The Portland daily press., 1881-02-25

minis raf0T5 and executors shall nave been
cited to appear and settle accounts
The committee printing and binding
port contracts with Sprague & Son for the
printing and with Smith q REID for the bind
ing.
Adverse reports were made on order that in
Surance companies be required, in case of loss,
to pay the full amount of the policy; on order
relating to salaries in the office Of Superinten-
dent of Public Schools; on order comforting on
the fish commits oners the power and duty over
all matters pertaining to game
At the expiration of the morning hour the
bill limiting the appropriation for use of the
militia to $4,000 came up as unfinished bust
ness, the question being the adoption of the
amendment offered yesterday by Senator Hill
to limit the amount to $4,000. The bill was
discussed at length by Senators Hill, Fernald,
Mortland, Walker, Pattangall and Emery.
enator Mortland moved to amend by making
the amount $4,000, but afterwards withdrew
his motion. The vote on Senator Hills amend
ment was taken by yeas and nays and resulted
in its rejection-7 to 10.
Bill relating to travel and attendance of
parties in court was taken up and discussed by
Senators Mortland, Emery and Walker, and
passed to be engrossed.
Bill abating tax on the st. Croix Railroad
was taken from the table, discussed and again
tabled without final action.
PASSED TO BE ENGRossED.
Bill to incorporate the Boothbay Telegraph
Company; to amend chap. 1893, laws of 1874,
relating to clerks of judicial clerks; to amend
chap. IS, Il. s., relating to inspection and sale
OF agricultural productions.
Bill giving r. X. Benner ct ais. authority to
build wharf in Bremen was indefinitely
postponed pending its passage to be engrossed.
Senator Walker presented bill to extend
the charter of the Augusta & Lewiston Rail-
road four years.
The House refused to recommit the North
ern Aroostook railroad bill to the Railroad
Committee.
Bill to Increase the tolls Of the Namakanta
Dam Co. was tabled, on motion of Mr.. Verrill,
for the purpose of amendment.
Mr.. Bird of Rockland presented bill an act
to amend sec. of the public laws of 1876, re-
lating to the taxation of insurance companies.
Mr.. McKusick presented the following,
which was read twice and passed to be en-
Resolved, That the Treasurer of State be
directed to pay L. T. Staples, chairman of the
special committee of the House appointed Feb.
4, A. ID. 1881, Ito investigate criminal charges
against Thomas B. SWAMI S79.89, the same be-
said investigation.
Ordered, That the Committee on Education
be directed to inquire what legislation, if any,
is necessary for the protection of persons liable
to school district taxation in districts where
they do not reside.
Ordered, That the clerk of the House be in
structed to provide for the use of the House
fifteen hundred additional copies of the re-
port of the Valuation Commission and two
hundred for the use of the commission.
Ought to pass was reported on bill an act to
repeal chap. 453 of the laws of 1866, entitled an
act to increase the tolls of the Baskahegan
Dam Co on bill to improve the channel of
Magalloway river and facilitate the driving of
logs and other lumber
A resolve was reported in aid of bridge in
the town Of Monticello.
Adverse reports were made on order relating
to pay and mileage of county commissioners:
to amend chap. g. public laws of 1872; for
privileges granted to the Saco and Biddeford
Gaslight Co. to be extended thirty years.
A bill was reported to establish the salaries
of the Judge and Register of Probate for the
county of York, fixing the salary of the former
at $500 and the latter at $3.50. Ordered print
ed.
The Committee on Federal Relations re-
ported that the several petitions praying for an
appropriation in aid of building certain bridges
across the St John river at Van Buren, and
Grand Falls in Aroostook county be referred
to the next Legislature, as the same subjec
matter is now pending in the Congress OF the
United States. Report accepted
Adverse reports were made ON bill to enable
the Cumberland & Oxford Canal corporatio"
to dispose OF its property; on petition of in
habitants of Oakfeld plantation for an appro-
priation to repair in part the damage caused
by hail storm; on petition for aid to citizens
of Dyer Brook plantation.
Bill an act establishing the salary of the
clerk of the judicial courts of York county at
$3.50 per annum, pending its passage to be en-
crossed, was tabled on motion of Mr. Staples
of Parsonsfeld.
Petitions were presented and referred for a
cons itutional amendment forever prohibiting
the manufacture and sale of intoxicating Ii
quOrs
Mr.. Strout presented bill an act to amend
chap. "a OF. the Revised Statutes.
A petition was presented from E. W. Whit
temore and others, asking that an act be passed
granting to the respondent in all criminal cases
the right to the closing argument.
Minority report from the Committee on
Fisheries, reporting bill regulating the mack
eral fishery on the coast of Maine, was taken
up, the question being on its substitution for
that of the majority report giving petitioners
leave to withdraw.
Messrs. Torrey of Surry ,Benner of Waldob y
70, Eaton of Camden, Mcclellan of So. Thorn
aston, favored the minority report, and Messrs.
Thatcher of Bangor, Strout OF Portland, Fish
er of Boothbay and Webb of Deer Isle spoke
in opposition.
The minority report was substituted by a
vote of 70 in favor and % opposed. The bill
was then read twice and assigned for to-mor-
row.
The communication from the State Valua-
tion Commissioners was referred to the Valua-
ton Committee.