Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-03-25
House..
THURSDAY, March "a.


NO Chaplain present.
Papers from the Senate disposed of in con-
currence.
Finally passed-Rcsolve on the Pay Roll
of the House; resolve on the Pay Roll of the
Senate.
Mr.. BARTON, from the Committee on FL
nance, reported bill an act to provide in part
for the expenditures of the government and
that it ought to pass. Read three times, rules
being suspended, and passed to be engrossed.
Bill an act to revise the consolidation of the
public laws of this State was read three times,
rules being suspended and passed to be en-
crossed.
Bill an act concerning specie payment was
presented by Mr.. TwITcHELL, read three
times rules being suspended, and passed to
be engrossed.
Passed to be enacted--An act to revise the
consolidation of the public laws of the State;
an act to incorporate the Union Depot Com
pany; an act to amend sec. IL, chap. II of
the Revised Statutes relating to the sale of
real estate; an act to provide in part for the
expenditures of government; an act to repeal
the acts consolidated in the Revised Statutes
of the year 1870; an act concerning specie
payment.
Mr.. HUME introduced the following resolve
which was unanimously adopted:
Resolred, That the thanks of members are hereby
rendered to ;. j. Chadbourne, Clerk and T.. A.
smith, Assistant Clerk and the other officers of
the House for the faithful and impartial in
which they have performed their various and oner-
ous duties
Mr.. NosE of Winterport, was charged with
and conveyed a message to the Senate, in
forming that branch that the House had dis
posed of all business before it requiring con-
current action.
message was received from the Senate
! tbrap i-- inf tha
that the Senate had disposed of all business
before it requiring concurrent action
The following order came from the Senate:
Ordered, That Committee of three on the
part of the Senate, with such as the House
may join, be appointed to wait on the Gov
ernor and inform him that both branches of
the Legislature having acted on all matters
before them, are now ready to receive any
communication he may be pleased to make.
The order was passed in concurrence, and
Messrs. Farwell, Ham, Humphrey, Lane,
Tobey, Libby and Bean were joined to the
committee on the part of the House.
Mr.. T FARwELL subsequently reported that
the Committee had discharged the duty assign
ed them, and the Governor was pleased to
say that he would communicate forthwith
through the Secretary of State.
message was thereupon received from the
Governor, through the Secretary of State,
signed by him, numbering 1856 Acts and l05
Resolves and that he had no further commune
cations to make.
Mr.. ADAMS of Biddeford, said:
Mr.. SPEAKER: AS we approach the
close of another legislative session and are
reminded that our public duties here are
well nigh ended, it is fitting that we for the
moment forget the various conflicting in
terests which may thus far have more par
ticularly occupied our attention, and for
awhile mingle in the more social inter-
change of thought and feeling suggested
by the occasion, and which more fully
unite and elevate our common sympathies,
and thus develop the purer emotions OF the
heart
In accordance, therefore, with accus-
toned usage, and by the courtesy OF the
House so generously accorded to the mi
nority, am intrusted with the pleasant
duty first of expressing to you in their be-
half our high appreciation of the many
generous and. noble qualities, both of head
and heart. which have characterized your
intercourse with each of us, and the uni
form courtesy and considerate kindness
extended to us in your official capacity as
our presiding officer. And | trust you
will consider it no unmeaning form of
brief acquaintance thus far has but daily
deepened and strengthened the respect
and esteem which first impressions had
already created The difficult and often
perplexing duties deyolyiug upon you have
been most faithfully performed and amid
the frequent annoyances but too often oc-
casOned by our own indiscretion, no act
or word of YOURS has wounded the feelings
of the most sensitive among us. BE as
sured sir that As we return again to our
several homes, to engage anew IN our va
ried ayocations, you will not be forgotten
bv us. and that among the many pleasant
remembrances which we carry with us.
none will be more Sacredly enshrined in
our hearts than those pertaining to your
self. And often, though perhaps unuttered,
aS the recolections of this hour come
thronging on our memories, will the fer
vent prayer arise from all our hearts that
the richest of Heavens blessings may rest
on you and yours.
To those Of us composing the body of
the House, next to the inquiry how well we
have performed our duties here as legisla-
tors, the thought at this time most promi-
nent will be that the present separation is
to many and probably to most of us the
final one; and by that thought the cordial
grasp of the friendly hand will in meas
ure be unnerved, and the earnest God
bless voum uttered frum full heart, per-
chance with quivering lip and moistened
eve. But we would not have it otherwise,
for thus TO weep is manly.
eMan is a pendulum hetwixt smile and tear,
And he who joy feels most-hath most Of sorrow
known"
That in an assembly gathered from 50
many communities and representing vari'
Gus local and often conflicting interests.
d fl'erences of opinions should frequently