Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-16
Why not put the governor under civil

question he alleged was asked Of can
dldate as mason: 'If you had to carry
800 bricks 1000 feet, how would you car
| ry them, in a hod a barrel or a wheel
barrow? OF course, he would carry
them as the foreman directed. He then
read a number of the questions taken
from the report, which he said const.-
tuted magnificent system of mathe-
matics.
In 1884 this board cost $3S09 81. Since
that time it has cost S209 900 This is
worse than the province laws publica-
/ ton. The governor desired a cutting
down Of expenditures He would com
mence to cut right here. He disputed
| the proposition that because this board
vas provided for in the statutes, this
oiii must be passed A senator had
said the other day that this, board never
had resorted to strangulation in case
like this, and never would-leadlng into
futurity 1t did so last year and the
year before in the case of the editor of
the province laws. They tell us about
| reform said he. 81, too, believe in
reform, though not the kind admins
tered with jawbones."
The senator closed by saying he ex-
pected this bill would pass, but it never
would with his vote. He believed In
consistency in both religion and politics.
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civil service reform simply meant offices
for somebody's uncles and cousins and
aunts, He had been told that his atti-
/ tude would blast his political future, but
he had no political future which stood
in the way of his convictions
Senator Hodga1ins of Middlesex said
there We're two ways of killing meas
ure-ridicule and argument The pre-
ceding speaker had used both. Mr.
Hodgkins defended the bill because as
mayor of Someryille he had had prac-
teal experience of the value of the sys-
tenn. All his appointments to the police
force were still holding their places, ex-
cept one man who passed an eXamina-
| ton of 9S 7-10 per cent, but who had a
constitutional weakness that no civil
service examination could show He ad-
mitted that Somerville lost one of her
| best firemen because he was one year
over age. He did not think the members
would enjoy being beset as they would
! be, were the board abolished. He said
he thought the rules of the board
| should be fixed by statute to meet OBJ
jections of others beside the gentleman
| who had spoken.
Senator Farley of Franklin said he
was astonished to have the principles of
! civil service reform attacked. The law
J was not passed to please men of nerV-
| Gus disposition or politicians. He
charged that Senator Cook had never
visited the office of the civil service
commission. Senator Cook rose and
! said he had not; he did not come under
| it's peculiar rules. Senator Farley went
on to read from the commissions re-
port to show that the questions were
| practical.
Senator Gallivan Of Suffolk said
though a member of the committee on
ways and means which reported bill,
he should vote against it. The system of
registering laborers was a farce. Does
any one think the best masons and
| plumbers and carpenters belonging to
the unions would come here Sunday
noon, struggle for positions in the line
and wait all night to get on the list?
He did not believe 20 of the 500 regis
! tered would get jobs this year They
were misled into believing that all they
had to do to get jobs was to register.
/ He alleged that for three-quarters of the
! term Mayor Curtis was asleep; but now
/ it watches the pay-rolls closely to see
] if the democrats are violating the law.
They find few cases. 1t is always
easy to beat the civil service law, and
beat it honestly, but if the law was as
| it should be, these ways would be hard
to navigate. You never find mugwump
who was not an office seeker.
Senator George did not believe in civil
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carried too far, but it was not fair to
stop the salaries of the department en-
ployees.
By a vote Of is to the bill was or
dered to a third reading. Senators Cook,
Barber, Gallivan, Quirk, Flynn and
Malaney voted no
A bill to incorporate Walter Baker &
Company was put over for debate TO-
IN THE HOUSE.
Mr. Stone of Springfield presented the
petition of the Woronoco Street Rail
way Company for authority to act as
a common carrier Of freight.
Mr.. Jones of Somerville presented a
petition. with accompanying resolve,
providing for an investigation by the
state board of lunacy and charity into
the subject of caring for the adult blind
of the state, and to report upon the
same at the next general court
The order introduced by Mr.. Parker of
Holden, authorizing the committee on
agriculture to travel and to send for
persons and papers, in the performance
of it's duties, came back from the senate
with the endorsement that the senate
insisted on it's original action in refusing
to extend the authority of the commit
tee to send for persons and papers The
house concurred, after another amend
ment had been adopted, giving the COM
mittee authority TO send for state Off
cials connected with the gypsy moth
commission.
Leave to withdraw was reported on
the petition for legislation providing for
the use of BLACK Beauty" as a sup
Elementary reading book i'll the public
schools; on the George A. Richardson
petition for legislation to prevent in
bNfa
boarding houses; on the petition of the
selectmen ofWhatley for a repeal of
chapter S47 of the acts of 1881. relative
to the support of poor in towns, to pre-
vent the farming out" system.
The committee on public charitable in
stitutions reported a resolve appropri-
ating S29, 900 for the construction of a
new kitchen and the extension of the
boiler house at the Worcester lunatic
hospital
The house adopted an order for
o'clock sessions on Tuesdays.
The bill relative to administrators, ex-
ecutors and trustees, adversely reported
or by the committee on probate and in
sclvency, was taken from the calendar
and tabled on motion of Mr.. Stone of
Springfield.
The old fight against the savings bank
commissioners bill to prevent savings
banks from occupying rooms of national
banking or trust institutions, was ta-
ken up again this afternoon.
Mr.. Cove of Waltham offered an
amendment to prevent savings banks
from using the same rooms occupied by
national banks. Mr., Mead of LeXing
Ton opposed the bin upon general princi-
pies contending that the law would
work hardship in many of the smaller
town. of the state.
Mr.. Curtis of Stoughton and Mr. Hall
of Everett favored the DILL as amended.
1,he rneas sIre was nnn- sed hy Mr Carl