Excerpt from A Souvenir of Massachusetts Legislators, Vol. 5: 1896 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.- coo for finishing and furnishing parts of the new State House; and $375,000 for the "preservation" of the "Bulfinch front" of the old State House. It sent no committee on a "junketing" trip outside the state. And many other notable things it did, but space forbids their enumeration here. The following pages show you the portraits, give their biographical sketches, and show the autographs of the men in Senate, House and Executive Council, who helped do this great work; as well as the members of the National Legislature that represent the old Bay State in either branch. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.