The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-03-04
MASSACHUSETTS, LEGISLATURE.
liquor Traffic and Crime-Foreign Cor
porations-Commi Reports.

liquor Traffic and Crime-Foreign Cor
porations-Com Reports.
Boston, March 4.-In the senate the
committee on liquor law reported bill
providing that the bureau Of statistics of
labor shall investigate the relation of the
liquor traffic crime, pauperism and in
sanity, the period covered to be not less
than twelve successive months. The in
vestigation is to he as broad and thorough
as possible, and 5000 is appropriated for
the purpose.
The committee on street railways re-
ported bill authorizing the Fitchburg
and Leominster Street Railway company
70 extend its tracks and increase its stock
to the amount of 100000. The same COM
mittee reported bill authorizing the
Northampton Street Railway company TO
extend its tracks into williamsburg, East
Hampton, Hatfield, Hadley and Amherst.
In the house a bill was reported incorpor-
ating the Maiden, Medford and Stoneham
street railway, with capital Of $lS0,000.
Charles s. Tuckerman, n. p. Hallowell,
Charles +. Adams, George Atkinson and
John A. LINER pettioned for a law that
no taxes shall be assessed on pessonal
property or shares In the capital stock
where property and corporation are out of
the state and are, without any special ex-
emption, legally assessed for taxes
Mayor Lawrence Of Medford petitioned
for an act to allow the city to establish a
sewerage system, the work TO be done by
board of three commissioners.
The public charities committee reported
an appropriation Of Sl7 800 for repairs and
improvements at the Taunton lunatic
hospital.
The insurance committee reported bill
TO give the ST. Jean Baptiste society of
Marlborough the same powers 1t would
have had il Incorporated under the law re-
lating to fraternal beneficiary corpora
tions.
Leave to withdraw was reported on the
petition of A. +. Shea and others for a
Ssainage system for Lowell which shall
not discharge into the Merrimac River.
The street railway committee reported a
bill to allow the Holyoke Street Railway
company to extend It's tracks to North
hampton and Chicago, subject to the con
ditions imposed by the several boards OF
aldermen.
Ought to pass was reported by the labor
committee on the bill to make eight hours
q days labor for state, county, city and
town employees. Senators Green and Burn
ham and Representatives Smith of Ando-
yer and Fuller OF Ludlow dissent.
The drainage committee reported a bill
10 authorize the town Of Clinton to es-
tablish n system of sewage disposal.
Thirty-year o per cent bonds may be issued.
No sewage can be discharged into Nashua
river. A two-thirds vote Of the town Is
necessary for the act.
The COMMITTEES on cities reported a bill
authorizing Everett to issue s125, 200 30
year bonds for sewerage purposes; $500
i0-year bonds for completing and furnish
ing it's high school building; $4,000 lO-year
bonds TO meet maturing indebtedness and
exempting Il from the the debt limit law
until 1897.
The report against charter for the
the Peoples Savings bank In Haverhill
was tabled.
The house bill making appropriation:
for deficiencies In the state penal institu
tions was taken from the table and en-
crossed