Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-02-19
t.nts of school district No. in the town of

Kennebunk; read and assigned.
Mr.. Smith, from the Committee on Interior
| Waters, reported leave to withdraw on petit
ton of the York County Fish and Game
Society and l40 Others, for law to prohibit
the throwing of sawdust, coal oil and other
refuse poisonous to fish into rivers and
streams. Also, reported ought to pass on
bill an act to prevent the throwing of saw
dust and other refuse into the Meduxnekeag
stream, and bill an act to incorporate the
Peoples Ferry Co. printed under rule.
Mr.. Lebroke, from the Committee on the
Judiciary. on petition, reported resolve in
favor of schools in Bowerbank, an unincor-
porated place in the county of Piscataquis |;
printed under rule.
Mr. Heath. from the Committee on Fish
cries and Game. reported ought to pass on
bill an act to amend sec. 81. chap 30 of the
revised statutes relating to game birds; print
ed under rule.
Mr. Kimball, from the same Committee.
reported in a new draft and ought to pass on
bill an act for the protection of bass in Win
negance stream; read and assigned.
MIR. Libbey. from the Committee on Finan-
cal Affairs, reported ought to pass on resolve
to correct certain clerical errors in the State
valuation; printed under rule.
| READ AND ASSIGNED.
| An ACT Ill TeldtiOU u tHe Unlou w dttT
Power Co. of Lewiston; an act to amend an
act entitled an act to incorporate the Shirley
Dam Co.. approved March 6, 1885 GHouse
amendment adopted; an act to amend and
revise the charter of the city of Rockland; an
act to amend chap. 279 Of the special laws of
1888, entitled an act to amend and make valid
the organization of the Bodwell Water Power
| Co., and forother purposes. House amend
| ment adopted an act to make valid the acts
of the inhabitants of Dallas plantation in
plantation meeting in 1884, an act authOriz-
ing the extension of the Bangor and Katahdin
Iron Works Railway an act to repeal an act
entitled an act to incorporate the town of
kingsbury an act to incorporate the Phillips
Water Co. an act to incorporate the Eastern
Maine ( tate Fair; an act to incorporate the
Ellis River Improvement &c. an act to amend
sec. 100 of chap. Al of the revised statutes
relating to banks and banking.
PASSED TO BE ENGRossED.
An act to amend sec. IL of chap. of the
revised statutes, relating to the election of
selectmen; an act to repeal an act entitled an
act to incorporate the town of Lexington 4;
an act to extend the time of the Monson
Hotel Co. to navigate Lake Hebron.
PASSED TO BE ENACTED.
| All ACT 10 make VallQ the acts OF the
First Congregational Society of Sumner.
On motion of Mr.. Heath, bill an act to reg
ulate the compensation of the County Com
missioners of Oxford county was taken from
the table and on motion of Mr. Bearce it was
recommitted to the Oxford county delegation.
On motion of Mr.. Heath, resolve in favor
of the Maine Industrial School for Girls was
taken from the table. The bill was then read
and tomorrow was assigned for its second
reading.
| Resolve authorizing the Governor and
c uncil to assist in entertaining the National
Encampment of the Grand Army of the Re-
public and their distinguished guests came up
by special assignment, the question being on
its passage to be engrossed.
Mr.. Heath said his object in having the
resolve laid on the table was to gain further
Information with reference to the matter, and
he called upon the Senator having charge of
the subject to state whether there were any
additional facts to those contained in the
statement of facts accompanying the resolve
Mr. Nickerson said he knew of no facts
additional to those accompanying the resolve.
He thought the statement of facts contained
all the information necessary.
Mr.. Heath said he had tried to find some
reason why he should vote for the measure
and had been in hopes some further light
would be given so that he might be satisfied
that the proposed appropriation was proper
expenditure of public money.
| Mr. SimOntOn said | esteem it a high
privilege to give my voice and my vote in
favor of this resolve In the other branch of
the legislature the question was asked whether
it is constitutional to m Ike such an appropri-
alton of the money of the State. Has the
constitutionality ever been questioned of APP
preparations tor the celebration of the Fourth
Of July, that great day set apart in memory of
those noble men who pledged their lives,
Their fortunes and their sacred honor for the
establishment of our independence from the
mother country. Has any one ever questioned
the constitutionality of setting apart in mem
orv of our fallen heroes the Both of May as a
holiday, thereby taking from our business
life labor worth as capital hundreds of thou
sands of dollars every year? Has any one
ever questioned the cOnstitutionality of the
legislature authorizing cities and towns to
erect those beautiful monuments which,
like that on yonder park, will speak
to us and our children, of the noble
daring and heroic death of those who
fell in defense of their country? No;
our thoughts are not this morning of the
technicalities of law; we rise to grander and
nobler CONCENTRATIONS. We are thinking of
blood and sufferings of our soldiers, of whom
the Grand Army of the Republic are the sur
vivors and representatives. We think of
our great General than whom no greater mil
itary genius has arisen in modern if in
ancient times, Ulysses s. Grant. use the
word genius advisedly; for, if Cyrus the
Great displayed genius in the massing of
armies, in the subordinating of men and gov
ernments TO the control of his one mind; if
Napoleon displayed genius when he had con-
troll of the great men, the great marshals, the
great governments, while making his grand
conquests in Egypt and throughout continent
tai Europe. then Grant, who from the time
he took chief command of the armies of the
north subordnating president, cabinet, con-
gress and the great generals of
the war, like Sherman, Sheridan
and others, so that ali the movements of the
great divisions of our armies were under the
guidance and control of his single will till he
brought us to victory at Appomattox dis
played military genius of no ordnarv charac-
ter Whether some envious souls at Wash
inton will admit it or not. the world has rec
ognized Ulysses. S. Grant as our great
military genius. But however great our
Captain may have been, the Union could not
have been restored, the glorious old flag with
its sacred associations of a century could not
have waved again in triumph and peace over
| a land ''drenchad in fratcrnal blood" had il