The Portland daily press., 1893-02-16

SOuuIy.
An act to regulate the duties of record
ing officers introduced today provides
that municipal officers shall aid in draft
ing instruments which they are required
to record.
Edward E. Richards and others ask for
the Incorporation of the Camden and
Lake City Railroad Company.
About three cords of remonstrances
against sectarian teaching in the reform
school was the way in which the chair
announced the contents of the big
bundle of papers that Senator Grindle
put in today.
The employers liability act has been
referred by the committee on labor to
the judiciary committee.
The labor committee have reported in
new draft the bill changing the title Of
the deputy labor commissioner to in
spector of factories.
The resolutions of the Cumberland
conference of Congregational churches
January 25th favoring the constitutional
amendment prohibiting sectarian appro-
priations, have been received.
BY bill introduced by Senator Hol-
man, permission will be given from sun
rise on each Wednesday to sunrise on
each Thursday, between the last day OF
April and the 10th day of July, to take
salmon. shad and alewives in non-tidal
waters to within 300 yards of any dam,
mill, vace or fishway, by the ordinary
mode Of fishing with nets.
Senator Wood has presented a bill to
the effect that in all cases where books
with printed forms are not furnished
therefor, registers of deeds shall receive
for receiving, filing and recording any
instrument byl law, entitled to record
the sum of Is cents for each 100 words
thereof, provided, however, that in no
case shall the sum exceed that now
specifically fixed by law.
A delegation from Hancock and Others
called on Gov. Cleaves to urge the APP
pointment of Hon. A. P. Wiswell to the
Supreme bench.
OakdaIe's Plea.
This was Oakdale's day before the
committee on towns. The residents OF
the Oakdale ward of the young city of
Deering who want to become a part of
the older city of Portland, were repre-
sented before the committee by Fred V.
Chase, Esq, as counsel. Mayor Merrill
managed the case for those who objected
to having Oakdale desert.
Mr.. Chase began his opening by sur
II unding the committee with maps of
Deering. Then Mr.. Chase took the
committee on little excursion through
Deering and Portland, making quite
stop in the Oakdale section. Mr. Chase
showed the committee the strip of Deer
ing which it was desired to add to Port
land. and which has been designated on
maps printed in the PRESS. Mr.. Chase
claimed that this strip should be part
of l,,, 10 nil would
put it there. Mr.. Chase told of the rap
i'd growth of the village at Oakdale,
which was the home mainly of people
whose business and other Interests had
been for many years in Portland. The
people of Oakdale had, with of course
some few exceptions, as there would al
ways be in such cases, asked the legisla-
ture that their homes might be annexed
to Portland. Mr.. Chase referred to the
attempt of several years ago to annex
Deering to Portland. At that time the
Oakdale people were anxious to be an
nexed and so expressed their desires.
But they were voted down by the back
portions of the town which did not want
annexation. 1t was the people of the
same section who now opposed the sur
render of this little bit of land. The
people of Oakdale have many reasons for
asking annexation. AS they do business
in Portland, they pay taxes there. But
they have no voice in the management OF
affairs in the larger city. On the other
hand, they are opposed by the city Of
Deering in everything they attempt to
do. While Deering does not need this
land, Portland does, as in the present
crowded condition of the city it is essen
tial that Portland should have an oppor-
tunity to extend over this section.
Mr.. Chase was followed by Lorenzo F.
Dyer, Eben E. Rand and Nathan Redlon.
Mayor Merrill was the first speaker for
the remonstrants. He called attention
to the fact that the present boundary be-
tween Portland and Deering followed
water way and was therefore natural
boundary. He had been surprised at
the amount of evidence his legal friend
had introduced to show that the Oak
dale people had gotten everything they
asked for by their persistency. 1t had
been said that Portland should have
Oakdale because she needed the land.
That might be true but Mr.. Merrill pro-
tested againt permitting Portland to step
in and take part of Deering simply be-
cause Portland wanted it. AS to the
statements regarding the valuation of
Oakdale, Mr.. Merrill said he did not car
nv the figures in his head or his hat, but
there was a city Office where the petit
TONERS might have learned all they de-
sired to know. Mr.. Merrill said the re-
monstrants had not retained eminent
counsel, but came simply as citizens to
make their protest.
Mr.. Andrew Halves followed Mr.. Mer-
rill. Mr.. Halves was loaded with more
maps. He told how the present lines
came to be established, and then took up
the question OF the sewer system.
He said that at present the
city of Deering had rights in the ship
channel in Back Cove but the proposed
new line would cut this off, so that in
building sewers the city of Deering must,
in order to reach proper outlet, cross
alien territory. Mr.. Halves thought that
Oakdale had been well treated. He read
figures to show that the territory which
it was sought to annex to Portland con-
tanned one-sixty-tifth of the territory of
Deering, one-twenty-seventh of the
streets, one-sixth of the lights, one-eighth
of the hydrants and one-seventh of the
schools. Mr.. Halves also spoke of the
length of sewers constructed in Oakdale
and of those contemplated there. He