The Portland daily press., 1872-03-02
THE PRESS.
SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 2, 1872
Legislative Fun.

| deuse was waiting Tor the return of bills il
had ordered to be engrossed, there was a
great deal Of merriment from the reading. ON
motion of Mr.. Wilson of Thomaston, of print
ed bill
An act so incorporate the "Abel Loom
Company"
Representatives in Legislature assembled, as
follows:
! Section 1. Horace Woodman, Charles A.
| Shaw, w. III. Smith, jeremiah Fenno, John
| B. Foster, Joseph L. Smith, George K. jew
ett, j. M. Blaisdell, Henry Mclaughlin,
Thomas Hersey, Albert Emerson, Dudley F.
Leayitt, George M. Weston, w. T. Pierson,
b. B. Thacher, n s. Harlow, Charles Hale,
Edward Rand, L. d. M. Sweat, +. j. Rol-
Inns, T. I'll. Gushing, their assigns, associates,
and successors, are hereby created body
corporate by the name of the "Abel Loom
Company" for the purpose of earning an
honest penny by specializing among them
selves in the "Abel Loom Patent,'' with full
powers to cheat and be cheated, to sue and
be sued, to indict and be indicted, by each
other, to demur and plead anew, any law to
the contrary notwithstanding, to establish
agencies and employ decoy ducks and stool
pigeons in all places where greater fools than
themselves reside, or where men live with
more money than brains, and to use COM
Lnoh seal, Win hhkehny CATS mscripeu
thereon.
Section 2. ANY town in this State is here.
by authorized to take stock in this company
on one-third vote so to do.
Section 3. Five per cent. of the net earn
ings of this company shall be paid over to the
Perry high schools of this State for the bene-
fit of the rural districts
Section A. This company is hereby author
lied to take stock in the Carleton Walrus
railroad aud in the Hubbard, Bath and Port
land Shore Line railroad companies, not ex-
ceeding, however, sixty per cent of their cap
ital stock, unless advised so to do by the
friends to the release of Neal Dow from the
Peck bond.
Section 5. This company shall be exempt
from all laws, human and divine, and be in
force until the corporators shall make an
equal and just division of all their spois.
On motion of sundry members the following
amendments were offered, and none seemed
to enjoy the good hits more than the parties
hit:
-.E.# AMENDMENT A.
Section 9. This company is hereby author
lied to take stock in the Lebroke railroad
company, provided, however, they first OBJ
tain the consent of the president and direc-
tors ofsthe Maine Central railroad company
! Nothing herein contained shall be construed
as compelling said Lebroke railroad company
| to commence at both ends at the same time
to build its road.
AMENDMENT b.
Amend section 8 by adding as follows:
'"This section shall be under the entire con-
troll of the superintendent of schools, espec-
| tally the five per cent. cash clause named
| therein"
| AMENDMENT c.
Amend by striking out Kilkenny CATS"
and inserting "Malta cats"
AMENDMENT d.
Amend section A, line 2, by striking out
"Walrus," and inserting "Mollusk."
AMENDMENT r.
Insert after sued, in section 1, line 13, ''to
damn and be damned"
t AMENDMENT
This act shall not apply to pending cases,
! or looms already constructed, without the
consent, in writing, of the Portland Press.
AMENDMENT @.
| This company shall elect Carleton, of
| Whitefeld, chief officer of the treasury,
whose "avenging sword shall be drawn as a
constant security against wrong.
p. Is M AMENEMENT H.
Amend section by adding the following:
"And further sum offfty per cent. shall be
takeu from the cities and large towns, by rob-
",
Madawaska French infants, and expended by
the gentleman from Madawaska for election
eering purposes and that further sum of
| seventy five per cent. be assessed upon the
! Knox and Lincoln railroad, one-half of which
shall be distributed among the barefooted
| children in the rural districts, and the other
half shall 60 to finish and put in operation
the rolling stock of the Through line'' from
Hornby to the Dexter and BrownviEe rail-
road.
a.al AMENDMENT /.
Nothing in this act shall be construed as In
any way Interfering with the manufacture or
consumption of "biled rum"
AMENDMENT j.
The provisions of this act are subject to re
vision by the "chlld of the State"
AMENDMENT K.
This act shall not be construed to author
ize the town of Waldoboro' to move to Rock
land, or any exodus of office seekers from the
fifth to the third district, without the written
consent of the lobby.
AMENDMENT L.
The corporators shall be committee to
Hunt after the johnson papers.
AMENDMENT M.
| Section 7. This company shall be obliged
to sell to the widows and orphans of the
Maine Central railroad so much stock as said
widows and orphans may see fit to purchase
and pay for in their bogus bonds at one hun
dred cents on the dollar.
AMENDMENT N.
That the profits of the institution denomi-
| mated the 'Abel Loom Company" for the
| first year be devoted to the endowment of the
st. Dennis Academy.
AMENDMENTo.
This company is hereafter authorized to
purchase the gentleman from Island Falls to
cut up into guardian angels for their own use.
AMENDMENT p.
That the company be directed to furnish 25
cents to the gentleman from Madawaska to
buy pint of peanuts for his children.
| AMENDMENT Q.
st. Dennis Academy to read-'St. Carleton
Academy"
| AMENDMENT r.
Add at end of Sd section ''and poor Ban
gor."
AMENDMENTS. s.
| Add at end of bill Section Z. To take eff
feet when the bill on demurrers shall have
been defeated.
1t was moved that Mr.. Randall be laid upon
he table, he was conducted to the Speakers
position by Messrs. Wilson ofThomaston and
Keegan; the Speaker not rising promptly from
his chair it was moved that Mr.. Randi sit
down upon him.
One of the members thought the bill should
authorize the Squeezing of Widows"
1t was moved that the gentleman from
Island Falls affix his seal to the charter of the
company by sitting down upon it. This gen
tleman remarked that he was rejoiced to see
the gentlemen from Whitefeld and Thomas
ton at last in favor of a liberal appropriation.
The gentleman from Madawaska in compli-
ance with renewed motions by the gentleman
from Calls and loud requests from many mem
| bers, addressed the House in the Madawaska
dialect, and appointed Mr.. Carleton interpre-
| ter.
There was more genuine fun at this s. pa
per ball session. than the present reporters re-
member in connection with any preceding
session ofthe Legislature. Journal
REMOVAL!
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