Minority Report of the Committee on Railways in Relation to the Hoosac Tunnel and the Railroads Leading Thereto: With a Bill to Incorporate the State Board of Trustees of the Hoosac Tunnel Railroad : Also the Speech Delivered by Hon. E.P. Carpenter in the Senate of Massachusetts, June 3, 1873, in Support of the Same, Volume 2 |
Common terms and phrases
advantages appointed benefit board of trustees Boston and Albany Boston and Lowell Boston and Maine capital stock Causeway Street Charles Summer cheap transportation chusetts Commonwealth Commonwealth of Massachusetts completion connection consolidation cost dividends Eastern Railroad Company enterprise Erie Railroad erly export trade Fitchburg Railroad Company governor and council Greenfield Railroad gross earnings Hampshire Hoosac Tunnel Railroad importance increase interest Lake Ontario legislation legislature line of railroad loan Lowell Railroad Company Maine Railroad majority bill manufactured ment millions MINORITY REPORT Northern line operate the railroad pany parties passenger track political corruption portation private corporation purchase rail railroad commissioners railroad corporations railroad system railroads and tunnel rates SECT secure Southern Vermont Railroad stockholders term terminal facilities tion transportation tax Troy and Boston Troy and Green Troy and Greenfield trustees is hereby Tunnel line twenty-five per cent Vermont and Massachusetts West whole WIDENER BOOK DUE York
Popular passages
Page 12 - Boston, who shall have been such for at least three years prior to the date of their appointment, one for the term of five years, one for four years, one for three years, one for two years, and one for one year, and thereafter as the terms of office expire in each year one member for a term of five years.
Page 13 - Acts 1929, ch. 215, as amended and supplemented, shall be applicable to professional corporations, including their organization and they shall enjoy the powers and privileges and be subject to the duties, restrictions and liabilities of other corporations, except where inconsistent with the letter and purpose of this Act.
Page 14 - Section 2. All moneys raised by taxation in the towns and cities for the support of public schools, and all moneys which may be appropriated by the commonwealth for the support of common schools shall be applied to, and expended in, no other schools than those which are conducted according to law, under the order and superintendence of the authorities of the town or city in which the money is expended; and no grant, appropriation or use of public money or property...
Page 24 - ... section of this act, except that, instead of the county commissioners, three disinterested persons shall be appointed by the Supreme Judicial Court as a board of commissioners to adjudicate the damages for the taking of said lands and property, from whose decision an appeal to a jury shall lie in behalf of...
Page 16 - Board, issue scrip or certificates of debt in the name and on behalf of the commonwealth and under its seal to the amount annually necessary for five years from the date of the first of such applications. In no one year shall the proportion to be paid by the commonwealth as its part in the expenses authorized by section five of this act exceed five hundred thousand dollars...
Page 27 - ... profusion. Almost every article, however, which enters into the industries of Massachusetts has to be brought within her limits from a distance. Her very waterpowers are subject to inclement winters and dry summers, while she has to make her ingenuity supply a deficiency in labor. Her food is, then, brought from the North-West ; her wool and her leather from South America, Texas, California and the central states ; her cotton from the South ; her ores from the Adirondacks ; her coal from Pennsylvania...
Page 60 - What the Erie has done, other great corporations are doubtless doing from year to year. We have here simply an acknowledgment of the fact. Combined, as they are, the power of the great moneyed corporations of this country are a standing menace to the liberties of the people. " The railroad lobby flaunts its ill-gotten gains in the faces of our legislators; and in all our politics the debasing effect of its influence is felt.
Page 28 - Superior, and the list would admit of indefinite extension. Massachusetts is thus merely an artificial point of meeting for all kinds and descriptions of raw material, which is here worked up and then sent abroad again to find a consumer. At every point, coming and going and in process of manufacture, it has to be transported, and it has to bear all costs of transportation in competition with articles of the same description produced elsewhere and by others. Every reduction of the transportation...
Page 12 - Africa, of the free people of color residing in the United States, and for no other uses or purposes whatsoever; and as soon after the passage of this Act as may be convenient, to elect such officers as they or a majority of them present may deem proper, and to make and ordain such Constitution, by-laws...
Page 15 - The actual and necessary personal expenses for mileage and board incurred by the members of said Board of Trustees in carrying out the provisions of this act shall be paid on proper certificates out of any funds belonging to said school in the hands of the treasurer.