Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-03-23
Read and Assigned.

An act to incorporate the Pejepscoi
Telephone Company.
Passed to be engrossed under suspen'
sion of the rules.
An act to incorporate the Boothbay
Harbor Yacht Club.
Passed to be engrossed under suspen-
pension of the rules on motion OF Mr.
Knowlton of Portland.
ton for teachers.
Passed to be engrossed under suspen-
sion of the rules on motion of Mr.. Plum
mer of Dexter.
An act to amend Sec 100 of chap. AZ, OF
Observation-Disclosures relating to investments
in savings banks as heretofore amended.
Senate amendment A adopted.
Passed to be engrossed under a suspen-
sion of the rules on motion of Mr.. Merrill
of Portland.
Resolve in favor of reducing the price
of board at the Maine Insane Hospital.
Passed to be engrossed under suspen-
sion of the rules ON motion of Mr.. Dickey
of Fort Kent.
An act to provide for the treatment
and cure of drunkards.
This bill was referred to the next Leg
islature in the House and in the Senate
indefinitely postponed
On motion of Mr.. Plummer of Dexter
the House receded and concurred.
The majority and minority reports from
the committee on the judiciary on resolve
concerning an amendment to the Consti
tuition forbidding the appropriation or use
of public money or public property for
scctarian or ecclesiastical purposes, came
from the Senate the majority report ac-
copied, which was ought not to pass.
The House accepted the majority report
in concurrence
An act to provide for the better admin
istration of justice in certain cases.
This bill came from the Senate indefln-
itely postponed.
The House receded and concurred on
motion of Mr.. Noble of Lewiston.
An act to incorporate the Arctic Tele
phone and Telegraph Company.
Passed to be engrossed in the House and
in the Senate amended by Senate amend
ment A.
On motion of Mr. Dickey of Fort Kent,
the House reconsidered the vote by which
this bill was passed to be engrossed,
adopted Senate amendment A, and passed
the bill to be engrossed as amended in
concurrence.
An act to amend sec. of chap. 35 of
the Revised Statutes of the State of Maine
relating to intelligence offices.
Passed to be engrossed in the House and
in the Senate, amended by Senate amend
ment A.
On motion of Mr. Plummer of Dexter,
the House reconsidered the vote by which
this bill was passed to be engrossed, and
adopted Senate amendment A.
On motion of Mr.. Larrabee of Portland,
the bill was passed to be engrossed as
amended in concurrence.
Senate Order: Ordered, That the House
of Representatives be requested to return
to this body House document No. 296 re-
lating to a police commission for the city
of Lewiston.
On motion of Mr.. Noble of Lewiston
the order was given passage and the re-
quest granted
The following petition was presented by
Mr.. Leavitt Of Limestone and referred to
the judiciary committee.
An act to prohibit the wearing of hats.
bonnets. hoods and other head wear in
places of public amusement.
Orders.
Ordered, That C. H. Gilbert of Canton
be excused from further attendance on the
session after March Goth, il his business
requires his absence, and the clerk be in
structed to make up his pay and mileage
to the end of the session to the full
amount
This order had been referred to the COM
mittee on leave of absence
On motion OF Mr.. Briggs of Auburn,
the House reconsidered the vote by which
it referred this order to the committee on
leave of absence.
The order was then given passage
Reports d Committees.
Mr.. Gilbert of Canton. for committee on
railroads. telegraphs, and expresses, on
bill an act to incorporate the Kennebago
Railroad Company, reported ought to-
pass.
On motion. of Mr.. Gilbert the rules were
suspended and the bill received its three
readings and was passed to be engrossed.
MIR. Coffin for the committee on ways
and means, presented bill for the assess
ment of a State tax for the year 1896,
amounting to the sum of 1871 ,941.70, and
that it ought to pass Bill printed.
Mr.. Sweetser for the committee on