The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-01-22
FLOODED.
Many Resolutions Be
fore the Legislature
CAUSING TROUBLE
Most of Them Are in Ref
erence to Expansion.
Especial Dispatch to The spy.)

footing in the Massachusetts, legislature
and resolves on this and that subject
are flying thick and fast.
Those on the question of expansion or
anti-expansion have the call up to date
and the microbe is still busy, for sew
eral assorted sets of resolutions are
threatened for next week
1t is evident that some of the mem
bers of the general court are in dire
need of a germicide that will lay the
resolution bacillus, otherwise if they
continue and the resolutions are de-
bated (Which latter is somewhat doubt
fuD the session will last until next fall.
AS the matter now stands the COM
mittee on federal relations has on its
hands fully half a dozen resolutions in
favor of or against the policy of the
national administration regarding the
territory conquered from Spain. In the
course of time these will be considered
by the committee and reported to the
legislature. Whether any of them will
como from the committee next week is
doubtful.
AS to the Mellen resolutions, which
We're introduced solely with a view of
causing trouble to the republicans, the
intent being to have them acted on by
the House on or before the time for the
| reelection of Senator Lodge, they are
by this time rendered partially harm
less by the delay In acting upon them.
but the versatile Mr.. Mellen does not
intend If he can help it, to have them
buried much longer.
dad the resolutions been brought
peIore the House as Mr. Mellen intend
ed, and adopted, it would have put
the republicans in the ridiculous posi-
ton of electing to the Senate an ar
gent expansionist, While at the same
.lIiie lndorslng the anti-expansionist
principles of another representative of
the sta+e in the Senate.
me resolutions introduced in the
senate this week by Mr.. Washburn of
worcester, While not as specific on the
expansion question as the Mellen ones
they have still the germ of mischief in
them, and the republicans of the upper
oIahch would have been just as well
pleased to have had Mr.. Washburn
kept silence. On general nrincinlas
the sentiment of a majority of the
members of both branches is over
| Whelm1ngly in favor of the adontion
Oh the resolutions introduced by Rem
resentative Fits of Somerville. which
IN effect ask the legislature to mind
It's own business and let congress RIM
lne afrairs of the nation. Should these
iIgsolutloils ever come before the
rouse, there is no question that thew
would be adopted, fer enough of the
members are so sick of the other flood
OF resolutions that they would vote
for them.
While 1t is true that the anti-expan-
slonlsts are up to the present time
Illdhlhg more noise than their oppo-
LehtS, is equally true that the
members, who favor the policv of Tho
national administration in regard 10 orr iIr
foreign possessions, are in a big ma
JorIty IN both branches, and from con-
nersdtlon it'll the members this week.
II is evident to an unprecedented oh
server, that if a similar resolution 10
mat passed by the Maine Legislature
was introduced into the general cou-t
OF TINS state and allowed to be put to
we; II would be adopted by an over
Whelming majority.
Naturally, those democratic menhars
VINO attended the Bruce Instruction
uihnef TINS week, regard themselves g
pound 10 support the anti-exnansion
Loflorn nope, but on the other hand
Shefe are a number and a good num-
per TOO of the democratic members
VINO qld not attend that dinner. and
VINO do not regard themselves &c
bound by any action taken on that GO
caslon. Some of them favor expan-
SION, others do not, but if is evident
lidl IL the question comes to a cote in
/ elthef branch, some democrats will ia
Vor expansion.
naturally the actions of Senator
PARSONS and Representative Severance
on the vote for United States sena-
~, mas gwen rise to considerable talk
| tnls week among the members and
While some of the democratic leaders
are Jubilant over the actions, of these
Two men, elected as republicans tho
cohcensus of opinion among the ren,1h-
mean members is that both Mr. par
soHs ana Mr.. Severance have made =
serious mistake, although they are ner-
iy "lilhg TO allow members all
posslDle freedom of action in regard
to such matters
nat the senator should have allowed
! MS carefully fostered anti-exnansion
| views TO warp his Judgment is deplored
| by the majority of his colleagues and
the feeling expressed by some of the
Boston members, that in acting as he
/ uld' Mr.. Parsons was simply making
\ a bid for notoriety. is not credited hT
those who knew him.
On the other hand, Representative
severance is the subject of considerable
Wlttlcism for his action in voting fo,
Bruce, because, as he puts it, He could
not conscientiously vote for Senator
Lodge, owing to the latter's views or
! expansion" The fact that Mr.. Bruce
has not yet declared himself on the
[ question, and that he is considered te
be more Of an eXpansionist than any
thing else, was a revelation to Mr..
/ Severance, and in the course of a talk
Thursday, he admitted that he had moi
l taken into consideration the fact that
Mr.. Bruce stood for free silver and
other principles to which Mr. Severance
! as a consistent republican should be
Numerically opposed.
I Speaking of that Bruce dinner at the
| American house, Tuesday night, it is
of interest to know that few of the
! democratic members from central OF
western Massachusetts attended. The
/ labor trouble at the hotel was the os-
1 tensble reason with some of them. and
/ on this ground Representative Dris-
| coll of ChicoDee fatty refused to at
1 tend.
4 Others stayed away because they did
not care 10 be mixed up in the squab-
/ BILE between the state committee and
/ the Boston machine and that's the way
things stand in the democratic ranks
/ just now. If the aggressive policy
| is to be kept up the brethren will have
to get together pretty soon
/ BY Che way, it came near being James
/ p. Carroll Of Springfield rather than
/ Bruce, as the democratic senatorial
( nominee at the caucus last Tuesday.
| Mr.. Driscoll of Chicopee and ~Messrs.
/ Doolng and Dillon of Holyol1e voted
/ solidly for MIR. Carroll and finally won
! the PROMISE. from the friends Of the
other candidates opposed to Bruce that