Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-06-21
STATE HOUSE.
Military Notes from the Office .,
the Adjutant General.
r'0s'amm' Tor Some State Assessors mee,.
i"ss-Hew Corporations.

Inc coming encampment. now oplv
some six weeks away, will soon ho hc,o
's"u 'i'e department of the adiutant
general is busy place in getting
'hlhss ready for the occasion. which
'his year promises to be an exception
a'y peasant one. AS far as the wealth
er is concerned, it certainly cannot oe
any worse than last year. when, as it
VIII De fcrever remembered by all who
were there the rains descended with =
vicious violence.
a number of military men have been
at the Capitol, the past few days. on
matters concerning the department. in
GLIDING Gen. Newcombe, and Colonels
Kendall and Philbrook. All report n
very promising outlook for the comin,,
lencampment.
no Slate rifle team will be sent, this
year, to Sea Cert, N. j., but, there will
be the usual matches on the grounds
including the company team battalion
ana regimental team shoots Lieut.. c.
G. Morton and Lieut.. Royden, the in
structing officer at the University Of
Maine, will both be officially present at
the encampment. They are very pop
ular among the militia, Lieut. Morton
having, during the past few months,
become closely in touch with the mem
bers throughout the State
Another election will be soon ordered
by the adjutant general to fill the posi-
|tion OF captain in Company r, 1st Reg
lment. N. G. S. NJ. 1t will be remem-
bered that an election was ordered from
the department two or three weeks
ago. Colonel Kendall, the presiding
officer, on the evening appointed, re-
ported as a result of the election, Il
votes for I'd Lieut. d. w. Lovejoy and
for 1st Lieut.. o. n. Blackington, max
ing a total of IS votes. Colonel Kendall
reported that there We're only i3 pres
ent, that number only answering the
roll call. The number not being sufIi-
cienteJo constitute q quorum, as there
arc 50 men in the company, he declared
it no election. and on his recommenda-
aations, Colonel Blackington was APP
pointed captain. Lieut.. Lovejoy made
a protest on the ground that there We're
actually present u, eight Of whom did;
not vote. This number was claimed as
a proper majority of the company.
The order for another election Will
be given by the adju{1kN general, as it
has been discoyered 4 The members
of the company b! hvssbeen legally
notified. The nsas4a ylaw of Maine
provides that "elechrs shallibe notified
Of elections at least four days previous
thereto by written or printed notie'
given in hand to the members, sent by
mail or left at their last and usual
places of abode 1t appears that no
such notice was given. Whatever no
tice there was, was simply verbal.
Adiutant General Richards, in com
pliance with the laws, recently made
appllcation to the authorities in Wash
inglton d. c., for permission to allow
Company X of Calais to enter into the
Dominion of Canada, on the occasion
of the Queens jubilee demonstration TO
| tal,e nlace at ST. Stephen, June y. lie
received a reply from Hon. John Shcr-
man. the secretary of state, tnat per
! ,,issioz, was granted through the Brit
! ieb ambassador. Julian Pauncefote.
J of course it is not permitted that the
! militia of one company Invade ah-
a,bar without special permission from
/ the latter.
| A similar law regulates the entering
of one state by the militia OF another.
| An instance of this occurs III the re-
| onest inst received by the comnandef-
| in-chief for Maine from the same ~
! n5assachusetts, to permit the SlSha'
,.. of the End sBrigade and the ON
| Division Of The NaFal BriSaue' ~
70 participate with companies A. D. IL
and NJ, of the 1st Regiment, ~ G' D w.
IN the parade in Portland, July .. vi
oo,,rsr this permission was gfanteo'
and word was sent to the eominahuer-
i,-cbief of Massachusetts to that eheo'
Tn The case where the railroad COM
.,iss,o,ers refused to give location
,or an electric railroad known as INC
port,and extension from Portland 10
| an appeal has been taken
from their decision to ehe sup en-
oo,,rt under the law passed last wlh'ei'
| rho railroad commissioners WIZ eA
,;ne the Canadian Pacific kaliioau'