The Portland daily press., 1881-03-16
SIXTIETH LEGISLATURE.
Especial Dispatch to the Press,
SENATE.

SENATE.
AUGUSTA, March Is.
The Harpswell bridge bill, which was passed
in the House and refused a passage in the Sen.
ate came back, the House insisting and pro
posing conference.
The conference committee on the claim of
Eugene Machabd reported that they were un-
able to agree, and recommended that the Sen
resolve passage. The Senate voted to adj
here.
Senator Mortland moved to reconsider the
vote by which the bill relating to poor debtors
examination and the oath Of the same was
passed to be engrossed. The Senator from
Knox favored and Senators Bisbee and Emery
opposed. The motion was lost on a yea and
nay vote-12 to IA.
The tax bill, assessed on basis of Al mills,
amounting to $1,063, 50991 for each of the
years 1881 and 1882, was reported and under a
suspension OF the rules was passed to be en-
crossed.
The special assignment, the railroad tax bill,
was called for. The question was on the adop-
ton of the amendment to exempt the Atlantic
& St. Lawrence railroad and its lessee, the
Grand Trunk, from the operation of the act.
President Locke, Senator Walker in the chair)
took the floor and supported these amendments
in an able speech, arguing that the charter
granted in 1916 exempted that corporation from
State taxation, and that it would be viola
ton OF good faith on the part of the State to
now impose tax on the road Senator Bisbee
opposed the amendment.
At IL m. the matter was laid aside to enable
the Senate to proceed to elect United States
Senator. The vote was by viva voce, and
William 2. Frye of Lewiston received % and
Richard A. Frye of Bethel votes The two
houses will meet in joint convention to-mor-
row at IL m. to hear the journals read and to
declare the result.
The railroad tax bill was again resumed and
Senators Beatty, Emery and Dingley opposed
the amendment. Senator Mortland moved an
amendment to the amendment so as to include
the Knox & Lincoln railroad in the exemption
which was lost. The vote on the original
amendment was then taken by yeas and nays
and resulted in its reflections to %. The
next question was upon the amendment to in
crease the amount to be returned to the towns
holding stock to Il per cent Senator Locke
favored and Senator Beatty opposed the
amendment, and on a yea and nay vote it was
rejected-3 to IS. The bill was then passed to
be engrossed.
PASSED TO BE ENGRossED.
Bill relating to the examination and oath of
poor debtors; to enable the city of Rockland to
fund its bonded debt; to incorporate the Amer
lean Bank of Hallowell; to incorporate the
Rockland Granite Bank of Rockland.
Adverse report was made on bill to amend
chap. GO, r. s., relating to divorce.
ATTENTION SESSION.
Bill explanatory of sec. %. chap. 247, laws
of 1880, relating to the sale of cider was passed
to be engrossed.
Majority report on apportionment of Sena-
tors and Representatives was accepted and re-
solve in accordance with the same passed.
The resolve proposing constitutional
amendment prohibiting the manufacture and
sale of Intoxicating liquors was reconsidered,
amended verbally and again passed, 10 toe.
Bill was passed to INCORPORATE the Carrabas
set Bank of North Arson.
Resolve allowing the removal of the battle
flags was indefinitely postponed-16 to 4.
Bill to amend the charter of the Kennebec
Telegraph and Telephone Company was pass
ed
Majority report of the Committee on the
Commonwealth was adoptee-16 to 8.
Bill extending the time for the constru ction
of the Augusta & Lewiston railroad four years
was passed.
Bill relating to partition fences was passe
in concurrence and the forcible entry and de-
tainer bill indefinitely postposed.
PASSED TO BE ENGRossED
Bill relating to inspection of lime; to pro-
tect bass in Winnegance creek in Phipsburg;
amended bill relating to the public schools Of
Portland; to incorporate the Wilton Mining
Co.; resolve in favor of the Penobscot Indians;
in favor of the Madawaska Training School:
railroad accidents; to incorporate the Maine
Pedagogical Society.
Mr. Hatch from the committee on ways and
means reported an act for the assessment of u
state tax for the year 1881, amounting to ST.
63,50991; also bill for the same for 1889,
amounting to 81 ,063, 509.91.
A bill was presented to amend chap 179,
Public Laws of 1880, regulating the fees of in
spectors of lime and lime casks, and their depu-
ties. Passed to be engrossed.
y,rrk,H% 30,
to chap. 233 Private and Special Laws of 1880,
Incorporating the Kennebec and Franklin
Telephone and Telegraph Co.; act to extend
the time for the location and completion of the
Lewiston and Augusta railroad.
Richie (Fusion) of Winterport presented
committee, asking Congress to enact general
railroad law.
The report of the military committee that
the use of the battle flags in the State House
be granted to the soldiers at their reunion next
SUMNER inner was VI rejected by vote Of 50 to 81
to the schools of Portland, and offered an
amendment, which was adopted and the bill
passed to be engrossed.
Freeman of Cherryfeld called up the bills to
incorporate the Wilton Mining Co. and the
Sullivan Waukeag Mining Co., and offered
bills passed to be engrossed.
Cook of Lewiston called up the bill for the
promotion of medical science.
The bill was favored by Eaton of Camden,
Staples of Parsonsfield and Hill of Rockland,
and opposed by Freeman of Lincolnville.
At this point the speaker announced that the
time had arrived for the election of U. S.
Senator to succeed James G. Blaine, and the
roll being called the members voted yiUd U0ce
upon the names of VIM. P. Frye and Richard
A. Frye as follows:
VIM P. Frye had. .................s..,, 80
Richard A. Frye had. .................... so
Consideration Of the medical bill being re-
sumed, it was favored by Morrill, of Augusta