The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-03-04
LABOR LEGISLATION.
The House DeVotes Some Time to
Questions Of Taxation.
THE WARD LINE BILL HAS BE-
COME A LAW.

4
ing the Bangor Hospital-Pool Selling
| Not To Be Legalized-Cutting Down
the Salaries of York County Police
| Judges-Other Matters.
Especial to the Press]
| AUGUSTA, March 3.-Two of the
measures which labor organizations have
advocated struck snags today. In the
Senate, the bill to repeal the so-called
conspiracy act was indefinitely post
| poned on motion of Senator Peakes.
Mr.. Peakes read an anonymous letter
written to manufacturer of Skowhe-
| gan, in which threats were made because
of alleged hardships imposed upon the
| operatives in the mill. The letter pur-
ported to come from club. Mr.. Peakes
said it was against such things as that,
that the so-called conspiracy act was
aimed Senator Lyons of the labor
committee expressed his hope that the
4 bill to repeal the law would pass, but the
| Senute evidently came to the conclusion
that the conspiracy act would harm only
| those who were deserving of punishment
and refused to repeal it.
| In the House, when the bill to change
the title of the deputy labor commits
| sioner to make him an inspector of factor
| les came up, Mr.. White of Rockland OPP
posed its passage as he understood an
| other bill was to come up affecting the
duties of the deputy commissioner, and
| he wanted time to act before voting on
| the matter He moved that the bill be
tabled for the present.
| Mr.. Fowle of Orneville, thought that
the matter had been long enough delayed
| and that it could be given proper consid-
Grafton at this time.
| Messrs. Higgins of Limerick and Bird
of Portland, favored tabling the bill, as
they had not had time to examine the
matter. The House accordingly so voted
| and the bill will come up next week.
| The House Talks of Taxes.
| The bill to tax loan and trust compa-
MES was talked over in the House this
forenoon and incidentally the listing bill
came in for some mention. In the Senate
| the other day, the loan and trust COM
| pany bill was amended on motion of
| Senator Holman, the amendment substi-
tuting system of taxation like that i'm
posed on the savings banks for the tax
on capital stock and deposits proposed
| by the original bill. In the House, to-
| day, MI. White of Rockland, favored
| Senator Holman's plan with some slight
amendment Mr.. Roberts of the COM
mittee on taxation opposed the Holman
amendment. He pointed out that savings
banks had been regarded as institutions
for the benefit of people with limited
means while trust and banking COM
panies were purely business concerns.
The Holman amendment provides that
out of the tax received there shall be
credited to the towns in which the de-
positors reside portion of the tax. Mr..
Roberts and, later in the debate, Mr..
Powers, asserted that under this clause
| the system of awarding this money to the
towns would call upon the state to pay
| out more than it received from these
companies. Mr.. Roberts hoped that the
amendment would be defeated and that
then the bill might be laid over for action
at some future day.
Mr.. Powers of Houlton in speaking
against the amendment, contrasted trust
and banking companies with savings
banks. He hoped the amendment would
not pass and was not sure but that the
bill itself should be rejected. Mr.. Powers
alluded to the savings bank bill, saying,
| that If that became law, and the clause
| discriminating in favor of Maine invest
| ments led to a reduction of the tax re-
eeipts, of course under the Holman
amendment the receipts from trust and
banking companies would be correspond
| ingly reduced. AS to the bill itself, Mr..
Powers said that he thought it might be
unnecessary if another measure before
| the legislature became law. IL bill
| was passed to provide some system under
which man should be compelled to
| give list of his taxable property, Mr..
Powers thought that then these trust and
| banking companies would be reached
without the aid of such bill as this.
But if the trust companies were to be
put on the same footing as savings banks
he thought they would menace the sue
cess of any listing system by making a
| good hiding place where, man might
deposit his money for short time in
| of taxables. The tax the deposit would
pay would be very small as compared
| with the tax the depositor would pay un-
| der municipal taxation.
Mr.. Lane of Augusta spoke briefly
| against the Holman amendment.
The House defeated the amendment
and tabled the bill until next week.
Those State Printing Bids.
In the House this morning, the report
| of the committee on state printing, to-
gether with the several bids, was ordered
printed on motion of Mr.. Weeks of Fair
| field.
The Insane Hospital Matter
| has gone to committee of conference,
composed of Senators Mallet, Winslow
and Swanton, and Representatives
| Hains, Adams and Parker.
There are many here who think that
! the friends of the Bangor plan gave up
too soon. If they would have gotten the
| House to adhere to Its former action and
sent the matter back to the Senate with
| no request for a conference it is argued
that the narrow majority against them
| in the Senate might have been over
turned. 1t is understood that sug-
gestion has already been made to com
promise the matter by still further cut
| ting down the amount asked for at Ban
gor. The Bangor people are apparently
| straining every nerve to have the hospital
| begun. 1t makes no great difference in
| the end how much of it is built now as