires unusual action
The sixteenth joint rule was suspended &c
admit a petition from the Hampden county
commissioners for leave TO take some more land
| for their new court house, but the house shut
down on attempts made by others to get in a
couple of other matters. This body is plainly
intent on adjOurning by the first of May, if pos.
sible. The committee on the liquor law made a
report on the order directing them to inquire
whether proper returns have been made by town
agents of sales of forfeited liquors turned over
TO them. The committee say that since
July 1869 the state police have turned
over 2S45l gallons of liquor to twenty town
agents, only four of whom have made any re-
turns. The others have sold more or less of the
liquor, but plead ignorance as the reason why
they have made no returns. The committee
concluded on the whole that it would be better
to have the liquors turned over to the state COM
missioner instead of to town agents. They also
consider it expedient to transfer the authority
to order the destruction of liquors from justices
and courts to the state assayer, who shall assay
all forfeited liquors and turn them over to the
| commissioner either for SALE redistlation, or
destruction, according to the result of the assay.
A bill TO carry out these conclusions is appended
to the report.
About an hour of the morning session was
occupied in debate on that much fingered bill
to regulate the hours of labor in manufacturing
corporations, which was brought up again on
motion to reconsider, so as TO restore the words
"and no female over that age" struck out by
yesterdays amendment. The movement sue
ceeded, having a small majority in its favor,
and the hill was again ordered to be engrossed.
The motion TO reconsider the engrossment of
the Lynn water bill was happily defeated by a
few words from Mr.. Lowering of that CITY,
The bill for the regulation of savings banks
in regard to loans, brought Moses Kimbal to
his feet with amendments, providing that any
savings bank officer who, after refusing a safe
loan when in funds, grants it through broker
or third party, shall be ineligible for any office
OF trust or honor in any savings bank in this
commonwealth; and that it shall be the duty of
secretaries of savings banks TO keep a full
record of all applications for loans. This
brought out pretty interesting speech from
occasion of the amendments. He said
you might go into a savings bank for
a loan and be told that there were
no funds; but by going to a certain
place on State street, which Mr.. Winslow
said he could specify, and giving a certain party
$500, the desired loan would be forthcoming
from the same bank. This he knew by personal
experience. He did not mean to say that the
practice was general, being in fact confined to
half dozen banks, but he prophesied that I'M
less it was prohibited by law there would have
to be legislative investigation ultimately which
would result, he was assured, in the repeal of
the charters of some of the largest banks in the
state. The amendments were adopted without
opposition, and the bill was ordered to a third
reading.
The bill to incorporate the Union Freight Rail
road company, involving the destruction of Ed
ward Cranes old Marginal Freight Railway
Company, was the most interesting matter dis
cussed in the afternoon. The precise question
debated was an amendment proposed by Mr..
Newton of Boston, the effect of which was that
il within four months after the passage of the
ing the Boston and Lowell railroad with the BoS-
ton and Albany, and also cancel its entire bond
ed Indebtedness the bill should not 90 into effect
at ALL 1t was argued in its favor that the pres
ent managers Of the road are not those by whom
the alleged frauds have been committed, and
that they should have chance to redeem the
corporation and save their investments. On the
other side, il was urged that the corporation has
imposed upon the legislature aud swindled the
public; that there is no assurance that
it will do better; and that it is the
duty of the legislature, as soon as il
discovers that corporation has misused
the powers given to it by the legislature, to de
stroy it without a moments delay This last
point was urged with great emphasis by Moses
Kimball, who was for choking the offending cor
poration in the most summary manner possible
AS TO the innocent people who had put money
into the concern, he said they were to be pitied
iust as ANYBODY was TO be pitied for being
s,,,ndlod in any vav The amendment foun5
smnnorters in Mr. GRANGER of Boston. Mr. Hovt
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1901 IN oddition 10 Mr. Kimball NV Mossrs
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