The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-02-17
IN The LEGISLATURE.
Brief Sessions Were Held in Both
Branches To-day.
GOV. LADD'S PROCLAMATION.
Numerous Corporation Acts Advanced
A Hearing Promised Upon the Beap-
portionment BiII-Minor Matters he
fore the Legislature.

Gov. Ladd called the Senate TO order
this morning, and Immediately n message
from the House of Representatives was
received announcing the passage of the
following acts: To incorporate the Zion
Primitive Methodist Church of Pascoag.
Referred TO the committee on education.
An act in amendment to an act incorpora-
ting the Rhode Island School of Design.
Referred 10 the committee on education.
An act appropriating $500 for armory
rents for certain militia companies and
the naval militia Referred 10 the COM
mittee on finance. Also the concurrence
of the Houss i'm the resolution TO pay the
bill OF Joseph w. Nickerson
Senator Drown, for the committee on
fisheries, reported hack the act making it
legal for trout artifically cultivated to be
taken at any time. Referred to the COM
mittec on engrossed acts.
Senator Bartlett called from the table
the report of the commission appointed TO
confer with Brown University and moved
that il be communicated TO the House; so
voted.
Senator Allen for the committee on judi
ciary reported back with recommends
tion for its passage the act regulating the
distribution of the public laws passed.
Senator Smith presented the petition for
the division of Scituate into voting dis
tricts. Referred to the committee on judi
ciary.
Gov Ladd then presented his proclama
tion regarding the famine sufferers OF Rus
sia. Received and communicated TO the
House.
Senator Sherman presented petition
for the enactment of a nine-nour law.
Referred to the committee on special
legislation.
Senator Beane reported rs truly en-.
crossed the act Incorporating the FAN
River Electric Freight Railway Company.
Passed.
Senator Drown presented the petition Of
George Smith aud others of Warren rela-
tive TO the agricultural funds. The matter
was laid on the table temporarily.
Senator Mowry reported back with res
olutions for their passage an act in
amendment of an act Incorporating the
Newport Illuminating Company, an act
in amendment of an act Incorporating the
Narragansett Electric Lighting Company,
an act allowing the Providence Telephone
Company to increase its stock. All were
referred to the committee on engrossed
acts.
The petition of Isaac Hall and Others to
incorporate the Rock Plaster Co. was con-
tinued.
a resolution authorizing the New Eng
land Cotton Manufacturing Co. TO in
crease their capital stock was referred.
The resolution allowing Michael Ryan
to change his name to Michael Karen Ryan
! WAS passed.
The act in amendment of the act incor-
| porating the Union Wadding Co. was
passed.
A message from the House announcing
the passage of an act Incorporating the
Rehoboth Brick Co.; the same was referred
to the committee on corporations.
The House or Representatives.
In the House of Representatives, this
morning, acts were passed Incorporating
the Zion Primitive NJ. f.. church of Bur
rillvile, the Rhode Island School of
Design of Providence, the old Ballou
Cemetery of Cumberland, Banack Nelson,
No g Uniformed Sir Knights, Sons of ST.
GeOrge, or Providence; Nelson a. Miles
Garrison, No. Z, Regular Army and Navy
Union, of Providence.
A resolution appropriating $1,000 annu-
ally for armory rents, was passed. This
is the resolution given in detail in Fridays
NEWS.
A petition for woman's suffrage from
the North Providence Woman's Suffrage
League, was referred.
a resolution was passed authorizing the
condemnation of land at South Kings
town, for the establishing Sand Turn
road.
Mr. Perce of Providence offered an act
in amendment of chapter 591 of the Pub
lie Laws, "Of District Courts and Their
Jurisdiction" The amendment makes
the writs issued In one District Court re-
turnable in any other District Court. Re
ferred 10 the judiciary,
Mr.. Simmons. of Bristol, requested that
public hearing he given on the reap
pointment bill, which if it becomes n law,
will deprive his town of one representa-
tive.
Mr.. Wilson, of East Providence, inform
ed the house that before the bill was re-
ported back by the committee OH the judi
ciary, public hearings must be had.
The hearings would be properly adver-
tised. The gentleman from Bristol need
not be alarmed, for If there was any matter
on which bearing was not necessary, il
was this one, which was based upon con
stitutional provision and the simple rules
of arithmetic
Mr.. Simmons-'Then give us bearing
on the arithmetic"
The act amending the charter OF the
Rehoboth Brick Co. was amended so as To
make its corporate name that of the Col
umbia Mutual Life Assurance Co, with n
guarantee capital of 100000, in 100 shares
of 500 each. The act was passed
A resolution making the usual appro-
priations for the agricultural societies of
the State, was referred TO the committee
on finance. The total of the proposed APP
priatiOus il 5000.
STATE IDTERTISEMENTS.
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