The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-04-17
ASSEMBLY,
Concealed Weapon Law Made
Reasonable.
House Passes Bill Providing for Pun
ishment Of Rioters.
Woonsocket Delegation Renomlnates
Judge Lee OF 18th District

At this mornings session OF the Gene
raj Assembly the Senate followed the
good example set by the lower branch last
Friday and cleared its decks of
lot OF old bills that none but the trainers
ever expected would pass and as a result
Al different measures were disposed OF by
indefinite postponement.
In the House of Representatives Mr..
Wilson's substitute bill in amendment
of Chapter 242 was taken up, and after
lengthy discussion, passed by q vote OF
81 to4.
The Senate.
Senator Woods, for the committee on
judiciary, recommended the passage of
the act providing for the appointment
and fixing the duties Of the secretary OF
the State Board OF Health. The act was
passed.
On the recommendation of the COM
mittee in judiciary the resolution
changing the name OF Mary J. Monahsn
to Mary j. White was passed.
Senator Freeman reported that the
committee on judiciary had been enjoying
q house cleaning, and that it had forty
one bills for which 1t recommended in
definite postponement.
The members of tho Senate settled back
with a smile, and the Governor read the
bills by title, all being indefinitely post
poned. They were all there, all the old
Democratic pets that had been passed af-
ter the long hours of debate in tho House
and sent to the Senate only to find COM
mon fate in the pigeon holes of the COM
mittee room.
Among the several others the act divid-
ing the town of Smithfield into voting
districts, the act to define the power and
duties Of town officers, the resolu-
tion calling for constitutional
convention and the amendment
20 the registration law and
the judiciary act met q similar fate, all
being postponed without the formality OF
a reading, and when the desk was cleared
the Senate gave a sigh of relief.
The act to incorporate the Continental
Company was recommended by the COM
mittee on corporations, and passed.
Senator Coggeshall presented the an
nusl report OF the Rhode Island College of
Agriculture. II was received and ordered
placed on file.
Senator j. V. B. Watson presented the
necessary resolutions for the appropria-
tion OF money needed by the new Com
pany Y, 1st Rhode Island Regiment, and
they were referred TO the committee on
militia.
The resolution to appropriate s5o,o to
complete the work OF constructing the
broadway for the harbor of the Great
Salt Pond, Block Island, was presented by
Senator Gregory and referred to the COM
mittee on finance.
The amendment to the act of incorpora-
tion of the Douglass Cable Co. was re-
commended for passage by the committee
on corporations, but it was rscommitted
on account Of q defect In the text OF the
bill
The committee on education reported
favorsbly on the act to incorporate the
Christian Church of Bristol, the Daugh-
ters Of independence, Loyal Orange Lodge
and the amendment TO the act of incor-
poration of Walkers True Blues, Loyal
Grange Lodge, and they were passed.
The Senate then adjourned.
House of Representatives.
In the House of Representatives the bill
which had been made the special order OF
the day was taken up just before IL
o'clock, and occupied the rest OF the
session. 1t was the bill presented yester-
day by Mr.. Wilson with the recommended
tion OF the judiciary committee, and in
amendment OF Chapter 242 of the Public
Statues relative to offenses against per-
sonsl property. As soon as the question
was put upon the passage OF the bill
q heated discussion arose as the result OF
the opinion held by several of the MEM