Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-04-27
From the State House.
Exit Prison COmmissiOners-lIu Talk
and Little Business in the HOuse-The
senate i'm n Killing Mood.
BosToN, April %

Boston, April %.
The business of the house this morning may
be summed up briefly. The bill to abolish the
prison commissioners and transfer their duties
to the board of state charities was ordered to be
engrossed with the amendment proposed by Mr..
Loring of Fitchburg abolishing overseers of
houses of correction, too, and transferring
their duties to the county commissioners.
The agricultural committees bill to pre-
| vent the sale or exchange of adulterated milk,
| or of SKINNED milk as new milk, was ordered
to be engrossed after the rejection of two pro-
posed substitutes. 1t was quite triumph for
this committee, as one of the substitute bills
was offered by the chairman of the judiciary
committee The bill to expedite the settlement
of the estates of deceased persons was rejected
emphatically, even after the adoption of several
amendments proposed by the committee on pro-
bate and chancery. The bill requiring that all
reports of state departments and officials shall
be presented by the second Wednesday of jan
nary, and that no report shall exceed two hundred
printed pages exclusive of statistical tables was
ordered to be engrossed after being amended so
as to except the secretary of the board of agri-
culture from the provision concerning the time
of reporting, and to make the pages "octavo''
pages. There was good deal of discussion en-
the Dill, and many other amendments were pro-
posed, but to this complexion it came at last.
The redistrichng bill went through to its third
reading unchanged, though an attempt was
made to transfer scarborough from district
to9, and Bellingham from to 8, and a pretty
strong one to strike out the provision requiring
residence in district as qualification in can
| ddates. Mr.. Goldman of Boston led this latter
movement, and the argument was that the pro-
vision is inconsistent with the national constitu-
ton. A division resulted in a tie, 70 to 70, and
on yerification by the yeas and nays the reiec-
ton of the amendment was confirmed by a vote
of Is to 80.
The afternoon session abounded greatly in
talk and very little business was done. In the
first place there was opposition to concurrence
IN the senate order for an investigation by the
committee on banks and banking, into the
alleged false statements concerning deposits in
savings banks to come out in the report of the
bureau of statistics of labor, which will proba-
bly, be presented tomorrow. Messrs. Cogswell
and Hammond opposed the passage of the
order, but it was adopted without a division.
Then there was more talk on the senate amend
ments to the bill concerning reeognzances of
persons convicted of liquor selling the final re-
| suit OF which was non-concurrence. The
dog bill, which was the first matter in the orders
Of the day, was ordered to be engrossed without
debate. The bill to incorporate the Standish
monument sustained another heavy attack from
the Charlestown delegation, and the wordy hat.
tie was brought to a close only by the previous
question, on which the bill was ordered To no
| engrossed without further amendment. An at
tempt was made to amend the Springfield water
bill in the interest Of the aqueduct COMPANY
but 1t failed, and the bill was ordered to third
reading. After all, Mr.. Detective Squires will
not get his SS4l, for the house refused, by vote
OF 40 to GO, to order his resolve to be engrossed
and then declined, "a to 70, to reconsider that
action.
When the railway committees report on sun.
dry orders relating to railroad fares and frerbts
came up MIR. Ely took the floor, and begged the
house to substitute those three bills of his and
put them in the orders for tomorrow. Tina
house did nothing at all, though, for HAVING bo.
|
the usual way.
The senate CURLY refused to give the Middle.
sex horse railroad bill third reading by a vote
of 10 H. All that was said on it was n little
speech in its favor by Senator Long. The re-
solve for the appointment of committee to re-.
port on the sources Of supply of pure water in
the state was treated with more consideration.
but finally consigned to the Glne fate by vote
Of ID to Is on the question Of engrossment A
third victim was the bill to regulate the practice
Of pharmacy, which was rejected with.
out count, and this satisfied the
senate for the afternoon. A motion was
made subsequently to reconsider the rejection
OF the water supply resolve. The Union freight
railroad bill was brought up again by recon
sideration, and amended so as to change the
permission to take the road and franchise of the
marginal company into mandate. The bin was