Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-02-11
MAINE LEGIGLATURE.
Senate.
MONDAY, Feb. 10.

Senate met according to adjournment.
Prayer was offered by Rev. Mr.. SAITH Of
Augusta.
The journal of Saturdays proceedings was
read and approved.
Papers from the Senate disposed of in con.
currence.
An act to incorporate the Moose Branch
Steamboat Company came from the House,
that branch refusing to concur with the Sen.
ate in referring the same to the next legisla.
ture, and referring it to the Committee on
Commerce. The Senate on motion of Mr..
BROOKS receded and concurred with The
House.
The following papers from the House were
tabled:
ORDERED, That the Committee on State
Lands and State Roads, inquire into the sx-
pediency of making an appropriation for re-.
pairing roads in the town of Frenchville.
Petition of John Patten ct al. for repeal Of
section 6 OF an act to incorporate the Peoples
Ferry Company.
The Senate non-concurred With the House
in accepting the report of the Committee on
Railroads, reporting leave to withdraw on Pc
tition for railroad from West Waterville to
Augusta, and on motion of Mr.. FARRIxcroN
the report was tabled.
An act additional to an act establishing the
Maine State College of Agriculture and the
Mechanic Arts came from the House passed
to be engrossed.
On motion Of Mr.. BURGESS, it was tabled
to be printed.
ator, the vote was reconsidered, and the bill
assigned for tomorrow for its second read.
ing.
The bill relating to bounty on wild ami.
mails, passed to be engrossed by the Houae,
and indefinitely postponed by the Senate,
came from the House. that branch insistine
on its former vote, and asking for confefees,
The Senate insisted on its former vote, and
appointed as conferees on its part, Messrs.
Whitmore of Hancock, Shaw Of Penobscot,
and May of Kennebec.
A communication was received from the
Secretary of State, laying before the Senate,
the report OF Rev. J. 4. Mason, commissioner
from Maine to the International Penitentiary
Congress. Referred to the Committee ON Jan
System. Also transmitting the fifth annual
report Of tie Bath Soldiers Orphans Home.
Referred to Committee on Military Affairs.
The following papers came from the House
that branch insisting upon its former vote and
proposing committee of conference.
Petition of John Patten ct al. for repeal Of
section of an act to incorporate the Peoples
Ferry CO.. +; petition of Hiram Kicker for ex-
tension of charter for navigating the andre.
scoggin river from Canton Point to Rumford;
of same and others for repeal Of An act for the
preservation OF fish in certain ponds in Po-
land; bill an act to incorporate the West
Hampden Dairying Association.
The Senate receded from its former vote
referring to the next legislature and appoint
ed the following conferees on its part: Messrs.
Burgess of Cumberland, Smith of Penobscot
and Brooks of Waldo.
On motion Of Mr.. KIMpALL Of Penobscot,
ORDERED, The House concurring, that the
Committees of the legislature are hereby in
structed to report finally on or before the 18th
inst.
Mr.. SMITH Of Penobscot presented the fol.
lowing order:
branches OF the legislature adjourn without
day on Saturday the 22d inst, at / o'clock,
p. NJ, and that the President of the Senate
and Speaker Of the House are hereby instruc-
ted to declare the adjournment without day of
the respective branches on that day.
Mr.. FARIINGToN Of Oxford objected to the
passage of the order. He thought it would be
impossible for the legislature to give serious
consideration to the business before it, If We
adjourn on the day named in the order.
Mr.. KENNEDY of Lincoln believed 1t was
altogether too soon, if we adjourned on the
18th. If the object of the order is to stifien
mat er, then the order would not be objection
able. He thought from what he knew of the
business before the Committees on the Judi
ciary and Legal Affairs, the legislature could
not adjourn finally until Thursday, the 21th
inst. He moved to amend by substituting
that day.
Mr.. SMITH did not object to the amend.
ment
The amendment was adopted and the order
received passage.
An act relating to the location Of school
houses, came from the House passed to be
engrossed.
amended by striking out "thirty" in the thir-
tieth line and inserting sfifty," so that no
real estate shall be taken within fifty feet CT
school house.
The act as amended was then passed to be
engrossed.
The act relating to The rights and liabilities
Of stockholders, came from the House passed
to be engrossed.
Mr.. KENNEDY moved to amend by striking
out all of section 3, which provides that this
act shall take effect when approved. Carried.
The act then passed to be cngrossed.
An act to regulate the close time for taking
trout in the tributaries Of the Androscoggin,
came from the House passed to be engrossed.
act was amended so as to provide that the
close time should end March /, instead of the
10th of that month.
On motion of Mr.. CHAPLIN, the last section
relating to the act taking effect when APP
proved was stricken out.
On motion Of Mr.. HARRINGTON, the act was
also amended by providing that the yearly
close time shall continue four and = half
months, instead of five. commencing with the
18th of October.
The act was then passed to be engrossed.
An act to incorporate the Coburn Land
Company came up on its passage to be en-
crossed in concurrence.
hlr. Brooks moved to amend by adding
after the first section, FUSED 10 laundering op-
erations." Carried.
Mr.. kMBALL moved to amend BY striking
out the word company" in the 7th line Of
section ). and insert "by the county co0mis-
sioners of county of Kennebec." Also, 10
strike 'one-tenth" in the 2sth line of same
section and insert ''one-fftieth."
Mr.. CHAPLIN thought that at the bottom of
these amendments there was feeling Of hos
,ility to the bill. II capitalists from outside