The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-02-11

again.
Senator Emery presented an act giving Mu-
picipal and Police Judges jurisdiction upon
liens on personal property in certain cases,
which was referred.
The House document relating to the appoint
nent of deputy town treasurers was taken from
the table and ordered to be printed.
The bills passed to be enacted in the House
Tuesday were similarly passed in the Senate.
Adjourned.
Senate papers were disposed of in concur
renee,
Mr.. Reed of Bath presented an order direct
ing the Ways and Means Committee to report
the amount it will be necessary to raise by tax
to meet the demands upon the Treasury.
REPORTS of Comnaitees-"Ought not to pass
was reported by the Ways and Means COM
mlttee ON resolve abating part OF the tax OF
Carthage; same by Manufactures COMMITTEE
on bill to incorporate the Leeds Manufacturing
Company.
Legislation inexpedient'' was reported by
the Agriculture Commttee on an order relating
to the expediency of exempting neat cattle
under three years of age from taxation; same
by Judiciary Committee on order relative to
further legislation respecting injuries on high
ways.
"Leave to withdraw" was reported by the
Committee on Claims ON petition of Lakeville
plantation for reimbursement of money lost in
transit; same by Legal Affairs Committee on
petition of Henry Ward for divorce from his
English wife; same by Ways and Bridges Com
mittee on petition of Selectmen of Baldwin for
reimbursement of money expended on county
bridge.
Read and assigned-The following bills re-
ported by the respective committees were read
and assigned for to morrow Bill to incorpor-
ate the Buxton and Hollis Manufacturing Co.;
to make valid doings of O. M Partridge, justice OF
peace; relative to the state tax OF Waterville
aud West Waterville; to INCORPORATE the yearly
Meeting of Friends; to authorize Nelson Null
len to maintain wharf at North Haven; to
incorporate the Camden Marine Railway; to in
corporate the Thorndike Mutual ms Co. to
incorporate the Lamoine Mutual Ins Go. The
following bills, having been previously reported
and ordered printed, were read and assigned
resolve for Maine reports; relative to abate-
ment of tax assessed on railroad; resolve
reducing state stumpage of +. A. Reed and
others.
The Committee on Commerce reported refer
ence to next Legislature the petition for wider
draw on bridge at Arrowsic.
The report of the Committee on EducatioB,
reporting an appropriation for the Industrial
School for Girls inexpedient, was, on motion of
Mr. Snow, recommitted.
Mr. Judd of the Ways and Bridges Commit
tee reported a bill to make free the Livermore
Falls bridge, which was tabled and ordered
printed by Mr.. Fernald of Wilton.
After the morning hour, Mr.. Tefft moved to
take up the bill abolishing capital punishment,
tI,a Coyof o rafuoo1
He moved to strike out all after the enacting
clause and insert bill which provides, first:
the abolition of the death penalty; second, that
crimes heretofore punishable by death shall be
punished by Imprisonment for life at hard
labor, with or without solitary confinement;
third, that "any person committing crime
now punishable by death, while under sentence
of imprisonment for life, shall thereafter be
held in solitary confinement until his decease;
| he shall have the benefit of no alienation of
the seyerest rigors of such close confinement;
he shall be permitted to see or to converse with
no human being not an officer of the prison;
and it shall be unlawful for any person to hold
out to him. or suggest, the possibility of par
don.
Mr.. Tefft then proceeded to speak for an
hour, showing that the death penalty had no
authority in the Old or New Testament His
argument was very ingenious.
Mr.. Wheelwright of Bangor followed in an
argument in favor of the death penalty, which
commanded the attention of the House.
Mr.. Seymour of Machias advocated the aboli-
ton of the death penalty.
Passed to be enacted-Bll to incorporate the
Union Slate Co; to establish the Municipal
Court of Auburn; relating to the settlement OF
persons connected with the Togus Military
Asylum; to incorporate the North Windham
Manufacturing Co.; for the protection OF own
ers of state bonds; to amend sec. 2. chap. "A
r. S., relating to paupers; to amend sec. 3,
chap. 1913 laws of 1874. relating to disclosure of
poor debtors; to incorporate Mystic Tie Lodge
of Knights of Pythias.
Pending the death penalty debate, the House
at 12.45 adjourned.
The House met again at q o'clock, and Mr..
Lyman resumed his remarks. When he had
concluded there was little lull, but DIR. Tefft
soon took the floor and replied to Mr.. Wheel.
wright, speaking an hour and half. He was
followed BY Mr.. Talbot of East Machias, who
reviewed the speech of Mr.. Tefft, and argued
the expediency of the death penalty. A few
remarks were made by Messrs. Barnard of
Calais, Grndle of Mt. Desert, and Stevens of
West Watervile. At halfpas five the ques-
ton was called, which was substituting the bill
of Dr. Tefft for the bill of the judiciary CON-
mittee, which was lost by decided vote. The
question then required to the bill abolishng the
death penalty, which, being taken by yeas and
nays, resulted in the defeat of the measure by
yeas 81, nays 6S, as follows:
Yeas-Messrs. Allen of Brooklin, Baker,
Barnard, Berry, Burnham, Burpee, Butler OF
Avon, Cobb, Colson, Davis, Dodge, Doten, Dur
rell, Eaton, Evans. Ferguson, Fogg, Haines,
Haley, Hanson, Harris, Halves, Head, Judd,
Keegan, Xiii, Lamb. Lawler, Locke, Lyman.
Scarboro Oak, Page, Park, Parker, Pillsbury,
Porter, Roberts, Rogers, Sanders, Shepherd.
Simpson, Smith of Whitefeld, Stevens, Stur.
gis, Taylor, Tefft, Trott, True, Tuttle, Vose,
Wagg, Wakefield, Walden, Warren, Webster,
Wheeler, Whitney of Dixmont, Wiggin.-61.
Nays-Messrs. Allan of Dennysville, Ander-
son, Barker, Barron, Bearce, Blanchard, Brack-
EFT. Drawn, Bray, Buck, Clark of Lincoln,
Clark of Wiscasset Conant, Crosby; Cunning
Frost, Gile, Gilmore, lGrindle, Gleason, Har-
mon Hubbard, johnson, Jones, Lane, Leavitt
Little, Lyford Macomber, Martin Mason, Nc
Intire, McKenney, Merrill of West Gardiner,
Merrill of Cumberland, Milliken, Nadeau,
North, Nutter, Pease, Pinkham, Purinton..
Randall, Reed of Bath, Sawyer, Smith OF
Jonesport, Snow, Stratton, Stone, Stowe, Tai
bot, Tinkham, Tolman, Treai, Trickey, WICK
cry, Wade, Watts, Weed, Wentworth, Wheel
wright, White, Whitney of Friendship, Wood
bury.-68.
MATTERS IN MAINE.