Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1852-04-08
Augusta Correspondence.

JOHN T.. TALBOT, SEN, Ut w asnlngton.
Augusta Correspondence.
Probability of the adjournment of the Legtsta
ture-Augusta influence s9tertng-fhe dPpor
,tionnlents-Re OF J"dtcsary-tac
tious spirit, &c., &c, r...
,ly.ss AUGUSTA, April Sd, 1882
we are now on the thirteenth week of thu
session of the Legislature, and still there il
much important business on hand, demanding
attention. 1t is hardly possible that the bust
ness can be closed up before the latter part o
the month, say the Goth or 25th. Some move
ments have been made with reference to an ad
journment, such as raising Committees to en-
quire when the standing Committees can re-
port finally, &c. The information disclosed is
that The principal Committees have much i'm
portant business yet undisposed of.
The Augusta influence" which has beer
SO much inveighed against by remote politi
clans, has suffered some this session-two o.
its measures of importance, in which it was
deeply interested, having been carried against
it. We refer to the defeat of the Somerset and
Kennebec Railroad Charter Amendment, and
the incorporation of the Gardiner Bridge
These measures might be put down as the great
measures of the session, far as public interest
is concerned. They were ably contested on
each side, both by insiders and outsiders.
Well, the Congressional and Senatorial Ap-
portionment Committees have submitted their
respective Reports. The latter is we'll enough
the former bad enough. We protest against
the means used in procuring the acquiescence
of the Committee to such Report, and the
means attempted to be used to force the Re-
port through the Legislature. Two caucuses
were held by the democratic members of the
Legislature, last week, in the Hall of the
House, for the purpose of considering the mat
ter, and notwithstanding it was there disclosed
that the apportionment was unsatisfactory to
the Counties of York Cumberland and Lincoln
it was agreed not to disturb the Report of the
Committee. lest, by opening the matter anew,
more would be lost than gained. So it was
agreed to submit to a torong, lest in trying to
correct it, greater be committed We
have no sympathy for such logic as this. If
fairer and more equitable apportionment can
not be made than that reported by the Com
mittee- one less Objectionable to so large por-
ton of the party as We have alluded to, en-
bracing the three largest Counties in the State,
then We will quietly acquiesce-but while we
believe that better one can be made, we adj
wise our democratic brethren to ponder well,
ere they act.
The able Report of the Commissioners ap-
pointed to consider the expediency of re-or-
ganizing the Judiciary system of our State,
seems to give pretty general satisfaction. We
think the bills submitted by them will all
eventually become laws, although the prnci-
pal one, only, may be adopted at present. Ac-
cording to the Bill, there will be no appoint
ment to the Bench from the Western District,
as those OF the Supreme Judges already reside
in that District and but one appointment from
this District-whie there will be t,oo from the
Eastern District.
There is somewhat of a factious spirit spring
ing up in the Legislature, which threatens to
become quite rampant, if it isn't "nipped in the
bud" before the session closes. 1t rears its
head against the Militia systematic Insane
Hospital, the Reform School, and might
add, the State Prison! Each of these subjects
daily receives broadsides, from the pop guns
of one or two of these primitive legislators, and
Quixotic reformers The militia system, al
though imperfect and requiring modification,
carries altogether too many guns to be affected
by such light diminishing The Insane Hos
pital, Reform School and State Prison awaken
hostility, doubtless, from the uncongeniality of
sentiment which exists in the minds of certain
individuals in every community, against such
Institutions
Legislation sometimes cuts up queer pra,,ks,
and it is amusing to see how variously the in
terests of persons are effected by it. Sometimes
Rowland for an Oliver is experienced, as
has been the case with the excellent Mayor of
Gardiner. He has been dancing attendance
upon the Legislature a good deal this session
the first part of it in getting the Gardiner
Bridge through the different stages, and latter
ly in opposing the incorporation of the new
town of Farmingdale, which is formed out of
territory from Gardiner and Hallowell. The
best of the joke is, it sets the Mayor off into
the new town, and renders him neli gible, of
course, to Office in the city of Gardiner. AS a
matter of Cancellation, provision was inserted
in the Bill creating the new town, giving him
the privilege OF holding the station of Mayor
of Gardiner. The Bill passed the House with
this provision, but the attempt was made to
kill it off in the Senate by striking out the pro-
vision-thus sending the Bill back to the
House again. The biters, however, got we'll
bitten, by the operation, for the House passed
it, as amended, much to the surprise and cha
grin Of tho Mayor and his friends So it goes.
Countenances that wreathed in smiles to-
day. on account of the success of some favorite
measure, are the next day shrouded in gloom
q, some unlucky defeat.
fresident-making in Congress.
The charge has been circulated somewhat
puohciy' Of late. that congress, instead of be-
ing engaged In its legitimate business, was