The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-03-17
THE LEGISLATURE.
Especial Despatch to the Press.I
Senate.


aminations was debated by Messrs. Harris,
| Patten and Thompson, and then assigned for
| this afternoon.
The porgie bill was amended and given a
passage.
Bill to vest the franchise and property of the
Arrowsic bridge in the inhabitants of Sagada-
hoe county was given passage.
| Bill to incorporate the Parlin Pond Dam
| Company was referred to the next legislature.
Bill to enable the Cumberland and Oxford
| Canal corporation to make sale of its property
to be used for railroad purposes was amended
on motion of Mr. Halves of Cumberland and
then given passage.
Resolve making an appropriation for the
propagation Of fish, pending the adoption of
| amendment offered by Mr.. Dingley was taken
from the table. The Senate went into com
mittee of the whole, with Mr.. Bradford in the
chair, to listen to remarks by Fish Commits
| sioner Smith. After the committee rose Mr..
Dingey's amendment eating down the appro-
priation from $3.50 to $500 was rejected. Mr.
| Dingley then moved to amend by making the
appropriation $1,000. Lost. Another amend
ment was offered to reduce the appropriation
to $4,000. Lost. The resolve was passed to be
| engrossed.
| AFTERNOON SESSION
The Senate concurred with the House in re-
ferring the bill to abolish the Land Agent to
the next legislature; also disposal of bill relat-
ing to poll tax in the same way.
Bill to incorporate the consolidated Eastern
State Go. was indefinitely postponed in concur
| renee.
| Bill to remodel the State Board of Agricul-
| ture was taken up and discussed by Dingley,
| Ellis, Dearborn, Berry and others, and after
| being amended by fixing the salary of the Sec
| rotary at $500, was given a passage.
Resolve fixing the Governors salary at $4,000
was discussed by Dingley. Bradford, Ellis,
Thompson and others. The syeas and nays
being ordered the vote on the passage of the
| resolve stood 10 to 10, tie vote The Presi-
ont hon nd II, fox
thereby given passage. All the Fusionists
| voted against the resolve together, with the
! following Republicans: Dingley. Emery,
| Parcher and Fernald.
Resolve requiring the reading and parsng
OF the constitutions of Maine and of the United
States in our common schools was discussed
and motion to indefinitely postpone was lost
by IL to IA. The resolve was then passed to
be engrossed.
The Arrowsic bridge bill came back from the
House and the Senate adh ered to its former
/ action.
Bill to repeal act approved March 8, 1880,
and to restore chap. %, Laws of 1878 to en-
courage the development of our mining inter-
ests was passed to be engrossed in concurrence
House.
The House concurred with the Senate re-
ferrlng the order asking for the restoration of
the death penalty to the next legislature.
The clerk reported that seventeen members
of the House had been excused from further
attendance.
1t was ordered that, the Senate concurring,
the committee on finance be directed to report
bill to tax railroad, telegraph and express
companies in this State on the same basis as
other property.
The following Was passed, offered by Gushee
of Appleton:
Ordered, That the Governor and Council
be requested to furnish this House forthwith
with a statement of the amounts that have
been drawn, and for what purposes, from the
Sis, 900 appropriation bill passed by this House
to defray the expense attendant upon the Or
ganization of this House.
A bill was reported relating to seizures and
executions. Printed.
An order was introduced to have the clerk
make up the pay with mileage of Knight, the
fusion member from Naples, who has not been
in his seat during the session. The plea was
ill health.
Mr.. Jewett, from the committee on leave of
absence, stated that no knowledge of the gem
tleman s sickness or why he was absent had
been bro ught to the attention of the commit
tee.
Willoughby of Rockland said he understood
that the reason Knight was absent was that he
did not consider the legislature a legal organ
ization.
A motion was made to have the order indefi-
nitely postponed.
Cook of Lewiston thought that man who
had ignored the legality of this House, and
who had not been in his seat was not entitled
to pay.
Gushee (Fusion) of Appleton said he was not
in favor of paying any man who had rendered
no service in this legislature.
Young of Brunswick thought the order was
the sublimity of impudence.
1t was moved that the order be amended so
that Knight should be allowed pay for five
days attendance. Lost.
The discussion was continued by Butler.
Staples and others.
The amendment for mileage was rejected
The order was indefinitely postponed. =
A bill was presented to amend chap. los of
Public Laws OF 1879, relating to ways Refer
red to judiciary committee and subsequently
ordered printed.
Bill relating to the sale of the franchise of
railroad corporations was read and assigned
Resolve memorializing the General Assem-
bly, OF the state of New York to so amend the
He'll Gate pilot laws as to remove compulsory
pilotage, was read and the Speaker directed to
transmit printed copy of the memorial to the
Speaker of the Assembly and the President of
the Senate of the state Of New York. The
may be amended so that no half pilotage shall
be exacted by our coasting vessels using the
He'll Gate passage.
Bill to abolish the Office of Land Agent was
taken up. Messrs Dickey and Powers op-
posed, and on motion of the latter the bill was
referred to the next legislature.
Bill relating to poll tax was taken up, the
question being on the substitution of the
minority for the majority report. The matter
was referred to the next legislature.
Bill to incorporate the consolidated Eastern
Slate Company, pending its passage to be en-
crossed, was indefinitely postponed on motion
of Mr.. Verrill of Portland
An order to make up the pay of the messen-
ger and first assistant messenger at $500 each
and usual travel was indefinitely postponed.
Bill relating to trustees and other officers of
public institutions which prohibits such officials
from being interested in contracts directly OR
indirectly made in behalf of the State or of the
institution in which they hold places of trust
was taken up and discussed The bill was
amended and given passage.
Bill relating to preventing incorporated per-
sons from conducting the business of apothe-
carries was taken up. The House voted to
poning.
A bill was reported to amend section 10 O
chap. 81 of the Revised States, re lating to
liens on vessels. Printed
AFTERNOON SESSION.
A bill was presented providing for change
in the name Of the Bath Driving Park. Re-
ferred to Judiciary committee.
Bill incorporating Parlin Pond Dam Com
pany was referred to the next legislature.
Senate amendments to bill enabling Cumber-
land and Oxford Canal Company to make sale
of its property were adopted and the bill
passed.
Bill to vest the franchise and property of Ar.
rowsic Bridge in inhabitants of Sagadahoc
county came from the Senate amended. House
concurred in one amendment, but refused to
concur in amendment providing that three
ffths of the voters should accept it instead of
majority. Subsequently the House receded
and concurred and passed the bill.
Bill to amend public statutes as required by |
the amendment to the constitution, providing
for biennial sessions and elections of the legis-
lature was read a third time and given a pas
sage.
Bill to amend chap. IA of the public laws Of |
1878, entitled an act in relation to the insol- |
vent laws of Maine was taken from the table |
and its passage advocated by Mr.. ingalls, of |
Wiscasset. The bill he said from its very |
terms acknowledges the liability of Wiscasset, |
but at the same time acknowledges its inabili- |
ty to pay. 1t is a question of insolvency. 1t |
is no new principle. Here is town where |
the people will be absolutely stripped, first of |
their personal property and then their real es-
tate unless the legislature affords some relief. |
The bill is designed to prevent this. When the |
people of Wiscasset obtain the relief they now |
seek by this bill they will be more heavily in |
debt than any other town in the State. He |
explained how imprudent the town had been |
in loaning its credit in aid of thelKnox & Lin |
coin railroad.
The bill was opposed by Hatch, Crane, |
Hutchinson, Cutler and others, on the ground |
that. the bill opens the door for reputation,
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