The Portland daily press., 1867-02-14
LEGISLATURE OF MAINE.
ADDRESS OF GEN. BUTLER.
ESPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE PRESS.
STATE HOUSE, AUGUSTA, Feb. 10.

ESPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE PREss]
STATE House, AUGUSTA, Feb 10.
SENATE.
Report of Committee on Education granting
leave to withdraw on petition of Trustees Of
Gorham Academy, referred from last Legisla-
ture, also trustees of Bridgton Academy, were
accepted.
Order was passed that joint select commit
tee consisting of Messrs. Caldwell, Woodbury.
and Woodward with such as the House may
john be appointed to wait upon Mai. Gen. b.
#. Butler, now in the city, and invite him to
address the Legislature this afternoon ON
questions OF national importance. The House
passed the same in concurrence and appointed
Messrs. Shepley, Morse, Perry, Talbot, Plais-
ted, Toby and Webb, committee on the part OF
that branch. A joint convention was ordered
by concurrent vote, and four o'clock was the
hour agreed upon for such convention.
Mr.. DennisOn from the Committee on the
Liquor Law, ON the petition of various Lodges
of Good Templars, reported an act additional
to an act for the suppression of drinking
houses and tipping shops. 1t provides for
constabulary force and Imprisonment for the
first offence
An act authorizing any city or town in the
State to raise money in aid of any railroad
passed to be engrossed. f
The Senate proceeded to the consideration of
bill an act to remove the disability to marry
between persons of different race. The ques-
ton was discussed by Messrs. Crosby, Wood
man, Boynton and Robbie, and without taking
the question, on the motion to insist the SEN
ate adjourned.
The following acts were finally passed in the
Senate; act to increasethe capital stock of the
Damariscotta Manufacturing Company; act
to incorporate the Narragansett Manufactur-
ing & Trading Company; act to incorporate
the Maine Homeopathic Medical Society; act
to incorporate the Camden Village Corpora
ton; act to amend the charter of the Cape
Elizabeth Steam Ferry Company; act to make
valid the doings of the Plantation of Van Blu
rem; act to incorporate the West Bangor &
Hermon Mutual Fire Insurance Company; act
to set off portion of the farm of Arthur
Maxwell from the towns of Litchfield and
Wales, and annex the same to the town of
Webster; act to incorporate the Turner g.
South Hartford Cemetery Company; act to
to amend former acts to set off part of the
town of Frankfort and annex the same to the
town of Monroe; act to incorporate the An
droscoggin Water Power Company
HOUSE.
Mr.. Brown, of West Bath, had leave of alb
sence from and after Thursday the 14th inst
Ordered That the House meet at A. NJ
except on Mondays, when they shall meet at
10 A NJ
Resolve granting aid to the amount of $1O,-
600 to the East Maine Conference Seminary
was read, and Wednesday next assigned.
The Committee on Judiciary reported leave
to withdraw on petition of S. E. Spring ct ais,
for general insolvent law.
The Committee on Agriculture reported a
bill to incorporate Shapleigh & Acton Agricul-
tural Company.
An act providing for the taxation of bank
stock, providing that all shares in any national
bank shall be assessed to the person owning
the same, in the place where the bank is locat-
ed, and transmitted thence to the city or town
in which the person resides owning such stock,
after being discussed by Messrs. Woodman,
coh'o anu ''ioWh III ldNUI anu DeITy dSdlDSt,
on motion of Mr.. Shepley, of Portland, was
laid on the table.
Under suspension of the rules Mr.. Stetson,
of Bangor, introduced resolves relating to the
Maine Agricultural College.
Bill an act to further limit the jurisdiction
of the Municipal Court of the city OF Bidde.
ford, was passed to be engrossed .
The committee on assumption of the wal
Indebtedness of cities and towns, reported by
bill, an act directing the Governor and Coun-
ell, first, to ascertain the indebtedness of the
several cities and towns. and then to return to
said cities and towns one third of their debt
if in the aggregate the whole amount does not
exceed two millions of dollars Then, pre-
rata, the amount to be refunded to the State
by yearly tax of one mill and a half, until
paid, upon the valuation of the entire State.
A minority report was presented recon-
mending, that first, an opinion of the Justices
of the Supreme Judicial Court be obtained il
regard to the constitutonality of the proceed
ings; and then commission should be ap.
pointed who shall examine the subject, under
some instructions set forth in the resolves;
and that the matter be reported to the next
Legislature. The committee stood IL for the
majority report, and 8 for the minority report
TO THE ASSOCIATED PREss.l
Mr.. Stevens, from the Committee on FEEDER
al Relations reported the following resolutions
in the House this forenoon:
ReS0t0ed, That the permanent peace of the
nation can be secured only by firm adherence
to the self-evident truth that all men are crea-
ted free and equal.
Resoioed, That political power being an inhe
rent right of the citizen impartial suffrage
should be made the uniform rule of all The
States of the Union, either by authority already
possessed by Congress, or by the necessary
amendment OF the Constitution of the United
States.
Resolved, That the present State government
of the recent rebel States of Virginia, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia. Mississippi
Alabama, Louisiana, Florida, Texas and Ar
kansas were established outside of the Legal
authority of the nation, and without the sane.
ton of the people whom they assume TO rep
resent; that it is the duty of Congress to annu
them and adopt the necessary steps for insti.
tuting loyal State governments, which shall
afford liberty and protection to al the people
over whom they exercise authority.
Gen. Benjamin F. Butler addressed both
branches of the Legislature this afternoon. in
response to an invitation from that body. The
audience was one of the largest ever assem-
bled in the Representative Hall, the galleries
and floor being crowded to excess. Genera
Chamberlain and suite and the heads of De
partments were on the floor. The substance
of Gen. Buffers address was upon the mis-
chiefs of the Government, that impeach
ment was intended to remedy what were I'M
peachable offenses, and the manner in which
impeachment and trial were to be conducted
the consequences of a conviction, the right O
removal and the suspension of the office
while being tried,
ETJROPE