The Portland daily press., 1869-02-13
Maine Legislature.
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SENATE.
AUGUSTA, Feb. 12-Read and Assigned
An act to amend the charter of the Knox &
Lincoln Railroad Company; an act authoriz-
ing the city of Bangor to conduct water from
one part of said city 10 another; an act in re-
lat1on to the State valuation; an act to repeal
an act to regulate the sale OF Holsters by
weight instead of count
Mr.. West, from the Committee on Fisheries.
on the act 10 amend section 8 of chapter TIA of
the laws of 1868, reported that the same ought
not to pass.
MIR. Bolster, from the Committee on the Ju-
dietary, reported an act to amend section SO of
chapter IL of the Revised Statutes relative to
the assessment of tax and for school districts
for money raised therein.
Passed to be Engrossed-An act to incorpor-
ate the Chimney Circle; an act to incorporate
the Fox Island g. Rockland Steamboat Com
pany; an act RELAXING to equity powers of the
Supreme Judicial Court; an act to extend the
time for the completion of the location of the
European & North American Railroad
Mr.. Stevens resumed his remarks, advocat-
ing the passage of the order which he intro
duced, directing the Judiciary Committee to
report a bill abolishing capital punishment
and directing the Governor not to issue his
warrant for the execution of prisoners now
under the sentence of DEATH Mr.. Stevens
went into the history of those nations which
had abolished capital punishment, and showed
by statistics of crime how beneficial and salts
factory the results had been. Society, he ar
gued, is body compact, composed of individ-
uals, and those individuals cannot put in any
more than they have before they entered into
the compact. That being the case, where then
did these individuals, before society was COM
bined, get abe authority to take the life of a
human being. A man has no right to take his
own life. God gave him that life, and he has
no right to form partnership, of which one of
the terms is to surrender his own life.
At the conclusion of Mr.. Stevens's remarks,
nitely postponed.
On motion of Mr. Stevens the yeas and nays
were taken, resulting as follows:
Yeas-Messrs. Bolster, Buck, Cary, Gibbs.
Lane, Ludden, Matthews, Messer, Metcalf,
o'Brien, Smell, Tyler, Webb, west-14
Nays-Messrs. Cushing, Fuller, Garcelon,
Hanson, Jersey, Kingsbury, Lang, Lindsey,
Murphy, Patten, Stevens, Talbst-13.
The order was indefinitely postponed.
HOUSE.
There was very little business done in the
House to-day, most of the time being taken up
in discussing the interest bill.
Mr. Bigelow, from the Committee on Edu-
cation, on an order relating to the distribution
of school money, reported legislation inexpe-
dent.
Mr. Goss, from the Committee on Railroads
Ways and Bridges, reported an act to incor-
porate the proprietors of the Orono Bridge.
Mr.. Blake, from the Committee on Mercan-
tile Affairs and Insurance, reported an act to
incorporate the Union Mutual Relief Society
of Portland.
dietary, reported an act additional to chapter
1s of the Revised Statutes.
Mr.. Bigelow, from the Committee on Edu-
cation, reported an act providing for the estab-
lishment of true meridian lines and to regu-
late the practice of surveyors i'll this State
The bill to increase the rate of interest was
brought up for consideration, the question be-
ing on receding and concurring with the Sem
ate in passing the bill to be engrossed.
Messrs Harrington and Gunnison were cp.
posed to receding and in favor of insisting on
its former rate.
Messrs. Dunning and Rust spoke at length
in favor of the BILL
On motion of Mr.. Whidden the subject was
postponed TO Tuesday next for further consid-
ovation. Adjourned