The Portland daily press., 1891-01-31
The Legislature Sends a Message OF
sympathy to Washington.
Senator haInes wants to Reeu-
late Railroad Fares.
The BurieiRh Railroad Plan for
Asoostook In Detail.
Especial to the Press.1

busy week for the committees, and In the
last three days the result Of their work has
prolonged the daily sessions of the two
branches, a considerable number of meas
ures having received final action. 1t is prob
able that during the coming week the Haines
REGISTRATION bill will be favorably exported,
and perhaps made law. The special tax
committee next week will give the first two
of the large number of hearings. which are
destined to keep them busy during the next
month. The appointment committees are
ready to 20 to work as soon as they receive
the official figures from the census office.
Perhaps the most interesting feature Of next
weeks proceedings will be the great Cam
den town fight. which will be heard by the
committee on towns next Tuesday afternoon
In the Representatives Chamber. Pretty
much all Camden Is expected to be here with
their legal advisers, and this inquiry into
their views on the proposed secession OF the
village folks will be an event Of the winter.
On the same afternoon the legal affairs COM
mittee will give Mr.. Benjamin Bunker of
Waterville. a chance to talk about the regis
tration bill. although it lis. pretty generally
understood among men Of all parties here
that Mr.. Bunker's motives are not those of a
disinterested citizen, who feels that he must
be heard for the general good, but rather, as
Mr.. Bunker himself tersely expresses II, that
he may have chance ito get even with
Haines." Mr.. Bunker will have all the
chance he wants, but neither the friends of
the bill nor Senator Haines. himself, seem to
regard the coming oratorial off0rt OF Mr..
Bunker with apprehension.
The House did not adjourn over day
without the usual small amount OF talk on
the subject. Mr.. Mitchell of Kittery. intro
duced the order for adjournment to p. m.
Monday, whereupOn Mr.. Porter Of Bangor,
said that In order to Get here in time for the
session Monday members from the eastern
part of the state were obliged to come on
train which arrives In the forenoon. So, in
order that these gentlemen might not be
compelled to spend several weary hours In
Augusta with nothing to do, Mr.. Porter
moved to amend the order by making the
hour Of meeting IL a. m.
Mr.. Smith of Turner thought the gentle
men fIum the eastern part Of the state might
wait, even If they did get along in the fore
noon.
At this point an order came down from
the Senate, providing for adjournment to
Monday, at 4 D. M, and the House voted to
table its own order and concur with that
from the Senate.
In Memory of Mr.. Window
But the adjournment of the legislature to-
day was made matter of real Importance
by the adoption of resolutions of respect to
the memtry of the late William Window.
Secretary of the Treasury. The resolutions
were presented by Senator Gilmore In the
upper branch. and unanimously adopted. the
Senate at once adjournfng as further mark
of respect. In the House, on motion OF Mr.
Porter of Bangor, the rules were suspended
and the resolutions passed twice to be en-
crossed, in concurrence with the Senate,
Then Mr.. Shaw of Portland said: "Mr.
Speaker; l would move you, out Of respect
to the memory of the eminent statesman
just been passed, that this House do now ad-
.journ."
The House adjourned. The resolutions
thus adopted read as follows:
Resolved, By the legislature of the State Of
Maine that In the death Of Hon. William Window.
Secretary the Treasury, the nation has lost an
eminent statesman, a successful fuancter, and
Resolved, That copy of these resolutions be
sent TO the family Of the deceased by the Secre-
tary of State.
money for Kittery Navy Yard
Secretary of State Fessenden transmitted
to the Legislature a communication from
Chairman Boutelle of the naval committee
of the United States House of Representa-
tives relating to tlols for the construction
bureau Of the Kittery navy yard in response
to resolution of this Legislature. He
states that the resolution ives presented in
the House of Representatives. He had
caused to be inserted LA the naval appropri-
alton bill Of last session an item OF $4,000
for inspiring the plant of the construction
bnreau at that yard upon inquiry at the
Navy Department, he learned that $4,000
!. had been contracted for and that the bureau
of construction estimate that $685. would
complete the plant. He assumed that the
action of the Legislature indicated some ex-
igency Of which he had not been fully aware
and he had secured the passage In the House
OF an amendment apprOpriating the 5000
for the purpose mentioned.
The Great Aroostook Line.
Senator Powers introduced today 35 peti
tions In favor of a bill authorizing the
County Of Aroostook to lend Its aid to the
building of railroad and for a chatter fCI
the same. This is the proposed road by the
means of which Hon. A. A. Burleigh and
his associate, hope to open to the world the
garden spot of Maine. The petition Of Mr.
Burleigh and associates is that they may bt
| Incorporated under the name of the Aro0s
took and Pen obscot Railroad Company witt
power to build line from the junction o.
the Maine Central railroad with the Cana
dian Pacific Railway at Mattawamkeag t.
| Sherman or Patten, thence to Hoult0n
| thence through Presque Isle and Caribou Il
Van Buren or Fort Kent on some point OF
| st. Johns road between those towns. 4
olanGu ilon eus mail n ilu9 W roLs ~ranuN ~
| through Easton, A branch from the mali
| line to Fort Kent would be about 75 mile
long ana one from point Detween MAI
Taeranse and BrownviIIe on the Bangor an,
Piseataquis would be about 35 miles long
the length OF the main line from Mattawam
keag to Van Buren would be about Is
miles.
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