Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-02-17
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terest, ALEC reported legislation inexpedient
on order relating to amending chapter 81 OF
the Revised Statutes, relating to witnesses
and evidence.
Mr.. Brown, from the Committee on PEN
sions, reported resolves in favor of Charles
w. Owen and Mrs. Berah Brown of Benton.
Read and assigned.
| Mr.. KEEGAS, trom the Committee on
Claims, reported ought TO pass on resolve in
relation to the State tax in certain towns and
plantations in Aroostook county. for 1871.
Read and assigned.
| Mr.. RANDALL, from the Comalttee on State
Lands, on petitions reported resolves in aid
of roads in Van Buren, plantation. in favor OF
road in Indian township IN Washington.
Read and assigned. Also reported leave to
Withdraw on petition of Albert Dougherty
for aid on a road; also reported leave to
withdraw on petition of Henry f. Eaton for
reimbursement for land; also reported on
petition, resolve in favor of Rodney {. Bar
ker. Read and assigned.
Mr.. WINSTON, from the same committee,
reported leave to withdraw on petition of Jesse
Drew for lot of land; also reported on pc
tition, resolve in aid of building a bridge in
Chapman plantation. Read and assigned.
Mr.. KING. from the Committee on Division
of Towns. reported leave to withdraw On pc
titiou of Levi McAGstor. to set off Il part Of
Lowell 10 Stonebam.
Mr.. PsRRr. from the Committee on Rail-
roads. reported a resolve IN favor OF the town
Of Gilead in Oxford county, Read and as
signed.
RrAp AND ASSIGNED Resolve in favor of
the Soldiers Orphans Home at Bath; resolve
in favor OF the State Prison; resolve appre-
priAung $500 for the preservation of the
colovs and trophies in the rotunda of the Cap.
itol; resolve directing repairs TO be made en-
the monument Of Mai. Gen. VIM. King. first
! Chief Magistrate of Maine; an act to moor
porate the Sandy River Cheese Company an
act relating to corporations and owners OF
real estate, improved by having out, altering
or widening highways.
The following bills, on their passage to be
engrossed, were tabled on motion of Mr.,
CARLETON:
Bill an act to promote immigration; bill sn
act to establish the schoo, mill fand for the
support of Common schools, and ST set sup
Elementary thereto.
PASSED 20 RI EN6RoSSEp--Au act to IN
corporate the Bath Dry Dock and Marine Rail
road Company an act TO regulate the driving
Of logs ard timber on the Aroostook river; an
sc; 10 authorize the town OF Browuvillo 10
loan its credit in aid Of the Bangor & Pts
ca;aQuis Railroad and PiscatsQuis Central
Railroad Company; bill an act TO amend the
charter OF the Buxton < Benny Eagle Branch
Railroad Company; resolve authorizing the
Land Agent TO convey lot No. ~ in that part of
Lyndon formerly II Township; resolve in
favor Of Upham 5. Treat ct ais.
PAssKp TO BE ENACTED-An act relating
to the service OF precepss by deputy sheriffs; ;
an act 10 authorize the New York Granite
Company to construct a railway: an act to
incorporate the Portland & Cape Elizabeth
Ferry Company; an act TO incorporate the
FL 20 n
act TO amend an act entitled an act to enlarge
the powers Of the constabes of the town of
Eastport an act to change punishment for
burglary and rape; an act to incorporate the
East Branch of Pleasant River Dam Com
pany; an act to incorporate the Dixtield
Manufacturing Company; an act to incorpo-
rate the PeDobscot Central Railroad Com
: pany; an act to authorize the extension of
, the kennebec & Wiscasset Railroad and
amend their charter.
FINALLY PAssED-Resolve in favor of the
Agent of the Penobscot Tribe of Indians re-
solve in favor of Oliver Cook; resolve relat-
ing to the State valuation of Washington
1 plantation in Franklin county; resolve in IA
vor of Oak Grove Seminary resolve provid-
ing for the payment of the expenses of the
Committee on Military Affairs; resolve in IA
vor of John FL. Sprague and others.
Bill an act to authorize the formation of
companies OF Cduels on IT'S passage 10 be en-
D crossed was tabled on motion of Mr.. CARLE-
TON.
On motion of Mr.. WOODBURY., bill an act
to amend the charter of the Northern Aroos-
took Railroad Company was taken from the
f table and passed to be engrossed.
The House resumed consideration of the
report of the Committee on Education, re-
porting ought not to pass on bill an act to re-
f peal the County Supervisor law.
Mr.. Carleton moved to amend the report
by striking out the word mot"
Mr.. HUNT resumed his remarks lie said he
f started in favor of the system of county su-
pervisors; he had watched it with all candor,
and he had yet to learn its benefits. The ex-
pense, as he found by the school report, is
$4,000 for county supervisors, $4,000 for
, teachers institutes, and how much more was
to go into that is a question. Are the
benefits from these institutions commensurate
with the money expended? Our State Su-
pervisor is literally endowed by the God of
Nature; he is keen, penetrating, and reads
his man very shortly; and his whole power
and mind are brought to bear upon the coun-
ty apprenticeship. He stated in this hall a
county supervisor law loafed around horse
stables and rum shops. That might be the
fact, but the last place he Mr.. Hunt never
visited, and he was unable to say how many
loaf there. On that evening before the Educa-
tional Committee, the State Superintendent
!, was asked by gentlemen as to the wherea-
bouts of the county supervisors Of Penobscot
} and Cumberland counties; for they had not
seen them in their section. The SuperiHtend-
ent explained that they had had trouble
business so that they had been unable to de-
vote but very little if any time to their office
In looking at the report he found that these
officers had drawn from the State for that
year-one $1,000, and the other 81, 1922.
This money was paid to these officers yet he
saw no benefit accrung from anything they
had done. Were these county supervisors
needed to wake the people up in regard to
T. the education of the youth? Were the peo-
pie such fossils that they needed this system
to spur them up? He ridiculed the idea that
they were needed for any such purpose, for
he contended that the people are not fossils,
and do take deep interest in the education
of their children He commented at length
upon the expense attending the system, and
of the visits of supervisors to Augusta during
the session of the legislature to "lobby" He
referred to Mr.. Sleeper, one of the county