Daily Kennebec journal., 1880-03-12

Notion Of Indnss1y vas excused from in.snsf
Issendsnce ON and after Saturday. Maa =,
On motion of Mr. SPRINGER OF An.n1 -
Nr. Washburp Of Green was excused iio'.
my further attendance. .u ~.
Levis Of Speing1eld was excused nom iu
nm an ~ to abolish the land once passe3|
10 ~ Ho.se came from the Senate amen0eu
= thst the aes shall take effect sig montns
80 approval. Mr.. CurLER OF bsngor
moved TO amend 90 ~ to consign the duties
al the ONCE 10 the Office of State Treasurer
instead of Secretary of State, pending wnacn
II vas laid ON the table on motion OF M
Youxc Of Brunswick.
The reports of the Committee on Towns IN
the matter of the division of Rockland came
ftum the Senate that branch insisting upon
in vote accepting the minority report IN IA
vor of division. On motion Of Mr. VIII
Ioucusr of Rockland the House adhered 70
its action accepting the majority report CIV
ing the petitioners leave to withdraw.
Ir. HurcnIxsox Of Lewiston moved 10 re-
consider. Lost.
Bill an act amendatory Of chap. II and "a
of the revised statutes in relation to common
nuisances and the sale of intoxicating liquors
came ND on its passage to be engrossed. the
question beiug on the adoption Of Senate
amendment. II was laid on the table on mo-
ton of Mr.. DIcxKr of Fl. Kent. Subse-
ouently on motion of Mr.. CRANE OF VIM
throp It was taken up and assigned for to-
morrow after the morning hour
Mr.. FExxELLY of Mt. Desert submitted
the following which was laid over until after
the morning hour.
Ordered, That members Of the House dur
ing the remainder of the session after to-day
be limited to five minutes in remarks at any
one time on any question pending.
Ordered, That the Committee on Ways and
Means Be directed to assess a State tax for
this wear of FIVE mills on each dollar OF the
State valuation.
Mr.. SrRour of Portland, presented bill an
act relating to the sale Of franchise ofrailroad
corporations which was referred to the Ju-
dietary Committee.
Mr.. BUTLER from the Committee on In
sane Hospital, reported legislation inexpedi-
cnt on order relating ITO the Maine Insane
Hospital.
The order to pay the clerk and assistant
clerk of the last House for days attendance
1t S5 per day with usual mileage was taken
mp and given . passage.
On motion of Mr.. YOUNG Of Brunswick,
bill an act additional to an act to IN
corporate the Kennebec and Franklin Tele-
graph Company, was taken up and passed
to be engrossed.
On motion Mr. GRAY of Monson, bill an
act to incorporate the Consolidated Eastern
State Company, was taken up and real the
third time. Mr. Verrill of Portland, moved
to indefinitely postpone, pending which,
It was laid on the table and assigned for to-
morrow at II o'clock on motion of Mr.. Gray.
On motion of Mr.. Goss of Bath, bill an
act to vest the franchise and property OF
ArrOwsic bridge in the inhabitants of Saga
dahOc county was taken up, and the same
gentleman moved to amend by striking out
the fifth section, which provides that the act
shall be in operation unless accepted by ma
iority of the voters of Sagadahoc county.
Mr.. JEwETr Of Richmond opposed the
amendment which was rejected.
Mr. JEwErr then moved to indefinitely
postpone.
Mr. Goss of Bath opposed the motion and
advocated the bill.
Mr.. TRAFroN Of Georgetown moved to
amend so that the vote upon the acceptance
of the act shall be at the next Sept. election
instead of the annual town election.
Mr.. JEwErT opposed.
The amendment was adopted.
Mr.. JEwErr then renewed his motion to in
definitely postpone.
Messrs. Purington of Bowdoinham and
Goss of Bath advocated the bill.
The motion was lost.
Mr.. JEwErT then moved to amend so as to
make the requisite vote two-thirds instead of
q majority. Lost.
The bill was then passed to be engrossed.
The majority and minority reports of the
Committee on Fisheries and Game on the re-
peal Of the porgie law came up by special as
signment. the question being on substituting
the minority report for that Of the majority.
Mr.. GILMAN Of Meddybemps sustained the
majority report. He explained that in 1873
the legislature passed law prohibiting the
catching Of porgies by seines in bays and riv-
ers the mouths Of which were a mile OF less
wide. In 1879 that law was amended by ex-
cluding seines from bays whose mouths were
two miles or less vide, and to exclude them
fom within the limits of mile of the coast
or any inhabited island.
The report Of the majority is to repeal the
laws Of 1873 and 1879, but provides that
p0rgie fisherman shall be excluded from the
AcSsA tuC CuhSt, leiHuuS 1uu DAYS
without restriction. The minority report
merely amends the act of 1879 by striking out
the mile limit of the coast and inhabited
islands, but still excluding them from bavs
and rivers whose mouths are two miles or less
in width. He said the committee had heard
the testimony of both parties and made up
their report accordingly. He contended that
the law of 1879 was brought about by misrcp-
resentation ofthe facts. That the legislature
supposed it to be fact that the seines DESTROY
other hsh than porgies. But the testimony
this year was universally against that theory.
The porgie is . surface fish and 20 in large
schools, while those fish claimed to be de-
stroyed 60 in deep water where the seines
do not reach them. 1t was also in
evidence that the porgie interest has
an annual catch of 6l6,OOO barrels, and
the scrap used as \ fertilizer amounts to from
eighteen to twenty thousand tons. In 1875
this interest disbursed in the State of Maine
about one million dollars. They disburse
about one million annually to the people of
the State when they have q good catch Of
hsh, and have enlarged the taxable propertv
Of the towns along the coast over a million
dollars. These restrictive laws have not been
yet in operation to exclude the fishermen nm
til last year, when there were no fish. Con-
the Law has never operated against
them. But testimony and experience show
that from 80 to Is per cent. of the poro;es
caught On the coast are within the restrictive
limits OF the law of 1879 and If IL roma;n. -