suffrage. A petition of the Dorchester Woman Suffrage Associa- Woman tion for the granting of municipal suffrage to women; To the committee on Woman Suffrage. Orders of the Day. The Orders of the Day were taken up. The bills To authorize the Massachusetts Charitable Society to Bills. fix the times and places for its meetings (Senate, No. 13); To authorize the Boott Cotton Mills to engage in business beyond the limits of the Commonwealth (printed as House, No. 17); and Relative to sessions of registrars of voters in towns (printed as House, No. 97); Were severally read a second time and ordered to a third reading. The Senate Bill to authorize a change in the location of Senate bill. the Boston and Albany Railroad across Lake Cochituate, and the taking of land incident thereto (Senate, No. 10.), was read a third time and passed to be engrossed. Sent down for concurrence. Senate. The Senate Report of the special committee who were Rules of the appointed to prepare rules for the government of the Senate, recommending that the rules of the Senate of 1894 be adopted as the rules of the Senate, with certain amendments, was considered; and, pending the question on the acceptance of the report, the further consideration thereof was, on motion of Mr. Maccabe, postponed until Monday next. The House Report of the committee on Military Affairs, House report. no legislation necessary, on the seventh annual report of the State Pension Agent, was accepted, in concurrence. On motion of Mr. Morse, at twenty-one minutes before three o'clock P.M. the Senate adjourned, to meet tomorrow at two o'clock P.M. Part II. of Insurance report. THURSDAY, January 24, 1895. Met according to adjournment. Prayer was offered by the Chaplain. Reports of Committees. By Mr. Salisbury, from the committee on the Treasury, Commissioner's that the Senate Bill providing for additional copies of Part II., relating to life insurance, of the report of the Insurance Commissioner (Senate, No. 8); and The House bills Advances to Appropriations. Id. Id. Id. Id. Id. Clerical assist ance for Board Authorizing advances to the Sergeant-at-Arms from the treasury of the Commonwealth (House, No. 56); and Making appropriations for certain allowances authorized by the Legislature (House, No. 71), - severally, ought to pass; By Mr. Sanger, from the same committee, that the House bills Making appropriations for printing and binding public documents, purchase of paper, publishing laws and preparing tables and indexes relating to the statutes (House, No. 61); Making appropriations for salaries and expenses of the district police (House, No. 75); and Making appropriations for salaries and expenses at the State Prison at Boston (House, No. 107), severally, ought to pass; and By Mr. Bradford, from the same committee, that the House bills Making appropriations for the maintenance of the judicial department of the government during the present year (House, No. 46); and Making appropriations for salaries and expenses at the Reformatory Prison for Women at Sherborn (House, No. 72), severally, ought to pass; Severally placed in the Orders of the Day for to-morrow for a second reading. By Mr. Salisbury, from the committee on Banks and of Commission Banking, on Part I. of the nineteenth annual report of the Board of Commissioners of Savings Banks (Pub. Doc. No. 8), in part, a Bill concerning the employment of clerks. ers of Savings Banks. and other assistance in the department of the Board of Commissioners of Savings Banks (Senate, No. 25); Read and referred, under the rule, to the committee on the Treasury. Savings Bank By Mr. Leach, from the committee on Banks and People's Banking, on the petition of W. L. Douglass and others of Brockton. (accompanied by House Bill No. 37), a Bill to incorporate the People's Savings Bank of Brockton (Senate, No. 24); Brockton, sewerage By Mr. Bradford, from the committee on Cities, on the City of petition of the same (accompanied by House Bill No. 10), debt for a Bill to authorize the city of Brockton to incur indebted- purposes. ness beyond the limit fixed by law for sewerage purposes (Senate, No. 23); and voters for By Mr. Galloupe, from the committee on Election Registration of Laws, that the Bill relative to the registration of voters special for special elections (introduced on leave), ought to pass (Senate, No. 22); Severally read and placed in the Orders of the Day for to-morrow for a second reading. Committee Discharged. elections. violation of. Mr. Burns, from the committee on Election Laws, Election laws reported, asking to be discharged from so much of the special report of the Ballot Law Commission, pursuant to the Resolve authorizing said Commission to make an investigation relative to the evasion and violation of the election laws, as relates to notaries public and justices of the peace taking means to identify affiants as the persons whom they represent themselves to be, and recommending that the same be referred to the joint committee on the Judiciary; Read and accepted. Sent down for concurrence. Introduced on Leave. police depart Mr. Whitcomb (on leave) introduced a Bill to place Control of the control of the police departments of the several cities ments in cities. of the Commonwealth under the license commissions of said cities, and to change the name of such commissions (Senate, No. 27); and the same was read and referred to the committee on Cities. Sent down for concurrence. Insurance brokers, etc. Fitchburg and Petitions. The following petitions were severally presented and referred : — By Mr. Maccabe, a petition of John F. Pike and others for the enactment of a law authorizing the formation of corporations to act as insurance brokers, agents and licensees; To the committee on Insurance. By Mr. Miller, a petition of the Fitchburg and LeomStreet Railway inster Street Railway Company for an amendment of its charter; Company. Town of Holden,water supply. Town of Leicester,water supply. Committee on Railways, to travel. Under a suspension of the 9th joint rule, moved by the same Senator, to the committee on Street Railways, with instructions to hear the parties, after such notice had been given as the committee should direct. By Mr. Miller, a petition of Charles E. Parker and others, a committee of the town of Holden, that said town may be authorized to take water for a water supply; Under a suspension of the 9th joint rule, moved by the same Senator, to the committee on Water Supply, with instructions to hear the parties, after such notice had been given as the committee should direct. By Mr. Bill, a petition of the selectmen and water commissioners of the town of Leicester that the Leicester water supply district may be authorized to take an additional source of water supply; Under a suspension of the 9th joint rule, moved by the same Senator, to the committee on Water Supply, with instructions to hear the parties, after such notice had been given as the committee should direct. Severally sent down for concurrence. Orders Adopted. On motion of Mr. Lawrence, Ordered, That the committee on Street Railways be authorized to travel within the limits of the Commonwealth in the discharge of its duties. Sent down for concurrence. Bill Ordered Printed. Adams. On motion of Mr. Lawrence, it was voted that the Bill City of North to incorporate the city of North Adams (accompanying the petition of A. C. Houghton and others for the incorporation of the city of North Adams), be printed as a Senate document (Senate, No. 26). The bills PAPERS FROM THE HOUSE. Making appropriations for salaries and expenses at the Appropriations. State Primary School at Monson (House, No. 134); and Making an appropriation for the care and supervision Id. of the Province Lands at Provincetown (House, No. 136, amended); Were severally read and referred, under the rule, to the committee on the Treasury. The following bills and resolve, introduced on leave, were severally referred, in concurrence : A Bill to abolish days of grace (House, No. 209); Days of grace. A Bill to amend the laws relative to insurance (House, Insurance. No. 201); To the committee on Insurance. city and town A Bill relative to persons employed by the Common- State, county, wealth, or any county, city or town therein (House, employees. No. 200); To the committee on Labor. A Bill relative to the pensioning of employees of the City of Boston, city of Boston (House, No. 208); and A Bill relative to patrol wagons used in the city of Boston (House, No. 207); Severally to the committee on Metropolitan Affairs. - pensions for employees. City of Boston, - patrol Report of the Massachusetts A Resolve to provide for the printing of extra copies of the report of the Massachusetts World's Fair Commission World's Fair (House, No. 199); To the committee on Printing. Commission. A Bill relative to the establishments for the disposal of Garbage. garbage (House, No. 197); To the committee on Public Health. |