The Portland daily press., 1881-01-19
HOUSE,.

Several petitions were presented aud refer
red praying for change OF the divorce laws;
also for the enactment of law to prohibit
smoking in public places; asking for the repeal
of the cide.' law of 1880; in relation to deciding
real estate to Calais National bank.
Mr.. Strout of Portland presented a bill all
act additional to chapter 275 of the private
and special laws of 1868, comforting certain
powers on the city OF Portland in relation 10
Evergreen Cemetery.
A bill was also presented to revive the
charter Of the Brownville and Sebec Railroad
Company.
Petitions were presented and referred asking
for school to be established at the expense OF
the State for the education of children who
paid to get an education in our common
schools; for legislation as to what shall constl-
tute inland of herring; for bounty on bears;
for bounty ON hawks; of w. S. Crane and
others asking to be set off from Prescott and
annexed to Whiting; for steam ferry across
Sullivan river; for an APPROPRIATION OF SlOOo
for Shir Pond road; in reference to pilotage
laws of He'll Gate, New York; an approprla-
ton for encampment of State militia; Tor
State pension to Alonzo NJ Bartlett; for build
ing wharves in tide waters of Hampton; OF
f. L. Farnham and others for aid in construc-
ton of bridge in Washburn; for charter
for Flood pond stream dam company; in favor
of supervisors or S. S. committees hiring
school teachers; for change of law in regard to
the hiring of teachers; for re-imb- rsement of
school fund of 1880 to select men of Washing
ton; for aid in repairing road from Alngheid
to Eustis; in reference to the employment OF
school teachers; in relation to State property
in New Sweden; for bounty on squirrels; to
prohibit the taking of mackerel with seines.
A bill was presented and referred to amend
the charter of the Aroostook River Railroad
Company; also bill to incorporate the Inland
Cottage Company.
Petitions were presented and referred for an
appropriation for Penobscot Indians; for max
ing cemeteries public; for charter OF eclectic
college; for punishment OF those who sell
poisonous vinegar; for amendment of insurance
law so as to require annual reports by In
surance Commissioner; of Francis p. Emerson
of York to have exclusive use of Burrei's
mill pond in York to stock with fish; to charter
Pleasant Cove Ice and Water Power Company;
Of e. Grant and others to be set OF from
Columbia to Cherryfeld; relating to jurisdc-
ton of trial justices in Dexter.
A bill was introduced by Mr.. Strout Of
Portland to incorporate the Portland u
Rochester Railroad.
An order was passed providing for COM
mittee consisting OF seven on the part OF the
Senate and one from each county on the part
of the House for the purpose of making new
arrangement of councillor districts for the
next decade.
Ordered that the judiciary committee in
quire into expediency of providing by enact
ment for adding one term of the S. j. Court
at Caribou in Aroostook county.
Eugene Hale was elected by UiUd Uoce 70 to
Unired States Senator, the vote standing Hale
So, Joseph L. Smith Ga.
A petition was presented for the repeal OF
the cider law OF 1880.
Mr.. Talbot (Fusion) of East Machias offered
the following:
Ordered, the Senate concurring, that the
committee on the judiciary be instructed to
inquire into the expediency of providing, as
far as practicable, by general laws, for all
matters usually appertaining to special or
private legislation.
Ordered, the Senate concurring, that the
several joint standing committees, be in
structed to report legislation inexpedent upon
all applications referred to them, whether by
bill, petition or otherwise, for special Or
private legislation, or for the formation of
corporations, except for municipal purposes,
and where the objects of such corporations
cannot be otherwise obtained.
Ss.The orders exciting discussion were tabled
Mr.. Strout of Portland offered the follow
ing:
Ordered, the Senate concurring, that the
joint standing committee on library be direc-
ted TO see what rules and legislation are neces-
sary for the better regulation and protection
of the State library, and report the same to
this legislature.
Mr.. Strout in submitting the order said that
he did not desire to be understood as making
any attack upon the present State librarian,
because he understood that that officer follow
ed substantially the same course that had been
in vogue in relation to the matter for years.
But he desired to call the attention of the
House to the fact that it was most i'm
portant matter. There was no general cata-
logue that covered the whole of the works.
Looseness had crept in regarding the books.
Books had become scattered. They were up
on the tables and upon the floor in piles, and
not in proper places.
The order was passed.
The Senate order relating to raising a cvm-
mittee to make new arrangement of the
councillor districts of the State for the next
decade, came from that branch.
Mr.. Talbot (Fusion) of East Machias, moved
to non-concur Lost by a vote OF 60 to 49,
The order was then passed in concurrence.
Senate order relating to a committee on
enumeration and apportionment of Senators
and Representatives was passed i'll concur
renee.
Mr.. Strout moved that the number to be adj.
ded to the committee Oh part OF the House be
sixteen.
An amendment to have the committee to
consist of one from each county was carried.
Senate order rela ing to committee to take
into consideration the apportionment Of the
State for members of Congress was passed in
concurrence.
On motion of Mr.. Wentworth, of Kittery, it
was voted that the committee on the part OF
the House on Congressional apportionment be
composed of sixteen.
On motion of Mr.. Dickey, of Fort Kent, it
was voted to take one from each county.