The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-03-01
MAINE LEGISLATURE.
\ Especial by International Line. ]
SENATE.

I .rsfg.fr --ee3. SENATE.
AUGUSTA, Feb. 29-Mr. Harrington asked
leave to present a bill authorizing abe town Of
Fryeburg to aid in building the Maine General
Hospital at Portland to the extent of $1,000. II
was opposed and withdrawn. HIS
A large number of bills, acts and resolves
were passed in concurrence. .ftI
The resolve in favor of the chapel at the In.
sane Hospital came from the House indefinite
ly postponed.
The Senate insisted on passing the resolve to
be engrossed and appointed conferees.
The bill regulating the number and compen-
Sation of clerks in the different departments,
with special reference to disseminating the
clerkship in the Office of the Superintendent of
Schools, was indefinitely postponed.
The Senate agreed with the House in constru-
ing the law SO that members of the Legislature
shall have travel both ways in attending ses-
sions.
d Passed to be enacted.-Bill incorporating the
Maine Industrial Schools for girls; bill incor-
porating Riverside R. R. Co.; bill amending
the charter of the Riverside R. R. Co.; bill rela-
ting to the duties of sheriffs; bill incorporating
the Castine Tel. Co.; bill authorizing Brewer to
aid the Bangor Water Power Co. bill respecting
reserved lands; bill to authorize Portland to aid
in the construction of the P. & r. r. r.; bill
concerning inn holders. T
Finally passed authorizing tenn.
porary loan; relating to fencing grounds of the
Normal School at Pennington; in favor of w.
III. Quinby in favor of r. c. Barker; in favor
of town of Gilead in favor of Soldiers Orphan
Asylum of Bath; in favor of Carl Vess; in fav
or of L. B. Rogers; in favor of Maine State
Library; of Childrens Home in Bangor; in
favor of chapel of Insane Hospital; in favor Of
A. S. Grant; in aid of Dead River BRIDGE to
chang the valuation of certain towns; in re-
lation to Niagara Ship Canal.
3 EtGs W. HOUSE.
, Most of the forenoon session was occupied
with paper" ball session. &A6Al
The resolve relating to Maine shipping and
ship building interests caused a long discussion
and was finally passed to be engrossed, with
slight amendments.
A resolve was passed deciding that the Law
allows travel of members of the Legislature
both ways instead of one way as formerly un
derstood. -al h4-. sss- s..
Act in regard to compulsory attendance wa
indefinitely postponed.
Referred to next Legislature in concurrence
Bill to improve the Jail system of Maine; bill
defining the duties of Superintendent of thu
Insane Hospital arfgs a..r, -
Bill to establish women suffrage at President
tial elections came from the Senate passed to
be engrossed. The House refused its passage
II to 43. FL a ~
The resolve relating to clerks in the severa
departments passed to be engrossed. ~.
The same acts and resolves that were passed
in the Senate were passed to be enacted ant
finally passed. ..ll
Grdered.-That the Superintendent and Trus
tees of Maine Insane Hospital ascertain the ex
pense of completing the unfinished chapel il
the rear of the main hospital building and re-
port to the next Legislature.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
No business of importance done in eithel
branch, except to pass the following bills: Ac
increasing the jurisdiction of the Police Cour
of Bangor; act to amend the law relating tt
sale of public lands; act amending laws relat-
ing to savings banks; act for the encourage
ing Bangor Water Co.; act amending the char
ter of the city of Saco; act allowing railroad
corporations to take lands for borrow and gray
ell pits; act in regard to redemption of persona
property; act relating to town liquor agents
| act relating to the law regulating the sale o
milk.
| EVENING SESSION.
| Daring the evening session the following
were passed to be enacted: An act relating t.
the empanelling of jurors in capital cases; &C
in relation to railroad corporations act con
corning justices actions; act relating to action
of administrators and executors act to max
valid the doings of the town of Robinston; al
act relating to punishment for assault and bat
terry; act in relation to recording sales of rea
estate in registry of deeds; act relating t
banks and banking; an act to provide in par
for the expenditures of the government; act re
lating to new trials of civil actions; act pre-
hibiting the sale and manufacture of priz
candy and stationery; act amending an act es
tablishing the school mill fund; act assassin
the State tax for 1879.
Passed FindHy-Resolve in aid of 0akfel
plantation; in aid of the city of Bangor; IT
solves on pay roll of the House and Senate; re
solve laying a tax on the several counties {
State; resolve in favor of the shipping inter
ests of the State.
Adjourned sine die.