Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-02-15


l04 of the public laws of 1879. relating to
the taking of togue and trout in Great Tunk
pond: an act to authorize the inhabitants of
the town of Wells to construct a bridge
across tide waters of Ogunquit river; an act
to annex part of the town of Brooks to the
town of Monroe, and to establish the boun-
dairy line between said towns; an
act TO confer upon sheriffs, deputy
sherffs, police officers and constables,
powers of game wardens ard their deputies !;
an act to amend chap 81 of the revised stat
utes relating TO mills and their repairs; an
act additional to chap. 80 of the revised stat
utes concerning mills and mill dams; an act
to incorporate the Deer Isle Zinc & Silver
Mining Co.; an act to repeal an act entitled
an act 10 incorporate the town of Lexington;
resolve in favor of the Joint Standing Com
mittee on Military Affairs under suspension
of the rules resolve in favor of the Joint
Standing Committee on the State College of
Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts; resolve
making appropriations for the Passamaquoddy
tribe of Indians for the years 1888 and 1884 re
solve relating to the valuation of the north
and south halves of No. North Division in
the county of Penobscot and taxes thereon.
PASSED TO BE ENACTED.
An act concerning Samuel Byron Chad
poutH, u uSdA an act ~
preparation and issuing of the annual report
of the State Superintendent of Com
mon Schools; an act TO incorporate
the Passadumkeag Log Driving Company ;
an act to incorporate the Madawaska Agri-
cultural and Horticultural Society; an act re-
lating TO fines and penalties recovered for
violation of fish and game laws; an act to
amend chap. l52 OF the special laws of 1881 !;
an act TO authorize Amasa Howe to erect
piers and booms in the Aroostook river at TT.
Fairfield in Aroostook county an act to grant
special powers to District No. IA in the town
of China; an act to ratify the con
tract between the Eastern and Portland
Saco and Portsmouth Railroad Cos. dated
May 4ih. 1871, and all contracts additional
and supplemental thereto
FINALLY PASSED.
Resolve to correct certain clerical errors
in the State valuation; resolve authorizing
the Sullivan Mining Co. TO mine under Sulli-
van river; resolve in favor of Aurin Dresser
& Co.
On motion of Mr.. Talbot of East Machias
bill an act additional to chap. 81 of the public
laws of 1881 relating to taxation of railroad
companies was taken up and recommitted to
the Committee on Railroads.
On motion of Mr.. Donovan of Biddeford.
bill an act to amend chap. PA sec. 3 of the
public laws of 1880 was taken up and re-
committed to the committee.
On motion of Mr.. Spear of Hallowell, bill
an act to incorporate the Carrabasset Land
and Lumber Co. was taken from the table
and passed to be engrossed.
On motion of Mr.. Rogers of Bath, bill an
act to authorize the sale or lease of the Knox
and Lincoln railroad was taken up, and that
1.
Amendment b with other amendments,
was adopted on motion of the same gentle
man, and the bill was passed to be engrossed.
On motion of Mr.. Heath of Augusta the
House resumed consideration of the bill to
apportion the State for representatives, to
congress. the pending question being on the
motion to recommit.
Mr.. Bearce of Norway took the floor and
replied to the gentleman from Augusta Mr..
Haynes The motion to commit had been
made for the purpose of fair discussion of
the different plans and some compromise.
The suggestion that such course would re-
tard legislation would not deter him from
acting in accordance with his duty as he IN
derstood it. He had always been a republi-
can and had acted with that party because it
professed the great principle of exact and
equal Justice to all men. But in this discus
sion ne had learned for the first time that
that party was in such stress that it could not
confidently submit its fate to the people upon
its record and its platform; that it was nee
essary to manipulate, cheat aud steal to keep
an honest party in power. He reminded the
gentleman from Augusta Mr.. Haynes that
much which he claimed for Kennebec existed
only by the bounty and votes of the tax pay
ers of the whole State.
Mr.. Powers of Houlton tolowe ed in further
opposition to the report While he did not
intend in any remarks that he might make,
or had made, to reflect upon the honorable
presiding officer, and while he admired the
eloquence with which that gentleman had
closed his remarks yesterday, yet there were
some sentiments advanced with which he
could not agree. He could not take the SEN
timents of newspaper articles and the opin-
ions of federal office holders as his guide.
when they conflicted with the plain
dictates of the law, that contiguous territory
and population shall be the rule. The
gentleman MIR. Haynes had alluded to
Aroostook county As receiving aid from the
State. She had received sucl, aid, while the
State was drawing thousands of dollars into
its treasury from the stumpage cut on public
lands. He believed those appropriations had
been wisely and judiciously made. 1t was
also true that his county could not boast of
the long line of illustrious names that
Kennebec could, but he did not forget that in
the dark days Of the past when the conscript-
ing officer was in every town and hamlet.
Aroostook sent forth her men in droves to
aid her flag and her country, and that no
county in the State began to send 80 many
many men in proportion to its population.
And if that county had received some appro-
priations for bridges, it had no share in
''paper credits"
file then proceeded in reply to some propo-
sitions advanced in arguments made in favor
of the bill, and in closing warned gentlemen
that although through the influence brought
to bear the measure might be pressed, though
vet in the not far distant future the words of
the poet might become true, that
Truth crushed to earth will rise again; 4
The eternal years OF God are hers"
Mr.. Ives of Castine favored the Spofford
amendment, and argued against severing the
connection between the counties of Hancock
and Washington. This was the preference
of his constituents, not because they loved
and esteemed Somerset less, but because they
loved Washington better
Mr.. Hamlin of Bangor stood by the report
of the committee. Although a strict adher-
ence to the law had been invoked by the OPP
ponents of the bill. not one of them pretend
ed that the rule could be literally followed
and when they invoked the question of wealth
they themselves departed from it, The main
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