Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-02-21
penob.cot Central Agricultural Society; an

| prevent the throwing of slabs and other refus'
| material into the St. Croix river and its tribu
taries; an act to incorporate the Calais luz
Boat Company; an act amendatory OF an &C
| to prevent Instructions in Narraguagus river
an act authorizing the city of Bangor to ali
the Bangor Mercantile Association; an act t.
enable the city of Bangor to aid the Bangor
| & Piscataquis Railroad; an act to authorize
ID. Wellington to construct a weir in Hay
cock harbor; an act to prevent obstruction
in Union river; an act to incorporate thu
Pemaquid Ice Company; an act to incorpo
rate the Damariscotta Water Company; al
act amendatory of chap. 81 of the Revised
Statutes, relating to Railroads; an act to in
corporate the Oldtown Water Power Manu-
featuring Company; an act defining the no
tice on petitions for the assessment of DANA
ges for land taken by corporations; an &C
to incorporate the Parker Bay Ice Company
an act additional to chap. 40 of the Revised
Statutes, relating to river fisheries an &C
relating to the administration of oaths and tn,
acknowledgement of deeds and other papers
an act to incorporate the Midway Railwa,
Company; an act to amend an act incorpora
ting the Warren Manufacturing Company; al
I act to incorporate the Trustees of the Ban
gor Masonic Fraternity; an act to authorize
Belfast to purchase the first mortgage bond
of the Belfast & Moosehead Lake Railroad
Company, and for other purposes; an act te
authorize Edward l.. Whittier to extend 9
| wharf in Belfast.
FINALLY PAssEp-Resolve relating to mill
| tary stores at Portland; resolve in relation &c
| the lands in the towns of Madawaska and
| Frenchvlle, and the plantations of st. John
| St. Francis, and Wallagrass; resolve in favor
of David Dudley; resolve in aid of road
through Letter township in Aroostook
resolve for the preservation of the colors and
flags in the rotunda of the capitol; resolve
abating the State tax on township No. q, X.
5, Aroostook; resolve in favor of p. NJ. Fol-
ger; resolve authorizing the Attorney Gen.
to institute certain legal proceedings; resolve
in favor of the heirs of the late Capt Levy
resolve changing the valuation of certain
towns and plantations in Washington county.
Mr. STICKNEY said
Mr.. SpEAKER-I rise to a question of priv
lege ! wish to make personal exposition,
and the precedents made early in the session by
the gentleman from Winthrop and the gentle
man from Gorham and the gentleman from
Calais will be my apology for asking for q
moment the attention OF the House.
regard the reading on Thursday last by
the gentleman from Fort Fairfield of copy
of private letter from one of my constituents
to myself, and the explanation and use made
of the letter by that gentleman, as an imputa-
Der of this House.
| wish to say that the land named in that
letter which the writer wished me to purchase
was not the land, as it was asserted by the
gentleman from Fairfield, contemplated in the
resolve to be conveyed to David Dudley, but
other lands relative to which no legislative
action is pending or expected.
deem it a very grave imputation upon the
honor and integrity of any member of this
,ouse to charge that he is opposing any
MEASURE under debate upon this floor; for the
teason that he is the agent of an outside party
whose interest would be promoted by its de-
feat, and that letter could not possibly have
been read for any other purpose than to create
that impression in this House.
Mr.. CRAM said that he regarded the reading
of private letter in this House under any
pretence whatever, belonging to a member,
against his wishes and protest, as an outrage
upon his rights and privileges.
Mr.. Pike of Calais and Mr.. Wilson of
Thomaston wished to know how the letter
could be called private if it were in the hands
of the public, to which Mr.. Stickney replied
that copy was taken by the Senator from
Aroostook without his knowledge.
Mr.. CRAM, from the Joint Special Commit
tee on Printing and Binding. on order, re-
ported a resolve fixing the.number of copies
of the State. Read and assigned.
Mr.. KNAPP, from the Committee on Legal
Reform, reported ought to pass on bill an act
relating to the powers and duties of the con-
stable of the town of Whitefeld. Read and
assigned
Resolve providing for an amendment of the
Constitution so as to allow the Legislature to
call Constitutional Convention, was amend
ed on motion of Mr.. CLEAvEs.
Mr.. PIKE opposed its passage, and Messrs.
Haskell and Cleaves OF Portland, spoke in its
favor. f.f
The resolve was indefinitely postponed.
Resolve in favor of q road in Castle Hill
plantation, indefinitely postponed by the
House, came from the Senate passed to be
engrossed. The resolve was tabled on mo-
ton of Mr.. REED of Waldoboro.'
Bill an act to establish the right to fish
in small ponds, was amended on motion of
Mr.. PIKE, and on motion of Mr.. COUSINS
indefinitely postponed, A in favor, and 50
opposed
Bill an act to amend sec. 8, of chap. 60 Of
the Revised Statutes, relating to divorces, on
its passage to be engrossed, was tabled on
motion of Mr.. WILSON.
Resolve in favor of the College of Agricul-
ture and Mechanic Arts being on its passage
to be engrossed, Mr.. CARLETON moved its in
definite postponement
The matter was debated by Messrs. Atyell,
Smith of Parsonsfeld, Green of Wilton,
Cousens, Carleton, Wilson, Stickney, Bur-
CESS, and Pike.
Mr.. RAwsoN attacked the sale of the lands
donated by the United States for the benefit
of the institution, and said the lands donated
to other States for the same purpose, have
been sold for nearly twice as much as those
sold by Maine.
On motion of Mr.. CoUsENs, the resolve
was amended by striking out $50, 600 and in
sorting $4,000.
The question of indefinite postponement
was taken by yeas and nays, and resulted in
the negative, by yeas 81, nays 81, as follows ;
YRAs-Messrs. Andrews of Palmyra, Anderson,
Berry of Damariscotta Berry Of Buxton, Blanch-
ard, Bradbury, Bragdon, Brown, Boswell Carleton,
Carver, Clark of China, Clock Cobb, Coburn, Cnsh-
ing Ellis, Emery, Erwin, Fish, Getehell, Googins,
Greene of Temple Hacker, Hastings, Hayden,
Heath, Hill, Hobart, Hodgdon, Hopkins Of Bluehill
jenkins, Keegan, Knapp, Martin, Moores, Moore
of Machiasport, Pike, Reed of No. II, Reynolds,
Sayward, Severance, Skillin, Smith of Parsonsfeld
Snowman, Stewart Taber, Talbot, Taylor, Tebbets,
Thompson of Trenton, Wagg, Wass White of Green
field Whiting. Whitmore, Wilson, Wyman.-57.