People unload business in biennial election debate at State House
The Senate and House processed a heavy agenda with many long-standing items. Notable actions included a bill to lease the Old Colony Providence road and a judiciary report proposing two more Superior Court judges. Several committee reports and numerous motions covered tax, policing, liquor laws, railroad regulation, and county expenditures.
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State House
Committee On Constitutional
Old Colony
Providence Road
Board of Arbitration
Savings Bank Commissioners
Senate Debates Daily Bulletin Power and Costs
Senate votes 14 to 13 against authorizing a daily legislative bulletin with hearing dates and related info, citing at least $2500 in expenses. Controlling figures note county and city receipts and expenditures, list various petitions from Worcester to Belmont, and a push for bills on judiciary, printing, and public works.
Boston Legislators Propose Bills on Attachments and Police Pension
Boston lawmakers introduced measures to curb abuse of attachments on property, to update names and probate reporting, and to raise police pension eligibility. Others urged postal postage, tax abolition, savings bank oversight, town boundary changes, and rail lease arrangements. Debate touched liquor law timing and prohibition strategies, with committee reports and recommitments amid a busy session.
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Blume
Boston
Atwood
Barrett
Melrose
Washington
Columbus
Collison
Parkman
Brown
Peter Foley
Committee On Banks and Banking
Whitman Savings Bank
Stoughton
Avon
Committee On Railroads
Roads
Boston & Providence Railroad Corporation
Old Colony Railroad Company
Committee On Finance
Secretary of Civil Service Commissioners
Manning
Worcester
Quincy
Massachusetts Christian Temperance Union
Brigham
Marlboro
Savings banks annual report shows growth and injunction
The savings banks commissioners submitted their twelfth annual report to the Legislature. About three weeks for the accompanying figures. There are 173 savings institutions in the state, up one. Framingham bank remains under injunction. Since 1879 deposits rose by 96,569,773.48 while eleven trust companies and forty-one cooperative banks were formed under board supervision.
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Commissioners of Savings Banks
Framingham Bank
Investment report notes local banking strength and calls for uniform law
An aggregate of $375,731,809 58 is examined. Savings banks hold seven eighths of deposits within the state, with about one eighth in United States bonds. National bank capital partly owned by savings banks, personal security loans rise slightly, commercial paper fades. Loan and trust companies grow, assets total $54,421,350.45 with $2,071,363.48 increase, trust safeguards high but charter diversity calls for uniform general law.
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Water Commissioners of
Randolph
Samuel Coffin
Salisbury
Newburyport
Bay State Gas Company
C. T. Debiois
C.H. Parker
The
Green Foundation
Albert E. Cogswell
Mill River
Lewis Isanor
Order of the Iron Hall
David F. Moreland
O. Phinney
Buzzard
Lawrence
E. Sheppard & Sons
Tewksbury
Lowell
Boston Water Board
N. M. Jewett
Boston
Foxboro
George Leonard
Causton Browne
Boston Water Power Company
Brookline Land Company
John Driscoll
West End
Russell
Maynard
Central Middlesex District Court
Connell
Everett
New England
Milliken
Malden
Keane
Holyoke
Gile
Worcester
Hall
Taunton
Bristol County
Quincy
Perry
Springfield
Pierce
Watertown
Dresser
Medford
Charles River
Fottler
Flynn
Law and Order League
Wharton
Milne
Fail River
Gracey
Salem
Southbridge
United States
Commonwealth
Massachusetts House Life Insurance Company
Collateral Loan Company
State board of agriculture holds annual meeting with Grinnell chair
The annual meeting continued with Hon James S Grinnell presiding. Committees were named to lobby for fertilizer law changes and to arrange delegates, time and place for fairs, and country meetings. Dr J R Nichols of Haverhill is mourned as a long time board member and a promoter of scientific agriculture.
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State Board of Agriculture
James 8. Grinnell
Edmund Hersey
C. A. Geismann
Albert Cushman
Board of Control
J. W. Stockwell
J. P. Lynde
Alonzo Bradley
Daniel E. Damon
The
Agricultural College
Elijah W. Wood
George S. Taylor
George Cruikshanks
S. A. Hickox
S. B. Bird
William Holboak
William H. Snow
Athol
James S. Grinnell
James R. Nichols
Haverhill
Board of Agriculture
Dissent on Private Schools From Massachusetts Joint Committee
Mr McEttrick of Boston submits a lengthy dissent from the 1887 Legislature joint committee report on private schools. He argues state interference violates parental rights, constitutional freedoms, and could provoke sectarian hostility, urging legislation that promotes fair emulation rather than unamerican inspections.
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McEttrick
Boston
United States
Massachusetts
Commonwealth
Governor Announces Nominations for Lunatic Hospital Directors
The executive council yesterday confirmed Eliza C. Durfee of Wall River as trustee of Westboro Hospital for the Insane with others named to direct Worcester Taunton Danvers Westboro and Northampton lunatic hospitals. Haile of Springfield was not confirmed. Also named were R. G. Fairbanks for trial justice and Joseph Mason Jr. for pilot at Cohasset port.
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Executive Council
Eliza C. Durfee
Wall River
Westboro Hospital For
Day
Messrs. Rockwood Hoar
Worcester
Simeon Borden
Fall River
Solon Bancroft
Reading
F. P. Goulding
Wiliam H. Haile
Springfield
Taunton
Danvers
Westboro
Northampton
Mr. Haile
C._C. Merritt
R. G. Fairbanks
Bellingham
Joseph Mason, Jr
Cohasset
State Board of Arbitration Report Praises Law Changes
The annual report to the Legislature praises the board’s operation under the amended law of 1887 and notes uniform courtesy in dealings. It urges repeal of the provision selecting a board member as secretary and recommends raising the clerk’s salary from 900 to 1200 dollars. The full year’s decisions are included in the report.
