The Portland daily press., 1878-01-08
BY TELEGRAPH.
q FROM AUGUSTA.
Especial to the Press.l
The ArOosteOk Casc-Other Matters.


AUGUSTA, Jan. g.
Not many members have yet arrived. The
most Of them will come in tomorrow. The
committees will be announced on the assemb-
ling of the Senate and House tomorrow after
noon, and the work of the session will then
fairly begin.
One of the first things to come before the
Serate is the Aroostook contested election case.
AT the opening of the session the Democratic
claimant, Mr.. Madigan, was on the ground,
apparently in very hopeful mood because of
the action of the Council. With him as coun-
sci was Peter G. Keegan. The two as they
walked about the halls strongly suggested
big ocean steamship piloted about by little
steam tug. At the opening of the session there
was a move made to seat Burleigh as having
prinla yfacie claim. But when the Republican
Senators went into caucus considerable oppo-
sition, led by Senators Bailey and Moody, de-
veloped itself, and the caucus decided that
neither contestant should be seated until after
foil hearing.
The druggists have held a meeting here to
push the proposed law giving them the right
to sell alcoholic liquors under the same restric-
tons they do other poisons. The subject will
be speedily brought to the attention of the
Legislature.
The matter of state bankrupt law SINH or
to the Massachusetts law, to go into effect if
the National act is repealed, excites some dis
cusson.
The inevitable porgy will engross no small
share of attention during the session.
Nicholas Fessenden of Fort Fairfield came
on the train this evening with the official doc
uments in regard to the recent election in the
Madawaska district, affecting the election of a
Senator. The matter will be taken up by the
committee of the Senate.
Annual Report of the State Treasurer.
The annual report of the State Treasurer will
be submitted to the Legislature, on its assemb-
ling tomorrow. The report gives the following
showing:
Amount received during 1s77........ 81 2O7 1888 2,
Cash in the Treasury January l. 1877 1871 422 81
Payments from the Treasury during 1877 1871 627 "a
Cash in the Treasury December 81, 1877. 23O, 20
Among the largest amounts paid out are:
Public debt .......................... $4,000 90
Interest on public debt. .............. 1854 2O7 90
SinkiDg fund 80479 90
Free high schools OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 10000 6S
Insane State paupers. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 36022 30
Sololers penslons''' ...--r....... 2i116 02
STATE prison 2e32o-1 6
Reform school. ..............,......... 1900 90
The sinking fund has been increased during
the year and now amounts to SOIL ,436O4.
The state expenditures for the next year are
estimated at 81, 1885, O4134.
Liabilities of the state:
TSust tu uds held by the State '1s O.
otner FUNDS. a35621 ~
Amount due for county taxes. .......... 9.l32 81
On the 1st of January, 1877, the public
funded debt amounted to $500, 400. During
the year, $46,5O0 was paid. Deductlng the
sinking fund, SOIL 436, leaves the debt at 81,
1852, 464.
There remains unpaid of the railroad tax of
1874, $54,6S4S1; of 1875. $51, 500 O6; of 1876,
$44, E44 "a; of 1877, $22. 7O268.
The land agent has paid into the treasury
$16,691 AZ, the fire and life insurance compa-
MES, Sis, 1889. The returns of deposits in the
savings banks, November, 1876, were $26.476.-
O91. In November, 1877, $24, 264 663-showing
decrease of 81, 2ll, 427.
The Treasurer recommends that the state
tax be increased this year from mills to 81
mills.