The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-05-18
in The LEGISLATURE.
The Senate Sits on the State House
Proposition.
IN INDEFINITE POSTPONEMENT.
A Short Session In tho Upper House and
the Usual squabbing In tho Lower-A
Recess Until 2 O'clock-Measures Of
Interest.

Interest.
In the Senate this morning Senator
| Woods of the committee on Judiciary re-
ported the resolution for the submitting
| the proposition for State House Bonds.
recommending indefinite postponement.
| SO voted.
| Senator Allen for the same committee
reported an act relating to the General
Treasurer, recommending concurrence
with the House amendments. Passed in
Senator Watson, for the committee on
| education, recommended concurrence in
| the act to incorporate the Second Advent
Society of Pascoag. Passed In concur
| renee.
Also an act to incorporate the Beagle
| Club. Passed in concurrence.
| Also an act to incorporate Court Cen
| trail No. S,134 Ancient Order of Foresters
of America of Lincoln. Passed in con-
| currence.
| tee on special legislation be relieved from
further consideration of the nine-hour
bill.
Senator Gardner. chairman Of the COM
mittee, said that the committee had de-
cided not to report the bill at present
favor of 1t and the manufacturers were
against 1t.
Senator Wilbour agreed with the chair
man of the committee.
The vote was taken and the motion was
defeated ~ to 1, Senator Garvin alone
voting in the affirmative.
Senator Woods called from the table
the act in addition to Chapter 93 of the
Public Statutes, "Of Dogs" The act was
recommended for passage by the commit
tee on .jTsn.a judiciary y,,I a few few days, and
was laid on the table temporarily
at the request of Senator Burdick
of Newport. 1t relates TO damage done by
dogs and the compensation therefor.
Passed.
Senator Watson for the committee on
education reported the act relative to
teachers certificvtes aud moved to that it
be made the special order for tomorrow
at 1880 O'Clock. So voted.
The Senate then on motion OF Senator
Pond adjourned to Thursday at IL o'clock.
The House of Representatives.
Immediately after the House was con-
vened, Mr.. Perce, of Providence, moved
| that the reading of the records be dis
pensed with and that the bill for the act
| for the purity of the ballot, on the speak
| er's desk be taken up.
The reading of the records was dis
pensed with, but Mr. Wilson, of East
Providence, opposed the consideration OF
| that bill. He said that there was no pos
siblity Of the bill being passed by the
| senate at this session. To consider it
| would be but to waste valuable time. He
moved that the bill be continued until
the May session.
| sons motion would be unfair, unjust and
| discourteous to himself and to the COM
| mittee on special legislation. The COM
mittee had given great attention to the
bill, which was, in this Presidential cleo
| tion year, far more important than were
the franchise acts and jobs which was de-
sired should supplant this measure.
Fifteen minutes ought to suffice for the
| consideration of the bill Mr.. Perce spoke
| sriritidly for his committee.
Mr.. Wilson replied and said that he had
no intention Of being discourteous to the
gentleman from Providence. What he
| wished to emphasize was that the time
taken up in the House would be wasted,
| for the Senate had so many House bills
| to dispose of that this one could not be
taken up before the final adjournment
| The opportunity was here seized upon
by the Democratic minority to indulge in
political talk, Messrs. Heffernan and
Smith of Glocester being the leaders.
The motion to- continue was lost and the
consideration of the bill was resumed, be-
ginning at section IA, where the House
| left the bill a week ago. AS the bill had
1 -
was necessarily taken up for its considera-
| ton.
A second report was made to the Sec
retary of State to-day, bv the commission
appointed To examine into the claims for
damages by owners of real estate contigu-
| Gus TO the Washington Bridge, and in
jured in value by the construction there
| Of, aud to award damages therein. The
| claims of Patrick j. Hannifuer, Sarah B.
Leonardson, Alice Swift and Cranston II.
Peckham were disallowed. The claims
| allowed :were James Is. Herreshoff, ct ais,
| g., ,54S.65; Luke ii. Rice, 81, ,267 Stephen
5. Rich, $1,000; jeremiah Wall, $575 !;
| total, S., 800 .65.
At I Il. NJ. recess was taken until 2
| o'clock.
The Newport ward Division.
The committee on judiciary OF the SEN
4 ate gave a hearing to-day at the rising of
the Senate in the act In amentment of
chapter 454 Of the pDblic laws, entitled
IAN Act to revise, consolidate aud amend
| An Act Incorporating the city OF New
| port aud the several acts In amendment
thereof ana Ia addition thereto. passed
April 2, ls75.'"
The act provides for the division of
| Newport into six wards, In such a man
/ ner as to secure as nearly as possible an
| equal number of voters In each ward
A number OF the members of the City
Council present, and n number OF
| loud barrapgues in opposition To the bill,
| aud the first To speak was "Fightingn
Frank Nolan, the present city solicitor Of
| Newport
lie arraigned the politicians" as he
called them, who introduced the bill In