Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-01-11
THE REED RULES.
First Case of Their Use in
Maine Legislature.
Text Of Names Protest Against Free
Shipping Bill.
Resolve Asking for $40. 900 in Interests o.
Fish and Game.

The incident of Thursday morning in
the Senate was the enforcement Of the
Reed rules by President Soldiers. An
order relating to the printing of the joint
standing committees had been under dis
cussion, several votes had been taken, no
quorum voting. Finally when 10 voted
in favor Of the order and no one against
it there was still no quorum voting, but
the president declared the order passed
according to the Reed rules. There was
q burst Of applause. 1t seemed fitting
that Mr.. Sciders, who is law partner of
Ex- Speaker Reed, should be the one to
Senate.
Some OF the senators want to get away
on the morning train it would seem, as
an adjournment was had to 8 instead
OF to 10 o'clock in the morning.
Salary for Kennebec's Register Of Deeds.
Mr. Wood Of Kenncbec presented bill
to be referred to the Kennebec delegation
for Kennebec country shall receive an
annual salary of $500 and an additional
allowance Of $500 for clerk hire said
salary to be paid from the county treasury
and to be instead of the fees now pro-
vided by law, which fees shall be paid into
the county treasury for the use of said
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Mains's Protest Against Free Shipping.
The resolve, memorial to Congress
relating to the free ship bill so called,
presented by Mr.. Mitchell of Bath, is as
follows:
The State of Maine has long been the
largest builder of sailing ships of any
State in the Union. For over century
and half, ship building and ship owning,
and the trader dependent on them. have
given employment on sea and land to
tho population of our coasts. In so of
our towns these are the principal trades
known to the people. The prosperity OF
population Of 200, 900 people within our
borders is inseparably connected with
American shipping. the building, the
owning and the sailing of ships.
To the agitation Of measures pending
in Congress which the people believe en-
compass the destruction of this industry,
older than our State or nation, protected
almost from the nation birth by the laws
which it is now proposed to repeal, our
State cannot remain silent witness. II
our registry laws have failed to increase
our tonnage engaged in the foreign trade,
inn
petition yet in domestic tonnage where
they give full protection, we have built
up a fleet larger than any other nation.
For our own State, these laws have done
more; they have enabled our shipbuilders
to meet the charge from wood to steel and
to establish within our borders extensive
plants and yards from which have been
launched vessels for our merchant marine
unsurpassed by any similar vessels in the
world
We ask our countrymen to recall the
fact that under these laws, in the crisis
of three great wars Maine has been en-
abled, far out of proportion to her nuA
merical strength, to contribute to the
national glory and success upon the seas;
and to take warning that n repeal of these
laws, while it means ruin to SO many of
our people, will be a deadlier blow to the
national security and national defence.
Therefore be it Resolved, That in the
name of our State united in common de-
fence, without regard to party, we protest
against any change in these laws; and
that n CODY of this resolve be sent to the
speaker of the House of Representatives,
the president of the Senate and the state
delegation in Congress
That Houlton Normal School.
An act to establish normal school at
Houlton was introduced by Senator Shaw.
This provides that the school shall be es-
tablishcd, put in operation and conducted
at cost per year not greater than that OF
either Of the present normal schools, such
cost to be deducted from the public school
funds. The condition is that there be
conveyed to the State land on which TO
establish the school.
Senator Wiggin put in the resolve Tor
State pensions for invalid soldiers ana
sailors. 1t appropriatcs $40, 900 year for
that purpose, for the years 1895 and 1890
Non Sectarian Appropriations.
Thursday, the first petition for the non
sectarian amendment appeared. The petit
. tioners ask for thesubmission to the peo-
pie Of the following amendment;
j :,"No money or property of the State ana
no money raised by taxation by any town
or city of this State shall ever be appro
priated or used or authorized to be used'
for the purpose of founding, maintaining
or aiding by appropriation, payment for
services, expenses or otherwise any cnurcn,
religious denominations religious society
or any institution, society or undertaking
which is wholly or in part under sectarian
or ecclesiastical control.
PortIand's School for the Deaf.
Mr.. Merrill of Portland, presented an
order providing that the committee on
education inquire into the expediency OF
building dormitory for the deaf ana
dumb children of the State attending the
Portland school for the deaf.
For Wider Tires.
Mr. Holbrook of Brunswick, introduced