Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-02-09

Maine should act mean in this.matter, there would
not be one among US but what would be apt to
hang his head in shame. II our industries are
| fairly represented and the money farly and prop.
erly expended every citizen Of Maine will be
proud of his native State If it was necessary
that an appropriation should be made for the
military TO be represented, he should not object.
Mr.. SwAsEY remarked that it was necessary, in
| his Judgment, to limit the appropriation.
| Mr.. HASKELL said that the commissioners do
not ask for the appropriation. 1t is matter that
the Chief Magistrate of the State asked for. in or
| der to have Maine properly represented. He, the
Senator, was always happy to follow the Senator
from Oxford (Swasey) in judicious economy, but
his amendment, he thought, invited the other
branch to all sorts of schemes, should it be adopt
ed. He suggested that the amendment be with
drawn, but let the resolve stand on its own merits.
He did not wantany collateral issues attached to
| the resolve. AS it stands it is simple and to the
point. 1t says that the money shall be expended
under the direction of the Governor and Council.
| If an amendment could be framed to prevent the
Commissioners from using more money than Is
con emplated, he would have objection, but he
hoped for the credit of the State that the resolve
| as it stands will receive a unanimous passage.
MIR SwAsEY said he had no desire to provoke
any discussion. He had offered his amendment in
good faith believing there should be limit to
the expenditure. He did not offer it to anticipate
any action in the other branch. If the $40. 900
was not sufficient sum for the COMM. sioners to
have, make it large enough to cover all possible
contingencies.
MIR HASKELL observed that the centennial
commissioners had nothing to do with any pur-
poses outside of their own duties. The money
they wanted was for specific purpose. He did
not want the resolve hampered with objections
brought by those looking for appropriations to
have the military fremen, colleges, OR any organ
izaton represented. They entirely foreign to
this matter. If the senator (Swasey) can attach
an amendment restricting the commissioners in
their expenditures, he would go with him heart
and hand.
MIR PEAKS remarked that If the amendment of
the senator from Oxford (Swasey) was adopted, it
fore stalls all action on part OF the committee on
Federal Relations, which had voted 10 make an
Appropriation to have the military represented ut
the centennial.
Mr.. SwAsEY said that we have . right to fore
stall the action Of any committee. He intended by
his amendment to limit the centennial appropila-
ten. Ii i, hits the military, let it hit. All the
people asked, as he believed, was TO have the va
ried of the Stale represented, and moth
ing else.
Mr. PEAKS said that he now understood what
the senator meant, and he should now vote under
standingly, as he presumed other senators would.
The question was on the adoption of the amend
ment, on which the yeas and nays were taken with
the following result;
YEAs-Messrs. Brown OF Cumberland Dom
worth, Jordan, Kyes, Prescott, Sturgis, Swasey,
Talbot, Tolman, Watts, Wentworth. White, Wood
bury-l3.
NAYs-Messrs. Baker, Bracket, Brown % Pts
cataquis, Estes, French, Haskell, HiLckley Lord,
Peaks, Stevens. Thompson, Wad.woith, Webb,
Wheelwrigh,-li.
So the amendment WAS rejec ed. and the resolve
given passage.
READ AND ASSIGNED.
An act to incorporate the Commercial Whaif
Co. an act to protect Geo. Dser in running his
scow between North Haven and Ninalhaven; an
act to prevent the taking OF trout IN HowaIds
pond and its tributaries in the town of Hanover;
an act to prohibit the taking of fish in the hibu.
taries or outlet of Webb's pond Ia tue ''wn Of
Weld, Franklin county an act to authorize Sam
uel \. Mcfarland and associates to erect a wharf
in the tide waters of Frenchmans Bay, in the
county of Hancock; sn act additional to an act to
regulate the survey Of lumber in the county Of
Penobscot; an act to amend sections 81 and %,
chap. 6 OF the revised statutes, and sec. Z, chap
% of the laws of 1875; set to amend sec. As Of
chap. of the revised statutes; an act additional
to chap. % Of the laws of 1869, concerning the
militia; an act to make valid the doings Of the
town of Jonespo;t il the assessment OF tax for
1875.
PASSED TO BE ENsRossHD.
An act establishing the divisional line between
the towns Of Parsonsfeld and Cornish; an act to
repesl chap 40 of the private and special laws OF
1862. relating 10 the taking of salmon, shad and
alewives in the waters of Pleasant river county Of
Washington; an act to make valid the doings Of
Theodore Taylor of Burlington, as trial justice !;
an act to amend an act to incorporate the Maine
Dairymen's Association; an act setting of Joshua
NJ. Leighton's estate from the town of Steuben,
and annexng the same to the town of MiAbridge,
in the county of Washington an act to amend the
charter of the Squirrel Island Association an act
to amend chap. 81 of the revised statutes, in
relation to the rights Of married women; an act to
amend sec. s Of chap. "a Of the revised statutes,
relating to appointing powers and duties of execu-
tors act to amend of chap. Sc the revised
statutes relating to insolvent estates; an act in
relation to the settlement Of paupers resolve in
favor of Perkins plantation; an act to continue in
force chap Is of the special laws of 1874 relating
to the fishing interest in Lufkin pond; an act to
make valid the doings of the First Universelist
cety OF Saco and Biddeford; act to repeal chap.
80 Of the public laws of 1875, relating to civil &C.
tons resolve in favor Of Charles J. Schumacher;
an act to regulate dividends of savings banks; re-
solve in favor of the Maine Industrial School for
Girls; act TO legalze the doipgs of the tewn Of
Cornish
PASSED TO BE ENACTED.
An act to amend an act entitled an act to
amend sections GO and Ga of chap. ~ of the
revised statutes relating to foreign insurance
companies; an act to amend sec. OF chap. ~ OF
the revised statutes in relation to the time in
which assignees shall file an inventory in the
probate court; an act to amend sec. Is chan. So
Of the revised statutes relating to the partition Of
real estate an act to amend chap. SIS, sec. of the
revised statutes in relation to libraries, charitable
societies and public cemeteries; act to legalize
the doings OF the town of Vina Haven an act ad-
dtional to and to amend IN act to incorporate the
proprietors of the Wiscasset bridge.
On motion Of Mr.. WEIR,
Adjourned
House.
TUESDAY, Feb. s.
PRAYER by Rev. Mr.. PARK of Gardiner.
Papers from the Senate disposed of in concur
renee.
On motion of Mr.. PHILLIPS, it was
Ordered, That the use OF this Hall be rendered
to President Allen and Hon. Mr.. Madigan to-
morrow evening for the purpose Of speaking in
the interests Of agriculture and the Agricultural
College.
On motion of Mr.. PORTER, twas
Ordered, That the Committee on Business Of
the House be directed to inquire into the state of
the business of the House before the several COM
mittees, and also when they may be able to re-
port finally, and report tomorrow morning.
Mr. ROLF presented resolve for the payment Of
the expenses of the Military Committee in visiting
the Military and Naval Orphan Asylum at Bath,
which was passed to be engrossed under suspen
sion of the rules.
Mr.. REED from the Committee on Fisheries, re-
ported reference to the Governor and Council, on
petition of David Dresser ct ais. in aid Of recon-
mendaton of Fish Commissioners with regard to
c. r,ri-