The Portland daily press., 1895-01-24
ate line along portion of the Canadian


Pacific railway.
Bill to permit.the Inhabitants of Westport
TO construct a bridge over the tide waters of
Back river, between Westport and WoolwIch
and to charge toll for the use of the bridge.
Mr.. Barrett presented bill to restore the
school district system and had it tabled for
printing.
Mr.. Noble of Lewiston, presented today a
Dill 10 exempt from state. county ana
municipal taxation, all property of agricul-
tural societies SO long as held solely for the
annual exhibition of the stock and products
of the state.
Mr.. Moore of Gouldsboro, putt in today the
bill to set off Sorrento from the town of
Sullivan.
The resolve declaring the pine cone the
states floral emblem passed both branches
under suspension OF the rules.
Senator Shaw introduced bill providing
| that the county of Aroostook may grant
aid to the extension of the Bangor and
Aroostook to Van Buren,. also to the branch
to Ashland as has been granted to the road
already built. The amount of this aid shall
not exceed S22S.
Senator Shaw introduced an amendment
to the fortnightly payment law. The
whether having grievance or not may
make complaint under the law. The amend
ment would change the law SO that the
party to whom the wages might Dc due
could be the only one who could make the
complaint.
THE STATE COLLEGE PRECIPITATION.
The bill levying special tax for the
benefit of the State college to which atten-
tion was called in the PRESS at the time OF
its presentation, slipped through the house
this morning without opposition, and is now
on its passage to the Senate. to be enacted
in that branch. 1t is little bill, making
only five lines of the printed form but 1t
means If passed the raising of an amount
annually for the benefit of the State college
estimated at S33 900.
.rThis is the bill: For the purpose of raising
revenue to defray the expenses of the state
college there shall be assessed and collected
as other state taxes are, a tax of one-tenth
of a lnill upon all property in the state sub
iect to taxation for the present fiscal year.
and for each fiscal year hereafter"
The bill was referred when Introduced to
the committee on State college instead of to
the finance committee, and was unanimous
ly retorted to the House. 1t is printed out
that 1t calls for an annual appropriation for
an indie finite length Of time, one-tenth as
large as the state tax for the entire public
school system. It is an amount equal to
that devoted to the states entire military
system in the past year. and there is In the
bill no provision as to the purposes for
which it may be expended. Besides this bill
resolve has been introduced to appIopri-
ate large sum OF money for the building Of
gymnasium for the state college. although
the supporters OF the bill modestly say that
if 1t passes, they do not expect the passage
Of the resolve. Any increase in the states
valuation would of course. mean N In
crease in the $33, 200 of revenue under the
bill. This bill would give the college a
revenue from the state greatly in excess of
what IL has been receiving.
+ GEN. BOWS BILL.
The temperaE se committee this afternoon
took up the bill prepared by General Neal
Dow to amend the liquor law. The bill was
not referred to the committee by the legis-
lature. having been left with them by Cen
eral Dow when he appeared at the hearing
last week. Consequently it has never been
regularly introduced. This matter.the COM
mittee voted to attend TO. and they will
lature can then take such action as it sees
ht. The impressionsof the committee being
that it will besreferred either to them or to
some other committee. They made only one
change in the bill striking out the provision
for the confscation of teams engaged in the
illegal transportation of liquors. One men,
Der said that the bill left the matter in such
shape that stage coach might be confis-
Gated under it if a pac kage of liquor was
found on board. The penalties, which Fare
very severe, the committee did lot change.
This act ion of the committee. of course.
does not throw any light as to what DISPOSE
ton they would have made of the measure.
had it been referred to them in due form,
unless the fact thatsthey altered one section
ami did not change Others may be taken as
an indie Of their views. There was no
opposition to the course pursued.
OTHER BUSINESS.
The special committee OF the Bangor In
sane hospital was to have taken up tie
matter in executive session this evening
but so many of the members had TO attend
committee hearings that no action was
taken.
The legal affairs committee this afternoon
gave hearing on the bill in reference to
the payment of officers for services in pre-
venting cruelty 10 animals. Wlfred G..
Chapman, ESQ.,. and Eben N. Perry OF Port
land. advocated the measure. which the
committee win report favorably in an
amended form. The amendment limits the
payments to be made under the bill to
officers of the society for the Prevention of
Cruelty.
The committee on state printing received
sealed proposals tonight from Bu1leigh and
Flynt of Augusta. The Lakeside Press AMI
the Thurston Print OF Portland. for the
contract for the state printing for the next
two years. The Portland firms also sub
mitted bids for the binding, as did Smith
a. nd Reid of Augusta. The bids were not
opened tonight.
Senator Srofford has been elected Presi-
dent pro tenn Of the Senate in the absence
of Sc nator Seiders.
BRIEFLY TOLD.