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State Board of Arbitration and Conciliation
State v Town of Williamstown on Troy and Greenfield scrip
The State's case against Williamstown revisits the 1858 vote to subscribe for Troy and Greenfield railroad stock and issue town scrip. The town conditioned the subscription. the committee acted under misapprehension, exceeding authority, with unsatisfied conditions meaning the town would have economic recourse for over $40,000 in interest and scrip payments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Williamstown
Troy & Greenfield
Troy & Greenfield Railroad Company
Towns Question Liability for Scrip in Court Case
The case discusses whether the town is liable for scrip, following a statement of facts and leading to a current question before the courts. The issue centers on financial obligations and municipal responsibility regarding the scrip in question.
Meigs Elevated Railway petition debated by street railways committee
The committee examined amendments to the Meigs Elevated Railway Company charter to apply general railway law cap ital provisions and fix location before construction. Speakers Clark Hyde Welch Ferry Choate Hoar urged radical grade crossing reforms as hearing adjourned. labor and insurance matters also discussed.
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Committee On
Meigs Elevated Railway Company
I’. W. Clark
Lilley
George A. Bruce
Henry D. Hyde
West End
Charles A. Welch
Boston
Colonel Clark
Meigs
Great
Welch
Bent
Portland Streets
Cambridge
Allen, Chambers and
Green Streets
Bowdoin Square
Representative Ferry
Springfield
Railroad Committee
Choate
Old Colony
Samuel Hoar
Albany Road
Railroad Commissioners
Albany
Newton
Committee On Labor
Committee On Insurance
Merrill
Medea of Euripides Read by Mr Lawton at Hawthorne Rooms
Lawton reads half of his translation of Euripides Medea at Hawthorne Rooms praising its modern resonance and Medeas fierce passion. Critics note the act of rendering line for line while preserving idiomatic English and the need to hear the end of the tragedy next week.
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Mr. Lawton
Euripides
Hawthorne
Arschylus
Sophocles
Antigone
Medea
Phedra
Rachel
Phéodre
Ristori
Mme. Janauschek
Aledea
Grillparzer
Noah
Hanan & Son opens Boston store at 546 Washington Street
Mr J H Murphy formerly of H H Tuttle & Co is the Boston agent for Hanan & Son of New York, manufacturers of men and boys shoes. The new store at 546 Washington Street displays a wide range priced at cost to introduce the line in Boston. Hand stitched and well soled shoes are offered in complete lines.
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J. H. Murphy
H. H. Tuttle & Co
Boston
Messrs. Hanan & Son
New York
Washington Street
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W. J. Goldthwait
Marblehead
Belmont
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Theastern Railroad Company
Iresh Pond
John McDevitt
United States Navy
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Charles C. Woellman
Springfeld
Isaac Stebins
Chelsea Safe Deposit and Trust Company
William Byrne
Walter Adams
Norfolk
George W. Burton
Massachusetts Live Stock Insurance Company
H. J. Dunham
Stockbridge
Hollander, Bradshaw & Folsom
F. J. Barnes
Elmer J. Capen
John F. Shea
Timothy Murphy
John A. McLaughlin
Homer Rogers
Herbert Myrick
New England Milk Producers’ Union
Charles W. Bartlett
Massachusetts Loan Association
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Academy Or Medicine of Paris
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Rue Bonaparte
Paris
E. Fougera & Co
U.S
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Uuse
Benson
J. M. Boggs
Boston, Mass
Epps
Civil Service Gazette
Ames Eppl «& CO
Homiopathic C Cemists
London
England
Fitchburg, Mass
Horatio Harris & CO
State Street
RA Pier
Joseph Baker
Galveston
Valencia Oranges
Italia
Valencia
Pier 2
South Boston
Long Wharf
Messina
Palermo
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S. R. Knights & CO
Washington St
Main St
Cambridgeport
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Bay State Iron Company
Tornton
R. L. Day & Company
Brokers & Appraiser
State St
Merchants’ Exchange Building
Boston Stock Exchange
First Natl, Bank
Winnisimmet Co
Boston & Maine Rd
Eastern Ra
Union Pac. Ry
S. F
Burl. & Quincy Rd
McKay & Big
Asso
Manus
Fire and Marine Ins
Pemigewasset Nat
Plymouth
N. H
Lincoln Nat
Chelsea Gaslight Co
Continental Mills
Hamilton Woollen Co
McKay Metallic
Eliot
Revere
Tremont
Nashua & Roch
Mercantile Marine Ins
Worcester Gaslight Co
At. Rubber Co
Exchange
Essex Ri
Eastern Rd
Essex Rd
Louis
Evans
St. Louis Rd
Wales
Bostoni
Redulton’s
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Queens
P.S. Huckins & CO
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Aaron RE. Gay & CO
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Ais
Yellow Jacket
Nevada Queen
North Belle Isle
Francis Henshaw & CO
No. Si State Street
Merchants’ Exchange
Warren Cotton Mills
Newburyport Gaslight Co
Wupy
Boylston Mutual Insurance Co
Pemigewasset Natl. Bank
Amoskeag Mfg. Co
Lyman Mills
Lancaster Mills
Hamilton Woollen Mills
Androscoggin Mills
Boott Cotton Mills
Pacific Mills
Old Colony Rd
Minneapolis Horse Rd
Burton Stock Car Co
Newburyport Gas Light Co
Martha’s Vineyard
Albert Howe & Co
Market Atreek Brighton
Brighton
Warren Avenue
Richards & CO
John C. Wilmerding
Wilmerding, Hoguet & CO
White St
Townsend & Montant
Leerard Strech
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