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PORTLAND DAILY PRESS.
Saturday Morning, February %, 1867
LEGISLATURE OF MAINE.
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE PREss'J
STATE HOUSE, AUGUSTA, FEB ~

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The followino hills passed to be engrosssd:
q. .Rill an act IN protect Yarmouth harbor from
obstruction; an act to amend an ace W es'ap-
lish the compensation Of theCiefR lof the 9u-
dical Courts for the County OF Cumberland
House amendment A was adopted and the bill
nassed to be engrossed. Also bill an act to es-
tablish the saIary-of the County Attorney of
Cumberland County; also resolves in favor of
the Northern Pacific Railroad Company
The Senate discussed during the afternoon
the amendments to the liquor law, and with
out taking a vote tho Senate adjourned.
HOUSE.
A resolve providing for the distribution OF
the Adjutant Generals report for 1866 was
read and assigned ---
A number of bills embracing new matter
came from the Senate, the same having been
passed to be engrossed The House refused to
suspend the rules.
Report of Committee of Conference on the
Governors salary, came from the Senate, was
accepted, and the question of concurrence was
assigned to this afternoon at three o'clock.
An act in aid of European & North Ameri-
can Railroad, was read twice and assigned.
Resolve providing for publishing revised
edition of the revised statutes was offered by
Mr.. Shepley, was laid ON the table and ordered
to be printed.
An act to enable the city of Portland to aid
in rebuilding said city, was read twice and as
signed also an act to amend an act to confer
certain powers on the city of Portland
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road companies in this State was twice read
and assigned ..
An act to equalize the war expenditures Of
the several cities, towns and plantations in the
State, came up by assignment, and on motion
of Mr. Holland to substitute the minority re-
port for the majority, Mr.. Oak, of Garland,
ably and at length opposed the notion
Messrs. Woodman and league followed upon
the subject Until the recess, sa...s
Mr.. Shepley argued that the majority report
proposes to pay reward to treason; that the
reason why many of the towns find themselves
carrying proportionately large amount of the
war debt, lies in the fact that those towns fail
ed to furnish their earlier quotas Those
quotas went without any bounty, consequent
ly deficiencies of men were required to be fur
nished, when they could only be furnished by
large bounties, Sc. t s...s1
Mr.. Oak followed in reply to Mr.. Shepley
and in defence Of the majority report. Mr..
Frye made an eloquent speech in favor of the
substitution, after which the question was
taken and resulted as follows:-yeas ~, nays
a. The minority report is therefore substitut-
ed for the majority.
The question of concurrence with the Sem
ate on the Governors salary question, (three
thousand dollars) came up by assignment and
after being discussed by Messrs. Tobey and
Brown aga inst, and Mr.. Frye and others In
favor, the question was taken by yeas and
nays resulting as 70 lows:- 80, nays g.
A motion was made to reconsider and
strenuous effort, on the part of those in favor
of $1,000, was made to take the question before
adjournment. This was resisted by those in
favor of $4,000, by speeches and motions to adj
journ; also taking the yeas and nays, and it
was finally voted that the question on recon-
sideration be taken tomorrow at II o'clock.
The substitution of the minority report on
assumption of war expenditures of the cities,
towns and plantations, for the majority report
by So large a majority was unexpected
Messrs. Shepley and Frye made eloquent
and able speeches. ..ftt,Cs t1ts t8