Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-30
EARLY AND BUSY !;
Bills to Rid Maine Of Wild Cats
and PeddIers.
Features Of Fritay's Session. Recess
to Monday Afternoon.
Bangor Insane Hospital Resolve Floods Of
Varied Petitions.


petitions following each other. Speak
CT Larrabee beat all records in quick
ness of work, and hardly stopped tc
draw breath for the hour as he read
titles and references, and disposed OF
committee reports and bills in all stages
OF passage. His utterance is clear and
rapid, and it was never clearer or more
rapid than Friday morning as he
rushed through the stacks of docu-
ments before him, determined to catch
the morning train for home or perish,
In the attempt. The attendance was
not up to the standard, and a great
part of the members started home
ward during the day. In the Senate
the session was shorter and not so
busy.
The first good laugh of the session
was caused by the bill with accom-
ranying petitions for bounty of 81 90
on wild cats. as a protection to sheep
and deer. 1t was introduced by Mr..
Perry of acknowledgements were
received from Berwick. Elliottsville
and Madawaska against the proposed
division of those towns, and from Bel
grade came a petition with 60 names
that part Of Rome be joined to that
town.-A petition for legislation to rid
the State of pack peddlers was intro
duced-Twenty petitions came from all
parts of the State that the present tax
on savings banks be reduced.-Scores
of fish and game petitions came pour
ing in. and there was the usual num-
Der of bills to create new corporations
Mr.. Dickey of Fort Kent, presented
the following resolve: Resolved, That
$4,000 be appropriated as a subsidy
payable out of the treasury of the
State in 1898 to any railroad company
or company or private company that
will build travel and railroad bridge
across the boundary line of the United
States over the st. Johns river at Fort
Kent, in the year 1897 or '9S. providing
that New Brunswick or the Dominion
government give a like sum. Said
bridge to be located by the engineer
of the United States for Maine and the
engineer of the Dominion government
Said money to be paid when the bridge
is completed to the satisfaction of the
shington county citizens
ask for a municipal court in the wes-
tern part of the county.-Mrs. J. p.
Baxter and 1872 others of Portland send
in a remonstrance against woman suf-
frage.-Lewiston asks authority to is
sue bonds not exceeding 100000 pay
able not later than 30 years, to meet
it's bonds now outstanding.-Eastp
wants a municipal court.-Calaisw wants
$50. 900 for a normal school, provided the
city will give $1,000 for it's library.-The
resolve for the Eastern Maine Insane
hospital appeared Friday. 1t calls for
100000 in 1897 and 100000 in 1898 for
additional buildings. The resolve au-
thorizes the State treasury to $4,000
this year and $150,OOO next year from
the temporary loan already provided
fora long petition with 200 names
comes from Pittsfield asking that the
chronic insane be supported by the State
after five years residence at the insane
hospital.-A bill was introduced provid-
ing that any old soldier desiring it may
have his poll tax Observation-Disclosures
county wants $4,000 for warden service.
Nearly all the counties have now been
heard from, with scores of petitions
backing up the requests of each.-The
Healy asylum of Lewiston asks for
$500 for 1897 and the same for 1893.
The resolve is accompanied by a strong
statement of fact and long petition
Patten wants STAT fer pauper supplies
furnished State paupers.-Five hundred
dollars is asked for to aid in blasting
ledge in the highway between Fort
Kent and Trenchville.-Mr. O'Neil of
Biddeford presented bill. backed by
So petitions from all the manufactur-
ing centers of Maine, providing that no
female minor under IS years of age and
no male minor under 1G years Of age
shall be employed in any manufactur-
ing or mechanical establishment more
than "a hours in week. Any estab-
lishment violating this law shall be
fined $50 for each offence. An order
was introduced allowing the committee
on labor to visit these textile factories
in the State to investigate the present
employment of women and children
Mr.. Goodrich of Maxfield. introduced
a bill providing that all paupers hav-
ing settlement in towns of less than
200 population or $4,000 valuation
shall hereafter be State paupers, and
the towns giving the aid shall be re-
imbursed by the State.
In the Senate an act was presented
incorporating the town of Swans Is
land.-An act was presented by Head
of Kennebec raising the salary OF the
assistant librarian of State library
from $500 to $1OO0.-1t was ordered that
the committee on inland fisheries and
game be directed to inquire intosneces-
sity of giving the commissioners OF IN
land fisheries and game authority TO
take inland game and birds FOR park
nurposes for the State.
The Penobscot Indian tribe asks for
$500 for a new steeple for their church
and also petitions for a change In the
law so that it may have power TO re-
yoke the adoption of any MEMBER on
evidence that such adopted member
has demeaned himself.
The Penobscot tribe also ask for
right to kill moose. deer or caribou at
any season Of the year for support OF
themselves and families. They claim
this right in accordance with the terms
Of the original treaty.
.;t+oa on education visited