Daily Kennebec journal., 1874-02-11
Geo. g. Stacy. se.retary of State. layinygq be.

the Soldiers Orphans Home, Agent OF the
Passamsquoddy Indians, for the year 1873;
and Trustees and Resident Officers of the
Maine Insane Hospital. Also report of A.
w. Paine, Tax Commissioner, which was re-
ferred to the Committee ON Ways and Means
and 1000 copies ordered to be printed, on
motion Of Mr.. WILLIAMS. Also transmitted
the county estimates for 1874, which was re-
ferred to the Committee on County Estimates,
On motion of Mr.. Snow.
READ AND AsslGNED.-An act TO legslize
the doiDgs of school district Nc. Is, in the
town of Bristol en- act to amend an act en-
titled an act to amend sec. II. Of chap. - OF
the revised statutes, relating to the decisions
OF the S. j. Court; an act cXempting farm
products from taxation; an act additional to
chap. 27 of the revised statutes, relating to
inn holders; an act to continue in force chap.
% of the public laws of 1873, providing PEN
sions for disabled soldiers and seamen.
Bill an act to amend sec. A, chap. IL of
the revised statutes, relating to school dis
trict taxes, being on its passage to
be engrossed, Mr.. CARvILL moved its indefi-
mite postponement, pending which it was laid
on the table, on motion of Mr.. kEEGAS.
Bill an act to amend sec. Is, chap. II of
the revised statutes, relating to gates on
highways crossed by railroads, being on its
passage to be engrossed was recommitted TO
the Railroad Committee, on motion of Mr..
LEWIS.
Bill an act in addition to chap. 80 of the
revised statutes, relating to the discharge of
mortgages, was read the third time,
| amended on motion of Mr.. WILSON and
passed to be engrossed.
On motion of Mr.. WILLIAMS, the House
reconsidered its vote whereby it passed the
order to meet at 8 o'clock.
A a
sec. IA of chap. 1874 of the revised statutes: an
act to amend sec. 8 of chap. 1856 of the revised
statutes, relating to fines and costs in criminal
cases; an act in relation TO the assessment Of
school district taxes; an act authorizing
the construction of wharf in the town
of BowdOinham; an act to authorize
Benz. F. Bucknam and Gilbert l.. Bucknam
to build wharf into tide waters Of Pleasant
river; an act to increase the capital stock OF
the Earle Slate Quarry; an act to incorporate
the Winthrop Cheese Factory Association; an
act to incorpor ate the Corinth Cheese and
Canning Factory Association; an act to
incorporate the Maine Sabbath School Asso-
citation; and act to repeal chap. 615 OF the
private and special laws Of 1871, entitled an
act to incorporate the Trustees of the Bangor
Masonic Fraternity.
| PASSED TO BE ENAcrEp.-An act to in
,
an act to incorporate the Sagadahoc
and Cumberland Railroad Company; an
act to incorporate the Androscoggin
Insurance CO.. an act to incorporate the
Lockwood Cotton Mills; an act to incorpo-
rate the Dixfeld Centre Cheese Co.; an act
to incorporate the Portland Marine Insurance
Co. ; an act to incorporate the Fort Fairfield
Dairying Association.
On melton Of Mr. CoRrHELL, bill an act to
establish State Industrial School for Girls
was taken up, the question being on recon-
siderng the vote whereby the same was
passed to be engrossed.
Mr.. CoRInELL advocated the motion to re-
consider and the passage of the bill. He
commenced by reviewing briefly the efforts
which had been made in this State for the es.
tablshment of an industrial school, as pro-
posed by the bill where vagrant girls who
are deprived of home influences and early
training may receive such benefits as would,
if possible, enable them to earn an honest
| livelihood in the future. A lady in Hallowell
now offers to give $4,000 in money and
lands. Another lady proposes to give $1,000,
and ex- Gov. Coburn offers to give $500, max
ing SIP 500, for the establishment of this
school, providing that the State will give a
certain sum and that the institution shall be
| the foster child of the State. II is now pro-
posed that the State shall give Sl2 800, and
that is the question we are to decide to-day.
In considering whether such an institution is
needed, he called the attention of the House
to the statements made to the Commissioner
on Industrial School for Girls, coming from
the municipal authorities OF some 80 towns,
to whom circulars were sent inquiring wheth-
er there were vagrant girls in the streets of
those towns liable, unless some influence from
outside intervenes in their behalf, to grow up
in sin and become curses not only to them
| selves but to the community in which they
live and the State at large; and the answers
are uniformly of one sort, that there are some
persons OF the class referred to. Many OF
these reports come from justices of police
courts, who say they have been obliged to
take one Of two courses when any of these
girls have been brought before them. either
leave them to run at large in the
streets, with the inevitable result Of an
increased descent in vice, or send them to Jail.
which presents a worse alternative. The
speaker here gave a number of instances
which had come under his own personal OBJ
servation, where if an institution of the kind
proposed could have stepped in, the children
to which he alluded would have been taken
up and probably saved. There are vagrapt
girls who are liable to be brought before nu-
nicipal courts for whom no possible place of
reformation can be provided 1t would be
argued that these cases are all in the cities !;
let the cities take care of them. They are
not all in the cities some are in the country
towns. 1t is a fact, borne out by statistics of
criminal life, that the larger number of aban.
doned women, who fill the hells of the cities
in America and Europe, to-day, come from
retired country homes, and were not born in
the city. To what class of individuals shall
this institution be limited?
The Industrial School in Lancaster, Mass,
limit their admissions to children fifteen years
of age and under admitting no persons of aban-
doned character but vagrant children who have
no homes, and from evil associations are tend
ing down to that pit Of vice which must re-
ceivc them all, unless the State steps in, and
by reformatory mea sures, helps them to lead
better life. Are these children worth saw
ing? Is it for the interest Of society to care
for them? lie knew the friends of the meas
ure would be met by the question of expense {;
that there would be a yearly appropriation
needed to carry on the school. He did not
deny it. The Massachusetts school cost S., 600
each year. Under this bill tits proposed to
gather twenty or thirty of these children, and
try the experiment. 1t will probably cost
s., 900 year. Will it pay to rescue these
children from sin?
He knew it cost a good deal for reformatory
- st, L. oto Co. sh0 IT,