Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-02-26

4 Portlasd. Ssco and Portsmouth Railroei Co.
over Dsnston river; an act for the pr0tectiot
Of basa ID Winnegance Creek; An act q
amend eco. 100, chap. Al of the revised stat
utes relating to Baaks and Banking.
FINALLY PASSED.
Resolve authorizing . temporary loan fol
the year 1886; resolve authorizing tenn
porary loan for the year 1886.
; On motion of Mr.. Heath, bill An act to
amend chap. l28 of the revised statutes, re-
lating 70 the sale of unwholesOme food, &C.,
was taken from the table.
Mr.. Heath then moved the indefinite post
ponement of the measure, which he under
stood prohibited the people Of the State from
purchasing oleOmargarine. He said the stat
ute already affords sufficient protection to the
people in this particular, and he was opposed
to putting them under guardianship and say
ing they should not buy this substitute for
butter if they desired to do so.
Mr. Ray defended the bill. He said the
State of New York had passed similar
measure, and that in the investigation at that
time it appeared that one firm in Chicago
used as an ingredient of oleomsrgarine. nitric
acid, the deadly effects of which a cast-iron
stomach would be unable to withstand.
Mr.. Kimball said the process of manufac-
turing oleomargarine was precisely as stated
in the circular that had been dstribut d this
morning. The process of its manufacture
and the ingredients used were unohjectiona-
BILE. There was steady and growing demand
for the article. II the principle in the bill
we're pursued to it's logical conclusion the
sale of coffee and many other articles of food
would be prohibited. He thought = drop of
nitric acid would have been a great improve
ment to some of the butter he had seen this
| winter.
Mr.. Ray replied.
The Senate refused to indefinitely postpone
the bill, IS follows:
XEAn ,as. Bs.rce Cutler. Heath, Hume. Kim
Goodwin. Lebroke. Libbey, Nesr:. Nicferson. Nye.
Parkhurst. Ray, Roak, Simonton. Smith. Stubs.
| Wilson.-i7.
The bill was then passed to be engrossed
| On motion of Mr.. Wescott, resolve in ia
vor of the Maine General Hospital was taken
from the table, the question being on the
amendment of Mr.. Marble to strike out the
item of 81, 800 for an amptheatre.
Mr.. Wescott opposed the adoption of the
amendment, and stated the reasons which in
duced the officers of the institution to ask tor
the appropriation sought to be stricken out. He
also gave statistics to show the benefits &C.
cruing to the people of the State from the
hospital, and he hoped the amendment would
not be adopted.
| Mr.. Lebroke also opposed the amendment.
He expressed great confidence in the hospital,
an institution in which the people feel deep
interest.
Mr.. Simonton advocated the amendment,
to strike out the sum Of two thousand five
hundred dollars for completion of ampithea-
tire. He was willing to take almost any
responsibility on reasonable appropriations
for worthy purposes. but he would prefer that
it should be called by some other name than
amphitheatre. He feared facing his constitu-
ents on an appropriation of $500 for an
"amphitheatre;" why not call it by some good
English or United States name. This word
reminded him of what occurred once when he
was county attorney, and called into the
| grand jury room physician to describe the
wound from which the victim in q murder
| case fingered and died. so that the jury might
know whether it was mortal wound. The
doctor grandiloquently described it thus
"The knife entered the body and struck the
anterior superior spinous process of the ilium,
cut across the fascia muscles and fascia trans
versalis muscles, and entered the omentum."
After hearing that description he told the jury
they needed to hear no more, for that must be
a mortal wound. Laughter.
On motion of Mr.. Wescott q yea and nay
vote was taken on the amendment, resulting
in its defeat, as follows:
YEA-Messrs Allen Bearce, Bragdon, Goodwin.
Heath. Lumbert, Marble. Aears. Nickerson, Nye'
Simonton. Smith.-l2
NAY-Messrs. Bonney. Cole, Cutler. Hume. Kim
ball. LebrOke, Libbey. Parkhurst Ray. Roak, Stubs,
Wescott. Wilson, Young-l4.
The resolve was then passed to be en-
crossed, as follows:
YEA-Messrs. Allen, Bearce Bonney, Brardop.
Cole, Cutler. Heath, Hume Kimball, Lebroke, Lib
beg. Lumbert. NickeIson, Nye. Parkhurst. Ray,
| ROak, SimOnton, Smith, Stubs, WescOtt, Wilson,
Young.-23.
| NAY-Messrs. Goodwin. Marble, Mears.ts.
On motion of Mr.. Young the motion to re-
consider the vote refusing q passage to the
resolve in favor of the dairying mutton and
beef interests, was taken up and re-assigned
for Tomorrow at II o'clock.
On motion of Mr.. Lumbert. bill an act to
facilitate the prompt administration of justice
by the establishment of . Superior Court in
the county of Aroostook was taken up and
| assigned for tomorrow at IL o'clock.
| On motion of MIR. Nickerson, bill an act to
change the name of the Cumberland Farmers
Club, and to give it additional powers, was
taken from the table, discussed by Messrs.
Parkhurst Lebroke, Marble. Ray and others,
and on motion of Mr.. Ray referred to the
Cumberland county delegation.
On motion of Mr.. Wescott, bill an act to
incorporate the Peoples Ferry Co. was taken
from the table and Mr.. Lebroke moved to
amend sec. 5, after the word "catch" in the
sixth line, by striking out the following
words: "And until such landing places are
provided as aforesaid such double-end ferry
boats may be used for the carriage of passen-
gers and freight
| The bill and amendment we're briefly dis
cussed by Messrs. Lebroke. Ray, and others
| The amendment was rejected, and the bill
was passed to be engrossed.
| Mr.. Wescott, by his request, was excused
from voting CD the amendment.
On motion Of Mr.. Bonney,
Adjourned.
House.
| WEDNESDAY, Feb. 25th
PRAYER by Rev. Mr.. Sweetland of the
| House.
Papers from the Senate disposed of in con-
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