Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-02-06
MAINE LEGISLATURE
Senate.
THURSDAY, Feb. 9Th.

| the House.
Papers from the House disposed of in con-
| currence.
Order requesting the Committee on Maine
State Prison to furnish an itemized bill of
expenses attending their visit to the State
prison, came from the House, ami on motion
of Mr. Cutler the Senate non-concurred and
refused the order passage.
| The following petitions came from the
| House referred to committees under sus-
pension of the order relating to the recep-
ton of private legislation.
Petitions of j. N. Deering ct ais. relating
to dairying, referred to the Committee on Ag-
riculture; of Milton w. Burnham for State
bounty, referred to the Committee on Claims;
of Alexander Thompson ct ais of Mattawam-
keag for permission to light bridge in said
town, referred to the Committee on State
Lands and State Roads; of Rev. Charles
Seviron ct ais. for a bridge at Frenchville,
referred to the Committee on State Lands
On motion of Mr. Bearce the Senate nom
concurred in the action of the House on the
foregoing petitions, and refused to receive
| them.
On motion of Mr.. Heath.
| Ordered, That the Committee on Legal
Affairs be directed to inquire into the expedi-
ency of repeating So much of sec. 10, chap.
! 80 of the revised statutes, as provides for the
costs of referees.
| Mr.. Wescott, from the Committee on
Railroads, Telegraphs and Expresses, report
ed ought to pass on bill an act to make valid
the doings of the town of Scarboro, and rela-
tive to the railroad bridge over Dunston riv-
err; printed under rule.
Mr.. Kimball, from the same committee,
reported in new draft and ought to pass on
| bill an act to incorporate the Boston and
| Eynr4sS m
Bill an act to incorporate the Portsmouth
and Kittery Steam Ferry Co. was read the
second time, amended by striking out the
ninth section on motion of Mr.. Heath, and
passed to be engrossed.
Bill an act TO restore the salary of the
| County Attorney of Somerset County, and
bill an act relating to the compensation Of
the County Commissioners of Penobscot
County, came up on their passage to be en-
crossed. and were laid on the table on motion
of Mr.. Marble.
r. solve in favor of the Bath Military and
Naval Asylum came up on its first reading.
and was laid on the table on motion of Mr..
Simonton.
READ AND ASSIGNED.
Resolve in aid of dredging breakwater
at head of Damarscotta Lake, in the county
of Lincoln; resolve in favor of j. Albert
Hurd; resolve making an appropriation for
repairs on roads in Indian Township, Wash
ington county an act additional to the char
ter of the city of Portland, in relation to a
board Of health; an act relating to the COM
pensatiou of the county commissioners of
| Washington county an act to incorporate the
Portsmouth and Kittery Steam Ferry Co an
act relating to the compensation of the County
Commissioners for Oxford county.
PASSED TO BE ENGRossED.
An act to authorize the Lewiston Steam
Mill Co. to increase it. capital stock; an act
to amend sec. II, chap. 40 OF the revised
statutes relating to migratory fish; an act
amendatory to an act relating to the schools
in the city of Portland, approved March 18th
1881.
PASSED TO BE ENACTED.
An act to amend an act to incorporate the
Passadumkeag Log Driving Co. an act adj
ditional to chap. IS of the private and special
laws Of 1866; an act creating the South Paris
| Village Corporation; an act to change the
time of holding the terms Of the Supreme
Judicial Court in Oxford county an act addi-
tonal to and amendatory of an act to incor-
porate the Cedar Brook and Swift Cambridge
River improvement Co an act to change
the name of Annie Dyer; an act additional to
and amendatory of chap. $40 of the private
and special laws of 1877, entitled an act to
incorporate the Bryants Pond and Dover
Telegraph Co.
Mr.. Simonton laid on the table the petitions
of j F. Hosmer and 81 others, and J A.
Clark and Is others, for increase of salary of
Register and Judge of Probate of Knox coun-
ty
The Senate resumed consideration of the
bill to establish an Agricultural Experiment
| at no Of
adjournment yesterday.
Mr.. Lebroke resumed his remarks in favor
of the measure, and recapitulated the
points over which he had gone yesterday
Americans are an energetic, rapidly moving
class of men. In the hurry of business and
money making, we draw many of our ideas
from institutions of Europe. In our State
college, in the matter of iron and wood work
we have adopted what is known as the Rus
sian system. Why is it that England, Ger
many, the Scandinavian Peninsula and Rus
STA. have these fertilizer control stations !?
1t is because they live adjacent to those
countries which have been devastated and
depopulated by these terrible famines
which followed their course of impoverishing
the soil, and Europe has begun the task of
at least staying the evil, if not wholly repair
ing it. They have the very best system of
agricultural experiments. and they have been
driven to adopt it by the alarm raised in the
East. 1t is matter which the world il con-
sidering to-day. 1t is the very foundation of
the sustenance of the human family. To
maintain our soil at its present state of fer
tility for the sustenance of the human family
is one of the most important subjects which
can be considered, and requires the broadcast
kind of craftsmanship He argued that sci
entifc agricultural experiments are of great
value in arresting this retrograde movement
aud in restoring the soil to its normal condi-
ton. No private individual with his own
means can successfully make these expert
ments. The farmers must have the advan-
tage of experiments by scientific men who
have the advantages that science can give 1t
had been sand that Connecticut expended
S25, 900 for building. In this case no new
building would be necessary The institution
would be located at the State College of Ag-
rculture. where there are ample facilities for
the work. 1t had also been remarked by the
Senator from Lincoln Mr.. Marble that
distinguished agriculturist had said that it
would take ten years to develop and estab-
lish one new principle in agriculture. 1t
might be so. But it is not the new principles
that have just been wrought out that are to
benefit mankind Immediately, but the explain
alton and bringing home to the mind of every
man in this country those principles that
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