The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-02-25
AUGUSTA.
SEVERAL IMPORTANT COM
MITTEE HEARINGS.
The Porgie War Still Raging.
DENNIS KEARNEY AND THE
HON. F. M. FOGG.
Especial Dispatch to the Press.

AUGUSTA, Feb. 4.-Josiah Crosby of Dexter
| appeared before the Executive Council TODAY.
| in behalf of the Dexter Savings Bank, which
asks the State to pay them 50, 200 for advances
to Detective Wiggin of Boston for services in
the Barron case, he, Wiggin, having assigned
to them that amount of his claim against the
State Wiggin acted under commission from
| L. A. Emery of Ellsworth, when he was At
torney General. The Council reserved their
| decision.
A bill was read twice in the House, and as
signed for tomorrow, which provides that any
| collector of taxes, or any executor or admins
traitor of a deceased collector of taxes, may,
| after due notice, sue in his own name for any
tax in any court competent to try the case.
The House passed to be engrossed bill re-
| lating to service on domestic corporations,
| which provides that when no officer, general
| agent, or member of a domestic corporation
can be found in the county in which the same
is located, nor in the county in which its last
certificate of election of clerk has been filed,
the officer having in his hands any process for
service on such corporation, may file copy
thereof in the registry of deeds of the county
in which the corporation was located, or in
which the last certificate of election of clerk
was filed, and make return of his doings.
which service shall be sufficient to hold said
corporation to answer unto such process. The
register of deeds shall keep such copy on file,
| and keep an index thereof, and be entitled to
a fee of twenty cents therefor, to be paid by
| the officer.
| The committee on county estimates will re-
/ chorf1v Tho oct toc JoJ h.,
the County Commissioners of several counties
will be reduced by the committee. The origi-
nal estimates of $4,000 for Penobscot will be
cut down to $4,000, OF $4,000 for York will
be cut down to $4,000, and of $4,000 for An
droscoggin will be cut down to $4,000.
Twenty-seven mining companies with cap
ital stock of $13, 600 900 have filed their certif-
Gates of organization with the Secretary of
State since Jan. 1st.s
| A large number of persons were in attend
ance at the porgie hearing in Representatives
Hall this afternoon. The evidence on both
sides is now all in, and the arguments of coun-
sci will be made before the committee to-mor-
row afternoon. Judge Goddard of Portland
will speak for the remonstrants, and Orville
Baker of this city for the petitioners.
An active lobby is at work in the Rockland
division case. There is a strong belief that the
House will initiate the example of the Senate
in voting for the setting off of Ward Z, and in
| corpoating it into the town of West Rockland
If this is done the new town will contain a
population of some HOO, and will be Green
back in its politics.
| The Valuation committee commenced their
labors to-day in good earnest. Thirteen clerks
have been appointed, seven of which have
been set at work. Hearings were given this
afternoon to j. B. Farrell of Van Buren, plan
tation, representing Van Buren,, the towns of
Madawaska and Grand Isle, and the planta-
| tions of Conner, Hamlin, Cyr and Pleasant.
A hearing was also given to Otis G. Nelson of
New Gloucester. Tomorrow forenoon repre-
sentatives of the porgie interests will appear
before the committee, and in the afternoon
hearing will be given to VIM Dickey of Fort
Kent. on the wild lands of the Madawaska re-
gion.
Among the Fusion correspondence which
has recently been found is a letter from the
Californian blatherskite, Denis Kearney, to
Councillor Fogg, bearing date of last Novem-
Der.
ITO the Associated Press.l
AUGUSTA, Feb. 24.-The committee on mer-
camille affairs and insurance gave hearing
today on three important propositions.
First-An order inquiring if legislation is
expedient to compel fire companies to pay the
amount of the loss in full where there is a
total loss.
Second-An act to amend chapter 40 of re-
vlsed statutes concerning insurance, making
representations not warranties.
Third-A bill relating to life insurance, that
representations shall not be deemed material
in policy of life insurance.
Hon. Joshua Nye, Hon. j. H. Drummond,
Prentiss Loring, ESQ.,, FL. B. Cleaves, H. N.
Fairbanks, Esq, and Col. J. W. Spaulding
appeared in opposition to the measures. The
committee voted unanimously that legislation
is nexpedient in reference to all those meas
ureS
The Judiciary committee voted to report
legislation inexpedient on order relating to not
allowing person to vote or take part in the
organization of the Legislature unless his name
is on the certified roll of either branch; to re-
port a bill on the order relating to amending
the constitution of the State so that certificates
of election of representatives to the House
shall issue directly from the municipal officers
of representative districts; to draft
bill to abolish the Executive Council
and report it to the committee;
to report legislation inexpedieIt on the order
relating tc the amen dment of the constitution
SO that the Council shall be elected by the peo-
pie of the several councillor districts by plur-
atty vote; also as to the expediency of having
all state officers elected by plurality vote of
the people; to report bill so that copies of
deeds from the state records in the land office
may be recorded in the registry of deeds in the
county where the land lies with the same eff
feet as if the original deed had been recorded;
to report bill amending the law relating to
business corporations so that the amount shall
net be less than $4,000, but no limit beyond
this. Legislation inexpedient was reported
on petition that all laws for imprisonment for
debt, except for fraud, be repealed; ought to
pass on order relating to Civ
ing justices of the peace and quorum
jurisdiction throughout the state
to draw bill authorizing the city of Bangor
to sell and convey its interest in the Bangor &
Piscataquis railroad; also to report bill to re-
peal laws of 1878 relating to the development
of the mining interests of the state.
The Committee on Legal Affairs voted to re-
port bill so that towns shall pay to houses of
correction two dollars a week for persons sent
there for drunkenness; to report measure
that persons intoxicated shall be sentenced to
labor in jail to report bill making the liquor
commissioner salaried officer.
The Committee..on Interior Waters voted to |
authorize j. Manchester Haynes and others to |
build and maintain booms and dams and drive |
logs on Dead River; to relieve the owners of |
the Augusta dam from all penalties in neglect |
ing to put fish-way in the dam, provided a |
suitable way, and one satisfactory to the fish |
is erected.
MAINE.
Forgeries on the First National Bank at
Augusta.
AUGUSTA, Jan. 24.-Some enterprising forg-
hoe nr;,tod honk check with tho haadino