Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-16
The Avalanche Of Business
Has Not Yet Started.
Some Of the Bills and Petitions.
Recess till Monday Afternoon.
more Committees Organize The Speaker
chair-legislaiiye Notes.

and Senate and another flood of bills
ana petitions came pouring in, as the
ste'osfaphic report in another column
Shows. 1t closed the work of the sec
ohd week and now there is a recess
until Monday at 4.3O r. NJ The end of
the second week brings the Legislature
through the preliminary stage of the
session, and next week instead of three
short sessions there will probably be
four or five longer and buster sessions.
me committees. which are now or
ganized, except some of the unimpor-
tant ones which do not bother to or
sanize. will settle down to business
with the regular meetings and hear
ings which are such important features
of the session. The new members are
now getting well acquainted with each
other and with their surroundings, and
are beginning to see how legislative
work is done both in and out of reg
ular session. Soon the more ambitious
of them will be making their maiden
speech, and winning the laurel wreath
of fame that goes Herewith.
The sessions of both bodies were
both about an hour long and then they
adjourned till 4.S0 P. NJ, Monday. The
members are expected to return then
loaded with bills and resolves, petitions
and remonstrances which will make
the sessions long and lively. though
Monday afternoons session will prob
ably be short one. Below is given a
summary of the most important new
business that arose in Fridays session
under the head of bills and petitions.
The feature of the session was the
presentation by Mr.. Williams of Au-
gusta of the bill relating to the secret
ballot law, already published in the
Journal.
Parties in Kingman want State aid
in rebuilding a bridge over the Malta
wamkeag river, washed away by the
freshet in 1896. The Maine Eye and
Ear Infirmary asks for $4,000 for the
years 1878. Since it's establishment
in 1886 this institution has had over
$4,000 patients registered. The rail-
road commissioners ask for $1,000 year
more than now allowed bylaw, to pro-
cure maps, books. stenographic assist
ance, and the aid of a mechanical ex-
pert in examining iron bridges. The
United Gas and Electric Company of
New Hampshire wants the right TO
hold property and do business in Maine
The Bangor ChiIdren's Home asks for
$1,000 for 1897 and the same for 1898.
The inhabitants of Lincoln plantation
want $1,000 from the State to aid in
building bridge across the Magallo-
way river.
A bill was introduced providing for
a law, based upon the Pennsylvania
statute, to give the medical students of
the State better chance to learn their
profession by granting bodies for dis
section under more liberal conditions
than now allowed. 1t is claimed anat-
omy cannot be properly taught under
the present strict laws which make
bodies for dissection almost impossible
to obtain in Maine. The proposed law
make the professors of the medical
schools of this State board for the
collection and distribution of dead
human bodies from any and every
almshouse, prison, morgue or hospital
which would have to be buried at pub
lie expense.
There comes from Orneville a re-
monstrance against the annexation OF
the town to Milo. Several petitions
were\received relating to the present
smelt laws. Rockland wants the State
to nay it $56S on its school money which
nv some mistake was not paid when
| it should be.
A number of petitions We're received
in both House and Senate asking for
$500 to give Aroostook county three
wardens and to maintain and operate
tine Caribou fish hatchery. Senator
Clason of Kennebec introduced Dill an
act to establish a sinking fund Tor
Kennebec county. 1t authorizes the
county to raise each year not more
than $4,000 nor less than $1,000. as the
county commissioners determine, to DC
held as a sinking fund. to be invested
either by deposit in savings bank OF
trust company or used in purchasing
bonds. and to be applied for the pay
ment of the bonds of the county ISSUED
in 1891 and 1893. when they mature. Ii
the Senate a petition was presented
from the Somerset county commission
ers asking for $500 from the State t.
j ,.anair the bridge in The Forks planta
t;on crossing the Kennebec river. Il
is a part of the old Canada road ant
was originally built by the State.