The Portland daily press., 1891-01-23
A LARGE CROP or RAILROAD SCHEMES
Some are Feasible and Some Wis.,
lonary.
What the Friends Of the Secret Ballot
Fear.
what the Committee Thinks the
State Should Pay.
Especial to the Press,l

| NaScu AZ thO OOhutCs hO Jill 1OI bu6 tALeu-
sion Of the charter Of the Shore Line is now
before the House. This Shore Line bill was
tabled this morning on motion of Mr.. Haines
of East Machias, pending the completion of
the agreement with Colonel Green, the terms
of which have already been made public.
The Knox & Lincoln has already been the
subject of legislatio at this session, bill
having passed allowing change of the
name of the corporation which now controls
the property from the Penobscot Shore Line
to the Knox & Lincoln Railway. Now the
| new management proposes to extend their
road into the thriving coast towns of Booth
bay and Boothbay Harbor and into Union.
| They also desire before commencing this
work to have the sanction of the legislature
to what has already been done. For these
| purposes bill was presented in the House
today by Mr. Shaw of Bath. The surveys
for the roads into Boothbay AID Union have
| already been made.
The bill also allows the read to increase
its capital stock to an amount not exceeding
| $3,00O,000.
The Kennebec and Franklin scheme male
It's appearance in the upper House today,
| Mr. Spear of Kennebec. presenting bill to
incorporate the company. The bill names
A. NJ. Spear, E. G. Allen, Weston Lewis. p.
| 0. VickeIy. William w. Bradstreet, M. V.
B. Chase, ?. H. Holnes, J. Manchestar
/
Macomber. F. e. Timberlake, Joseph c.
| HUlman. Elliot Wood, III. N. Shaw and III.
| NJ Heath as among the incorporators. The
| new railroad is to extend from Pennington
| Mount Vernon, Wayne, Fayette, Readfeld.
Winthrop, monmouth, Manchester, " est
Gardiner, Litchfeld. Farmingdale, Halo
| well, or such of these towns as the corpora.
| tion may deem advisable, and into the cities
| of Augusta and Gardiner. The capital
stock is 100000. The corporation is author
| lied to make connection with other rail
roads and TO lease its road amp property eth
| er before or after it shall be completed.
The location of the route must be de-
ttrmined by actual survey before Dec. 81.
1894, and the company shall complete it.
road before Dec. 81, 1895. or the charter will
be void.
| The ccrporators who are residents of Au-
| gusta within six months from the approval
| of this act shall procure bonafide subscrip-
| tion of $1,000 and the Gardiner corD"rators
| shall secure like SUBSCRIPTION of $4,000, or
they shall cease to bear any auth authority under
|. quired to be built to the city in which the
QeliQuent cOrp0ratOrS are residents.
Another railroad scheme which has been
| talked about in the past aud which has been
| brought to the notice of the Legislature is
that for line to be known as the Cara
basset and Canadian. This is scheme to
| build through the northern part of the state
| from some point on the existing railroads of
| Maine and strike one of the Canadian lines.
| What the friends of the Carrabassett and
| Canadian want is state aid to help pay for
preliminary survey.
| The Carabassett and Canadian, If it is
| ever built. is to extend from Anson in a
aea across
Megantlc in Quebec. There the friends of
| CaIrabassett road hope it will be met by the
| Quebec Central Besides building from An
| son to Quebec, the friends of this plan con-
L q "a ncinO fraQkc Snmnr.
| railroad south to Oakland and then have
| hopes that they may live to see line of their
own running south to the sea.
The Waldo and Somerset is another road
| whose projectors besides oreniug up a rich
| country hope to get western connection
| over this half built Canadian road the Que
| bee Central. Their line would start at
Burnham and striking across country to that
| river, follow the Kennebec river to the
| Forks, then run westerly along Dead river
| and then, turning to the right strike off
| north along Salmon stream to the Maine
| boundary at a point to the east of where the
| Carrabassett strikes the line. The Waldo
and Somerset would cross the Canadian Pa
cifc at Jackman. It is the hope of its
| friends that the Quebec Central would build
| down to Maine to meet it. This plan has
also beeen before the legislature some years
ago, and the bill for charter passed the
| House but failed in the Senate, owing, it is
said, to the opposition of the Somerset rail-
| road. 1t will probably come up again this
| session.
