Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-03-02
LEGIsLATURE.
SENATE.

property. which was amended IN the Senate
and passed to be engro.sed. came from the
House indefinitely postponed The Senate
and the bill was indefinitely post
poned-
Bill an act in relation TO defences in ac-
lions involving contracts made on sunday
came from the House amended BY adding
Provided tina, nothing herein contained shall
apply 70 any action now pending" The bill
a. amended was then passed TO be engrossed.
The following communication was received
from the Governor:
To the President Of the Senate and Speaker
Of the House Of Representatives;
AUGUSTA, March /, 1880.
By resolve approved February IA. lss0,
requesting the Governor and Council TO ap-
point a commission consisting of five officers,
10 revise the Militia Laws, | appointed for
that purpose Gen. Charles W. Tilden, Col
Joseph Il. Peaks, Lieut.. Col. Daniel White,
Col. John Marshall Brown, and MAJOR Frank
T.. I'VE, who on the eth day of February,
made TO me the accompanying report which l
have the honor 20 transmit to you
DANIEL +. DAVIS.
On motion of Mr. ATwELL. the communi-
cation and revised laws were referred to the
Committee on Military Affairs.
Hr BRADFORD, from the Committee ON the
judiciary, reported on an act providing Tor
recording in registry of deeds Of Judgment IN
real actions, reported that the same ought not
to pass. Report accepted.
Mr. LAM.oS, from the Committee on Tenn
perance on petitions from various parts of the
State. asking that the prohibitory laws may
be strengthened, reported an act amendatory
Of chapters II and p of the revised statutes,
in relation to common nuisances and the sale
Of intoxicating liquors. Report accepted, and
the bill laid on the table to be printed.
The resolve to provide for the erection of
an additional building to the Insane Hospital,
came up on its passage to be engrossed.
Mr. HARRIS would inquire of some one on
the Hospital committee If the $50 neces-
sary to erect the building would accrue in
two wears, OF if it would be necessary for the
State to make an additional appropriation.
MIR. HAYES, of the Hospital committee,
said that the report OF the trustees shows that
az the beginning of the year there were accrued
funds amounting to $4,000. Six thousand
dollars accumulated during 1879, besides the
expenditure of some $500 on permanent im-
provcments On account OF the increased
cost Of provisions this year, the amount
will not be so large: he thought there was
no doubt that the buildings contemplated in
the act could be erected from the funds that
would accrue during the next two years.
Mr. HARRIS said the money comes Indirect
ly from the State.
Mr.. HAYES said that the money comes
from the board # patients, the State making
its regular annual appropriation. An addi-
ton to the hospital accommodations is abso-
lutely necessary, and in the interests of hui
mainly it should be carried forward. The
hospital is crowded. The enlargement can
not be postponed much longer.
Mr.. ELLIS was willing that the building
should be erected, if it is let to contractors,
and the work done on business principles. He
would not leave 1t to the parties there, If the
building of u barn ut Il cost OF $1,000 that
ought to have cost $500 was sample of
their management. He believed in the State
doing its work just rs an individual does, and
with the same care. Six or eight thousand
dollars a year surplus, looks beautifully upon
paper, but it really comes out of the State.
The individual patient pays one-half of the
board. and the State the other half. He did
not begrudge the building but would have it
erected by q contractor who would be the
lowest responsible bidder.
Mr.. BRAproRp said he had not before him
the figures showing the cost of the new barn
at the Insane Hospital, but barn like that
could never be built for $500, and he be-
lived that its cost must have exceeded $1,000.
He had considerable acquaintance with the
erection of wooden buildings, and didn't think
that barn similar to that could be built to-
day for $4,000. Ii is easy for Senator to
rise here and make these loose charges with
out figures to back them up. Such charges
had been made in regard to the State Prison
expenditures, but on investigation they were
found without the shadow of foundation. 1t
was charged that flour was purchased at Sl3
per barrel. when the truth was it was pur-
chased for less than one half that amount
He was not willing that these charges should
go out of this chamber unrefuted.
The hospital is one OF the leading institu-
tons of the State. The residents of every
city and town in the State are interested in
the institution. where the dangerous. insane
classes could have Il home at a mere nominal
price.
The resolve was then passed to be en-
crossed.
The resolve in favor of the Maine State
Year Book, coming up on its passage, was
laid on the table, on motion of Mr.. PARCHER.
READ AND ASSIGNED.
Resolve to detray the expenses of the COM
mittee to investigate election returns: resolve
to defray the expenses of the bribery commit
tee; resolve in favor of the Industrial School
for Girls. appropriating 5000; resolve in
favor of the State Reform School. appropri-
ating slI 800 for deficiency and current ex-
penses; an act granting permission to s. f..
Bryant. Anthony Luques. !. 4. Wheeler and
others, to locate and construct railroad from
kennehunk to kennebunkport in York coun-
ty, upon certain conditions; an act to incor-
pora,e the Dudley Brook Dam Co. an act to
authorize the Knox 4 Lincoln Railroad Co.
to change its location; resolve providing for
tshway over keunebec dam: an act to
amend section l6, chapter 46 of the revised
statutes, relating to corporations: an
act TO prevent the taking of land locked
salmon in certain lakes in Aroostook county .
an act to repeal chap. $40 of the private laws
of 1870, 1872 of 1873. and 800 of 1876. relating
to taking fish in Webs pond and tributaries in
Weld; an act to amend chap. 81, sec 4. of
rate the town of Mapleton; an act to repeal
chap. - Of the public laws oflS7S relating to
the mining interests of the State.
PASSED To BE ENGRossEp.
An act in relation to defences in ac
tons involving contracts made on Sunday
an act in relation to the bridge over the
east branch of Cousens river. in Freeport:
resolve to provide for the erection of an adj
ditional building to the Maine Insane
Hospital: an act to incorporate the Or
chard Beach Wharf and Steamboat Co. /;
an act authorizing Geo. f. Wilson to navi-
gate Newport pond by steam; an act to amend
chap ia of the revised statutes relating to
new trials for capital offences.