Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-01-30
LIVELY SENATORS.
fhsy Hare The Busiest Day Thus Pa
Asssures that the Lawmakers ass
Taking About.

The Senate % Thursday morning, had
more business On it, desks than on any aay
day before this session, aud the House VA
almost ehoked up with with bills and
petitions.
Ia the Senate, Thursday, Senator Wal
ton on behalf Of James o. Bradbury, Who
petitions for charter TO erect And operate
safety deposit and storage vaults. present
ed bill 10 the effect Of the petition. The
capital stock 10 fixed on $3.50, 900.
Several remembrance are coming in
against the incorporation Of Mechanic
Falls as Village Corporation.
Senator Rogers moved that IN the appro-
prission item Of $50, 600 named in House
document No. ig for the use of the militia
1t be stricken GU. and the SUM Of sl0, 600
be inserted instead.
Senator Msile.. spoke in favor Of the
amoans appropriated BY the bill. The maj
ter was tabled pending reference.
Senator Steward presented bill provid-
ing for an increase Of the salary of repre-.
sentatives and senator's to 5000 for the ses-
sion ard 81 for each ten miles travel from
his abode but also providing that 50 shall BE-
deducted from the members pay for every
day tina. he 10 absent. II alec provides that
the pay Of the Speaker of the House and
President Of the Senate shall be $500.
Spuaf. Atau.pt all taI IL
favor Of trades, unions, and labor associa-
tons that they be permitted to adopt labels,
trade marks and forms Of advertising
and that any person counteIfeisins
such libel may be punished by fac or
imprisonment
Senstor Walton presented bill to amend
the law with relation to the commitment of
children to charitable Institutions. This
amendment provides that probate court
may have the same powers ~
magistrate in ordering the COM
mitment Of child one of whose par
enss resides in the county. 1t is intended
to allowall charitable institutions to have the
same right in the adoption Of children IS is
now held by indiv iduals.
In the House Thursday Mr.. White of
Bangor presented bill TO provide that agri-
cultural societies shall have lien on AMI
mails entered TO compel payment Of entrance
fees, also TO provide that person entering
horse under misrepresentation shall be
guilty Of cheating under false pretenses.
petition siyned after most novel
method by writing the names about cir
Gle drawn on each page, came to the House
Thursday asking that a law be passed relst-
Jog TO the liability of employers for accid,
enti sustained by employees. This bill
which they propose, provides that
when by reason of any defect
in the ways, works, machinery or plant,
negligence of any person in the service who
has superintendent by reason of any
neglect Of person TO whose orders the
employee is obliged to conform by resson
Of any act or omission in obedience
to rules Of employer; by reason Of neg
genee any person in service who
has chaTgs of signal, switch, engine
or trsin, shall suffer injury or death,
there shall be the same right Of compensa-
ton and remedies against the employer ~
if the employee had not been Al employer
Of. nor in the service Of the employer, nor
engaged in his work
That WAS a rousing petition of Asa
Cushmsn and 1917 other tax payers of Au-
burn asking that power, according to an
Of Auburn or trustees to take water from
the Androscogsin river, Wilson pond. Tsy-
Tor pord and any other pond or spring in
the city Of Auburn sufficient for city
purposes. The bill is very long, being in
all ten closely type written pages.
The committee on commerce will have
Shaw Of Bath has pu, in on the { feet that
the Governor shall nominate three iDhsbi,
tsnts of Ssesdahoc, commissioners on the
harbor and tidal waters of Bath. Also to
empower the city of Bath to establish the
lines of Of its harbor between Merry
meeting bay on the north, and Fiddins
Rock in the south; that no whaffs or i'll
cumberance shall be extended beyond these
lines so established, and TO prohibit the
dumping of waste into the harbor.
The Erskine School of China wants an
annuity of $500; somsrse. Academy wants
$500; Lincoln Academy wants $500; Paris
Hill Academy wants the same.
Mr.. Mitchell of Kittery wants the State
to bear the expense of caring for insane
persons in hospitals. when such persons
are unable to pay their own expenses, and
thus relieve the towns of the burden.
Mr. Edgsrly of Princeton introduced a
bill providing that an appropriation of
$1,000 be made for the repair of roads in
Indian township, Washington county.
Representative Smith Portland pre-.
sented petition asking the Legislature to
pass = law providing for the use Of auto
matte breaks and safely couplers, and lesis-
latian providing that no regular train men
be required to work over ten hours a day
or seventy hours in one week of day york,
or nine hours per day or 63 hours per week
for night work.
Constant A. McLsushln wants the sum
granted him urder resolve Passed March
80, 1857. to be incfcased 10 $50 per
anuum.
Col. II. 5. Osguod of Portland, wss
a: the State House, yesterday.
Hon. John T. Swasey of Canton, WAS
among the visitors of the Capitol, Thurs
! day
Mr.. Dick" Ncrcross has joined the
legion Of drivers of ten cent conveyances.
"Dick'' 10 always welcome.
| Il was some ten minutes after adjoura-
men. before all the senator's we're aware OF
the fact. A little amnsemen. vas created
| BY tso members caught "nspping."
| ChApisia Randall has recently visited
Mai. Dickey at the Maine General Hospital
and found him doing nicely so that he
expects to be in his seat in the House dur.
/ ing the closing weeks Of the session.
Mr.. T. NJ. Richardson of Stockton
| Spriags has model of An automatic Cal
coupler on exhibition at the railroad com
nissioasrs office. 0oe railroad superin.
! q.