Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-01-31

| the chairman asks to have it rccommittcd?
Was it just to fling in the face of the COM
mittee the charge of Inconsistency, and arraign
them because they do not sustain the report
in all particulars?
Mr.. You've of Brunswick said as the gem
tleman (Wilson) had been kind enough to
allude to him, he would ike to defend his
report on the matter, although the committee
did not see fit to defend theirs. lie had
charged the committee with inconsistency
because he had information from member
of the committee that the committee deibcr-
atcd, that they made up their minds fully
that in the solemn silence of the night-the
scene, according to the account. not surpassC
since the Declaration of Independence, that
committee stepped up, one after another, with
solemn tread, in the precisc order of their
appointment, and put their signatures to that
document Each man was supposed to have
done that deliberately. Each man was sup
posed to agree to the report Of that commit
tee. And after all that solcmnty, they come
in here and the very first vote that is taken.
four out of the seven desert. Ii this was CON
sistcncy. save us from il.
Mr.. WILSON of ThOmaston, replied.
Mr.. BoYNToS of Bangor. member of
that committee. had n word to say, and he
would quote the language of Scion Chase,
who was accused of having changed his views:
N,
never"
Mr.. SrArLpING of Richmond. thought it
was not question Of Inconsistency on the
part of the committee. 1t had been urged in
behalf of the bill and against the amend
ments that the measure had received careful
consideration by committee, and for that
reason ought to be adopted bv the House Ii
seemed to him the fact that the committee
were not satisfied with it and were anxious to
have it committed and that four on the part
of the House having voted against it, war
rantcd the Inference that the report was not
entitled To the consideration that reports gem
orally are When gentlemen assumed that
the report must be adopted because of its
careful consideration by the committee, it
was begging of the question: because
the committee themselves wanted to recon
slider and give different one.
Mr.. HOMER of Bucksport, closed the debate
for the day. opposing the amendment. The
day ha, gone by for high salaries. He con-
tended that $1,000 was sufficiently high for
the work required.
The amendment was rejected by Il vote of
Go to -.
Mr.. lIrrcIIINsoN of Lewiston, moved to re
consider the vote fixing the salary of the Gov
crnor at $500, and on his motion the motion
to reconsider was laid on the table. and to-
morrow at II o'clock was assigned for its con-
sidcration.
On motion of Mr.. Fox of Portland the
House
Adjourned.
READ AND Assigned.
An act authorizing w. Il. Sawyer to COM
plete and extend an aque,luct in the town of
Stcuben; an act authorizing the building of
wharf at Emerys point in the town of Ham
den: resolve in favor of settlement of the
public lands and to close the land office.
PASSED TO BE ENGRossED.
An act to amend chap II of the public
laws of 1872, in relation TO the service of pre-
ccpts upon deputy shcrifs an act to exempt
the Lewiston < Auburn Railroad Co. from
taxation: an act to authorize the erection of
dams and booms in the Androscoggin river at
Canton; an act to incorporate the Elliot
Bridge Co.
PASSED TO DE ENACTED.
An act relating to scirc facias; an act re-
lating to school funds in the town of Shap-
leigh. county of York an act to change the
name of Etta :. Fillmore to Eta s. Wins
low; an act to incorporate the Maine Ice Co. !.
an act to make valid the doings of Merrill
plantation. Aroostook county; an act to make
valid the dOngs of the town Of Millbridge in
relation to the building of . school house in
Pearl district in said town; an act to prevent
the destruction of smclts in the Medomack
river and its tributaries an act to make valid
the doings Of the town of Mortified, Wash
ington county; an act to repeal an act con-
corning pickcrel fishing in certain ponds in
Frveburg: an act to legalizc the proceedings by
which Wade plantation was organized
FINALLY PASSED.
Resolve in favor of Ncwall Joseph; resolve
in favor of Scbattis Dana.
PETITIONS, BILLS, &C., Presented AND RE-
FERRED.
Bv Mr.. HILLS of Inon-R emonstrancp of l.. VI.
Staples and 10 others of Washington against setting
of Hope from the North Knox Agricultural Society,
and annexng to the Knox Agricultural Society re
ferred to the Committee Agriculture.
BY Mr.. MORRILL, of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of
ID. l.. u. Pride and AZ Others of No. Windham. against
the druggists bill; referred to the Committee on
Temperance.
BY Mr. EATON Of Observation-Disclosures of II. G..
Munson ct ais. Of Guiding Star Lodg. of Wilton,
against the druggists bill also against licensing the
sale of wine and cider; referred to the Committee on
BY Mr. CRAMER of MISUNDERSTANDING
of Milton Thurston ct ais. of Appleton against set
ting off Hope from the North Knox Agricultural So
cicy to Knox Agricultural Society referred to the
Committee ON Agriculture.
- Mr.. KIMHlLI; of Bath-Remons; STRANGE of Frank
lin Reid aud :IO] others of Bath against the petition
obligation to build lishway in the Augusta dam
referred TO the Committee on on Interior Waters;
STRANGE of John T. Hubbard and 40 others of West
Waterye. against relieving the kennebec Dam Co.
from maintaining "A lock In said dam; Of W. :. Mar.
shall and 3! others OF No. Anson, against same
referred to the Committee on Interior Waters.
by Mr. STAPLES of Eliot-Bl an act relating to
the duties of clerks registers and recorders ofthe
eral courts of the State referred TO the judiciary
Committee.
by Mr. SPArLDING of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
of Capt. +. Houdlette and l0i Others of Richmond,
against petition of propretors of the kennebec Dam
| to be relieved from building fshway in said dam
referred to the Committee on Interior waters.
by Mr. PICK ARD of Bangor-Bill an act relating to
| weekly close time for salmon and other fish in the
Penobscot river referred TO the Committee on Fish.
| cries
sBy Mr. KIMBALL of Bath-Petitions of Cyrus Eos
set and 323 others of Bristol. amend sec of chan
1913 of the public laws Of 1871. to exempt por-
gle factories, &c, from the provisions of that law
referred TO the judiciary Committee.