Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-02-01
report such recommendation. a. may seem
fitting in the premises to this LEGISLATURE
Rr.D AND ASSIGNED

uttluS III eiS FAN@NAS~@ -
READ AND ASSIGNED
Bill an act to increase the capital stock OF
the Auburn Aqueduct Go.
Mr. KEEGAy of Van Buren, suomttcu 'he
following: a..
Ordered. The Senate concurrlng' that
committees be instructed to report hnaiiy on
=, hefor,. Tuesday, the 18th day of February
next
Mr.. SrRorr. of Portland, opposed the pas
sage of this order. He did not imagine thar
any member. having the honor to serve ms
constituency for $50 per year. desired 10
amend apy more time here than was actually
necessary to do the public business, ana ne
believed the work would be done as rapidly
AS il could be- But he did not think 1t well.
at this early stage of the session, TO Vex com
mittees with such orders when some Of them
were overburdened with work. because 1t IN
duced undue haste. He was certain that all
of the committees were doing the best they
could. and he moved to table the order
Mr.. KEEGAx. of Van Buren,, said the legls-
latare had been in session month, and ao-
solu,ely nothing had been done. He hap
pened te be on the tail end of a committee
and knew enough of what was going on TO
know tina, committees could be relieved of a
large amount of their labors by transferring
some of their business His committee was
nor driven by work He did not think II
would be claimed that any thing had been
done here but loaf and he submitted that
il was time something was done Ii the gem
tleman from Portland. Mr. Stroutl would
ONLY set his committee, the Judiciary at
work, by the 18th of February pretty large
yrist of business could be ground out, and
then about the Goth. final adjournment
would be reached.
Mr.. HUTCHINSON of ItOulton advocated the
order The time for the reception of legls-
lation had about expired. ard il the measure
received passage fifteen days would be left
in which committees could make their final
reports He contended that not enough of
the time had been devoted to work, and
thought the order instead of tending to hasty
and iniudcous legislation, would bring
members down to real business, which would
enable the committee to dispose of all work
before them BY the time indicated in the or
der.
Mr.. SrRour of Portland spoke of the
large amount of business before the Judiciary
Committee and the number and length of the
sessions held to dispose Of it. If the House
directed his committee absolutely to report in
fifteen DAYS it would do it if possible: but he
hoped peremptory order like this would not
receive passage. The legislature had not
been idle. 1t had taken some time to get un-
der way as in the case of all legislative bodies.
He had no doubt that the committees were do
ing the best they could. 1t was not mat.
ter about which he had any feeling: but il
was an unusual course to take at this stage
of the session and he could see no reason for
il.
Mr. KEEGAN claimed that by the introduce
ton of the order he was following the absolute
custom, and that the committees were or
dinarily instructed to report finally on or be-
fore Feb. 10th He claimed that while those
living in the remote portions of the State re-
NAMED to do the work of the session; those
residing near to the capital. and on the line
of railroads were enabled to return home &c
attend to their business, and the consequence
was. that those left had the fun of loafing
about with nothing TO do.
Mr.. FREEMAN. of Cherryfield, said one gen,
tleman at any rate from Washington county
had not been home, and did not intend to &c
until final adjournment. If, as stated, nc
work had been done by the committees. il
was time some was done, and it was impor,
tant that they should have time in which to
do it. The Committees on Legal Affairs mad
large amount of business before it, and
still it accumulated rapidly despite the efforts
of the committee to reduce the docket. There
was a good deal to be done by most of the
committees. He did not care what orders
were introduced to spur them up. and to re-
quire them to devote more of their time to
the consideration of important matters before
them; still, he thought there should be nc
haste in passing such measure, especially
when there were so many vacant seats.
Mr.. DICKEY of FIT Kent did not care wheth.
err the order passed or not. Itdid not amount
to anything and never had in the past As
much time as was required to do the business
would be taken. and he did not believe the
legislature would go home until the work was
done. 1t was ususal to introduce such ar or
der as this: but it seemed to him that before
time for final adjournment was
fxed-for this amounted to that.-the
report of the valuation commission should
he made. He saw no prospect OF
getting that report very soon. He did not
believe it would be made AS long as the COM
mission could find a good house to sit in.
But he understood that they would be obliged
to vacate the court house. as the court would
sit tomorrow, and they would be out doors
unless they could hire church somewhere.
1t did not matter whether the order passed
or not. His impression was that it had bet
ter he laid on the table.
On the motion to table the yeas and navs
were ordered and taken. as follows:
YEAS. Messrs. Berry. Blanchard. Cook, Crosby
Of Norridgewock: Dickey. Doore. Flint, Freeman
Of Cherryfeld. Harris. Heath, Kendall, Kennison
Ieavitt, Libby, Mallett, Mckusick Morrill, Nickeis
furnton. Rowell. Thatcher, Thompson. Trufani
Wentworth of Gardiner, Wilder Wyman.-26.
NAYS. Messr-. Allen, Averili. Bartlett. Benner
Bradstreet of Palermo. Bragdon. Bragg. Buck
Chadbourne. Crosby OF Whiting. Cummings
Freeman of Lnconville, Gilbert, Goodale, Good
win Of Hudson. Harding. Haskell. Hatch, Hopkin.
Marston, Mcclellan, Means Nickerson of Linneus
Nutter. Rove, Seavey, Smith of Buxton. Staples