Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1897-03-25
STATE SOLONS.
Doings of the Law Makers-Gossip
About the State-Iiouse

About the State-tlOuse.
Legislature has put on full steam for s
final squirt Two sessions are now hello
daily except Saturday and Monday, OF
which days there is one session. Thi.
plan went into effect Friday, prior tc
which there were 10 Saturday or Mon.
day sessions, and but one session on OF hei
week days. The session will probabi,
run into next week.
| The committee on sea and shore fish
cries, to which was referred the petition
asking for close time on CLANS in Deer
Isle, Sedgwick, BROOKLYN, and act accom-
The report was accepted.
The friends of the resolve in favor of a
soldiers home at Newport saw a rift in
the clouds which encompassed it last
Thursday when the Senate voted to non
concur with the House in indefinite
postponement of the resolve. But on
Friday they were again shrouded in
gloom. 1t seems that one or two mem
bers voted for the resolve under mis-
understanding, and now they want to
kill the resolve as the House did.
The resolve in favor OF the Eastern
Maine insane hospital was given hard
rap last Thursday when the House voted
to indefinitely postpone. The Senate on
Friday voted to non-concur, which will
give the bill another chance for its life,
with the possi bility that it may squeeze
through.
In the Senate Monday the amendment
offered to the Eastern Maine Insane
hospital resolve was the interesting feat
ure of the session. The amendment cuts
800, 900 from the resolve and does away
with the commission. The resolve passed
the Senate as amended. Its fate, how
ever, when it goes back to the unfriendly
House is very uncertain.
The committee on State college voted
Thursday to report favorabIy on the bill
to change the name of the institution to
the university of Maine" The commit
tee also voted to report ought to pass on
the bill recognizing the graduates in
pharmacy at the State college on an equal
with graduates from other schools of
pharmacy.
Rep. Hutchins for the committee on
salaries last Wednesday reported ought to
of the county attorney of Hancock
county. The till reached the Senate Sat
urday.
The Maine State college appropriation
was cut down by the Senate from S25. 900
to 80 600. The House accepted the
amendment without debate.
Wedns sday, Rep Hutchins, OF Penob-
scot, presented bill providing that there
shall be no Increase in he salaries of State
and county officers, for a term of ten
years, unless public necessity requires it,
or for SO long time as good and capable
men can be secured for these offices at
the present compensation.
The committee on legal affairs, on pc.
tition of Moses Hawkins and Others, pray
ing that an act be passed giving them he
power to supply the town of Sullivan
with pure water, reported that the same
be referred to the next legislature.
In the House Friday the feature of the
morning WAS a long debate on the bill
to regulate he sale and analysis of con-
centrated commercial feed stuff. A
motion to Indefinitely post pope the bill
aroused a hornets nest. This bill is pet
scheme of the farmers, and is backed by
scores of petitioners. A score of speeches
We're made i'll its defence, mostly by rural
members whose voices are not commonly
heard in the House. They were in ear
nest and their arguments carried the day.
The motion was lost seventy to thirty
three, and the bill was put on its passage
amid applause.
The anti-eigarette bill was taken from
the table in the House Saturday. and
assigned for Wednesday,.
The order directing the State assessors
to fix the tax rate at 3 mills for 1897 and
%, mills for 1898 was taken from the table
in the House Monday and given a
passage. This seems to settle the matter
OF the tax rate, and the assessors and
printers are rushing work on the tax bill.
which is the aiI-importent measure OF the
session. This bill, in its engrossed form,
will fill forty eight pages.