The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-02-19
LEGISLATURE OF MAINE.
AUGUSTA, Feb. 16,

AUGUSTA, Feb. 16.
ha.. -1-e ara SENATE. PM oii
The order from the House providing for
final adjournment on Friday the 20 at ten
o'clock AN. was taken up and read.
q Mr.. Porter moved to amend so as to make it
Thursday the % instant. ~ en-
Mr. Smith spoke briefly in favor of adopting
the order as it came from the house.
Mr.. Porter withdrew bis amendment, and
move to amend by saying on or before Friday
the Esd. The amendment prevailed and the
order was passed as amended. sr. "a
Passed to be enacted-Acts to protect Union
River from distractions; providing for assess
ment of State tax for 1856, one million. two
hundred and thirty-nine thousand, and sixty
two dollars, and fourteen cents. sist35e b - &
Finally passed Resolve in favor of the Joint
Standing Committee on the State Prison.
Adjourned. sr ssa n0stasl53 s4I
.t1.hts4 sf5 HOUSE. isyi % 4Jg iarI3u
Bill (Senate No. 1917 relating to the intro
duction OF foreign paupers Indefinitely post
poned by the Senate,) was read twice and laid
on the table on motion of Mr.. Woodman.
Mr.. Granger OF Calais, offered the follow
ing: g blaoaz s..a bid 3s.l 8a.e5
Ordered, The Senate concurring, that the
Legislature adjourn finally on Friday, the 23d
OF February current, at three o'clock il the af-
ternoon, and SO much of the order passed
January s, 1866, as fixed an earlier day for
such final adjournment, be rescinded. hasa,
Mr.. Sawyer OF Raymond, moved an amend
ment to make the hour of adjournment on
Friday at ten o'clock in the forenoon. Accept
ed. go g a n. - - r.
The order was passed. H -gi
"A somewhat lengthy debate took place on
an order directing the Judiciary Committee to
report forthwith to the House, on bill relating
70 the assumption of municipal war debts by
the State. The order was amended that the
Committee be directed to report to the Leois-
lature, and thus passed. 81 s4r
Passed to be engrossed-An act to enlarge
the powers of the Portland and Rochester
Railroad Company, and for other purposes.
Resolves relating to equality Of civil and POI
htical rights were read the second time. /,
Mr.. Bradbury, of Hollis, moved substitute
as an amendment, which he read. The ques-
ton was pending when the House adjourned
to afternoon.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The resolves relating to equality of civil and
political rights pending when the House ad-
Jo!uned, were considered.
Mr.. Stevens moved that the resolves be laid
upon the table for the purpose of giving him
an opportunity to draw an amendment to Mr..
Bradburys amendment
MIR. Shepley spoke in support of President
johnson, reading from his speeches. and saw
ing that he wanted the gentleman from Hollis
10 endorse the Presidents whole course. while
he was a military satrap in Command in
tennessee, when he denounced traitors and
punished treason. The gentleman should NOT
be before hlm in the support of the President
He was glad that the gentleman had heonn
and he hoped that if he were not in adyanca'
he would come in neck and neck at the coal
Let it cover his whole political career M
Shepley was interrupted by frequent and en-.
thusiastic applause.
Mr. Stevens withdrew his motion to Law on
the table, he having prepared his proposed
amendment, which he offered. l-
Mr.. Bradbury, of Hollis, was opposed to the
amendment of Mr. Stevens, but was not pre-
pared to debate the question now. He moved
to lay the two amendments on the table and
have them printed. He thought, at the prop
er time, he could show that the party to which
he belonged had never failed in its support of
the Union, but that the success of the nation
IN the late war was due as much to the Dem
cratic party as the Republican party. He took
issue with the gentleman from Portland and
.ne gentleman from Augusta, in limiting their
endorsement OF the President to such time as
he shall act in accordance with their idnas Of
Justlce ana human liberty For one he was
willing to trust the President and hordIY
thought Andy johnson needed to he irct,rct,
ed in his duties by the gentleman from An
gusta. oD ,''
mr. oUeVenS recOunteu scene he had wit
messed in Winthrop Hall in this city in 1851
when resolution endorsing the war SO far as
it should be waged for the restoration of the
American Union was voted down in derision,
and when Abraham Lincoln, now the nations
martyr, was denounced as usurper. 1t had
been his fortune in the days of the war to hear
Andrew johnson, when he denounced in the
Senate the disloyal men of the South and the
disioyal men of the North. He had then pro-
claimed his entire disseverence from the party
now represented by the gentleman from Hollis,
and the two could never stand together except
through the gates of death, or the door of re-
to.feceive him. - - e.
Mr.. Payson, of Westbrook, said that he had