Daily Kennebec journal., 1875-02-23
LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS.
rConcludcd from first page.l
ArrERYooN SESSION.

House papers disposed of IN concurrence
An act explanatory of and additional TO chap
2jl of the public laws Of 1874. relating to taxation
of insurance companies, was read once ana as
signed for tomorrow.
On motion of Mr. UoIBRooK, the Senate recon-
sidered its votes passing to be enacted and passing
to be engrossed the bill to renew portion OF the
public debt and 10 abolish the SINKING fund OF
1866, and the same was amended on monoh OF Elf
HoLBRooK as follows
Amend by !nserti lg between the word "such
and the word "bonds" in the 26th line of sec !,
the word Outstanding" also strike out OF SAID line
the words $50 purchased or so; also strike out
the words "in exchange" in the p h line of said
section.
The bill as amen led was then passed to be en-
crossed.
On motion of Mr. CoETHEIL, q message was
sent to the House asking for the return Of resolve
in aid Of building bridge over Ouillette stream
The resolve was returned, and the vote by which
il was given passage to be engrossed was recon
sidered.
Iuo resolve was amended on motion Of Nj
DOSwORTH, and then given passage.
Resolve in favor of Benjamin Smith, providing
for pension, came up its final passage.
Mr.. EMERY moved that it be indefinitely post
poned.
Mr.. CUSHING favored the passage Of the resolve
and recited the facts
Mr.. GooLD did not believe in giving a man a
pension for life. The nited states government
did not do it, and he no reasen why the state
of Maine should.
Mr.. CUSHING said that the justness of the claim
had been conceded.
The resolve was Indefinitely postponed.
Resolve relating TO Martin IL. XIII came from
the House, that branch insisting upon its vote
giving the resolve passage. The Senate re-
ceded and eoncured with the House IN Its ac'
ton.
Bill an act in aid of the .ttoostook River Rail
road Co., was taken from the table. Oh motion OF
NI~ II
Mr.. CoRTHE1I moved that the bill be indef-
nitely postponed.
Mr.. DoNwoRrH moved certain amendments
which restored the bill as it was lepcted
The amendments were adopted
Mr.. DoNvoRTH spoke in support Of the bill
The yeas and nays were taken OF the motion to
indefinitely postponed, with the following re-
suit:
YEAs-Messrs. Atwood, Campbell, Cogthcll,
Gross, Cutler, DYER, Emerv, loss, Foster, Goolt
Hall Hanson Haskell, Holbrook, Hyde, Mori-
son, Prescott, Richardson, Rounds, Thuriough,
Webb-2l.
NAYs-Messrs Cushing DonwortA, Palmer-3,
So the resolve was indefinitely postponed.
Report of the Committee on Mercantile Affairs
and Insurance, Oh an act relating to insurance and
Insurance Commissioner, came from the House,
that branch adhercing 10 It's vote in accepting the
report.
On motion Of Mr.. ATWOOD, Inc Senate adhered
to its vote.
An act in relation to the executon'of sentence
in capital cases, was taken from the table, and
pending its passage to be cngrossed, Mr.. CUTLER
moved to amend by doing away with solitary con-
finement.
The amendment vas adopted, and the bill then
given passage.
PASSED TO BE ESGRossED.
Resolve in favor of James +. Farmer, James Z.
Weston. George Walls, Oliver p. Merrimam, Ed
win L. Reed, Winfield S. Evans, Timothy Tucker
and Patrick ST. John, Of township number two,
range five; IN act to provide for deficiency in the
appropriations for the expenditures of the govern
ment Tor the year 1874; an act to incorporate the
town Of Woodville; an act in relation TO the exc
cution Of sentence in capital cases.
PASSED TO BE ENACTED.
An act relating to pledges; an act authorizing
the inhabitants Of Hurricane Island in the town Of
Tinalhaven to meet on said island for the choice
of certain officers and the determination Of GER
tain cases; an act to make free the Livermore
Falls bridge; an act TO renew the charters of the
Eastern bank and Mercantile bank, both of Ban
gor, and the North bank of Rockland; an act for
the relief of Joseph Il. Clark and Edmund r.
Clark; an act authorizing certain towns in Han
cock county to require the use OF wide Immed
wheels in certain cases; an act 10 supply the in
habi,ants ofBrewer with water; an act to author
ze the town Of Lyndon to loan its credit in aid OF
the Aroostook River railroad; all act for supply
ing the city of Bangor with water; an act TO
an act to amend chapter l24, 2S, OF the Il. s..
relating 10 cruelty to animals.
FINALLY PASSED.
Resolve in aid Of completing a road from
Limstone to lIamlin plantation, resolve
in favor CT George G. II. Freeman
of Presquc Isle; resolve in favor OF
the Moose river bridge; resolve in favor of David
L. Kelley; resolve in favor Of Sprague, Owen &
Nash resolve III favor of the Bangor Children's
Home; resolve in favor Of the town Of Island Fails
resolve in favor of Hugh Jameson; resolve in IA
vor of the South IIayst2ck road in Castle Hill
plantation; resolve in favor Of Andrew X, Hig-
gins; resolve providing for the payment of the ex-
penses Of the Committee Military Affairs; re-
solve in favor of A. F. Owen; resolve in favor OF
the joint standing committee Reform School
resolve relating to public Documents resolve in
favor Of compiling and printing school laws; re-
solve appropriating $1,000 on Mattawamkeag
bridge in Mattawamkcag in the county of Penob-
scot; resolve in favor Of Andrew Wren of Wood
land plantation; resolve in favor of Otis j. With
am; resolve in favor of Daniel Doe of Lyndon
resolve in favor of Sablna F. Berry and Thaddeus
c. S. Berry; resolve in favor of the Female Or
phan Asylum III Portland.
On motion Of Mr. HALL,
Adjourned.
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