Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-03-26
THREE SESSIONS
On Thursday and All Packed
Full Of Business.
a Glance at Some Of the Many Things
Accomplished.
The Session Almost Faded and Everything in
Grand Rush.

Inree sessions In both branches
Thursday. and all packed full OF sole
work. The end of the scssion is almos
mere, 1t may come. today, and as usua
more that counts Is being done in tn,
last few days than in the fret tw,
months OF the session. The Senate me
az a. M. and the House at 10, ant
az noon they adjourned, the Hous,
meeting at o'clock in the Afternoon
ana the Senate at 3. At supper tim,
tney paused for breathing spell ant
~ t.SO both branches met for the frs
evening session Of the winter. A mas.
OF work was disposed of In bott
branches. all of which is given in de,
tail in the stenographic report. A
summary, merely, OF. the important
features and striking incidents of the
day is given here.
AT no session Of the Senate has II
handled more important measures thar
thursday morning. There was a large
NUMBER OF speeches. but in spite Of this
great amount Of work was done
among the important bills that were
passed to be engrossed were the caucus
DILL the bill regulating the admission
OF attorneys. the bill prohibiting the
reproduction of prize fights by photo
graphic or other process, the bill re-
iating to the support of paupers in un-
incorporated places, the Deerinr en-
aiding act, bill relating to suits on
promisary notes. and others, Among
the bills that the Senate indefinitely
postponed in concurrence with the
House were the bicycle bill, the bill
regulating the use Of wide tires on
highways, the bill for the State exam
ination of teachers, the travelling L.
brary bill, and the bill amending the
Australian ballot law as recommended
by Mr.. Fessenden.
the longest and in many respects
the most interesting debate Of the
winter was that. Thursday afternoon,
on the matter of the United Indurated
Fibre Company. This corporation asks
OF the Legislature the right to supply
Portland and the neighboring cities and
towns with electric light and power.
The corporation already in the field OBJ
jects to this competition and both
sides have had powerful Hobbies work.
ing long and hard. The principles in
volved made the matter one of much
more than local interest and the
speeches made were as able and
earnest, as eloquent and logical as have
been heard in the Capitol this winter.
Interest was high and a large crowd of
spectators was present. The judiciary
committee had made two reports the
majority with six signatures being
ought not to pass, and the minority
with three signers being in favor of the
Indurated Fibre Company. The debate
began at 2 P. NJ. and closed at 5, the
question being the substitution of the
minority report. Smith Of Pressure
Isle. Pattangall of Machias and Wilson
of Gorham ably championed the cause
of the Indurated Company, while it
was opposed in exhaustive and bril-
liant speeches by Murray of Pembroke,
FOgler of Rockland, Hamilton of Bid
deford. Merrill of Portland, Dickey of
Fort Kent, Knowlton of Portland and
Burns of Westbrook. The minority re-
port was rejected so to 81, and the
ambition of the company to enter Port
land and compete with the existing
company is, for the time, at least,
frustrated. The majority report was
accepted without division. OF the
Portland delegation Winslow and
Whelden voted for the bill and Merrill
and Knowlton against it, while Speaker
I.arrabee did not vote.
Not cent for the Eastern Maine
Insane Hospital. this year. All winter
the resolve has been fought over, four
times the House has killed it, and, yes
terday, it jumped on the corpse. At
the morning session the committee of
conference, appointed the previous
afternoon. reported that iEPwas unable
to agree. The Senate appointed a
second committee. The House finally
refused to adhere by a vote of 20 to 81,
after a long debate, in which the whole
hospital controversy was gone over.
and Joined the Senate in a second COM
mittee of conference. At the afternoon
session, this committee likewise re-
ported that it could not agree, and that
the two bodies were not likely to agree.
Then the House voted to adhere by a
vote of So to 0, and then to prevent the
breath of life from returning to the
resolve. this session, it refused to re-
consider this vote. Thus the matter
will rest for two years, when the de-
feated Bangor men will renew the fight
with greater vigOr.
For the first time of the winter the
deciding vote of President Day was
needed in the Senate, yesterday, to de-
eide tie. The bill under consideration
was that regulating the sale of agri-
cultural seeds, and after an extended
debate. participated in by Senators
Savage of Androscoggin and Reynold:
of Cumberland against the bill. and
Roberts of Oxford, and Merrill and
Salley of Somerset for it, the vote on
the question of its passage to be en-
crossed was IA to IA. President Day
voted for the bill and thus secured its
passage. 1t had already passed the
House. This bill and that regulating
the analysis and sale Of commercial
feeding stuff We're the chief measures