Worcester morning daily spy. (Worcester, Mass.) 1888-1898, 1898-02-04
without a negative vote.

without negative vote.
The senate order for an investigation,
by a Joint special committee, Of the
charges of mismanagement in the engin-
GERS department of the state, was
amended by provision that the inves-
tigation shall be conducted by the joint
standing committee on state house and
then adopted.
The committee on public service.
through Mr.. Carberry Of Worcester, re-
ported leave to withdraw on the petition
of the first assistant clerk of the first
eastern Middlesex court for more sal
airy.
The Stone (Springfeld) bill, that spec
ial administrators shall be deemed Off
GERS Of the court appointing them, was
reported by the committee on probate
and insolvency. The same committee re-
ported the bill introduced by the same
member, limiting the time in which &C
lions must be brought against assignees
in Insolvency.
The committee on election laws was
discharged on its own request from
further consideration of the Mccarthy
aldermanic bill, and the same was re-
ferred to election laws and metropolitan
affairs sitting jointly.
The committee on public service re-
ported adversely on the petition for
more salary for the chairman of the
board Of registration in pharmacy.
The committee on rules reported
against the admission of the George w.
Cook petition for the Incorporation of
the Mitchells Falls Canal and Power
Company. Accepted.
The Mackey (Boston) order for YER
batlm report of the house proceedings
was rejected, viva voce, and without de-
bate.
The following petitions came into the
house accompanied by bills:
OF the state board of health, for the
repeal of chapter 425 of the acts of 1894,
providing that vendor of milk cannot
be prosecuted for selling impure milk
unless the same is found in his posses
sion; Of d. w. Davis, for the appoint
ment of a commission of three persons
to investigate the rates and charges for
telephone service to be appointed by
the governor; of John +. O'Sullivan,
that all articles manufactured in pris-
ons be marked with stamp or label;
of Richard Cullinane of Lawrence, that
prisoners in the state institutions be
employed to manufacture by hand Ia
Dor only articles to be used in said in
stitutions; of John J. Garland, that ev-
cry city of over rs, 600 inhabitants shall
provide at public expense, one public
physician for each 10000 of its inhabi-
tants; of Thomas Mellon, that no en-
ployee in bakery shall work more than
60 hours a week, and that bakeries be
subject to proper sanitary restrictions;
of Francis w. Thompson, that no per
son shall work in drug store more
than 60 hours in a week, or 10 hours in
"a: Of the selectmen of Templeton, that
the town be authorized to maintain an
electric light plant; Of Jorc@n Marsh,
r. H. White & Co., for the incorporation
of the Women Clerks Benefit Associa-
ton; of John Rooney and another, for
the incorporation of the New England
Canal Company, with a capital stock OF
81, 500. 900, to construct Cape Cod Ca
nal; of George A Perkins, for the use
of lamps on bicycles; of Susan S. Fes-
sender, that chaste life and CONVEX
sation need not be proven by the state
in order to convict of seduction; of the
Myles Standish Monument Association
for an appropriation of $4,000 from the
state for the completion of the monu-
ment.
The following bills ON leave were In
troduced in the house:
BY Mr.. Parsons of Greenfield. to reg
ulate and define the law concerning the
infection Of the death penalty; by MT
johnson Of Worcester that in all jury
cases the agreement of ten of the jurors
shall be sufficient to authorize YER
dict