Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-04-24
STATE HOUSE.
Governor Powers and Coun-
; Gil Have a Busy Session.
Nominations at Confirmed = Pardon
Hearings Ii the Afternoon.
Programme for the Party to Attend Grant Me.
moriaI- Capitol Notes.

Governor Hewellyn Powers and the
Executive Council were in session, Fri
day morning, with much business of
various kinds under consideration.
prominent in which was the hearing of
pardon cases. These did not come up
until afternoon.
The regular nominations, some 80 in
all. were confirmed. Judge w. P.
Whitehouse, who has been appointed
to the supreme bench, appeared before
the Governor and Council and took his
oath of Office. He left on the after
noon train for Belfast, where he has an
appointment to preside.
There was much matter of routine
description. In additions there came up
the matter of appointing a photo
grapher to take views of different parts
of the State, for which an appropriation
of $3.50 was made by the Legislature.
The subject was tabled. A hearing
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Council. a.@.
The inspectors of steamboats, for in
land waters. Horace Atwood of Hamp-
den and Charles Staples,aJr of Port
land. were present at the meeting to
make application for some small APP
preparation granted by the Legislature
The hearing of the pardon case OF
Charles Cellar of Lisbon Falls. who,
in November. 1895, at the age of 10
years, was sent to the Reform school,
the first, given, shortly after the Coun
Gil returned from dinner. Trial Justice
H. E. Coolidge of Lisbon Falls appeared
for the boy, and stated that his con-
finement was causing the deepest dis
tress to the boys parents, especially
the mother, who was about heart
broken. Supt. Wentworth of the school
testified that the conduct of the boy
had been good. w. E. Plummer OF
Lisbon Falls also appeared and said
that the boys general conduct had
been good previous to his breaking into
the schoolhouse. The matter was
placed ON the table.
The pardon hearing of James NJ.
Lowell, who is serving a life sentence
for murder, having been in State
Prison since 1874, was. by request of the
counsel, Hon. Seth NJ. Carter of Lew
sston, postponed until the next session
of the Governor and Council. The
pardon cases of Mary Glynn and
George B. Young will be taken UP, this
morning.
At the hearing of the case of Mrs.
Lucinda Foss of Rockland who has
been confined in the county Jail located
in that town, General c. P. Cilley OF
Rockland, appeared and made an elo-
quent appeal setting forth the un-
fortunate condition of the woman in
her present almost isolated imprison-
ment The count on which she had
been imprisoned, that of perjury, was
shown to have been unquestionably due
to a weak state of mind, on which CO.
ercion had been brought to bear tol
bring about her false testimony, which, |
at best, did little harm to anyone.
Recommendations for the womans re-
lease to a home which awaited her,
where she might recover her health,
were received from the sheriff of the
Jail, William N. Timer; John N
Thomas, deputy sheriff. and also from
Washington r. Prescott, the county
attorney. This hearing was also placed
on the table.
A letter was received from President
Butler of Colby University, asking
that the Governor and Council grant
the loan of the fossils and curios, now
en- exhibition in the vestibule of the
State House at the secretary of States
office, to Colby University, where
they could be put into good con-
ditiom. to add to the collection now In
the custody of the university, made by
the first geological survey of the State.
Mayor Beal of Bangor, the chairman
of the board of cattle commissioners.
appeared before the Governor and
Council Friday He stated that, Of
this years allotment Of $4,000, $4,000
had to be used for payment of back
bills from 1897 leaving only $4,000 for
the balance of 1898, a meagre sum forl
the expenses which will arise--in fact,
he SAYS, most of it has been used in de-
fraying the expenses of examining cat
tie. A pttiful feature of the case, he
states, is that of the poor people, whose
for cattle killed have not
been paid, leaving them cattleless, and
often moneyless.
The order was granted.
John S. Campbell was appointed
a gent to expend money on reads AID
bridges in Indian township.
The session was adjourned at 6 ),
o'clock until this morning at $50.
Governor Powers and Staff, and