A Souvenir of Massachusetts Legislators 1896 Volume 5

Hardcover. Book Condition: Near Fine. A. M. Bridgman, Stoughton, MA 1896. First Edition. 1st Printing. 199 pages. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Size: 8vo 7.75 - 9.75'' tall. PREFACE. The Souvenir of 1896 represents a Legislature that was called to deal with more important questions than usual, and that had unusual experiences to meet. Never before in the memory of this generation, has a whole state been called upon to mourn for its chief executive, removed by death from his high office. The lamented Greenhalge, called away while in the midst of the work to which he was giving his best thoughts and noblest endeavors, was mourned sincerely by the whole state because he has been in the best sense the Governor of the whole state. The great question of better transportation facilities, which culminated in the Southern Union passenger station bill; and the Pipe Line bill, by which it was proposed to give the people of the state cheaper gas for fuel and illumination, were bills which, of themselves, would have justified the claim for a great public work accomplished. This was the Legislature also which sent to the people for judgment the resolve for biennial elections of members of the state government; and it also passed a bill fixing for the next ten years the lines for councillor and senatorial districts, and allotted the number of representatives to each county for the same period. It abolished the days of grace on notes; appropriated $450,000 for finishing and furnishing parts of the new State House; and $375.000 for the preservation of the Bullfinch front of the old State House. New England::History New England::Biographies/Memoirs History::Localities History::U.S.A.::Civil War to 1900 6068