The Portland daily press., 1885-02-14
The Resolve ApprOprlatiBg $4,000
for the National G. A. r. Encamp.
ment Passes the House.
Eloquent Speech of Gen. Mat
tocks IN Favor of the Meas
Resolve to Encourage Cooperative
Butter Associations.
Bill TO Incorporate the Eastern Maine
State Fair.
Special to the Press.)

| adopting the amendment which provides that
the institution at Portland for the deaf shall
receive annually $500 instead Of $175 as now
received under the present law, and then gave
the bill passage,
| COOPERATIVE BUTTER ASSOCIATIONS.
A resolve was introduced providing that
$1,000 be appropriated for each of the years
| 1886, to be expended equally in each county
where cooperative butter association or fac
tory shall be established, and that the board Of
agriculture shall see that the money is justly
expended.
AMENDMENT TO THE DIVORCE LAW.
The object Of Senator Coles order of inquiry
is to have the divorce law amended so that
neither party shall marry again within two
years after the entry of the fnal decree except
on permission OF the court.
| EASTERN MAINE STATE FAIR.
The bill that was reported in the House in
cooperating the Eastern Maine State Fair, pro-
| vides that the capital stock shall not exceed
| $4,000 in real estate, with improvements, etc.
and $4,000 worth of personal property. The
names of the ,corporators ara j. P. Bass, F. o.
Beal, Ezra i. Stearns, E. B. Nealley, A. L.
Simpson, George w. Kicker, Henry McLaugh-
lin, j. D. Henderson, John Morrison, e. e.
| Parkhurst, b. A. Burr, Geo. r. Lsecaster,
R. W. Murch, Thomas Henry Benjamin Hill
ton, S. G. Hatch, James w. North, L. j.
Morse, f. A. Wilson. L. Powers, a. H. Fogg
]. S. Wheelwrigh t, Edward Connors James
Tobin, j. t. Rines, Eugens Hale, II. Hanlin
aud f. W. Carr
oLEOMARGARINE.
| The bill reported amending the law relating
to oleomargsrine provides for penalty OF
| 500 for tho first offence and 5000 for second
offence for selling compounds in imitation OF
butter and cheese.
PROTECTION OF LOBSTER TRAPS.
The bill reported for the protection of lob
ster traps provides for penalty OF not less
than $40, nor more than $50. provided thst no
| action under the act shall ba maintained unless
name OF the owner OF traps shall be carved Oh
branded in legible letters, not loss than three
fOurths Of an inch on all huoys connected
with traps.
CAPE ELIZABETH RAILROAD COMPANY.
The act smendatory OF and additional to
chapter sixty, special laws of 1881, relating to
Cape Elizabeth railroad company is as fol-
| lows:
Sec. 1.-The time named in section six of an act
to incorporate the Cape Elizabeth Railroad Compa-
ny, approved February "a, 1881, within which said
act shall be accepted and ten per cent. of the CAPT
tai stock paid in shall be and is hereby extended
for further period of four years from and after the
date of the approval of this act.
| Sec. "A further timo of four years from and
after the approval of this act is hereby conceded
| and granted to the Cape Elizabeth Railroad Compa
NY Incorporated under the provisions OF chapter so
OF private and special laws of 1881, within which
to complete its line of railroad and the provisions
OF said act except far modified by this act are
| hereby revived and continued in forces
| APPROPRIATIONS FOR NORMAL SCHOOLS.
! Mr.. Libby of Penobscot introduced a re-
| solve in favor sof the State Normal Schools.
For the repairs and improvements Of build
| ings and grounds OF the three normal schools
| established and maintained by the State there
shall be appropriated $4,000 for 1885 and
| like sum of 1886, the same to be expended IN
| der the direction Of the trustees of normal
| schools
NATIONAL ENcAMPMENT, G. A. II.
The resolve appsopristing $4,000 to the
| Grand Army boys in entertaining the Nation
al Encampment went through the House
swimmihgly and will also pass the Senate to-
morrow from present indications. Capt. Thicker
| of Wiscassot, was tbs only member who op-
| posed its Passage in the House, and he based
/ LIS OpEDelt1OA OA bu0 EIOAAA tunb bG5 OtdU0
could not afford to make the appropriation
because of the heavy financial burdens that
now oppress the people.
DR.. Thayer of Waterville, made brief, ap-
| propriate speech in Its support. Maj Diekey
of Fort Kent, the Democratic patriarch, who
had two sons in the war. also favored it and
said, "Let the boys have a good tlme.''
The speech of the occasion was made by Gen.
Mattocks OF Portland. It was not only an
able production, but one of such thrilling ell
| oquence that members we're fairly electrified
| aud unable to control their patriotic impulses
| It drew forth rounds of applause and
when he had finished he was warmly con-
! gyatulatsd for his effort:
| Gen. Mattocks said:
| GEN. MATTocK's SPEECH.
Mr.. Speaker:-If this resolve has no prece-
dent to gustain it, it is proper To at it should be
| thoroughly considered to ascertain
| whether, without precedent, reason may
| justify it. am, l thiak, authorized TO
State in behalf of these petitioners that this
| Request would never have been made to this
Fsgisaturs had the petitioners supposed there
| would have been an objection raised against
| it upon the floor OF this House. II
| have any constituents who object to this re-
solve, have yet to meet them. The petitions
|
| this State upon sea and land during tie war of
the rebellion, and L wish to call your atten-
tion, and the attention OF your constituents,
and particularly OF the constituents of the gen.
tlenlan from Wiscassett (Mr. Tucker) to the
fact that during the period of twenty years
which have elapsed since the close of that
war, this is the first time the soldiers of Maine,
either individually or collectively, have como
here TO ask for appropriation.
This State sent 30 the war nearly 10000 sol
diers and sailors, larger number than the
majority vote of either political party up to
the date of the end OF the war. Of those
10000 soldiers, more than 5000 died before the
| close of the war, and more than 5000 were dis
charged from the service on account Of disabili-
ties before the close Of hostilities. Nearly
$4,000 men were killed or died from wounds or
disease, or were discharged crippled in limb or
| shattered in health. Even the Soldiers Orphan
Asylum at Bath was not called for by the re-
| turned soldiers, but the resolve establishing
| that institution was recommended by dis.
| tingui5hed Governor OF this State upon the
ground that the least We could do for the
| orphan children of our soldiers was to provide
home to which they might be sent. It has
been charged that certain of the returned
soldiers had been in receipt Of pensions from
the State OF Maine, but find, upon exanaina.
ton, that this State pension was the result of a
recommendation of Gov Cony, who also sug.
| gested that the granting Of pensions to dis
abled soldiers would prevent many who had
borne arms for this State becoming paupsr
charges wherein they resided. Even this
granting was allowed partly TO save the OK.
pense Of supporting those who otherwise might
become paupers, the Stale feeling that il
would be disgrace to have those brave mer
who served in the war receive aid in the
form Of pauper supplies.
The association under whose auspices tn i:
entertanment-for We will designate it by Its
true name-is to be given-is one which wal
the natural outgroWth OF the friendships and
associations OF the war, and was established
for the purpose of extending charity when
needed to the returned soldiers, their widows
: and orphans, an association which has dis
pensed since its organization more than $500,
600 in charity in the United States and has
paid ont in the State of Maine alone during
the past nine years more than 600 in aid
ing the widows and orphans of soldiers and
the soldiers themselves, when needy, many oi
whom would have undoubtedly been charge
| nnnn tho 1nnhlic had fhau mi received tltil