The Portland daily press., 1876-02-22
FIFTY.FIFTH LEGISLATURE.
Especial Despatch to the Press.1
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Especial Despatch to the Press.l
SENATE
AUGUSTA, Feb. 81.
The Senate met at 2 p m. House papers
passed in concurrence.
Bill 10 provide for additional safety to life on
steam vessels OH inland waters was indefinitely
postponed.
Resolve in favor of the Military Asylum at
Bath, originally appropriating $4,000, reduced
| to $4,000 in the House, was amended so as to
appropriate $4,000, and passed to be engrossed.
The act to repeal the bounty on bears was in
finitely postponed.
The Senate voted to adhere on the Honeo-
pathic Hospital resolve. This kills it.
The Senate also voted to adhere on act to set
off Bartlett Island from Mt. Desert to Free
mont. This kills this bill.
Bills passed to be enacted and resolves finally
passed in the House were similarly passed in
the Senate.
The report of the committee relating to mile
age of members was taken from the table,
They report legislation inexpedient The re-
port was accepted; the vote passing to be en-
crossed.
bcoUlNo III ldtOr VI MI SudS6 WAS IeCUuSlu-
cred and the resolve indefinitely postponed.
Report of the Judiciary Committee reporting
legislation inexpedient on order to abolish inn
prisonment for debt was taken from the table
and accepted. Adjourned.
HOUSE
The House met at 10 o'clock and went to
business promptly.
Mr.. Talbot presented an order requesting the
Governor to transmit the names and salaries of
all officers and employees of the Insane Hospi-
tai during the past five years.
The following bills were passed to be engross.
ed under suspension of the rules: Bill rela-
tive to criminal prosecutions, reported by the
Judiciary Committee Saturday,; act relating to
writs in municipal courts; act respecting the
authority of the st. Croix Gas Co.; resolve to
pay more bear bounties.
Passed to be Endcted-Aets setting off part Of
the town Of Montvllie to Liberty; for the formation
of Railroad Corporations; additional to chap. 81 r.
s. relating to factory agents and warehouse
lating to appointment OF lond agent and his dutes
to authorize Camden Village Corporation to build
hall; to make available the school funds of Bower
bank; relating to the settlement of the public lands;
abolishing the death penalty; amending an act to
amending chap. 81, 81 r. S. relating to railroads.
amending III. chap 80 S. relating to division
Of accounts; securing the rights of mortgage bond
holders.
Finally Passed-Resolve approprating $1,000 to
the Centennial Commission; appropriating $4,000 for
the Industrial School for Girls appropriating $4,000
for the Agricultural College, appropriating $4,000 to
Maine General Hospital.
The resolve appropriating $4,000 for a mus
ter and $4,000 for camp equipage came up by
assignment. Mr.. Martin of Camden, moved
the indefinite postponement of the resolve.
Mr. C!eaves of Portland opposed such action
and warmly advocated it's passage. 1t was lit.
tie better than a breach of contract with the
uniformed militia. Gen. Tilden, Haynes,
Davis of Jefferson, Chase of Standish and
Gen. Anderson advocated the bill. Mr.. Hussey
of North Berwick, opposed. He would vote
no money for war or in the cultivation of the
art. Gen. Anderson urged the sustaining of
the militia as in accordance with the genius of
our government, which is opposed to large
standing army which is menace to a Repub'
lie. Mr.. Porter presented an amendment to
the effect that all damage sustained by persons
in their property while the militia were on the
way to and from muster. Lost The motion
to indefinitely postpone was lost. Yeas Al,
nays 70.
An amendment offered to substitute $4,000
for 1000 was lost and the resolve as it came
from the Senate was passed to be engrossed.
Bill relative to the taxation of logs in land
ings and in rivers was discussed, amended and
indefinitely postponed.
Mr.. Talbot presented bill to repeal Sec g.
chap Al, r. S., relative to houses of correction,
which enables towns to keep persons who are
paupers in perpetual imprisonment. The bill
was read three times and engrossed under sus-
pension of the rules.
Mr. Treat of Frankfort presented a resolve
appropriating $1,000 for the Governor and staff
to attend the centennial.
AFTERNOON SESSION,
A bill to extend the time for the building of
the Somerset railroad was passed; also re-
solve appropriating $25OO for Forks bridge on
the Kennebec; also resolve incorporating the
town of Kossuth in Washington county.
The bill to regulate municipal Indebtedness
was variously amended and sent to the next
legislature
The bill abolishing the Office of Fish Com
missioner was taken up and discussed by sever
al gentlemen. A motion to indefinitely post
pone was lost. yeas 80, nays 70, and the bill, af-
ter being amended by sorting Feb. Is, 1877.
instead of September 15 1876, passed.
Mr.. Anderson presented bill providing for
the graduation of punishments, which provides
that the sentence for crimes which heretofore
have been imprisonment for life, shall hereafter
be imprisonment for twenty years, and that
sentences heretofore twenty years shall be ten
years, and all others reduced to one half even
to fines
Mr.. Frank presented bill declaring that the
act abolishing capital punishment shall not
apply to offences previous to the passage OF that
act.