Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-02-21
BLIZZARD PREVAILED,
Aad Legislature adjourned Because
Of No Quorum il Either Branch.


To leave home On day like Yesterday
a:ssl betake ones self to the State Capitol
hal little Of pleasure 10 o6er the lawmakers
t that were al their homes over the sabbath
| Al 40 7. NJ, Clerk corton's xayei fell
and he called the House to order. Mr. VI.
y. Drew, the member from II. Fairfield,
was called TO the chair. About 10 mem
bers were in their seats. Some Of them |
appeared as calm a. though June sunshine /.
instead Of a Dakota blizzard was assziiing /
the granite = Ills of the State House. Many /
Of them wore pinks in the iapeIs of their |
coats, and an air of serenity marked the !.
ANAL gathering. After the proper formulas I
I had been gone through with. and the Sen /
ate and Governor and Council had been /
notified that TIL. branch had organized, adj |
ionrnment followed after little debate on /
It's advfsabiliiy
The same routine occurred 10 the Senate |
with DR. Giindle In the chair Two order. |
from the House we're being passed when |
the point Of no quorum was raised ami i'd |
i1urnment was had. There were IL sena-
tors present.
Among the hearings before the commit
tee on insurance this week is one on bill
TO repeal what is know NJ the Iron Hail
law. This law is chap. II, Public Laws
of 1891, and provides that the orders to
which it applies may continue TO organize
new branches in the State as before the
passage OF the law of 1889. This chapter
only affects the Iron Hall, the Order of
Tonti and the international Fra.ernai Ali
ance. The first of .hese is 80 dead to all
appearances that its ghost will never haunt
the legislators who may vote for the repeal
Of the Law, and so to all practical purposes
il the Order of Ton,. The Alliance has
done some business in this State but how
much it will be effected should the repeal
be voted is not apparent.
Insane Hospital Reports.
The members of the Joint committee on
insane hospital who arrived Monday after
noon held the same opinions that they had
on leaving Friday and the two reports are
being drawn up to be presented to the
Legislature today. The members have
little or nothing to say about the matter but
it is understood no changes have been made
IN the propositions of their last meeting
II was the intention to meet last evening
but the storm caused postponement to this |
morning when the reports will be ready for
the signatures of the committee. As told, |
the resolve to be reported by the majority |
calls for an appropriation of $4,000 for |
two wings at Bangor on the State site, AM |
the minority resolve calls for $4,000 to /
be expended at the Augusta asylum and
will probably be accompanied by some sug
gestions.
Judging from the talk one hears on the |
subject, no one. unless it be the members |
themselves knows just the number of sig |
natures Which will be appended to each re-
port. There were three that didn't sign !
either of the reports previously made. The |
minority, or some of them, claim that they |
shall have the names of these gentlemen on |
the minority report this time. Among the |
reasons given by the majority for favoring |
hospital at Bangor is that the pres
cnt one is large enough that !
To make it larger would make i; /
unweldy; that there will be little extra |
cost in building the two wings at Bangor
than at Augusta, az there would be the ;
same number of attendants and assistants +
except the superintendent and perhaps one .
or two others that the house on the land .
at Bangor tan easily be used as the home (
of the officers that if two wings are added
to the present hospital new boilers will be .
added and probably a new boiler house. /
They also claim that brick can he bought
in Bangor nearly 81 cheaper per thousand
than in Augusta. OF course these reasons
10 not include the numerous others from a
sanitary and scientific point of view. The
minority report will be quite explicit. Its
friends say no business man if he were car
ing for the insane would for moment con
slider it practical to build another hospital
in another part of the State under the pres /
sent circumstances. There are reasons
enough pro and con to consume a good deal
of the Legislatures time, to say the least. /
Had the reports been made Friday the mat
ter could have come up for discussion this
week, but must now lie over til next week
In Railroad COMMISSIONER Office.
Col. Harrington, the clerk to the board
ne railroad commissioners has tasty ar
rangament OF pictures on the walls of the
boards office. Not the least attractive OF
these is a set of views of the work already I
lone upon the Bangor and Aroostook Rail
road These views are placed over the man
= and comprise pictures of the deep cuts
and solid masonry for bri !ges over the C. /
l.. H.. culverts built of granite in such a
manner as to Withstand the effects of time
for the next thousand years. In point of
fact the roads in this country are not mum
erous that show as thorough work rs has
already been done on this route. Col :
Harrington had just hung fne pictures Of
ihe present board and splendid likeness OF
Manager Payson Tucker.
Odds and Ends.
What wild, wierd. blizzsrdy welcome
was that which sifted down the spinal col
umns of the legislators that alighted from
the noon train from Portland yesterday An
hour before the storm had apparently cleared
away but by 1870 it was abroad like Il rag
Ing lion.
There were % acts and 10 resolves for
the House pass to he enacted at the Monday
afternoon meeting. Twenty-feur new
printed bills were put upon the Senate files
Monday, quite task for Messenger Love
iAr al -trx-n Of