Fighting the CIason Bill.
Besides the attempts which may be made
| to kill the Clason Australian ballot bill by
| loading it with amendments and placing
| rival measures in its path, a movement
| against it is now being carried on in differ
| ent manner. This is a scheme to secure as
| much strength against the bill as possible by
| quiet work in the different county delega-
| tions. This Is carried on by entrusting to
some influential man in the delegation or, as
| in the case of Kennebec county where Mr..
| John Carson of Mt. Vern0n,is hald at work.
| placing the leadership OF the campaign In
| the hands of some man who, while not
member of the legislature is supposed to
| possess influence. MIR. Carson was a men,
| fier Of the legislature two years ago, and is
| now superintendent of mails at the postofice
| in this city. TIE friends of Mr.. Clason's
bill are still confident. Notwithstanding these
| plans of its enemies that roll call when the
| question comes to vote, will show a good
| majority in its favor.
The Chief Justices Stenoerapher.
When the bill providing for the appoint
| ment of stenographer by the Chief Justice
| of the Supreme judicial Court, at salary of
| $500 per annum, came before the House to-
| day, Mr.. Peaks of Dover, asked for an ex-
PLANTATION of the purposes of the bill. Mr..
Stearns of Caribou, in reply, said that its
| purpose was to provide for the Chief Justice
| If he saw fit to make the appointment, a
| stenogl apher who should give his whole
| time to the duties of his position, performing
some clerical work in addition to his service
| as stenographer. Mr.. Stearns spoke elo-
| quently of the feeling with which members
0f the bar and the people of Maine regarded
| Judge Peters and alluded to the demands
made upon the Chief Justice in his official
capacity which made the appointment of this
| stenographer desirable. AS the stenographer
| to be appointed under this act, could serve in
| court the counties would not be called upon
to pay him by the day, as other court stem
ographers are paid, so that the salary al
| lowed him did not represent any material in
crease in the burdens of the people.
The bill was then read three times and
passed under suspension of the rules.
An Island Telephone Line.
Mr.. Drummond presented in the House to-
day bill to incorporate the Casco Bay Tele-
graph and Telephone Company, naming AL
bion Little, G. W. 7. Cooling, Henry S. Os-
good, Stephen r. Small, Charles j. Chap
man and Seth l.. Larrabee as among the
corporators' Inc corporation Is empowered
to maintain lines of telegraph and telephone
along the shores of Casco Bay, in the county
OF CumheTland;. also to maintain lines Of
telegraph and telephone upon any of the ISL
| anus OI Casco Day, with the right to connect
its lines upon the islands with each other
and with its lines upon the mainland. bv
crossing with cables any part of CascO Bay'
The corporation is authorized to mt It's
wires Underground, or upon poles. in the
city OF Portland, under such regulations as
the city council may impose The canital
stock is fixed at $25,OO0, and it NAV issue
bonds to the extent of $4,000.
Heard in the Corridors.
The daily grist of petitions on the subject.
of the Iron Hall, an increased appropria
tlon for the Board of Agriculture. taxation
labor day, the Australian ballot and otbe,
matters comes in with meritorious regular
ity.
The House yesterday after considerable
speechmaking settled the journal order to its
own satisfaction, but not to the Satisfaction
of the Senate. That body without any
speechmaking voted to indefinitely postpon,
the whole business. i'''p0"'
Slice of Berwick.
Mr.. Graves Of South Berwick, today, pre-
sented a bill providing that so much OF tb,
town of Berwick, in the county of York as
lies on the southeasterly side of the new
location of the Boston & Maine railroad