Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-02-21
MAINE LEGISLATURE.
Senate.
SATURDAY, Feb. l9.

Papers from the House disposed Of in concur
renee.
On motion of Mr.. STEVENS,
Ordered That the Secretary publish the calen.
present session.
Mr.. HINcKLEY from the Committee on Finance
reported resolve relating to salaries of State Off
GERS. Printed under rule. Fixes salaries as fol
lows supt OF schools VI 500; salary Of clerk Of
Supt oil Schools $500; Secretary of State, 81, 500
Deputy Secretary of State 81 400; Adjutant Gen
eral $ 800; Secretary Of Board of Agriculture
$500 Also resolve fixing the number of the
Bank Examiners reports to be printed under rule
Places the number at 1000 copies
Mr.. TALBOT, from the Committee on Fisheries
| reported finally.
Mr.. STEVENS from the Committee on Educa-
ton, reported in new draft, bill an act to amend
chap. 229 of the public laws of 1874 entitled IAN
act to extend the powers of school districts"
The bill was read twice under suspension of the
rules and amended on motion of Mr.. STEVENS bv
striking out all after the enacting clause and in
serting the following:
Sec. l.. Chap. 229 of the public laws of the year
1874, entitled "an act to extend the powers Of
school districts is hereby repealed.
The bill was then passed to be engrossed.
The following were each read twice under q
suspension of the rules and passed to be en-
crossed
An act to make available the school fund of the
inhabitants of Bowerbank, an unincorporated
place in the county of Piscataqus an act relat-
ing to the appointment of Land Agent and his du-
lies an act to amend an act to supply the cities of
Lewiston and Auburn with pure water.
Bill an act to authorize Camden Village corpora.
| ton to bnild hall came frsm tho House, and
pending its passage TO be engrossed as amended BY
that branch, Mr.. WOODBURY. moved its indetin-
ite postponemnt.
Mr.. HASKELL opposed, and advocated the bill.
The debate was continued by Messrs. Peaks
Wheelwright, Donworth and Brown.
The yeas and nays being called for were Or
dered and resulted as follows:
YEAs-Messrs. Carney, Donworth, French,
kyes, Wheelwright, Woodbury-6.
NAYs-Messrs. Baker, Bracket, Brown of Cum.
berland, Brown Of Piscataquis, Estes, Gray, Hask.
ell, Hirckley, Jordan, Lord, Peaks, Prescott
Stevens, Talbot, Tolman, Wadsworth, Wentworth
w White-lS.
So the Senate refused to indefinitely postpone.
and gave the bill passage to be engrossed.
On motion of Mr.. Brown of Piscataquis, a
message was sent to the Governor asking for the
return Of an act authorizing Monroe Young to ex-
tend his wharf into the tide waters of Jordan
river.
The bill being returned the vote whereby the
same was passed to be enacted was reconsidered
The bill was indefinitely postponed.
Bill an act to amend chap. 81 of the revised
statutes relating to liens buildings and lots, was
taken from the table.
MIR. w WOODBCRY moved indefinite postponemept,
Mr.. HASKELL favored.
The bill was indefinitely postponed.
Bill an act to amend Sec. SO of chap. Is of the
revised statutes relating to ways, pending its pas
sage TO be engrossed as amended by the House.
was tabled and assi gned for Tuesday next, ON mo-
ton of Mr.. kYEs.
A message received from the House, through
its clerk, asking for the return OF bill an act to
authorize Samuel Mcfarland and others to erect
wharf into the tide waters of Frenchman's Bay.
A message was sent to the Governor, asking for
the return of the same.
On being returned it was sent to the House.
Resolve appropnating $4,000 to provide for
the unitormng of the enlisted men Of the Maine
volunteer militia, and for other military purposes,
was taken from the table, the question being on
passing the bill to be engrossed.
MIR. PEAKS explained the provisions Of the bib
and advocated its passage.
The bill was given passage.
Resolve in aid of the Maine General Hospital
(appropriating ,000) was read twice under a
suspension OF the rules, and pending its passage to
be engrossed, Mr.. WHEELwRIGHT offered an
amendment providing that the Trustees shall
change their bylaws, so that any patient now in
the hospital, or may hereafter be in it, or who
may wish to enter it, shall be allowed to employ
q homeopathic physician if he desires it.
Mr. WHEEEwRIGHT favored adoption of his
amendment. He said that the State had already
given the hospital $4,000. and from other sources
1t had received 500 ,0O0 some 1000 in all.
Now he was friend of the hospital, although for
thirty years he had been homeopathist. He did
not propose to oppose the appropriation asked for
but ne thought SO long as $50 900 bad come from
the pockets of hompopathists in this State in aid
OF tins hospital, with the express understanding
that they shall have one ward in the hospital, il
was no more than right that they should be repre-
sented IN the institution There were loo, 900 hon.
eOpathi.ts i'll Maine, and they were entitled to one
ward out Of the five in the hospital. A petition
from hompopathiss asking for one ward in the
hospital was sent to the trustees of the hospital,
and after eighteen months of silence it was an
swered by the trustees refusing to grant the
prayer He did not ask nor did he believe the two
schools can work together, but can't the lion and
the lamb lie down together The allopaths don't
dare do it, Are they afraid the lamb will eat up
the lion? lie contended that the homo opathista
had right to have their school represented in the
hospital. All he asked was, that they should have
their own physician attend them when patients:
Mr. STEVENS replied. He sympathized with
the position of the Senator from Penobscot
(Wheelwright) He believed the two schools
could not work together in the same building. II
the matter is that of the lion and the lamb they
had better be kept apart. In the practice of medi-
cine there is radical difference in TIE two schools,
and the more one becomes acquainted with them
the more satisfied he would become that they can
not work together under the same roof. He had
no objections TO the Homeopathists having hos
pital of their own, and would accord to them all
the rights and privileges they are entitled to. II
this school is represented IN the hospital its useful
ness would be destroyed.
The debate participated in by Messrs. Has
kel 1olman, Peaks, Hinckley and Watts.
On motion OF Mr.. WHEELwRIGHr, the yeas and
nays were ordered on the adoption Of his amend
ment which resulted as follows:
YEAs-AlessIs. Brown of Piscataquis Don-
worth, Estes, Gray, Hinckley, Peaks, Talbot,
IhuIiough, Tolman, Watts, Wentworth, Wheel
wright-l2.
NAYs-Messrs. Bracket, Brown of Cumberland,
Carney, French, Haskell, Jordan, Lord Prescott,
Stevens, Thompson, Waasworth, White Wood
bury-l3.
So the amendment was rejected.
Mr.. THURLoUGH moved the resolve be indef,
nitely postponed. Lost.
The resolve was then given passage to be en-
crossed in concurrence.
Resolve appr6priating $4,000 for the Maine
Homeopathic Hospital came from the House and
was read twice, under q suspension of the rules,
the pending question being on indefinite post
ponement in concurrence.
On motion of Mr.. WApswoRTH the yeas and
nays were ordered, and resulted as follows:
YEAs-Messrs. Estes, Hnckley Jordan, Lord,
Prescott, Talbot, Tolman, Watts, Wentworth,
| Wheelwrght-l0.
| NAYs-Messrs. Bracket, Brown Of Cumber-
land, Brown of Pisestaquis, Carney. Donworth,
French, Gray, Haskell, Peaks, Stevens, Thomp-
son. Thurlough, Wsdsworth, White, Woodbury.
-l5.
| So the Senate refused to indefinitely postpone