The Portland daily press., 1891-01-24
LEWISTON HOSPITAL BOOM met A ROCK
The Composition Of Several Impor
ant Committees.
A Big crlst Of Bills and Petitions
Presented Yesterday.
The Municipal Suffrage Bill for
the Women.
Especial to the Press I

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AUGUSTA, January 23-The committee:
which VIII struggle with the two great ques
tions OF the winter in the Maine legislature
were announced by Pres ident Libby and
Speaker Wiswell today. The claims of Mr.
Hawes Of Deering to the craftsmanship. or
the part of the House, of the special com
mittee on taxation were recognized by Mr.
Wiswell, and Mr. Hawes' name Is at the
head OF the list Of House members. Mr.
Wiswell had Savage for the Craftsmanship
because that gentleman is a lawyer, and had
been urged for the place before the order for
the appointment Of the committee was intro.
duced. Mr.. Wiswell, however, recognized
that in accordance with parliamentary usage
the place belonged to Mr.. Hawes, who will
perform his duties ION the committee with
credit. and the order of the members was
| consequently changed. Judge Savage lis the
second member on the part of the House and
is valuable man for the place. Besides the
committees on taxation and valuation, the
| joint special committees on the congressional
and legislative apportionment of the state
were announced today. These committees
| follow
| COMMITTEE ON TAXATION.
Messrs. Spear of Kennebec, Swanton of Saga
dah0c and Wadlin of Waldo on The the part of the
Au urn. preW Of FSrt EairieId' Deerins Of Saco.
Merrill uf st. Albans, johnson of Augusta, Chad
bourne of Biddeiord, on the part of the House.
COMMITTEE ON CONGRESSIONAL APPoRTIoN-
MENT.
Messrs. Grndle of Hancock, Hunt OF Waldo,
Harper of AndroscoggiD, Mayo Of Penobscot,
Rogers of Washington, Stewart of York, Sher-
man Of Knox, on the part of the Senate; and one
HOUSE as oOws
land; Aro0stook McAliSter of Orient; Cumber-
land, Bucknam Of Yarmouth; Franklin. Sargent
OF Temple; Aancock, Jones of Brooksville; Ken
Thomaston; Lincoln, Ham Of Dresden; oxford,
Allen of Denmark. Piscataquis, Martin of Gull
f,rd; Sagadahoc, Fisher of Topsham; Somerset
Howss Uf Palmyra; Waldo, Kane OF Palermo;
Washington, Hartman OF Meddybemps; York,
Graves OF South Berwick.
COMMITTEE ON STATE VALUATION.
Messrs. Thatcher of Penobscot, Hsines of Ken
nebec, libby of Androscoggin, Wilbur of Frank
lin, Mallet of Cumberland, Nash of Washington;
Menan of Knox, on the part of the Senate; and
one memb-r from each county on the part OF the
AndroS coggin-Smith of Turner.
Aroost0ok-Stearns Of Caribou.
Cumberland-Lamb of Westbrook.
Franklin Patterson of Industry.
Hancock-Litchfeld of Penobscot.
Kennebec-Brainard of Winthrop.
Knox-Gdden If Vinahaven.
Lincoln-Kaler of Wadoboro.
Oxford-Trafton of Norway.
PenObScOt-Adams of Bangor.
Plscataquis-Peaks Of Dover.
SaeadahOc-Clark Of Richmond.
SOmerset-Marston of skowhegan.
Waldo Parker of Belfast.
ashingtOn-Hunt of R0bbinston.
YOrk-Brackett OF Acton.
COMMITTEE ON LEGISLATIVE APPOINTMENTS
Messrs. Spear of Kennebec, Powers of Aroos'
took Walton Of Somerset, Sw anton Of Sagadahoc-
Pettengill of Oxford, Adams of York. Chaplin of
Piscataquis on the part of the Senate; and
MeSSrS feneV OF Auburn. StearlS of CaribOI.
Shaw of Portland HIscock OF Wilton, Fuller OF
TTSao Fremont Hi Of Augusta BIRD 81 Of Roekland
of Bangor, Wyman of Sebrc, shaw Of Bath, Toll
man OF Fairfield, Packard of Searsport, Haines of
East Machias, HargfaveS of Buxton, on tue part
of the House.
Having the committees appointed, the
members are naturally anxious that they
should have something to do. The report of
the special tax commission, which will fur
nisn the basis for the labors of the tax COM
mittee, has been already printed and pub
lished. So this committee can begin its
labors at once. But the valuation commits
sion has as yet made no report, although the
resolve by which the last Legislature created
the commission named the I'd of January as
the date on or before which their report
should be made. Sometime ago the Legisla-
ture showed that 1t was becoming tired of
the delay by passing resolve requesting in
formation as to when the report of the com-
mission might be expected. In reply, 1t was
stated, In a communication from Chairman
Knowlton of the commission that the report
ceuld not be made in less than thirty days
and the commission might be unable to finish
it in that time. This was not satisfactory,
as the resolve printed below shows. This
was introduced today in the Senate by Col.
Moore of Cumberland county:
Whereas, by the resolve under which the CON-
misSioners to prepare valuation # the estates
and polls In this state as basis of taxation for
state purposes were appointed. said commits
sioners We're appointed to report the same to The
Legislature not later than the second Wednesday
of January, 1891, and were directed to proceed
without delay to prepare said valuation and WEI Q
given the necessary authority ana powers for that
purpose, and whereas no report has been made
within the time fixed by said resolve, aud the de-
lay in making said report is aetriment to the
public interest and to the work of the Legislature,
therefore, Deit
Resolved, by the Senate and House of Repre-
Sentatives In Legislature assembled, that the said
commissioners be requested to make their report
to the Legislature without further delay, and
that copy of this resolve be transmitted to them
by the Secretary of State.
The passage of this resolve was brought
to the attention of a member OF the Valua-
tion Commission, who stated that the Com
legislature the difficulties under which they
had labored, and tue impossibility of imme-
| diately making their final report, 1t was al
so stated that the Commission would be una
| BILE to make partial report at this time
which should contain sufficient information
| to allow the committee to do anything with
| It, Ii this is to be the reply of the Commis-
sion, it will be interesting to sec what fur
tner steps, If any the legislature will take in
the matter.