Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-02-11

fishing Superior Court in the county OF
Aroostook; printed under rule. Also, or
petition, reported bill an act to authorize the
Lewiston and Auburn Horse Railroad Co., to
make loan; read and assigned.
| Mr.. Goodwin, from the Committee on State
Lands and State Roads, on petition, reported
resolve in favor of Samuel H. Blake, Lew.
ellyn Powers and Elisha w. Shaw; printed
under rule.
| Mr.. Gilbert, from the Committee on In
terror Waters, reported legislation inexpedi-
ent on order relating to petition of Hodgdon
& Hall ct ais. for amendment to charter of
the Bodwell Water Power Co. Also, reported
ought to pass on bill an act to amend chap.
279 of the special laws of 1888, entitled All
act to make valid the organization of the
Bodwell Water Power Co., and for other
purposes; read and assigned.
| Mr.. Randall, from the Committee on In.
terror Waters, reported reference to the Com
mittee on Fisheries and Game, on petition of
L. w. Marshall and 65 others of Auburn FIR
legislation to prevent the taking of fish in
Taylor pond in said city for five years.
Mr. Burril from the Committee on Mr.
| camille Affairs, reported leave to Withdraw
| on petition of Charles Thompson, relating t ,
valuation of insured buildings.
| Senate document No. IAN act to estab-
fish an agricultural experiment station, came
up on its passage to be engrossed and was
tabled on motion of Mr.. Ames of Portland,
in order to allow that gentleman opportunity
to offer an amendment.
Senate document No. 26-An act to incor-
porate the Portsmouth and Kittery Steam
Ferry Co., came up on its passage to be en-
crossed. and on motion of Mr.. Dickey of Fl
Eor, knI~l oI E.:I
for its consideration.
| READ AND ASSIGNED.
An act to amend sec. l and 4, chap. 81 of
| the private and special laws of 1878, entitled
an act to incorporate the PresumpscOt Water
| Power Co.; an act to amend chap. 204 of the
special laws of 1883 entitled an act to estab-
| fish municipal court in the town of West
brook an act to make valid the acts of the
First Congregational Society of Sumner; an
act to incorporate the Boston & Maine Ex-
press Co.
PASSED TO BE ENGRossED.
| An act to amend sec. chap. "a of the re-
vised statutes of 1888 an act to amend sec
ID chap. ZIG of the revised statutes an act
to amend sec. l27 chap. IL of the revised
statutes, relating to schools for the deaf
FINALLY PASSED.
| Resolve in favor of J. Albert Hurd
The matter of the contract for State print
| ing came up by special assignment.
| Mr.. Scribner of Patten said:
| Mr.. Speaker-I have taken considerabl e
psins to investigate this matter, and | believe
l have done so thoroughly. and | have come
to the conclusion that the action of the Com
! mittee should be sustained The amount
mentioned the other day as the amount which
| might be saved, l fiud to be more than double
the amount which can actually be saved the
best way it can be figured, and that, think,
in view of all the facts and circumstances, is
only an apparent saving, and not an actual
one, and l would therefore move that the
matter be put upon its passage.
The House then voted to approve the con-
tract in concurrence with the Senate.
The matter relative to the House order in
PRODUCED by Mr. COBB of Minot, requesting
the joint standing commute on State Prison
to furnish an itemized bill of their expenses
on their recent visit to and inspection of that
| institution came up by special assignment.
| Mr.. Cobb of Minot said that when the
resolve in favor of the committee was pre-.
| sented on the 4th inst, he being Young
member, looked at the matter differently,
perhaps, from some of the older ones That
he had considered the bill an exorbitant one
and he understood that by rule of the
House, a statement of facts should accompa-
ny such resolves, and he had introduced the
order requesting the committee to furnish an
itemized bill, as he thought he ought to do
The order passed the House and went to the
Senate, where it was refused passage, and
where, he understood, it was characterized as
something unprecedented. Mr.. Cobb said
| IL l. l.
casting any reflections upon the committee.
He presumed the bill would be paid; his &C
ton was for the purpose of preventing the
presentation of such large bills in the future.
He said that it was currently reported, before
| the bill came in, that the party visiting the
State Prison numbered twentv-six, and he
| understood that the other committees in visit
| ing the different institutions in the State. had
complied strictly with the law in limiting
their number to ten. He had heard upon
! good authority that the committee were act
| ing under an order introduced bv the Senator
from Cumberland requesting them to look into
| the sanitary arrangements of the institution.
and that the Committee deemed it necessary to
have experts. When he had heard that, he
had wondered what the Committee itself was
| for. 1t was said that members of the house
and senate had been invited to go as experts
Mr.. Cobb said that he did not expect that his
action would prevent the payment of the BILL
but he wished to have the Committees, in the
future, comply with the rules.
| At the suggestion of Mr.. Case or Rock
land, the chair re-ststed the question before
the house.
Mr.. Walton of Skowhegan inquired wheth-
er an itemized bill had been called for from
any other Committee visiting any other pub
lie institution, and the chair replied that none
had been asked for to its knowledge.
Mr.. Walton said that he differed with the
gentleman who had introduced the order, Mr..
Cobb, in one respect. If there was anything
wrong in the bill he did not believe in pay
ing it. He did not understand why this Com
mittee should be singled out from other Com
mittees that have visited various institutions
in the State, and an temized bill of their ex-
penses called for. So far as he was con-
cerned personally and so far as his constitu-
ents were concerned, he did not believe in
, visiting Committees; he believed them bill
of expense without any return. If we have
State officers who cannot attend to
their duties without being visited by COM
mites, he thought they had better be turned
out and others put in their places. He I'M
derstood the committee considered this action
a reflection upon them personally. If it was