Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-03-08

On motion OF MIR. HUME VI NdsHlHB
ton Senate document No. 100, an act to
confirm the issue of bonds and other acts
by the Salina Water Works Company, was
taken from the table, read second time
and passed to be engrossed.
On motion Of Mr.. Hume of Washington,
who stated that he made the motion by
request OF Mr.. Shaw of Aroostook, Senate
document No. 159, an act to confirm the
issue OF bonds and other acts of the Win
field Water Company, was taken from the
table, read second time and passed to be
cngrosscd.
On motion of Mr.. Savage of Androsccg-
gin House document No. 142, an act to
amend secs. ], 26, 3S, Al, 81, ~, 73, ~
SO and 50, of chap. 40, Revised Statutes,
relating to insurance, was taken from the
table, and the Senate adopted House
amendments in concurrence. Mr.. Savage
then offered Senate amendment A, which
was adopted, and the bill was then read
second time and passed to be engrossed as
amended.
On motion Of Mr. Marston of Somerset
House document No. 1856, an act to amend
chap. 587 Of the Private and Special Laws
of 1893, entitled an act to protect fish IN
Ouimby pond, Franklin county, was taken
from the table, and passed to be enacted
On motion of Mr.. Hume Of Washington
Senate document No 1874, an act to de-
fine the duties of the commissioner and
wardens of sea and shore fisheries, was
taken from the table, read second time
and passed to be engrossed.
On motion OF Mr.. Savage of Androscog-
gin House document No. 100, an act for
the better protection of deer in the coun-
ties of Androscoggin. and Kennebec, was
taken from the table,, and the senator
called attention to the fact that this bill
provided for the same thing as House
document No. 100, with the exception that
the penalty under one bill was 800 and
under the other $40. He asked for infor-
nation on this matter from the chairman
of tho committee on inland fisheries and
game.
Mr.. Engel OF Penobscot said that he did
not know how this had happened, but
that 1t only showed what need there was
for a general law on this subject. He said
he would look into these bills, if the sena-
tor would consent to their lying on the
table 70: the present.
On motion Of Mr.. Savage the bill was
then laid on the table,
On motion of Mr.. Waterhouse of Cum
bcrland House document No. 1877, an act
to amend Sec 112, chap. IL, Revised
Statutes, as amended by chap. 81 OF the
Public Laws Of 1891. and to repeal sec. 3,
chap. SO of the Public Laws of 1887, as
amended by chap. 272 of the Public Laws
of 1893, relating to normal schools and the
Madawaska training school, was taken
from the table, read second time and
passed to be engrossed.
On motion Of Mr.. Mitchell of York
House document No. 1877 an act addition
nj to chap 1898, Revised Statutes, relating
to eggs, was taken from the table, read
second time and passed to be engrossed.
House document No. 40, resolve in
favor OF the Maine Insane hospital, speci-
ally assigned for today, was taken from
ths table, and on motion of Mr.. Higgins
of York was read second time and passed
to be engrossed as amended.
House document No. 13, reports A Una
jority, ought not to pass and Is (minor-
ity ought to pass) of committee on taxa
ton on bill an act to amend chap T., Re
vised Statutes, relating to the assessment
and collection Of taxes, specially assigned
for today, was taken from the table.
Mr.. Wiggin-of Aroostook moved that
the minority report be accepted as the re
port of the committee.
Mr.. Warehouse of Cumberland moved
to amend tho motion of Mr.. Wiggin by
substituting majority for minority.
Mr.. Wiggin: If | consulted my own
feelings on this matter should be silent
Mt this time, for recognize the futility OF
continuing this contest at this session;
but have duty to perform, and must
perform it as faithfully and rs fully as il
l were to be crowned with success.
l recognize the fact that although this
same bill, identical in every word and
line, was favorably reported at the last
session Of tho Legislature, and received a
triumphant passage in tho House and
only failed to pass the Senate by a tic vote
vet know that il is doomed at this ses-
sion, mainly, and perhaps solely, from
the fact that 1T is feared it will have an i'll
effect on the party vote at the coming
elections.
But tho question of right and wrong
still remains. If this bill is right 1t
should receive passage; IL it is wrong it
should be rejected. The bill has been
known as the listing bill, and l think that
more or less unpopularity has been at
tached to 1t because of the name. | sub
nit, Mr. President, that this bill is no more
of listing bill than the law at present
on our statute book, and that it is in spirit
and essence identical with the present
law, with the exception of one word. We
find in section first of this bill that sec %
Of the old law is amended Section %
provides that the assessor, before making
an assessment shall notify the citizens to
bring in lists of their property and assets
This section is amended by merely stating
what these lists shall contain. In this
very first section seems to be a matter of
which the opponents to this bill are es-
pecially afraid, and that is this enumera-
ton of what these lists shall contain.
This seems to be regarded by many as an
innovation, as something particularly in
quisitorial, as something now introduced
into the tax laws of the State of Maine
which was never there before. But if you
will turn to the Revised Statutes, chap. 8,
you will read that enumeration word for
word So, submit, there is nothing new
there.
What, then, is the change that is de-
manded in this bill, beyond what we
have in the original law as it stands to-
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